Weekly competition 2009-28

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Mike Hughey
3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 40 moves
2x2x2: R F B L D B' L B L2
2x cross: F2 U F
3rd pair: U' B U2 B'
4th pair: L' U L U' L' U' L
OLL: B' R' F' R B R' F
PLL: R' U' B' F R2 B F' U' R2 U
Comment: Ugh. Three bad fewest moves weeks in a row. All three looked like promising scrambles, and all three came out bad. This was my safety solve - I found this in about 15 minutes. After this I found quite a few more promising starts, both with the regular scramble and the inverse scramble, but all of them ended badly. Very disappointing. Oh well, at least I'm nowhere near last place this week.

3x3FMC: 49 moves or DNF See solution in earlier post.

It worked fine for me. I say it's 49 moves.
Maybe the others had trouble understanding your explanation, with the premoves and all? By the way, I checked the explanation out and it worked fine too.
Looks like a perfectly good solution, and especially good because it's more moves than mine.

It always is Unless I really have a great solve like 2 weeks ago, you always beat me in fewest moves. I had found a better solution, but I really liked this one, and I think it's a great solve for beginners in FMC to watch and analyse, because it contains almost every trick the master FMC'ers use.

 

[JustinJ]

2x2: (3.68), (5.81), 4.59, 4.19, 4.03 = 4.27

Another sub NR.

2x2 BLD: 24.46+, DNF, DNF = 24.46

Easy scramble. Didn't even really try the other two. Just looked to see if they were as easy.

3x3: 19.06, 15.90, 16.87, (14.71), (25.06) = 17.28

Pretty good, everything went wrong on the last solve :rolleyes:

 

[PeterV]

PeterV:

2x2x2: 9.10, (7.19), 10.33, (17.55), 7.44 = 8.96 avg.
Comment: PB average, I think. 3 skips helped

3x3x3: (34.11), 27.39, 26.80, 29.76, (23.95) = 27.98 avg.
Comment: Good.

2-4 Relay: 3:32.72
Comment: Good.

2-5 Relay: 9:53.36
Comment: Normal.

Magic: (DNF), (1.51), 1.63, 1.62, 3.16 = 2.14 avg.
Comment: Ouch...pretty bad solves.

 

[andyaycw]

3x3x3:

25.32, (28.85), 24.99, (24.40), 27.99 = 26.10

 

[stray]

FMC: U D' F' U' D2 B' R D R L2 F L2 R2 B' R' U' R B2 R' F' U B' U' F2 D' F' U' F D F' B U2 (32)

U D' F' U' D2 B' R D block 1x2x3 and another 1x2x2 (8)
R L2 F L2 R2 B' R' U' R B2 R' f2l minus 1 slot (19, too long to fix the 2 edge...)
F' U B' U' F* U' B U2 all but 3 corner (27)

*insert: [FD'F', U'] 3 move cancel (32)

find it in about 20 minutes, it's acceptable result to me, so I don't search other start.

 

[stray]

FMC: U D' F' U' D2 B' R D R L2 F L2 R2 B' R' U' R B2 R' F' U B' U' F2 D' F' U' F D F' B U2 (32)

U D' F' U' D2 B' R D block 1x2x3 and another 1x2x2 (8)
R L2 F L2 R2 B' R' U' R B2 R' f2l minus 1 slot (19, too long to fix the 2 edge...)
F' U B' U' F* U' B U2 all but 3 corner (27)

*insert: [FD'F', U'] 3 move cancel (32)

find it in about 20 minutes, it's acceptable result to me, so I don't search other start.

Can anyone tell me why space in my reply all disappear after submit everytime? :confused:

 

[Faz]

Last weekly comp before I head off to NZ.

2x2: 4.56, (5.14), 3.62, (3.20), 3.56 = 3.91
Yeah.
3x3: (9.78), 12.38, 11.44, (13.00), 9.95 = 11.26
Kinda easy scrambles
4x4: 57.38, 58.56, 56.41, (58.94), (56.12) = 57.45
Mmm ok
5x5: (1:45.39), (1:59.26), 1:45.83, 1:45.42, 1:45.56 = 1:45.60
Breaking in my new v5, its very stiff.
OH: 26.78, (26.95), (21.24), 26.16, 23.58 = 25.51
okies.

