Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: 14.06, 13.18, 12.16, 11.96,
10.80 =
12.43
3x3x3: 36.83,
27.22, 30.50, 32.22, 29.56 =
30.76
4x4x4: 1:43.78,
2:20.59 (P), 2:03.48 (O), 2:16.64 (O), 2:13.73 (OP) =
2:11.28
5x5x5: 3:27.40, 3:29.03,
3:34.67, 3:25.22,
3:22.06 =
3:27.22
Comment: My first sub-3:30 avg in a long time.
2x2x2 BLD: 51.11, 1:03.90, 49.97 =
49.97
3x3x3 BLD: 3:14.34, 3:03.78 (+2), 2:44.55 =
2:44.55
4x4x4 BLD: 16:39.42 (6:49 mem), 13:04.45 (6:30 mem), 12:20.00 (6:39 mem) =
12:20.00
Comment: Rats – Daniel beat me by 20 seconds. You’d think I was amazingly accurate based on these, but you’d be wrong – this was just an unusual case of 3 solves in a row. I have had so many DNFs lately. I recently took stock of my total big cubes BLD solves lifetime (I keep track of all of them), and after completing these I had a total record of 103/220 successes on 4x4x4 (46.8%) and 37/111 on 5x5x5 (33.3%). Interesting how my 5x5x5 success rate is slowly approaching my 4x4x4 success rate.
5x5x5 BLD: DNF (29:00.90, 15:42 mem), 28:54.24 (14:19 mem), DNF (28:31.84, 13:55 mem) =
28:54.24
Comment: First one off by just 2 + centers, third one off pretty badly (4 wings, 12 + centers, 5 x centers). The successful one was a new personal best, though. When I was checking out my total big cubes BLD solves, I discovered that I’ve had 19 new personal bests on 5x5x5, out of 37 total solves, so half of my 5x5x5 solves have been personal bests. I guess that means my improvement has been steady and gradual.
3x3x3 multiBLD: 3/7 (1:20:36.40, 31:40 mem)
Comment: My first ever multi BLD with less than 50% accuracy.
I had 2 cubes where I actually forgot some memorization. I was able to narrow it to a couple of possibilities, so I guessed, but I guessed wrong in both cases. Continuing my usual approach of giving people way more information than anyone cares to read, the first scramble was off by 4 EP because I forgot the memo, the second scramble was off by 3 CP because again I forgot the memo, the third scramble was off by 4 CP, 4 EP, and 2 EO, and I think they were all because I messed up on the EO step and left an unfixed L2, and the fourth scramble was off by 2 EO and 3 CP, both due to mistranslating my memo into execution. The last 3 scrambles were the ones I got right. I probably would have been less than an hour if I hadn’t been spending so much time trying to recall those two spots that I forgot.
3x3x3 OH: 54.39,
51.69,
1:18.73, 55.80, 59.26 =
56.48
3x3x3 WF: 3:07.59, 3:52.02, 3:41.09, 3:27.77,
4:00.18 =
3:40.29
Relay: 6:03.84
Comment: Wow – how did that happen? If you add my best out of 5 for each of the 2x2x2 through 5x5x5 speedsolve attempts this week, you get 5:43.86. (If you sum my averages, it comes to 6:21.69.) Yet I did this well with a single inspection for all 4 cubes. I suspect it will be a while before I beat this. Strangely, none of the solves seemed all that fast. No parity on the 4x4x4, though.
Magic: 2.59,
2.58, 3.05,
5.22, 3.34 =
2.99
Comment: I practiced hard on Magic this week. It’s a pity you can’t tell.
Master Magic: 6.03,
7.15,
5.83, 7.08, 7.08 =
6.73
Clock: Still don’t have one.
MegaMinx: 4:15.40 (bad POP), 3:39.28, 3:35.15,
3:08.50, 3:36.27 =
3:36.90
Pyraminx: 29.69, 25.61,
20.50, 24.86, 25.83 =
25.43
Square-1: 1:54.90, 1:27.84,
1:08.52, 2:14.84 (P),
2:30.21 (P) =
1:52.53
Fewest moves: 39 moves
L F2 L B2 R2 U2 B R B R F’ R’ B’ R F2 R L2 F R’ L’ D2 B R L’ F2 R’ L D2 B’ L’ D B U’ B’ D2 B U B’ D2
Explanation:
2x2x2: L F2 L B2 R2 U2 B R2 .
2x2x3: F R L2 F R’ L2
F2L minus one edge and one corner: L D2 L’
Fix all edges: L B R L’ F2 R’ L D2 B’ L’ D
2 corners: B U’ B’ D2 B U B’ D2
Insert at .: R’ B R F’ R’ B’ R F, R2 R’ cancels to R, F F becomes F2.
L2 L at end of 2x2x3 becomes L’, L’ L cancel before the fixing of the edges step.
Comment: Not a terrible solution for me. I couldn’t get much out of the cancellations, though. I think I’m still not very good at that. It would help if I’d get some real stickers – right now I’m using the tops of differently-colored post-it notes that I’ve cut into squares, and they fall off way too easily. That costs me a lot of time when looking for insertions. What do other people use for stickers for finding insertions?
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