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

2x2x2 BLD: 5.93
5.93 DNF (21.39)

O_O;; Lucky scramble; saw the first move + OLL, and that solved it!

I find this absolutely amazing! First of all, I would never even think to look for a normal solve on BLD, so unless it was glaringly obvious, there's no way I would catch it. Secondly, for you to spot a two-step solve, don the blindfold, and solve it in 5.93 seconds is really amazing! You're pretty good at 2x2x2 sighted, but you rarely ever get solves this fast, and to do this without 15 seconds preinspection is amazing. You beat Mátyás by almost a factor of 3!!!! How often does that happen? Well done!

By the way, this was a pretty bad spoiler. Now I'm tempted to look for it when I try this one. :(
 
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Speed blindsolving does have its advantages. :)
But again, it was a lucky solve (10 or 11 moves), so it doesn't really count for much (my opinion, at least). I don't think I'll be getting anywhere near this time in a very long time, though. :D
 
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3x3x3:
Average: 24.59
(19.81), 24.57, 21.35, 27.87, (29.76)

3x3x3 OH:
Average:53.85
57.46, (61.59), 53.53, (47.56), 50.56

4x4x4:
Average: 143.78
150.21, (167.22), 139.58, 141.53, (139.15)

2x2x2:
Average: 11.22
(14.39), 11.98, 10.39, 11.29, (8.63)
This is very boring and I dont practise much.

3x3x3 BLD:
a.3 mins 59 secs (PB!) :)
b.DNF
 
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3x3: (21,28) (16,54) 18,71 16,69 17,19 Average: 17,53
Huh, what happened? When I got that 21.xx, I wanted to give up. But then I got a 16.xx PLL skip, and then a little burst of speed. Now I need to get liek this normally, to get back on track.

3x3 OH: 60,81 1:13,36 58,55 48,50 1:02,00 Average: 1:00.45
What? I'm actually doing OH, I know, its crazy! Grr, close to sub-60 avg!

2x2: 08,80 11,48 06,64 11,87 11,02 Average: 10,43
I should stick to OLL/PLL, instead of trying to do intuitive Ortega (or whatever it is called)!

2x2 BLD: 6,36 34,19 Best: 6,36
Speed BLD. Everyone is doing it these days!

3x3 BLD: 1:54,34 DNF Best: 1:54,34
I did an F premove for the first one. The second was a 1:35.27 DNF, would have been a new PB, but I missed one edge :(
 
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Jack Moseley

2x2x2: 6.28
6.86, (7.05), (5.13), 5.66, 6.31

3x3x3: 17.10
(19.81), (14.63), 18.36, 16.11, 16.83

3x3x3 OH: 29.31
29.80, 29.69, (31.03), (23.84), 28.44

4x4x4: 1:22.95
(1:04.47), 1:15.06 P, (1:31.91 OP), 1:25.69 O, 1:28.11 P

Started off good, then the rest was horrible.

5x5x5: 2:37.54
(2:21.97), 2:45.05, 2:45.31, 2:22.25, (2:48.46)

Awesome!

Square-1: 1:00.49
1:03.97, (37.30), (1:05.77), 1:03.27, 54.22

Parity on 3rd, 4th and 5th solves.

Megaminx: 2:38.59
2:45.59, (2:30.21), (2:55.53), 2:32.80, 2:37.38

Relay: 4:32.84

FMC
32 moves
2x2x3: z2 y L' U' B D' R2 F' L2 B' L2 B' z F' U F
F2L: R U2 R2 U' R' U R U
COLL: R2 U R2 D L' B2 L D' R2 U' R

8 move 2x2x3, plus 5 moves to orient edges. Then COLL, and EPLL skip.

BLD

2x2x2: 11.15
2x2x2: 1:07.77

I saw the easy first scramble too.

