Weekly competition 2008-49

2x2x2: 5.28, DNF, 4.28, 6.20, 7.14 = 5.95 --> Bad, would've been ok if it wasn't for the DNF (did wrong PBL)

2x2x2 BLD: DNF, DNF, 25.61 = 25.61 --> Last one was so easy..

3x3x3:19.30, 25.61, 26.22, 20.17, 22.39 = 22.72 --> Bad :( 2nd and 3rd were pops, the last was just slow. 1st and 4th were OK.

3x3x3 BLD: DNF (2:20.38), 3:41.36. DNF (3:28.58) = 3:41.36 --> Wow, first was crazy fast but I slipped up on execution, other 2 were pretty slow. The last was off by 2 flipped edges. (P.S. Did this at the start of the week when I was like a minute slower... if I only I'd waited they'd be much better:( )

3x3x3 Multi BLD: 3/3 (25:56.83 (15:56)) = 3 points --> Awesome :D Even if it was verrrry slow :P

3x3x3 OH: 24.30, 30.11, 26.00, 29,39, 25.92 = 27.10 --> Good, but 2nd and 4th solve spoiled it.. 1st solve would've been awesome but got my least favourite OLL and a G perm..

4x4x4: 1:40.06 (OP), 1:42.24 (OP), 1:52.06 (OP), 1:46.61 (OP), 1:46.80 (OP) = 1:45.21 --> Bad, but to be fair.. What are the odds of ALL 5 HAVING DOUBLE PARITY?! Bah! The 3rd one should've been good, it had a sub minute reduction but an AWFUL 3x3x3 part

4x4x4 BLD: coming

2x2x2 - 4x4x4 Relay: 2:10.77 --> I think this is a PB for me, but it's not very good. For some reason I always do really badly on the 4x4x4 part. I should be able to get sub 2..

Square-1: 1:49.25, 1:21.70, 1:25.64, 1:35.14, 1:12.73 = 1:27.50 --> Getting better with every solve. 1st and 4th had parity, but as you can see it doesn't make as much difference as it used to (can do parity alg in like 20-30 seconds now! :D)

FMC: coming
 
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After seeing Mike's horrible solution and no one else posted a good FMC, I had to try the scramble.
It's not that difficult. My 2nd linear attempt was 42 moves.

Finally, I found this 30 moves that leaves only 3 corners to be inserted.
LD2FU2R'U)LD2L'B'L'B')DL2D'LD'L2D2LDLD'LDFL'F'D')L'
Slightly worse than my average, but not extremely horrible. Found in about 15 minutes. I'll come back to this later.
 
FMC

I DNFed at 1-hour attempt. It was really hard to find any good start.
In about 100 minutes, I had the following.
R' U F2 *R L2 B' F2 L' F U B2 L2 [L2 may be a pre-move] F B R' F R F B' +twist 2 corners; insert at * (F2 U' L B2 L' U)2 =>
R' L B2 L' U F2 U' L B2 L' U R L2 B' F2 L' F U B2 L2 F B R' F R F B' L2 (28)

This is a good example for those who want to learn how to insert a sequence. In this case, you care only about location of the two corners, which is easier than if you face a cycle of corners.
 
2x2x2: 10.46 DNF 8.27 10.86 12.46 => 11.26

3x3x3: 19.53 20.02 19.16 19.18 15.69 => 19.29

3x3x3_OH: 37.31 45.56 33.11 36.86 34.47 => 36.21

3x3x3_feet: 1:58.96 1:46.58 1:47.34 1:42.40 1:42.22 => 1:45.38

5x5x5: 1:59.83 1:45.53 2:11.28 2:02.40 2:12.36 => 2:04.50

6x6x6: 4:23.13 4:28.52 3:49.38 3:51.81 4:17.59 => 4:10.84
Wow, this mod worked great! I almost had a 30s 3x3x3 in one of them! The bad times were because of bad light and having a week off 6x6x6. NO POPS! :D

7x7x7: 5:25.97 5:53.65 5:59.11 5:55.18 6:06.56 => 5:55.98
Around 3 minutes for centers every time. I really need to cut off 30s. The first solve had super edges.

megaminx: 4:19.71 5:49.59 6:11.66 4:13.55 4:41.96 => 4:57.09
The best one had one of the worst starts (2 minutes for the "star" and "F2L")
 
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Andy Tsao
5x5x5: (2:05.50), 1:57.70, 2:04.99, (1:51.47), 1:54.09 = 1:58.93 improving slowly...
 
