Weekly competition 2007-35 (2,3,3OH,4,5,BF,SQ1,MG,FMC,MM,PM,Relay)

[cmhardw]

2x2 BLD
1) 47.31
2) 36.75

3x3 BLD
1) DNF
2) DNF

4x4 BLD
1) DNF
2) DNF

probably no 5x5 BLD for bit because I'm breaking in a new 5x5 cube, and right now it is very very very very very stiff, and no fun to BLD. My consistency is AWEsome.. :-(

 

[guusrs]

Yaaaaaah, this was an easy scramble, my 1 hour solve:
(do pre-scramble moves B' L R to see what's happening
F2L: F' L2 F R F' U B' U R U L2 B (12)
LL : U B' R2 B R2 B U2 B' U R' (10)
correction moves (same as pre-scramble moves!) B' R L (3)
total 25 moves!

Did Per do his 23-move solve within the hour?

see ya guys

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

3x3x3
Average: 25.06
Times: 24.22, (POP), 25.22, (22.83), 25.73

I never had a pop in a competition before, do they count as the highest time?

 

[tim]

3x3x3
Average: 25.06
Times: 24.22, (POP), 25.22, (22.83), 25.73

I never had a pop in a competition before, do they count as the highest time?

There's no pop in a competition. Either you don't solve the cube and get a DNF, which is obviously the highest time or you fix your puzzle and solve it (always do this, expect it would take ages to fix it!).

 

[deathbypapercutz]

So I'm trying this because I don't want to do my homework.

Name: Patricia Li

3x3
Average: 17.17
Times: (16.16), 16.80, 16.69, (20.73), 18.02

3x3 OH
Average: 37.65
Times: 36.11, (33.53), (49.86), 36.09, 40.75

3x3 Blindfolded
1. DNF
2. DNF
Why did I even bother trying... clearly I'm too dumb for this

 

[hdskull]

Sikan Li

3x3x3: (19.14), 19.97, 21.00, (21.72), 21.08 => 20.66
Didn’t cube for a few days…
3x3x3 OH: 27.81, (26.39), 35.22, 28.56, (36.05) => 30.53
28 was PLL skip, damn…. These were some nice scrambles  haha.
3x3x3 BLD: 4:58.55, 4:25.53 => 4:25.53

too lazy to 2x2x2 again, i'll do it later if time allows.

 

[joey]

2x2: 9.58 (10.05) 9.84 (6.22) 6.66 Average: 8.69
Comme Ci, Comme Ca.

3x3: (21.21) 20.13 (16.34) 18.97 18.83 Average: 19.31
Meh. I need to improve!

2x2 BLD: 26.52 29.47 Best: 26.52
The first was eeeassy! For the second I used a different buffer than usual, because it was easier!

 

[mrCage]

Yaaaaaah, this was an easy scramble, my 1 hour solve:
(do pre-scramble moves B' L R to see what's happening
F2L: F' L2 F R F' U B' U R U L2 B (12)
LL : U B' R2 B R2 B U2 B' U R' (10)
correction moves (same as pre-scramble moves!) B' R L (3)
total 25 moves!

Did Per do his 23-move solve within the hour?

see ya guys

Hmmm .. i guess not. The start was very fast and so also the first attempt at finishing. I struggled quite a while to finish it off nicely.

-Per

PS! I have a good start to the WC scramble: L D2 R D' L' B F' L R B' F L2 R2 B L2 R B2 U2 L' R' B D2 B L R. I start with R B' L' B2 F' R F2 L2, making good blocks and creating 2 useful c/e pairs. But i cannot see how to proceed efficiently with it. Any ideas anyone ??

-Per

 

[tim]

2x2x2:
14.58 (31.39) 11.98 14.95 (10.54) Average: 13.84

3x3x3:
22.89 22.44 (21.30) 24.10 (24.99) Average: 23.14

3x3x3 OH
1:27.50 1:17.96 1:24.44 (1:29.45) (1:10.11) Average: 1:23.30

2x2x2 BLD:
1:03.66 1:35.41 best: 1:03.66
rofl. it's not possible to make more memo mistakes in one small 2x2x2 bld solve than i did...

 

[cmhardw]

5x5x5 BLD
1) 15:12.75
2) 17:54.89

memo in 7:35 for the first solve and 9:45 for the second solve. Done on my stiff cube, I'd rather break it in through BLD cubing than just not BLD cube at all on 5x5.

 

[Hubdra]

3x3: 23.96

23.89 (27.05) 25.23 (20.88) 22.77

Eugh, I just had a really good average in warm-up, and then lost it.