3x3x3: 3:33.58
3x3x3: DNF

Using 3 cycle. I found out that I can solve edges twice as fast with M2 as with 3 cycle, but I am really bad at memorizing with images. :(
 
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2x2x2: (6.34), 11.45, 10.41, (11.98), 11.66 ==> 11.17
3x3x3: 18.47, 18.42, 19.38, (16.00), (21.38) ==> 18.76
3x3x3 OH: (40.02), 39.80, 38.62, 39.09, (36.69) ==> 39.17
4x4x4: 2:43.36, (3.09:64), 2:50.69, (2:27.17), 2:35.03 ==> 2:43.03
2x2x2 BLD: DNF, DNF ==> DNF
3x3x3 BLD: DNF, 4:13.06 ==> 4:13.06 Second time today I get to use Joël's alg for 4 corner swap (3 in U 1 in D), but this time on L-face.
 
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2x2 - 11.94
9.47, 12.30, 14.04, (7.84), (18.42)
(I suck at this...and my cube is Rubik's...it's too small for speecubing :P)

3x3 - 15.06
15.77, (13.30), 15.05, (16.09), 14.37

3x3 OH - 25.36
(26.61), 25.32, 25.84, (23.69), 24.93

4x4 - 1:33.50
1:36.72, (1:24.36), (1:45.59), 1:34.31, 1:29.48
(I put a pair wrongly at the 1:45 and tought I had OLL parity...fixed it and found that the pair was wrong...and had to fix OLL parity again :P)

5x5 - 3:03.84
(3:18.09), 2:54.35, (2:41.45), 3:04.17, 3:13.00
(wow! beat my PB 2 times :D)

3x3 BLD - 1:35.17
1:35.17, DNF (1:41)

Relay - 5:13.55
5x5 - 3:13
4x4 - 4:35
3x3 - 4:57
2x2 - 5:13

this was my second best time ever :) (best is 5:05)
 
Sikan Li

1st practice for Caltech Fall
3x3x3: 19.01, 19.95, 19.73, (18.46), (22.95) => 19.56
Good/Average
3x3x3 OH: (35.76), 33.87, (30.88), 33.29, 34.36 => 33.84
I like this, pretty consistent.
3x3x3 BLD: 4:46.98, 2:42.83 => 2:42.83
Bad first solve and really good 2nd solve.
 
3x3x3
Average: 36.56
Times: (40.96), 35.25, 35.63, (34.65), 38,80
Wow that was almost my best average of 5 ever!:)
 
3x3 Speedsolve:
15.50 (14.78) 16.84 15.89 (18.42)
Avg: 16.08 Seconds

3x3 One Handed:
35.52 36.80 (37.11) 34.02 (33.03)
Avg: 35.45 Seconds

3x3 BLD:
DNF (2:47.62), DNF (3:07.95)
 
Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: (13.33), 10.81, (10.47), 11.59, 12.41 = 11.60
3x3x3: 34.61, 36.91, (24.53), (39.37), 36.94 = 36.15
3x3x3 OH: (1:07.87), 1:03.52, 53.39, (47.56), 56.34 = 57.75
4x4x4: (1:56.83), 2:10.34 P, 2:00.62 P, (2:30.86 O), 2:07.23
5x5x5: (3:58.59), 3:49.32, 3:35.62, (3:24.57), 3:31.17 = 3:38.70
My 24.53 on the 3x3x3 was a PLL skip! Finally under a minute on 3x3x3 OH! Again I got lucky on parity on the 4x4x4. The 5x5x5 was pretty good for me this week.

2x2x2 BLD: 35.34, DNF (1:16.64) = 35.34
3x3x3 BLD: 3:32.28, DNF (3:25.51) = 3:32.28
4x4x4 BLD: 21:53.40, 19:50.70 = 19:50.70
5x5x5 BLD: DNF (47:52.90), 42:52.32 = 42:52.32
New PB for me on 2x2x2 BLD and 4x4x4 BLD! I decided to resist the temptation to try speed BLD, since I've never tried it before and figured I'd mess up (and I'm not really that good at 2x2x2 anyway). I'm glad I did, because this was a really lucky scramble for Macky's 3-cycle method - just 2 corners to orient and a "Q perm". Memorization - 4x4x4: 9:00, 8:15; 5x5x5: 28:00, 19:30. 5x5x5 DNF was very badly messed up. So was the 2x2x2 DNF, for that matter. 3x3x3 DNF was just me messing up restoring my last setup moves - 3 moves from solved.