ExoCorsair said:
Mike Hughey said:
5x5x5: 2:45.16, 2:36.47, 2:39.19, 2:27.11, 2:42.58 = 2:39.41
Comment: Yes!!!! Finally a sub-2:30 solve!
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Woohoo, go Mike! You'll be sub-2 in no time! :p
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Yeah right. But it is nice that sub-2 actually looks possible someday now. This solve actually had a pretty bad 3x3x3 phase. It's been slow, but I am slowly getting better. To think this would have been a pretty good result at my first competition (the 2007 US Open). How things have changed in a year and a half.
 
Pete Harpham

3x3x3

36.33, 40.55 (35.44)(pop) (46.11) 38.33 = 38.40

comment - funny that the fastest was a pop. I also put the piece in the wrong way too.

4x4x4

3:18.98, (3:10.16), 3:18.84, (DNF), 3:35.39 = 3:24.40

comment - normally getting sub-3 so this is bad. didn't see parity on DNF.

3x3x3 BLD

7:52.50, DNF (6:50.19), 6:42.88

comment - solve 1 was a PB by 2 seconds. I was gutted on the DNF (3 corners) and then smashed my PB on the third, yay.
 
Mike Hughey said:
Ville Seppänen said:
5x5x5BLD: DNF(8:33 5 pieces)
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I just saw this. Oh, wow!

Oh, and nice job, Lucas! It's been a while since I've seen you try big cubes BLD.
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I had 7:53 with 3 wings off in some earlier contest (well, I'm pretty sure I posted my result :P). I only get sub-10 times now (except in the competition), but they are still mainly DNFs. I've had 3 sub10s now. I'll get better, I should really do more solves and get V-cubes.
 
Ville Seppänen said:
I had 7:53 with 3 wings off in some earlier contest (well, I'm pretty sure I posted my result :P). I only get sub-10 times now (except in the competition), but they are still mainly DNFs. I've had 3 sub10s now. I'll get better, I should really do more solves and get V-cubes.
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Just frightening. So now we can really look at the possibility of 4x4x4 BLD AND 5x5x5 BLD being limited by stackmat solves only. :) I hope I can eventually get there, but it seems so impossible!

Awesome job, Ville. I completely agree with you - you should do more solves and get V-cubes.
 
FMC: New PB for me, 40 moves :D

L2 d' L d' L' d' F2 U' R2 B2 (10) corners
z U L E2 L' (5) 1st pair of edges
y L S2 E' L' S2 (8) 2nd pair of edges
U L' E2 L (5) 3rd pair of edges
U' D' L' E' L (6) 4th pair of edges
y' L2 E' L2 E2 (6) middle layer
 
I know that feeling. Don't get frustrated! Some scrambles are just too hard for our methods. We should take it as a challenge and come up with new tricks for these hard cases.
You're strong in FMC, we all do DNF more often than you think. I just may not always talk about it. ;)




MistArts said:
FMC: DNF

I've DNFed three solves in a row. I might as well quit FMC.
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Mirek said:
I know that feeling. Don't get frustrated! Some scrambles are just too hard for our methods. We should take it as a challenge and come up with new tricks for these hard cases.
You're strong in FMC, we all do DNF more often than you think. I just may not always talk about it. ;)




MistArts said:
FMC: DNF

I've DNFed three solves in a row. I might as well quit FMC.
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Yeah,

Com'on Misarts! We need you for though a competition.
I also DNF a lot lately
Gus
 
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