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Very good for me. The 39 was a PB. Parity on only the second solve.
FMC
41 moves
2x2x3: x2 y F R' U' D F' D R2 D'
Insertion: x2 F L U2 L' U2 L F' L' U' L U L F L2 U F'
Finish 2x2x3: R' L U2 R2
Rest of cube: z2 y L' U L F' R U R' U' F' U2 F U2 F'
Very disappionting... I found a way to solve the cube all but 2 corners and 2 edges in 24 moves, but after that I couldn't find anything else to do except insert an R perm very badly.
Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: 13.78, (13.98), 12.48, 10.16, (8.29) = 12.14
3x3x3: (47.02), 36.58, (36.19), 37.69, 38.55 = 37.61
3x3x3 OH: (1:20.75), 1:16.81, 1:14.62, (1:02.34), 1:09.78 = 1:13.74
4x4x4: 2:07.47, 2:05.80, (2:53.44 P), (2:04.81), 2:20.95 P = 2:11.41
5x5x5: 3:54.57, 4:04.56, (3:40.12), (4:06.10), 3:52.93 = 3:57.35
Hideously bad times this week. I don't know what happened. On the 3x3x3, I felt almost like I forgot how to solve it! The 4x4x4 average was not bad for me, but it was when you consider I had almost no parity.
2x2x2 BLD: 43.92, 53.77 = 43.92
3x3x3 BLD: 3:16.39, DNF (3:31.13) = 3:16.39
4x4x4 BLD: 26:28.77, DNF (23:15.38) = 26:28.77
5x5x5 BLD: DNF (41:13.82), 42:38.23 = 42:38.23
Wow - it looks like this was a bad week for speedcubing, but a good week for BLD for me. The 2x2x2 and 5x5x5 are both personal bests for me. Of course, the 2x2x2 BLD was a REALLY lucky scramble, so I guess it doesn't count. Mem. times: 4x4x4(12:10, 11:50), 5x5x5(21:30, 22:50). The second 4x4x4 was all correct except I forgot to do the corner parity at the end. Ugh - I even went to the trouble to move the parity to make it easy. The first 5x5x5 I missed 3 + centers and 2 x centers. On the 5x5x5, I'm FINALLY getting times that are faster than Trevor's first successful 5x5x5 BLD solve. Only took me 2 months of regular attempts to beat his first successful time. Somehow I doubt I'll ever be fast at this.
Relay: 7:51.91 (2x2x2: ~12, 3x3x3: ~40, 4x4x4: ~2:40, 5x5x5: ~4:20)
Really slow 4x4x4 plus really slow 5x5x5 equals horribly bad relay time. Again I was sub-7 minutes in warmup. Maybe I need to do the relay without a warmup.
MegaMinx: 6:20.59, (5:35.53), (6:23.87), 5:48.00, 6:01.53 = 6:03.37
It's so much fun working on a new puzzle - your times improve so quickly. I have a feeling I'm about to run into the brick wall now, though. I hope I can shave off at least one more minute quickly before it starts getting harder to improve.
PyraMinx: 40.18, (35.33), 46.15, 37.93, (1:00.95) = 41.42
This is embarassing - I really need to get a new PyraMinx. I'm sure I'd be disqualified in a live competition, since the scramblers wouldn't be able to scramble it without it coming apart. The minute solve was because the whole thing came apart on me towards the end - it was actually a pretty quick solve up until then.
Fewest moves: 46 moves
2x2x2: R' D' F D' F2 L' D'
2x2x3: B2 U B R' U
3rd pair: x' y U' F L' U' L
4th pair: U2 F' U2 F R U2 R'
OLL: y R' F2 L F L' F R
PLL: U' y' L U2 L' U F R' F' L F R F' U L' U
I need to work on getting better at this; I'm really bad at it. I found this after 56 minutes - just a few more minutes and I would have been stuck with a 52 move solution.
Rebecca Hughey:
3x3x3: 3:07.97, 3:03.02, 3:26.48, (3:43.80), (2:05.37) = 3:12.49
Rebecca's second week went pretty well - a 45 second improvement, and she almost broke 2 minutes on one of the solves! Not bad for a 6-year-old.
3x3x3: 19.28 17.72 (22.28) (17.28) 18.35 ==> 18.45 not bad
Fewest moves: 32 moves (just) within an hour
I spend 45 minuts on very promising starts, 8 moves for 2x2x3 and some extra pairs but it did not result in a short solution (<35 moves), The last 15 minutes I tried some random starts with longer 2x2x3block which resulted in this 32 mover.
