Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: 14.52, 11.09, 12.27,
10.15, 10.36 =
11.24
3x3x3: 27.96,
21.03, 26.44,
29.53, 28.97 =
27.79
Comment: This was a surprise. I was over 30 seconds on almost all of my warmup solves. I think these were just lucky solves. Coincidentally, my LL on the second solve was exactly the same as Erik got on his 7.08 solve at the Czech Open. (Totally weird!) So I guess that means in general Erik can solve 3 cubes in the time I take to solve one.
4x4x4: 2:10.97 (O),
2:11.15 (O, +2), 2:00.75 (O),
1:52.33 (O), 2:06.50 (P) =
2:06.07
5x5x5: 3:17.27,
3:21.31, 3:20.52,
2:49.90, 3:01.44 =
3:13.08
Comment: So frustrating. Since getting my V-cubes, my times for 5x5x5 have gotten consistently 15 seconds worse. And I can’t blame it on the V-cube itself, because I tried my Eastsheen, and I’m even slower with that. I was getting better at 5x5x5 – what happened?
6x6x6: 9:02.83 (O, POP), 7:41.21, 8:46.25 (P, POP),
7:40.91,
DNF (bad POP) =
8:30.10
Comment: Okay, so I’m popping more than half the time now. The last one would have been sub-7:30, but I popped at the very end. As it was, one of the internal pieces popped out, and it took me close to 11 minutes to get it done. So the stackmat ran out and I had to take a DNF.
7x7x7: 13:02.33, 12:24.31,
10:50.96, 11:20.65 (POP), 11:00.79 =
11:35.25
2x2x2 BLD: 49.61, 42.88, 49.83 =
42.88
3x3x3 BLD: DNF (3:38.25), 5:28.16, 2:36.65 =
2:36.65
Comment: Awful! The first one was off by parity. On the second one, I forgot some of the memo, but stuck with it for 3 minutes doing nothing and finally recalled it and got it right.
4x4x4 BLD: 11:37.87 (5:49), DNF (1:21.50, 4:57), DNF (10:15.57, 5:07) =
11:37.87
Comment: Not a good week for the little cubes BLD. (I like to think of 4x4x4 as a little cube now.
)
5x5x5 BLD: 27:50.00 (15:03), 18:27.22 (9:30), 23:23.07 (11:53) =
18:27.22
Comment: Well, I know I’m not keeping up with Alex (I just can’t seem to keep up with you kids!), but it was still very good for me. My first sub-20.
6x6x6 BLD: DNF (2:03:31.03, 1:21:45), DNF (1:02:44.90, 27:04), DNF (1:00:45.86, 26:50) =
DNF
Comment: The first one was just awful – I was too tired to memorize effectively. But I kept trying (I can’t stand to give up!). Off by 2 inner X, 3 outer X, 4 corners, 11 inner edges, 8 outer edges. Looked like I made a bad U turn setup undo somewhere. The second one was more normal - I actually had enough sleep the night before, so it helped. Off by 3 outer edges, 2 obliques, and 2 inner X centers. The third one I gave up in the middle because I knew I had messed up a commutator on the inner X centers. I was able to look at the cube and figure out what I did wrong, so I pulled the blindfold back on and actually solved it from there. So at least now I've done a 6x6x6 with just 2 looks.
7x7x7 BLD: DNS yet, DNS, DNS
3x3x3 multiBLD: 12/15 = 9 points, 1:59:39.46 (1:16:15 memorization)
Comment: Fifth cube off by 4 CO (unpacked hexadecimal wrong), sixth cube off by 2 EO (memorized wrong sticker of a piece), tenth cube off by 2 EO (memorized wrong sticker of a piece). At least my time went down by 15 minutes over last week, even if the result was significantly worse this week than it was last week.
3x3x3 OH: 55.25, 55.28, 51.83,
42.83,
55.69 =
54.12
3x3x3 WF: 2:34.21,
3:59.66, 2:50.50, 3:20.90,
2:27.97 =
2:55.20
Comment: Messed up the PLL on the second one; had to start over on F2L. I don’t seem to be improving any more, Dene – sorry.
