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

[joey]

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 ;-)

Sometimes during 3x3 BLD (I don't (maybe sometime) do bigger cubes), I give myself a limited memo time. So I only have 20s of memo, and I force myself to go faster. Maybe you could try something like that with the 4x4, to try increase memo time, even though you might get DNF's. (Which is basically the advice I got from dbeyer a while ago!)

 

[Lofty]

Brian Loftus
2x2x2: 10.29 9.90 (9.45) 11 (11.75) = 10.37
3x3x3: 24.32 26.95 26.74 (29.29 POP) (23.19)= 26.003
wow that was really really bad.
3x3x3 OH: 26.75 30.51 (22.92) (33.33) 29.68= 28.98
idk what happened there, very inconsistent.

 

[masterofthebass]

Ok so no megaminx this week... I really don't feel like it.

Magic
1.43, (1.61), (1.28), 1.30, 1.30 --> 1.34


---Edit---
nvm I'll do the megaminx
2:53.08, (2:42.47), 2:46.17, (3:22.27), 2:52.61 --> 2:50.80

wow. That was way better than I've ever done before. I think I just got 2 new PBs.

 

[gavnasty]

Daniel De Vera

3x3x3:
average: 31.11
times: 32.07, 32.09, 28.86, (27.64), (33.58)

3x3x3 OH:
average: 1:14.67
times: (1:05.60), (1:22.66), 1:11.78, 1:22.01, 1:10.21

3x3x3 BLD:
times: DNF, DNF

 

[Hubdra]

3x3 : 21.32

Times: (30.73) 19.34 (19.33) 20.05 24.56

First one I did wrong OLL, 2nd one I just had bad F2L =/ Oh well.

 

[chevyLi]

Weekly competition Chevy Li
2x2x28.61

[9.66] 8.68 (6.72) 8.00 9.15

3x3x317.28

[19.36] 17.84 17.65 (15.84) 16.36


4x4x489.41


1:28.65(O)(P) [1:39.61] 1:24.81(P) (1:23.61) 1:34.78 (O)



5x5x53:53.16

3:49.80 4:02.31 (3:11.28) [4:14.83] 3:47.38

PB lol



3x3x3 Blindfolded 2:58.86

DNF 2:58.86



Relay:6:10.09

:confused:

Magic (Just do 5 solves) 1.71


1.78 1.71 (1.61) 1.66 [1.88]

I only do magic in this competition

 

[TimC]

Tim Chong (1st contest ever)

3x3x3:

1. 26.63
2. 27.24
3. 26.72
4. 31.97 (Ehh, messed up the F2L on this one)
5. 26.14

Avg. 26.86
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3x3x3 BLD:

1. 7:48.32 (My PB)
2. 8:01.71

These were my 4th and 5th successful solves ever, and they were 2 in a row!
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4x4x4:

1. 3:04.93 (Cube got stuck in the beginning a lot)
2. 2:38.04
3. 2:38.76
4. 2:32.58
5. 2:45.32

Avg. 2:40.71

I should work on this...
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Square-1:

1. 2:15.38
2. 1:30.40
3. 2:46.62
4. 1:50.28
5. 1:29.31

(Uhhh, some pretty inconsistent times...)

Avg. 1:35.38
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[h3ndrik]

Hendrik Wache

3x3
avg: 31.34
times: 32.86 - (28.38) - 32.09 - 29.06 - (34.00)

I'm getting better every day

 

[guusrs]

3x3x3: (18.41), 18.57, (24.64), 19.46, 20.68 ==> 19.56

Fewest moves:
scramble: L' F' L2 F' L B L2 F2 R U' B2 F D2 B2 F L U
My solution: F' D U' L' F2 L' U2 R2 L2 D B2 U2 F R F' U2 B L' B R D' F D F D L D2 L' D F' D ==> 31 moves
explanation:
two 2x2x1 block: F' D U' (3)
F2L minus pair: L' F2 L' U2 R2 L2 D L'. R D' (13)
Last pair: F D F D L D2 L' D F' (22)
LL correction: D (23)
leaves a corner and edge pair switch in LL
to solve: insert at dot: L B2 U2 F R F' U2 B L' B (10)
cancelling out 2 moves leaves 31 moves

After 3 moves I thought it would be easy to go sub-30 but it was hard to continue.
However this was a very funny insertion which I could make within the hour.

