Standard Deviations

[JyH]

CONSISTENCY FTW!
The 23 would have been another 21, but iTunes opened up in the middle of the solve, so I took about 2 seconds to go back to qqtimer. Pretty good warm up average.
Post your good SDs!
Also, off topic, does anyone want a Monthly Average of 100?
http://s1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb423/Animationnnnn/?action=view&current=standarddeviation.jpg

 

[Cool Frog]

Recently my SD has been like 3.45 :fp

 

[JyH]

just got another crazy one o_O

number of times: 5/5
best time: 19.99
worst time: 21.93

current avg5: 20.12 (σ = 0.11)
best avg5: 20.12 (σ = 0.11)

session avg: 20.12 (σ = 0.11)
session mean: 20.46

21.93, 20.09, 20.00, 19.99, 20.28

 

[Vinny]

Yeah I'm really inconsistent with this stuff... My SD is around 2.3...

 

[Maniac]

What method do you use for such low standard deviations?

 

[JyH]

CFOP. It was just a really lucky warm up average, and the 0.04... That was lucky too xD

 

[Cool Frog]

I don't think its good to have A good SD at home.
I noticed that when i get high SD I improve soon.

 

[Keroma12]

Once I had a standard deviation of 0. It's in the accomplishments thread somewhere.

 

[Dene]

This discussion has come up at various times but I am still going to back the position that consistency is not ftw. Especially if you are consistently slow like me.

 

[eastamazonantidote]

I've gotten some really insane ones but never 0. I had a .03 once back when I was averaging around 45 seconds and a .05 when I was at about 30. Recently my SD has been going up. ZBLL recognition + recall is so inconsistent.

 

[Anonymous]

This discussion has come up at various times but I am still going to back the position that consistency is not ftw. Especially if you are consistently slow like me.

>Implying that sub-15 is slow

Okay, so sub-15 isn't super fast, but come on, it's not slow.

 

[Raffael]

I actually got a nice SD in competition once:
12.02 12.02 (10.53) 12.03 (12.19)

(it'2 2x2 btw)

 

[Johan444]

This discussion has come up at various times but I am still going to back the position that consistency is not ftw. Especially if you are consistently slow like me.

I disagree, consistency gives me an impression that the solver knows what he's doing and relies on that rather then turn-as-fast-as-possible-and-hope-for-fast recog/easy pairs or w/e.