3x3OH 1:03.29

1:01.12 1:07.27 1:01.48 (1:13.30) (58.59)

 

[vlarsen]

3x3x3:
Average: 45.80
Times (47.10), 44.34, 46.12, 46.95, (37.07)

A little slow for me, but the 37 is a new best.

3x3x3 OH:
Average: 106.78
Times: 109.51, (DNF), 106.03, 104.79, (96.20)

The 96 was slow but skipped PLL, DNF I did the wrong OLL alg 3 times.

3x3x3 BLD:
Best: 11:51.09
Times 11:51.09, DNF (13:47)

 

[KJiptner]

2x2x2
Avg: 7.71
Times: 8.52 9.03 5.57 (10.00) (4.87)
That last one was lucky.

3x3x3
Avg: 18.64
Times: (21.09) (17.18) 18.96 19.79 17.18

4x4x4
Avg: 1:34.75
Times: 1:41.14 1:34.38 (1:27.28) (1:41.23) 1:28.74

5x5x5
Avg: 3:15.41
Times: (3:52.37) 3:19.44 3:07.08 (3:06.61) 3:19.71
Getting faster... Sub 2 in reach

2x2x2 BLD
(1st: 40.69)
2nd: 30.51

3x3x3 BLD
1st: 1:35.34
(2nd: DNF) - 2 Edges Flipped... stupid mistake
Done while racing Tim and Joey. That first race was crazy since we all got sub 2s... But mine won it

Relay
5:23.21
My 5x5ing kills me. But the 4x4 also went horribly.

 

[tim]

3x3x3 BLD:
1.) 1:46.33
2.) 1:45.96 DNF (forgot that i had parity...)
Best: 1:46.33

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

3x3x3
Average: 25.06
Times: 24.22, (DNF), 25.22, (22.83), 25.73

Forgot to do FMC:

X-Cross: D' R2 F' R' L' U' F L2
2nd slot: x2 U F' U2 F U F' U' F
3rd slot: y R U2 R' U' R U R'
4th slot: U B' U' B
OLL: y2 R' U' R y' x' R U' R' F R U R'
PLL: x y R' U R' U' x2 y' R' U R' U' x' R2 U' R' U R U

Total moves: 51

 

[joey]

3x3 BLD: 1:57.16 2:14.13 Best: 1:57.16
I was quite tired at this point, so I'm happy with a sub-2. While racing Kai and Tim.

 

[jeff081692]

Jefferson James
2x2x2
Average= 12.61
12.94, 12.52, (8.02), 12.36, (13.42)
Need to buy new stickers but still a normal average for me.

3x3x3
Average= 31.69
31.50, (38.84), (29.55), 30.69, 32.86
I can't believe it, 31.50 was a solve that went bad and ended with a PLL skip. That makes 7 PLL skips in the past 24 hours.

4x4x4
Average= 3:00.47
3:07.62, 2:58.19, 2:55.61, (3:16.36), (2:30.86)
Focusing on 3x3 still.

5x5x5
Average= 6:49.20
(7:59.61), 7:11.94, 6:50.09 (6:00.34), 6:25.58
The day I get 3 minutes on this cube I will be happy.

Relay= 10:55.95
Looking at my averages you can see why its so high.

 

[gavnasty]

Daniel De Vera

3x3x3:
Average: 28.61
Times: 28.69, (32.81), (23.44), 29.92, 27.22

3x3x3 BLD:
Times: DNF, DNF

blindfolded is hard stuff. i got my first one yesterday, still waiting on that second one though.

 

[AvGalen]

2x2x2: (14.38) 10.28 8.93 9.21 (8.46) = 9.47
3x3x3: 23.25 (31.66) (21.56) 30.36 27.27 = 26.96
3x3x3_oh: 44.25 40.11 (54.02) 49.96 (30.55) = 44.77
4x4x4: 1:44.25(O) 1:33.02(P) (1:47.58)(P) 1:30.28(P) (1:27.97) = 1:35.85
5x5x5: 2:44.33 2:43.80 (2:59.40) 2:49.71 (2:32.34) = 2:45.95
2x2x2_bf: 1:42.13, DNF = 1:42.13
3x3x3_bf: DNF, DNF = DNF
square-1: (1:51.65)(P) 1:17.65 (1:06.18) 1:34.21(P) 1:23.33 = 1:25.06
pyraminx: 17.77 (20.03) 17.96 18.34 (9.56) = 18.02
megaminx: 4:26.55 4:17.69 (4:03.47) 4:24.00 (4:50.28) = 4:22.75
relay: 5:51.34
magic: 1.81 (1.84) 1.68 1.58 (1.53) = 1.69
Fewest Moves: 29 = R' F2 R B R' F2 R B' R D L' F' D' F D L F' D F L U' B D' B' U L U' R2 L' (inverse scramble)