My solution:
scramble: B F' R2 U L' U' F2 R' U' B R2 U R' D2 L' R' B2 F'
(See what's happening by moving D2 before the scramble
2x2x2: R' D2 B2 D F' U' B' ==> 7
2x2x3: D' L F2 D2 L' D2 ==> 13
F2L: F' U' F' U F D' U L D (U') ==> 22
LL: (U) L U' R U L2 U L U2 R' ==> 31
correction: D2 ==> 32
cancellation moves are between brackets
Yeha, I think if I didn't have to do the 3x3 part, I could compete. Matyas, what are you're breakdowns like (Centers, Edges, 3x3). I guess it would give me a goal to work for. My edges need the most work though.
2x2x2: 11.05 (7.22) 8.81 8.21 (12.18) = 9.36 3x3x3: 26.22 26.02 26.41 (25.55)(27.66) = 26.22 3x3x3_oh: (43.08) 50.11 (56.83) 48.25 44.58 = 47.65 4x4x4: (2:08.91)(P) 1:51.31(O) (1:25.46)(P) 1:29.66(P) 1:41.44(OP) = 1:40.80 5x5x5: 2:37.65 (2:12.84) 3:00.30 (3:28.15) 2:41.40 = 2:46.45. The 2:12.84 was almost perfect on centers and edges. The >3 times were a big pop and a huge pop. 2x2x2_bf: DNF, DNF = DNF 3x3x3_bf: (7:59.93), (6:54.53) = 6:54.53 relay: 5:39.75 = 5:39.75 square-1: (2:00.65)(P) (1:11.94) 1:47.38(P) 1:20.11 1:24.52 = 1:30.67 magic: 1.68 (1.66)(10.50) 1.68 2.50 = 1.95 megaminx: 4:07.19 4:02.16 (5:02.52)(4:00.63) 5:00.71 = 4:23.35 pyraminx: (11.63) 13.88 17.61 (25.56) 21.59 = 17.69 fewest moves: 25! (Do pre-move B' to see what is going on)
2x2x2: L' B2 L
2x2x3: D R' D2 F' R
3rd pair + Cross: D
4rd pair: F2 D' F L' F L F'
OLL: L D L' D L D2 L'
PLL: D'
Undo pre-move: B'
If this doesn't win fewest moves this week I don't know what will Please try to beat this Per, Jack, and everyone else
Jefferson James
3x3x3
Average= 30.45
(27.42), (32.34), 28.72, 32.33, 30.30
I am very sleepy. Thats not an excuse its the reason I didn't do other puzzles.
3x3x3
Average:37.75
Times: (41.95), 38.62, (32.54), 34.98, 39.65
Wow, I was at a 40-second wall for maybe the last 2-3 weeks, and am really shocked at these times. I did try a new technique, which was chanting "fast, fast, fast, fast" over and over like a crazy person. That's probably the reason...
3x3x3 OH
Average: 122.45
Times: 89.23, 117.71, (89.09), DNF, 160.42
I started slowing up bad at the end, on the DNF I messed up a G-perm and was over 200 seconds, so I just stopped.
No blindfold for me this week, it is really late and that stuff takes too much mental ability.
Ok, I did it anyway
3x3x3 BLD
Best: DNF
Times: DNF(13:51), DNF(---)
I told you so. On the second DNF, I might have gotten my first sub-10 minute solve, but I messed up the first few setup moves, so gave up on repairing it. Moving backwards is so tough.
As soon as I saw the scrambled cube I was thinking "wow, that is a hard scramble. No easy blocks or short x-crosses this week".
I used 15 minutes for the regular scramble, but couldn't find a good beginning
I used 15 minutes for the inverse scrable, but couldn't find a good beginning.
I paniced for 1 minute and then thought: "What would happen if I scrambled without the first move?"
I saw the 2x2x2 right away this time. I also saw the continuation for the 2x2x3 and experimented with different ways of creating it. After 10 minutes one of them gave me an almost free cross+3rd pair (but bad 4th pair) so I kept it and didn't look any further (fortunately). The 4th pair could be done in many ways and one of them was this sune + pll skip.
50 minutes in total.
I spent 5 minutes on checking the solution and writing it down.
I spent the last 5 minutes on finding cancellations between the last F2L moves, Sune, U-correction and premove-correction but I couldn't find any.
I don't see many ways to improve on 25. This solve already had:
Short (3 moves) 2x2x2
Normal (5 moves) 2x2x3 extension
Optimal? (1 move) Cross+3rd pair continuation
Normal (7 move) 4th pair + last layer manipulation
Normal (7 move) OLL
Optimal? (1 move) PLL
The only way I see to improve from here without extreme luck is to:
* have more cancellations between steps
* not have to do premoves and "U-corrections"
* use a completely different approach (skeleton, corners first), but I am not good enough for that yet
Basically I am saying: "Don't expect me to improve this next week"