 

[rwcinoto]

2x2: 10.19, (10.40), (7.37), 9.15, 8.58 = 9.31
3x3: (19.80), (24.13), 23.20, 21.24, 24.01 = 22.82
4x4: 1:52.49, (2:19.72), 1:36.58, 1:50.31, (1:29.72) = 1:46.46
6x6: (6:12.55), 6:36.10, 7:27.91, 6:31.17, (DNS) = 6:51.73
3x3 OH: (46.82), (31.78), 41.64, 41.50, 37.72 = 40.29
3x3 WF: 49.51, (42.33), (54.17), 48.77, 47.65 = 48.64
Multi BLD: 1/2 - 19:06.44
Clock: 31.29, (22.76), 29.03, (43.84), 31.80 = 30.71
Pyraminx: (11.83), 15.11, 13.52+, 14.63, (15.79) = 14.42
Square-1: (1:13.52), 1:02.11, (37.14), 1:10.34, 42.28 = 58.24

 

[Edam]

3x3
Average: 26.42
Individual Times:
1. 26.99 ,26.66,25.60,(25.42),(28.40)

there's a reason for these times being so slow. my regular cubes are packed away for travelling. So I did this with a blue type C. which, feels lovely but does slow my recognition by a few seconds. about 3 from the looks of things. oh well.

 

[salshort]

Lol wow this is not my week!
3x3x3 MTS: 5:54.50 4:04.31 3:32.31 DNF 4:34.27
Av = 4:51.03
Pyraminx: 9.10 19.26 14.63 17.54 14.54
Av = 15.57
2x2x2 Blind: DNF DNF DNF
2x2x2: 15.64 16.12 13.83 11.52 6.56
Av = 13.66
3x3x3: 39.88 32.62 29.10 29.17 30.73
Av = 30.84
4x4x4:4:28.66 4:04.85 4:48.16 4:35.50 4:54.08
Av = 4:37.44
3x3x3 OH:1:04.38 1:30.66 1:10.75 1:03.69 1:08.58
Av = 1:07.91
2x2x2-4x4x4 Relay: 6:07.44
2x2x2-5x5x5 Relay: 10.33.88

Also this is my first time doing FMC so i have no idea whether this solve counts or not but here is my casual frederich solution:
3x3x3 Fewest Moves
1. D' B2 R2 B2 D U B2 U F2 L2 F2 R B' U B' F2 D' F' D L U'
the scramble has yellow ontop.
Cross: z2 D' R' U' L2 D L2 y' 8 moves
F2L: R U' R' F U' F' U' R U2 R' U F' U F y2 R U' R' F' U2 F U L' U' L U F U' F' U' L' U L y' 34 moves
OLL: f R U R' U' f' y' R U2 R2 U' R2 U' R2 U2 R 16 moves
PLL: U' y' R2 U R U R' U' R' U' R' U R' y' x' R U' R D2 R' U R D2 R2 24 moves Since I did not know the G I broke it up into 2 algs
This is not a great solve, I am just wondering if it is legal, it is a 82 move solve and it does work.

 

[JTW2007]

2x2: 9.37 (10.69) 8.73 9.43 (8.26)=9.18 I'm out of practice.
3x3: 21.13 (24.69) 20.20 (18.15) 23.59=21.64 Meh.
4x4: 1:53.72 1:52.47 (1:59.85) 1:57.26 (1:41.43)=1:54.49 Sub-2!
5x5: 3:14.86 (3:27.91) 3:21.66 3:20.37 (2:56.49)=3:23.31 Uh...
2-4 Relay: 2:42.07 Why are all of my solves in relays awesome?
2-5 Relay: 5:31.84 Okay, really, good 2x2, x-cross and T Perm, good centers, normal. I would have set my PB in 3x3.
Pyraminx: 14.37 (11.25) 17.99 20.32 (25.33)=17.56 All over the board.

Need powerball... and sleep.