Greetz

Guus

 

[Worms]

My times:

2x2
1. 6,43 CLL
2. (6,02) OLL SKIP
3. 6,91
4. 6,17 PLL SKIP
5. (9,41)

Average-5: 6,503''

3x3:
No times, my cube is broken --> http://rubik.metropoliglobal.com/foro/files/snif_114.jpg

 

[jeff081692]

Jefferson James
3x3x3
Average= 27.40
(33.48), 25.91, 29.66, (23.94), 26.64
My best last week was 27 seconds and now it is my average. I hope that means I will have a 23 second average soon.

 

[tim]

Tim Habermaas

3x3x3
27.97 (21.91) 22.18 (34.29) 28.29
Average: 26.15

I hate speedsolving...

2x2x2
18.81 (13.00) (23.33) 15.87 16.89
Average: 17.19

lol, maybe i should just give it up...

4x4x4
(2:47.19) 2:46.07 (2:25.85) 2:34.99 2:36.94
Average: 2:39.33

very bad again...

3x3x3 OH
(1:21.76) 1:03.16 1:06.90 (1:02.93) 1:08.50
Average: 1:06.19

2x2x2 BLD
1:23.01 1:18.72
Best: 1:18.72

don't laugh :/

3x3x3 BLD
1:46.74 2:10.07
Best: 1:46.74

 

[dbeyer]

Chris Hardwick

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 ;-)

Yea, sucks that I can't afford the trip to Virginia ...

 

[Mike Hughey]

Chris Hardwick

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 ;-)

Yea, sucks that I can't afford the trip to Virginia ...

Daniel, I'm sorry to hear that - I was kind of hoping I'd get to meet you there. Anyway, to Chris, thanks for your kind words to me in the Accomplishments thread, and I'm looking forward to meeting you at the Virginia Open.

 

[masterofthebass]

Mike,
VA is a long way away from Indianapolis. Is there any reason that you're not going to Pleasantville this weekend. There's over 40 people registered already.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Actually, yeah. Pleasantville is pretty far away from Indianapolis as well, and I don't have any family there. My parents live in Virginia, just 50 miles from Richmond. It's where I grew up. And we can go visit them for Thanksgiving, and take advantage of the competition at the same time. Without an extra incentive like that, it's hard to take my family on a long trip somewhere.

I still thought a bit about Pleasantville, but it just wasn't practical. I hope everyone has a good time there!

 

[cmhardw]

Yea, sucks that I can't afford the trip to Virginia ...

Daniel I purposefully didn't mention by who since I wasn't sure if you were able to make it. I figured with both of us there the National Record was going down by one of us. Well, there will be other competitions, Chattahoochee 2008! ;-)

Also Mike, I want to tip my hat to you and Trevor and everyone else doing big cube BLD in the US because you guys are all speeding up really quickly! So I'm not trying to be elitist by only referring to Daniel. It seems that big cube blind is really becoming popular in the US, and I can see some fights for the National records in the near future ;-)

Chris

 

[Mike Hughey]

Also Mike, I want to tip my hat to you and Trevor and everyone else doing big cube BLD in the US because you guys are all speeding up really quickly! So I'm not trying to be elitist by only referring to Daniel. It seems that big cube blind is really becoming popular in the US, and I can see some fights for the National records in the near future ;-)

Chris

Honestly, I'm not in the same league. I'm still struggling for 20 minutes on the 4x4x4, while Trevor is almost that fast on the 5x5x5 (he's probably even faster than that by now). I'm just happy I can compete at all. Whether I'm ever fast or not, it's still amazing to me every time the blindfold comes off and the cube is solved!

 

[masterofthebass]

Chris, I would love to start, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the centers. I'm going to use r2 and M2 for the edges, but I can't seem to figure out how to do the centers... I've tried using the tutorials given, but I can't seem to get them.

 

[Mike Hughey]

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.