Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: 9.02,
7.55, 9.56, 9.50,
13.03 =
9.36
3x3x3: 26.25, 29.42,
25.81,
40.30, 29.95 =
28.54
4x4x4: 1:41.12 (O), 1:54.11 (O),
1:55.30 (P), 1:49.31 (P), 1:46.48 =
1:49.97
5x5x5: 3:14.67, 3:00.76,
2:48.73, 2:51.54, 3:07.97 =
3:00.09
Comment: Awful! It’s strange how for me it seems that any week that’s bad for 5x5x5 is good for 4x4x4, and vice versa.
6x6x6: 5:42.43 (OP), 5:40.31,
5:03.68, 6:03.61 (OP),
6:04.45 (O) =
5:48.78
7x7x7: 7:47.38,
8:32.08,
7:41.86, 7:58.84, 7:55.25 =
7:53.82
Comment: Better on the big cubes this week! It’s funny how wildly my times fluctuate on these.
2x2x2 BLD: 55.77, 37.71, 39.36 =
37.71
Comment: I think these were just easy.
3x3x3 BLD: 2:15.27, 2:36.35, 2:26.90 =
2:15.27
4x4x4 BLD: DNF (10+, 4:33), DNF (10+, 5:01), DNF (10+, 4:43) =
DNF
Comment: Finally my stackmat-only approach hurts me. First one was bad, off by 4 centers, 8 edges, 4 corners – looked like undoing setup moves out of order. Second and third were both solved, but in both cases, the stackmat ran out. On the last one, I’m quite sure it must have been only a few seconds over.
5x5x5 BLD: DNF (22:07.64, 10:15), 18:57.20 (10:01), DNF (17:33.20, 8:33) =
18:57.20
Comment: First one was off by 2 wings and 3 + centers; it had a bad memorization recall pause in it. The second one was a welcome relief – my first successful big cube BLD this week. The third one was bad again - off by 2 + centers and 3 wings. At least the time was pretty good. I hope next week has fewer DNFs - it's been pretty bad this week.
6x6x6 BLD: DNF (40:05.34, 17:43), DNS, DNS =
DNF
Comment: Very bad. Off by 4 corners, 2 inner X centers, 3 obliques, 9 inner wings, and 6 outer wings. I have no idea what went wrong – I really thought it was solved.
7x7x7 BLD: 1:01:34.89 (30:43), DNS, DNS =
1:01:34.89
Comment: Got it! New personal best. So close to sub-hour, but I just can't seem to do it. My execution felt REALLY fast on this one, but the memorization was a bit slow - I was having trouble making some of the images stick. Anyway, it's nice to get a good time again - it's been a while since my last good time on one.
3x3x3 multiBLD: 3/3 = 3 points, 16:21.59 (9:56)
3x3x3 OH: 45.64, 51.97, 48.86,
42.25,
1:05.97 =
48.82
3x3x3 WF: 2:21.94,
2:00.58, 2:07.78,
2:52.44, 2:12.31 =
2:14.01
3x3x3 Match the scramble: 1:32.37, 1:31.70,
3:36.86,
1:25.55, 1:42.81 =
1:35.63
2-4 relay: 2:41.71 (OP)
2-5 relay: 6:03.43 (OP)
2-6 relay: 11:49.87 (OP, O)
2-7 relay: 20:48.74 (O, O)
Magic: 2.21, 2.27,
2.80, 2.41, 2.72 =
2.47
Master Magic: 5.06, 5.06,
4.36,
5.22, 4.50 =
4.87
Snake: Still don’t have one.
Clock: 20.55,
58.93, 21.72, 20.86, 23.77 =
22.12
Comment: Second one was almost a DNF, but I caught it and then had to resolve the whole thing.
MegaMinx: 2:57.74, 3:05.10,
2:22.88, 3:42.99 (POP),
DNF (59:40.46, 27:17) =
3:15.21
Comment: Third one was my best ever, by far! I’ve never been sub-2:30 before. Megaminx really lends itself to occasional really lucky solves (for people like me who aren’t very good at it) – I had what amounted to a PLL skip on this one. The fifth solve was almost an unofficial world record! I was only off by 3 edges, which happened because I had 2 edges left to flip at the end, and I did it wrong. After that, I practiced it a bunch of times – I won’t make that mistake again! The UWR will fall soon!
Pyraminx: 23.18, 23.91,
32.84,
19.50, 27.40 =
24.83
Square-1: 51.78, 1:03.94,
47.33, 55.09,
1:15.11 (P) =
56.94
3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 31 moves (See earlier post for solution)
4x4x4 Fewest Moves: 85 moves
B D2 F Lw R' Bw R D2 Bw R' B' Uw' B2 R' Uw' R' Uw R2 Uw L D L F U F' Uw' B' U' B U' B U B' Uw' Fw R' B R Fw' U Rw2 D' R2 D Rw2 U F' D' B U R2 U B' U' D B D' L2 D F' B D2 F B' L D2 L' D L D' L' F' R' F' U F D2 F' U' F D R D F D
centers: B D2 F Lw R' Bw R D2 Bw
R' B' Uw' B2 R' Uw'
R' Uw R2 Uw L2 Uw2
edges: Uw2 L' D L F U F' Uw2
Uw B' U' B U' B U B' Uw'
Fw R' B R Fw'
U Rw2 D' R2 D Rw2
3x3x3: U F' D' B U R2
3x3x4: U B' U' D B
3x cross: D' L2 D F' B D2 F B'
4th pair: L D2 L' D L D' L'
all but 3 corners: F' R' . D' R D F D
insert at .: F' U F D2 F' U' F D2
L2 Uw2 Uw2 L' become L after centers; Uw2 Uw become Uw' after first pair of edges; D2 D' become D after insertion.
Comment: Not a bad solution. I had real trouble with PLL parity, but I played around with it for a while and got rid of it. I still don't understand exactly what I'm doing to get rid of it, though - I wish I really understood how to remove PLL parity usefully, but I totally don't. 3x3x3 solution was pretty bad (40 moves), but I wasn't willing to work harder to try to find something better.
New cube, but it needs breaking in a wee bit.
I've only been square-1-ing for two days, and it seems I'm quite good. I need to learn better algs though :/ The scariest thing is that I'm already unofficially second quickest (on average) in the UK 
) in 9 more moves, cancelling 1 move.