 

[MatsBergsten]

Mats B
2x2: 20.25 37.13 18.38 dnf 19.43 = 25.60
3x3: 49.86 44.59 55.97 58.90 54.59 = 53.47
4x4: 4:09.93 3:48.97 5:14.09 3:18.21 4:00.91 = 3:59.94
5x5: 10:01.31 9:58.90 10:40.33 9:25.02 8:59.70 = 9:48.41
2x2BLD: 73.69 55.15 40.65 = 40.65 ok
3x3BLD: 2:37.41 dnf dnf = 2:37.41 ok
4x4BLD: dnf dnf dnf = dnf
First two were very close. No one was fast.
5x5BLD: dnf 34:07 dnf = 34:07 ok
Multi: 4/7 = 1 time 58:23
Seems like seven is one cube to many
One was two corners twisted, one was a corner 3-cycle off and one was bad.
2-4Rel: 6:16.41
2-5Rel: 13:07.91

According to the smilies not much to be glad about

 

[MistArts]

2x2x2: 6.54, (3.70), (9.13), 4.74, 5.77 = 5.68

FMC: U D' F' D2 U' B L2 U' L2 U B U B' U' R2 L F' L R' D' U' B2 R2 F2 D' L2 F2 R L B' L R' (32)

1x2x3: U D' F' D2 U' (5)
Opposite 1x2x3: B L2 U' L2 U R' (11)
CMLL: R B U B' U' R' U (18-2)
EO: U' L R' F L R' D' . L R' B' L R' (28-3)
Insert at .: U' B2 R2 F2 D' L2 F2 R2 (33-1)

Cancellations: R' R at the beginning of CMLL cancels to nothing; R' U U' L R' at the beginning of EO cancels to R2 L; R2 L R' cancels to R L at the end of the insertion.

Comment: First time I've used Roux in FMC.

 

[ender9994]

Ender9994:

2x2: 7.84, 12.25, (19.47), (7.38), 7.55 ... 9.21 AVG

3x3: 33.66, (26.72), DNF, 28.25, 34.59 ... 31.50 AVG

Notes: #$#% 7 seconds above my average

4x4: 2:08.55, (1:56.53), 2:18.61, (2:24.33), 2:09.44 ... 2:12.20 AVG

2 - 4 Relay: ... 3:00.52

2 - 5 Relay: ... 8:19.83

 

[fanwuq]

3x3x3 FMC:

 

[babyle]

3x3 BlD 3:17:04, 3:10:04, DNF. Is it just me or is that last scramble really hard for M2/ old pochmann method o.o

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Why exactly is it hard? It's a normal solve for me... If I hadn't screwed up the corners due to a wrong memo recall and then screwing up the Y-perm, it would have been a neat normal 2:30 for me...

 

[LarsN]

Lars Nielsson:

2x2: 9.28
10.58 8.38 (10.67) (8.05) 8.88 Sub10 is always good for me, but I really should learn a new method. Coll algs suck on 2x2.
3x3: 19.64
19.57 20.74 (21.45) (17.93) 18.59
Pretty consistent considering I've recently changed from doing f2l with cross on left to cross on buttom.
3x3OH: 52.09
(52.73) 52.01 (44.51) 52.41 51.86 Very good without any practice. Amazingly consistent, the 44.51 was a PLL-skip.
3x3BLD:
5x5: 2:09.22
2:08.94 (2:28.50) 2:15.30 (2:01.83) 2:03.41 sub2 warm up solves and then this happen...

5x5BLD: 30:54.46
Yeah! My first successfull solve ever I'm so happy...

FMC: F R B F' B2 R' L U2 R L2 U L F R D' F' R D R2 D2 R F D L' F2 L2 D' L' D' L D' L' B R F' R' B' F D F D' F' (42)

2x2x2: F R B F' . L' U L
2x2x3 and prepare 3rd f2l pair: F R D' F' R D R2 D2 R
3rd f2l pair: F D L' F2 L2
Finish corners: D' L' D' L D' L'
2-edges: B R F' R' B' F D F D' F'
Insert at . to finish edges: B2 R' L U2 R L' (last L' cancels out)

 

[tsaoenator]

Andy Tsao
4x4x4: 56.08 O, (1:01.98 OP), (54.85 O), 59.17 P, 56.75 O = 57.33 bleh

 

[Mike Hughey]

Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: 14.47, 9.77, 9.34, 9.46, 11.80 = 10.34
3x3x3: 25.05, 23.97, 39.27, 20.61, 26.75 = 25.26
4x4x4: 1:53.30 (OP), 1:38.03 (P), 1:31.50, 1:44.58 (O), 1:48.25 (OP) = 1:43.62
5x5x5: 2:45.93, 2:38.56, 2:28.33, 2:44.08, 2:38.91 = 2:40.52
6x6x6: DNF (53:01.01, 21:29), 5:39.36 (P), 6:03.55 (O), 5:14.69, 5:12.03 (O) = 5:39.20
Comment: BLD was off by 3 obliques and 4 inner wings, due to mismemorization. But the cool part about this solve was that I had a bad pop, where one of the inner pieces came out. I was able to find all the pieces, and then I tried to force the inner piece back in, but I eventually gave up and had to pull the other matching inner piece out in order to fix it. But I finally got it, and without messing up the solve! This was my first bad pop on a 6x6x6 BLD ever. Great fun.
7x7x7: 8:21.89, 8:37.10, 7:45.24, 7:52.26, DNF (53:12.10, 22:30) = 8:17.08
Comment: The BLD attempt was very fast - almost as fast as my 6x6x6 one! But unfortunately, it appears I messed up undoing a setup move - all the edges around one face were wrong and the corners were off by a 90 degree turn. There were a bunch of pieces wrong - I was so disappointed I didn't feel like counting them. Maybe I'll add that info later when I'm not so upset about it and I can bring myself to count them.
2x2x2 BLD: DNF, 42.31, 24.91 = 24.91
Comment: Two 8-movers and a 9-mover on the last solve – really easy!
3x3x3 BLD: 2:02.06, 2:32.38, 7:21.77 = 2:02.06
Comment: Nooo – trying-to-speedcube beat me this week! (But seriously, congratulations on a great solve, Maarten!) On the last solve I almost completely forgot the edges, but I started going through all the possible combinations and finally figured it out. I was proud of this one – it’s probably my slowest successful solve in the past year.
4x4x4 BLD: 10:40.92 (5:26), 10:17.37 (6:04), DNF (8:03.78, 4:00) = 10:17.37
Comment: Aww, the third one was such a good time, but it had two centers wrong. I memorized the wrong piece.
5x5x5 BLD: DNF (19:00.72, 9:34), 18:08.37 (10:07), DNF (17:16.04, 8:34) = 18:08.37
Comment: First one was off by 3 wings due to memorizing the wrong piece; third one was off by 3 centrals and 2 X centers. I’ve been having big problems with memorizing the wrong pieces this week..
3x3x3 multiBLD: 6/6 = 6 points, 31:37.34 (19:07)
Comment: This one was really nice. Only one extra time through to double-check my memory, and then no significant memory delays throughout! The biggest delay was that cube 5 was rough to solve; I had trouble remembering one of the BH corner algorithms (which rarely ever happens to me these days). I want to get sub-30 with 6.
3x3x3 OH: 57.94, 44.36, 50.94, 50.96, 48.15 = 50.02
3x3x3 WF: 2:42.31, 1:46.94, 1:51.38, 1:53.30, 2:18.50 = 2:01.06
3x3x3 Match the scramble: 1:41.90, 1:27.50, 1:32.34, 1:42.30, 1:29.13 = 1:34.46
2-4 relay: 2:24.33 (P)
2-5 relay: 5:08.97
Magic: 1.93, 1.84, 3.00, 1.77, 1.77 = 1.85
Master Magic: 3.86, 3.84, 5.00, 4.13, 4.03 = 4.01
Clock: 23.56, DNF, 19.03, 25.84, 20.22 = 23.21
Comment: After the DNF, I checked the others carefully before stopping the timer.
MegaMinx: 2:52.15, 3:16.40, 2:54.37, 3:14.67, 2:46.34 = 3:00.40
Pyraminx: 28.43, 17.27, 19.11, 22.11, 20.58 = 20.60
Square-1: 1:02.30, 59.15 (P), 47.19, 55.33, 1:13.52 (P) = 58.93
3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 40 moves
Comment: See solution earlier in thread.