Weekly competition 2007-20 (2, 3, 3OH, 4, 5, BF)

[edd5190]

Originally posted by ExoCorsair+Jun 28 2007, 03:39 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ExoCorsair @ Jun 28 2007, 03:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-edd5190@Jun 27 2007, 10:18 PM
4x4 speedsolve average: 1:42.67
3:31.90
4:18.37
2:55.33
DNF (fluff up on OLL parity)
3:17.73

Might want to check your math there. [/b][/quote]
Oops, I would have never caught that. I'll go change it now

 

[hait2]

should i take part in these? im really slow so no chance winning.. but could be a nice place to keep track of my progress

 

[Jack]

I think you should. I don't have a chance of winning anything either, but they are really fun to do.

 

[Karthik]

C'mon Jack,you have a PB of 16.71 and you say you dont have a chance to win!!If you can make another PB in one of these competitions,you can definitely make it to the top 3.
Anyway I think I will also start participating in these contests so that I can track my progress from now on.

 

[AvGalen]

Everyone that is asking if they should compete or not: WHY NOT?

It's free, fun and you even get points just for competing!

I don't have a chance of winning (25 seconds average on 3x3x3 on my good days), but I am ranked 2nd at the moment!

Also, keeping track of you progress will be a very good reason to compete because I will start to create graphical overviews of everyones progress in a couple of weeks. For these overviews to have any (personal) meaning, you would want to have at least a couple of times already, so start competing right now

 

[Jack]

karthikputhraya, the average is what is counted, not a single solve, so I would have to beat my PB 5 times in row to come in top 3. I still really like these competitions though, and I am competing in every event except for the big cubes blindfolded, so I can still get points. Anyway, in the most recently ranked competition I came 4th in two events!

 

[AvGalen]

Just one more thing: I had no chance of winning the US Open 2007 (I didn't even make it through the qualification on 3x3x3), but I had a great time being there anyway!

If only those people that had a chance of winning would actually compete, there would be no competition. (speedcubing version of "It's the journey that is important, not the destination")

 

[Karthik]

Karthik
3x3 Speed solves:
45.54
42.63
(41.28)
(55.46)
53.17
Average: 47.11

3x3 BLD
a.14 min 55 secs (Yay! My second successful BLD!!)
b.DNF

I think I will participate in the 4x4 category next week.

 

[Rama]

Karthikputraya you're name sounds Indonesian, is that correct? :rolleyes:

 

[Mike Hughey]

Mike Hughey
2x2 Average: 17.73
Times: 16.66, (22.39), (14.28), 19.23, 17.30

3x3 Average: 38.62
Times: 41.99, (45.53), 35.81, 38.07, (35.04)

3x3 OH Average: 1:22.77
Times: (1:32.94), 1:28.78, 1:22.80, 1:16.73, (1:07.51)
Still getting better fast with this. Must be all those times I'm caught in traffic! 1:16.73 was my personal best, and then I got the 1:07.51! Wow!

4x4 Average: 2:35.17
Times: (2:59.58), 2:31.44, (2:19.11), 2:24.78, 2:49.28
I worked hardest on the 4x4 this week, and it showed - 45 seconds better average than last week! I'm still pretty bad at it, but at least I'm improving.

5x5 Average: 4:25.19
Times: (4:34.62), (4:05.44), 4:27.57, 4:14.53, 4:33.48
Still using AVGalen's method, and now I'm about as fast with it as I am with the bigcubes.com method. And I think it helped my 4x4 as well.

2x2 BLD Best: 2:09.22
2x2 BLD a: 3:10.78
2x2 BLD b: 2:09.22
I need to actually practice 2x2 BLD some; it takes some getting used to - I spend too much time at the beginning deciding how to orient the cube.

3x3 BLD Best: 5:44.10
3x3 BLD a: 5:44.10
3x3 BLD b: DNF
Disappointing.

4x4 BLD:
4x4 BLD a: DNF

Since everyone else is trying it too (and I always wanted to try), I started learning 4x4x4 blind this week. This was my first ever actual attempt at a real 4x4x4 blindfold solve. I spent 82:25 on my first attempt - 44 minutes to memorize and the rest to solve. After 44 minutes, I was quite certain of my memorization! The centers were all perfect when I was done, so I was happy with that. A bunch of the edges were messed up, and the corners were 2 moves away from solved, so I must have messed up a setup move or two somewhere in the edge cycles. Well, it wasn't a bad first attempt, anyway. I'll try the second one tomorrow.