The inverse scramble had an incredibly lucky beginning (4 move double x-cross (pseudo)).
I have found a lot of good continuations that manipulate the last layer into an edge 3-cycle while doing the F2L.
But I kept ending up with 33 moves because the edge 3-cycle never gave me skips, not even with insertions

Do the inverse scramble with premove R'
(R' R) L D2 L D L U' L' D' L' D L' D' R F R L

First solution: 6 moves for the beginning, 17 moves for the rest of F2L with a lot of last layer manipulation
33 moves solution: R B2 D' L R' B2 R L' D' B2 F' D' F D2 L D2 L' U2 L D' L' D2 U2 F' D F D2 L D2 L U' R2 L'
Double X-Cross + Seperate F2L pair (6): L R2 U L' D2 L'
Connect F2L pair (4): D2 F' D' F
Finish 3rd F2L pair (6): U2 D2 L D L' U2
Insert 4th pair + OLL + Corner PLL (7): L D2 L' D2 F' D F
Edge-3-cycle (9): B2 D L R' B2 R L' D B2
Undo premove (1): R'

Second solution: 4 moves for the beginning, 15 moves for the rest of F2L with some last layer manipulation
33 moves solution: R F' D' R2 D' B F' R2 F B' D' R D R D2 F D2 F' D2 F U2 F' D' F D2 L D2 L' U2 L2 U' R2 L'
Double X-Cross (4): L R2 U L2
Finish 3rd F2L pair (9): U2 L D2 L' D2 F' D F U2
Insert 4th pair (6): F' D2 F D2 F' D2
Start of OLL (2): R' D'
Edge-3-cycle insertion (9): R' D B F' R2 F B' D R2
End of OLL (2): D F
Undo premove (1): R'

Third solution: 4 moves for the beginning, 15 moves for the rest of F2L with some last layer manipulation
33 moves solution: R F' D' R' D R F2 L F2 U2 B2 R B2 U2 D2 F D2 F' D2 F U2 F' D' F D2 L D2 L' U2 L2 U' R2 L'
Double X-Cross (4): L R2 U L2
Finish 3rd F2L pair (9): U2 L D2 L' D2 F' D F U2
Insert 4th pair (6): F' D2 F D2 F' D2
Edge-3-cycle insertion (8): U2 B2 R' B2 U2 F2 L' F2 (I learned this one from Guus. You can also perform it as B2 R' B2 U2 F2 L' F2 U2 or R' B2 U2 F2 L' F2 U2 B2 but none of them give any cancellations)
OLL (5): R' D' R D F
Undo premove (1): R'

Pre-Final solution: 4 moves for the beginning, 9 moves for the rest of F2L
29 moves solution: R D L' F' D R2 D L D' R2 D L' D F D L F' D F L U' B D' B' U L U' R2 L'
Double X-Cross (4): L R2 U L'
3rd pair (6): U' B D B' U L'
4th pair (3): F' D' F
Start of OLL (3): L' D' F'
Corner 3-cycle insertion (8): D' L D' R2 D L' D' R2
End of OLL (4): D' F L D'
Undo premove (1): R'
Final solution: 4 moves for the beginning, 9 moves for the rest of F2L

29 moves solution: R' F2 R B R' F2 R B' R D L' F' D' F D L F' D F L U' B D' B' U L U' R2 L'
Double X-Cross (4): L R2 U L'
3rd pair (6): U' B D B' U L'
4th pair (3): F' D' F
OLL (7): L' D' F' D F L D'
PLL (8): R' B R' F2 R B' R' F2
Undo premove (1): R

 

[mrCage]

Hi

Arnaud, after setting up reverse scramble and doing the 4 first moves L R2 U L2 you could have carried on like so: R.F D F' D' R' and then D' F' D2:F R' leaving 5 unsolved corners in 15 turns. The insertions are done like so: R' B' R F' R' B R F at the dot and then finally D' L' D R' D' L D R at the colon for 27 turns total. Then reverse the resulting sequence giving R F' R' D' L' D R D' L D' F D R D F D' F2 R' B' R F R' B L2 U' R2 L' ;-) Not glorious insertions but still resulting in 27 turns

-Per