3x3x3 Match the scramble: 4:25.16, 2:32.50,
2:10.30, 2:19.09, 2:29.94 =
2:27.18
Comment: On the first one, accidentally scrambled it while doing LL and had to start over.
2-4 relay: 2:39.90 (OP)
2-5 relay: 6:05.33 (P)
2-6 relay: 13:52.37 (none, OP)
2-7 relay: 25:04.74 (OP, O)
Comment: Much better on the relays for me this week.
Magic: 2.56, 2.55, 2.08, 2.09,
2.06 =
2.24
Master Magic: 4.93, 4.36, 4.93,
4.19, 4.59 =
4.63
Snake: Don’t have one.
Clock: 29.27, 26.96, 24.47,
32.41,
21.02 =
26.90
Comment: Last week my average would have been bottom in the USA. Now it’s third from bottom. Great improvement!!!
MegaMinx: 3:41.16, 3:16.75, 3:50.52,
4:04.38,
3:00.61 =
3:36.14
Comment: I’m spending too much time with the big cubes and my MegaMinx times are suffering.
Pyraminx: 21.72, 25.03,
26.00,
17.96, 24.93 =
23.89
Square-1: 1:37.78 (P),
1:41.59 (P), 1:24.33 (P),
49.18, 1:10.08 (P) =
1:24.06
3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 42 moves
D B D’ U’ L’ U2 L F L’ D2 L F2 U D’ L’ B’ L B D B L B’ R2 L2 F L’ F’ R2 D’ U’ L U B D’ B’ L’ B L D L’ B’ L2
2x2x3: D B D’ U’ L’ U2 L F L’ D2 L F2 U D’
3x cross: L’ B’ L B D . L2 D’
finish F2L: U’ L U
OLL: B D’ B’ L’ B L D L’ B’
AUF: L2
insert at .: B L B’ R2 L2 F L’ F’ R2 L2
L2 L2 cancel at .
Another bad solve – mainly because of a bad start. I probably should have tried inverse scramble, but I didn’t have time.
4x4x4 Fewest Moves: 105 moves
F' Lw' U' Lw2 F' B2 Uw' U Rw' U2 Rw Dw L' Uw2 R' B Uw' R2 Uw' F2 Uw2 B Uw' B2 Uw B Dw2 B' D' B Dw2 U2 Rw B R2 B' Rw' R' Fw R' F2 R Fw' U F Lw' U' L U Lw R2 Fw2 D B' D' R' B2 R Dw2 L2 Fw2 F2 L2 Dw2 Fw2 B U R B' U2 D F' B U B2 U R' U2 R2 B' R2 B R B2 R B U R2 L D' L' U L D L' U' F' U' R' U R F R' U' R'
centers: F' Lw' U' Lw2
F' B2 Uw' U Rw' U2 Rw
Dw L' Uw2
R' B Uw' R2 Uw' F2 Uw2
B Uw' B2 Uw
edges: B Dw2 B' D' B Dw2
U2 Rw B R2 B' Rw'
R' Fw R' F2 R Fw'
U F Lw' U' L U Lw
R2 Fw2 D B' D' R' B2 R Fw2 .
3x3x3: B U R B' U2 D F'
3x3x4: B U B2 U R' U2
3x cross: R2 B' R2 B R B'
finish F2L: B' R B U R2 U'
OLL: U . F' U' R' U R F R' U'
AUF: R'
insert at first .: Fw2 Dw2 L2 Fw2 F2 L2 Dw2 Fw2 (PLL parity)
insert at second .: L D' L' U L D L' U'
Fw2 Fw2 cancel at first .; B' B' become B2 after 3x cross; U' U cancel after F2L.
I was happy that I was able to figure out how to avoid OLL parity, but I still don't understand how to avoid PLL parity. At least I was able to get a small cancellation on the PLL parity by inserting it. Overall, it seemed like a better solution than it wound up being; I think my biggest problem was the edge matching - that and the fact that I'm still not that good at 3x3x3 fewest moves.
