Weekly competition 2007-37 (2,3,3OH,4,5,BF,SQ1,MG,FMC,MM,PM,Relay)

[vlarsen]

3x3x3
Average: 38.00
Times: (35.87), 38.81, 35.98, (42.57), 39.21

3x3x3 OH
Average: 100.76
Times (79.75), 122.92, (137.93), 97.71, 81.64

Well, I suppose if I really want to speed up I need to start converting my
algs to use the Left face, or start using my left hand for this stuff.

FMC:
No solution, but I played around a bit with the start.
R2 F {D'U} {RL'} U' F U' B2 gets a 2x3x3 in 8 moves. Pretty cool.
I used D' R F' R' to make a psuedo f2l in 12 moves total.
I didn't feel up to looking for insertions and cycles, so I just left it at that.
Oh well. If anybody has a lot of time, it would be nice to see this start completed.

 

[ExoCorsair]

Hope to meet you guys there, Chris for the first time and Mike once more at VA!

 

[Jack]

masterofthebass, it seems like a lot of people have the same problem. It's strange, because for me, the centers were the easy part - I struggled most with the edges (and when it comes to speed, I still do).

I've been wondering if maybe it would be worthwhile for me to try describing how I go about doing centers, taking a slightly different approach to describing it from the one that Chris and Daniel used. Since I'm a beginner, and hence not very good at it, my perspective might be closer to that of those who haven't ever done it before. I really find centers to be pretty easy - other than the fact that I still occasionally accidentally cycle in the wrong direction (but I probably still do that more often with edges than with centers). I think I'll try writing something up later this week and posting it to a different thread. Maybe it will be useful to somebody.

That would be great if you could write about how you do your centers Mike! I have solved all of the edges of a 4x4 blindfolded before, but never the centers (I often can't even get through the centers of a sighted solve without making a mistake, let alone a blindfolded one)!

 

[Lucas Garron]

BLD:
1:50.xx, 1:59.28

Slow. Forgot to connect to CCT (thus the xx). During the first solve, a corner got twisted, but I guessed and twisted it correctly.

 

[hdskull]

BLD:
1:50.xx, 1:59.28

Slow. Forgot to connect to CCT (thus the xx). During the first solve, a corner got twisted, but I guessed and twisted it correctly.

in case of a twisted corner at a competition would it count it as a DNF ?

 

[AvGalen]

2x2x2: (11.06) 7.83 (5.15) 9.81 7.66 = 8.43
3x3x3: 27.53 25.02 (27.88) 24.61 (24.19) = 25.72
3x3x3 One Handed: 50.38 43.31 (54.30) (43.06) 43.71 = 45.80
4x4x4: 1:55.03(O) 1:47.34(P) 1:48.66 (1:42.61)(O) (2:08.28)(O) = 1:50.34
5x5x5: 2:54.21 (2:58.56) (2:41.77) 2:57.97 2:52.28 = 2:54.82
2x2x2 Blindfolded: (DNF) (1:42.36) = 1:42.36
3x3x3 Blindfolded: (DNF) (DNF) = DNF
Relay: 5:21.69
Square-1: 1:29.09 1:43.78(P) (1:55.94)(P) (1:23.05) 1:42.06(P) = 1:38.31
Magic: 1.65 1.61 (4.81) (1.59) 1.65 = 1.64
MegaMinx: 3:53.84 (5:07.91) 4:02.38 4:22.38 (3:28.44) = 4:06.20
PyraMinx: 13.28 (12.65) (19.68) 15.08 15.47 = 14.61
Fewest Moves: 32 (found it in 25 minutes, should have spent more time to get sub-30)
2x2x3 (8): F' D U' L2 F2 U2 R' L z2
Create 4th pair (2): F2 U
Cross + 3rd edge (4): F2 R' F R
3rd corner (5): D F' U F D'
Insert 4th pair (3): R U R'
Edge OLL (4): L F U F'
Corner OLL (5): L' U L U2 L'
PLL (1): U2

in case of a twisted corner at a competition would it count it as a DNF ?

If you end up with 1 incorrectly twisted corner it will be a DNF because there is no way of telling if you did the solve correctly.
If you "untwist" the corner and end up with a solved cube everything is ok.

 

[hdskull]

so that means when i speedsolve, and like i execute PLL and then one corner gets accidentally twisted, that's a DNF ? (if i don't manually twist it back)

 

[AvGalen]

Yes. The logic behind this is easy. How could a judge decide if that corner was accidently twisted? It could have been another corner that was accidently twisted, so you didn't solve 2 corners.

Also:

5b3) If after repairing the puzzle, but still during the solve, the competitor notices that the puzzle is unsolvable, he may disassemble and assemble max. 3 pieces to make the puzzle solvable again.

So if you end up with 1 twisted corner you have to twist another one and solve both!

 

[hdskull]

i c, thanks.