The blindfold race!

57.77+, 47.48, DNF(1:05.72), DNF(1:11.65), 1:48.13 = 1:11.13 mean of 3/5

Ugh..disappointed that I didn't get an average :( At the last solve I forgot 2 letters and I had to trace back all the other letters to find what's missing from my memo. Haven't done something like that in a while lol
 
Results 11th round​
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Code: 
1. Zane_C        1:25.99  Average of 3/5
2. Mike Hughey   1:44.41  Average of 3/5
3. RyanReese09   1:49.20  Average of 3/5
4. amostay2004   1:11.13  Mean of 3/5
5. Jakube        2:33.89  Mean of 3/5
6. Norbi         2:23.74  Mean of 2/5
7. Micael        2:27.05  Mean of 2/5

@amostay2004: Thank you for your idea. I was also not very happy about the old format.

Format: SHAMELESS HIJACK
There will be 5 scrambles, the ranking is based on average. Here's how it goes: those who get 4 or 5 successes will be at the top and ranked based on average of 3/5, those who get 3 solves will be below them even if the times are faster (ranked based on mean of 3), followed by 2 solves (ranked by mean of 2), and finally for those with only 1 solve. So A with a 5:37 average of 5 would be ranked above B who has a 35s mean of 2/5, for example.

In other words, cubers are ranked first by success rate, then by speed.

12th Round Scrambles:
1. D2 L2 F L2 B' D2 R2 F2 L2 B' L2 F' U' R' D2 F2 L U2 F D F2
2. R2 F' U2 L2 R2 B' R2 B' L2 B' U' B' U2 L' B2 D2 U' F R2 D' U
3. D2 R2 F' L2 R2 U2 F' R2 B2 R2 U B D L F2 L2 F R2 U' F2
4. L2 B2 L2 F2 R' U2 L D2 U2 L D' F' L B D' B2 D R' F2 U2 B
5. F2 U' L2 D' U2 L2 U2 L2 B2 U2 L' B' L D' F' R' B' U B2 R2 U2
 
Jakube said:
Format: SHAMELESS HIJACK
There will be 5 scrambles, the ranking is based on average. Here's how it goes: those who get 4 or 5 successes will be at the top and ranked based on average of 3/5, those who get 3 solves will be below them even if the times are faster (ranked based on mean of 3), followed by 2 solves (ranked by mean of 2), and finally for those with only 1 solve. So A with a 5:37 average of 5 would be ranked above B who has a 35s mean of 2/5, for example.
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I hope you don't feel like you have to make it always work this way. I rather enjoyed the change, since it works to my favor (it was nice to be second place for a change!), but I think it probably makes sense for it to be "best of" more often than it is an average. I think it would be fun to change it around periodically, though. It would be nice to do an average 10/12 someday, for instance. Maybe even an average of 100? :)
 
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Round 12
1. DNF(2:48.65) [3 Edges Incorrect]
2. DNF(5:48.58) [Mismemoed edges first time through + 2 Flipped Edges]
3. 3:43.56
4. 3:21.30 [Felt pretty comfortable. A few lettering scheme issues, but that's just because I've taken a pretty long break from BLD]
5. 3:39.73 [Recall delay near the end. Not bad, though. Felt good otherwise]

I don't know what format this is going in now, so I'll post both, I guess.

Average: 3/5 @ 3:34.86
Best Single: 3:21.30

Also, I'm back. Hey, how's it going?
 
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Micael said:
Looks like it doesn't work for me. :confused:
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Weird. Well my memo hasn't really gotten faster really, just execution, I turn really really fast. I had 40seconds execution on one of them. M2/OP. Should be slowly transitioning to comms in a bit.

I should mention that my DNF 1:19 was me forgetting memo, I wasn't even close tobeing done edgess.
 
12:th round Mats Bergsten
DNF(2:20.44), 3:01.21, DNF(2:03.13), 2:18.70, DNF(2:20.78)

Wow, that went so bad. Maybe to much bigbld :). Nothing at all worked.
Memo recall pauses on almost all solves. Exec faulty three times. Sigh.
 
Round 12

50.03, DNF, 2:08.67, 50.17, DNF(58.05) = 1:16.29 mean of 3/5

Argghhh I'm clearly out of practice. I thought I was safe enough for the last one :( Everything went wrong in the 2:08 lol.

Anyway it's not that I didn't like the previous format I just felt it's time for a change :) Feel free to change the format to whatever you like. I prefer at least 5 attempts though so I get an excuse to practise ;P
 
Round 12

5 successes, Average time: 1:55.72
Best time: 1:37.95

Average: 1:55.72
Standard Deviation: 8.81
Best Time: 1:37.95
Worst Time: 2:37.61
Individual Times:
1. 2:08.77 D2 L2 F L2 B' D2 R2 F2 L2 B' L2 F' U' R' D2 F2 L U2 F D F2
2. (2:37.61) R2 F' U2 L2 R2 B' R2 B' L2 B' U' B' U2 L' B2 D2 U' F R2 D' U
3. 1:41.06 D2 R2 F' L2 R2 U2 F' R2 B2 R2 U B D L F2 L2 F R2 U' F2
4. (1:37.95) L2 B2 L2 F2 R' U2 L D2 U2 L D' F' L B D' B2 D R' F2 U2 B
5. 1:57.32 F2 U' L2 D' U2 L2 U2 L2 B2 U2 L' B' L D' F' R' B' U B2 R2 U2

As for multi's affect on 3x3x3 BLD, I find that it doesn't really help me all that much long-term, and short-term, it's terrible. Right after doing a multi, I'm always much slower at 3x3x3 BLD than I would normally be. Unfortunately, I did my weekly competition multi last night (not many hours ago, actually), and it appears it's still having a negative effect on me - I should have waited another day before doing this, I guess - I probably would have been significantly faster. Oh well, at least it's still sub-2 (barely).
 
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In my opinion, multi gets you fast pretty quickly when you're still slow at single BLD, because it helps you familiarise with your method/execution/memo. I don't think it helps much in getting you to very fast speed, like sub-1.
 
RyanReese09 said:
Define "slow" :p.
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He sort of did - he said it doesn't help you get sub-1. Meaning it probably won't help me, since that's my current goal. And you're about to that point too - you probably won't get much faster from here on account of your multi. On the other hand, you're much faster at speedsolving, so you can probably quickly get a lot faster at execution than I can. If you execute twice as fast as I do and memorize at my speed, you'll be sub-1. For you, that shouldn't be difficult. So perhaps it will help you get sub-1; it just probably won't help me get there.
 
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