Relay: 6:58.86 (2x2x2: 11, 3x3x3: 40, 4x4x4: 2:13, 5x5x5: 3:54)
At least I finally broke 7 minutes (barely). Not too bad for me, I guess.

Square-1: (1:38.84), 2:54.81, 2:41.45, 2:41.62, (4:26.04) = 2:45.96
Terrible, I know, but I still haven't gotten consistent about putting it in cubic form. This will be much better next week.

MegaMinx: (5:25.27), (7:01.33), 5:48.44, 6:15.81, 6:45.42 = 6:16.56
Very bad. The 7 minute solve was a pop at the beginning of the solve - it really threw me off. I really need to do a better job of sanding off the bumps on my $5 puzzle.

PyraMinx: 37.50, 34.49, (40.38), (28.52), 35.15 = 35.71
Hey - I figured out how to make it a little more stable. Now I can average about 1 turn per second - still bad, but not quite as bad as before.

Fewest moves: 45 moves
2x2x2: R' D' B2 F' D U' R' U
2x2x3: L2 D' F' L' F2
cross + 3rd pair: z2 y F2 L' U' L
4th pair: U' R U2 R' U R U' R'
OLL: y' L' B' L R' U' R U L' B L
PLL: U' y2 F2 U' R' L F2 R L' U' F2
Well, my work on memorizing the OLLs is paying off here, at least. I found this after about 52 minutes. I'm still pretty bad at this, I'm afraid.

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Marie Hughey:
2x2x2: 49.11, 1:01.03, (43.43), 1:01.73, (1:04.54) = 57.29
3x3x3: 1:53.61, 1:43.81, (2:01.65), (1:28.00), 1:36.26 = 1:44.56

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Rebecca Hughey:
3x3x3: (1:54.35), 2:15.41, 2:20.37, 2:12.89, (2:35.32) = 2:16.22
 
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3x3: 32.98
35.78 (27.97) 29.78 33.36 (35.83)

3x3OH: 1:07.56
1:02.42 1:03.33 1:16.92 (1:48.41) (59.66)
1:16 was an OLL memory leak and 1:48 a PLL memory leak which messed up the cube :(

3x3 BLD: DNF (DNF and DNF)
I am working on a new method which does not seem to be really nice for the moment :p
 
Chris Hardwick
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2x2x2: 7.08 (11.33) 9.31 8.24 (4.28) = 8.21
3x3x3: (17.18) 15.50 16.24 (14.92) 15.48 = 15.74
3x3x3 one-handed: 33.34 36.57 (46.08) 36.12 (30.50) = 35.34
4x4x4: 1:11.74 (1:01.23) (1:20.24) 1:07.42 1:09.69 = 1:09.62
5x5x5: 2:19.11 (DNF) 2:33.76 2:21.23 (2:17.64) = 2:24.70

2x2x2 BLD: DNF 31.64
I didn't see the speed solution when memorizing the first. But looking at it afterward I saw z y2 R D' B2 U2 B2 D R' or just D R' F2 L2 F2 R D'
3x3x3 BLD: 2:28.03 memo in 1:20; 1:55.49 memo in 45 sec
4x4x4 BLD: DNF; 6:36.35 memo in 3:50
5x5x5 BLD: 17:20.65 memo in 9:50; 17:11.98 memo in 10:35
Stupid brain, I feel like I can't speed up my memorization for the bigger cubes without drastically losing recall speed and accuracy. That's currently my focus for improving my bigger cubes BLD. The US BLD National records for 4x4 and 5x5 are so going down at the Virginia Open ;-)

Relay: 4:48.65
Magic: (1.93) (1.69) 1.79 1.87 1.92 = 1.86
 
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