I need to get a Square-1 now!

 

[hait2]

well here goes
3x3x3
56.33
(51.69)
59.47
(1:02.91)
59.25
-
av: 58.35
terrible, even by my standards i kept getting the gperms i didn't know (i only know 2/4 of those).. must fix that for next competition
(i recently switched to fridrich, f2l is eating up most of my times here, talking like 35-40sec f2l.. and it varies a lot =()

3x3x3BLD
a: 5:17.11 new PB! everything went swimmingly smooth
b: DNF, messed up the parities (both of them ). this was a really hard scramble for me (super easy orientation, really difficult permutation). would've ended up about 6:30-7:00 if i got it right

 

[ExoCorsair]

Mike: Your times for the 3x3x3 and 4x4x4 are highly reminiscent of my times in April-ish / around Rutgers 2007. Over time, your 5x5x5 times should drop too (those times remind me of my times in early March-ish). Keep it up!

AvGalen: About when can we expect these graphs? I assume perhaps sometime early autumn?

 

[AvGalen]

Graphs will be up there as soon as:

1) I finish moving (house A -> house B)
2) I have my own webserver again (+ broadband)
3) I have a weekend of "nothing else to do"

Hopefully, all of this will be realised in the beginning of August. (I am thinking after 2007-25 or 2007-26)

 

[Mike Hughey]

Originally posted by ExoCorsair@Jun 30 2007, 04:31 AM
Mike: Your times for the 3x3x3 and 4x4x4 are highly reminiscent of my times in April-ish / around Rutgers 2007. Over time, your 5x5x5 times should drop too (those times remind me of my times in early March-ish). Keep it up!

Yeah, as I mentioned to you at the US Open, I had noticed your time improvements posted here, and it seemed like I was following your track (just a few months behind you) - I considered your times quite inspirational. But a month ago it seemed more like it was my 5x5x5 times that were improving fastest, but not anymore. ... and I love the 5x5x5 so much more than the others. Well, I won't give up - hopefully I'll start getting better again.

It would probably help with my 5x5x5 if I'd settle on a single system and keep using it, instead of switching over and over again. But somehow being able to use different systems is one of the appealing things about the 5x5x5 to me.

Thanks for the encouragement.

 

[Karthik]

I am from India(Not Indonesia)
And the probably the only one from India in this forum.
Not many cubers in India.I have never met one!

 

[dbeyer]

I love the 5x5 too! I feel the only problem about having multiple methods is the transition from one to another in the middle of a solve. I dunno ... still an awsome puzzle!

Later,
Daniel Beyer

 

[ExoCorsair]

Originally posted by Mike Hughey@Jul 1 2007, 12:41 AM
Well, I won't give up - hopefully I'll start getting better again.

It would probably help with my 5x5x5 if I'd settle on a single system and keep using it, instead of switching over and over again.

Ron van Bruchem wrote on speedcubing.com:
"My secret is to move fast. You need a good cube and a lot of practice."

This is very true. I am currently in a "cubing slump" (can't sub-30 many 3x3 solves, can't sub-2:40 many 5x5 solves)... I was timing myself in the car today, and when I consciously moved faster, my times dropped around 20 seconds (times in 2:20's).

I wouldn't worry about settling on a single method, actually. Maybe later, if you hit a "wall", since you would need the practice on recognition for a single edge-pairing method... But either one is potentially very quick.

Hopefully this helps. But definitely straight-out practicing is the way to get sub-4 consistently.

 

[Speedanator]

First time trying this...:

2x2x2:

16.83, 16.53, (22.91), (11.33), 19.95
=17.77

3x3x3:

42.25, (47.00), 35.53, (33.58), 42.30
=40.03

4x4x4:

3:16.39, (3:39.53), (2:36.95), 2:41.20, 3:31.80
=3:09.80

 

[Kare]

K?re Krig

3x3: 19,36
(16,10) 19,76 17,05 21,28+ (23,97)

3x3oh: 52,40
58,87 (60,65) (42,33) 49,69 48,66

4x4: 1:37,75
(1:55,07) 1:42,34 1:35,21 (1:34,51+) 1:35,70

5x5: 3:43,60
3:37,77 (4:10,73) 3:41,59 3:51,43 (3:29,26)

 

[tsaoenator]

3x3x3: 15.41 (12.55) (15.61) 15.25 13.59 = 14.77
Not good.

3x3x3 BLD: 1:18.00, 1:29.92
pretty good