Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: 9.53,
10.34, 9.68,
3.63, 9.52 =
9.58
3x3x3: 24.86, 27.59,
28.25, 27.18, 27.31 =
27.36
4x4x4: 2:03.69, 1:48.65 (O), 1:35.97 (OP), 1:38.03 (O),
1:19.09 =
1:40.88
Comment: Wow – sub-1:20! I didn’t know I was capable of that. Jim Mertens let me use his shock oil on my Eastsheen, and now I love it. After scrambling 7 or 8 different Mefferts 4x4x4’s at the Indiana competition and then trying this, I’ve decided I’m never buying a Mefferts 4x4x4 – my shock oil lubed Eastsheen is better than any of them. It’s a dream!
5x5x5: 2:34.02,
2:30.13, 2:47.69, 2:57.33 (POP),
3:01.27 =
2:46.35
Comment: This was going so well, and then I had the pop, which I spent 10 seconds finding on the floor. It would have been a good solve without that pop.
6x6x6: DNF (34:21.14, 17:43), 5:16.52 (OP),
5:06.84 (P), 5:13.77 (P), 5:10.06 (P) =
5:13.45
Comment: BLD solve was off by just 3 outer wings. I solved for the wrong piece by accident, despite having memorized the correct one.
It was the last thing I did before I stopped, so it was particularly gut-wrenching. It would have been a very good time.
7x7x7: 9:00.02, 7:41.57, 7:53.20,
7:40.00,
DNF (1:17:41.18, 31:23) =
8:11.60
Comment: BLD solve was a disaster – I had memory failure all over the place. It was off by 3 centrals, 2 obliques, 4 outer + centers, 2 inner X centers, and 3 inner + centers. All were separate individual mistakes on my part. It just wasn’t a good day for BLD for me yesterday.
2x2x2 BLD: 28.13, DNF, 28.33 =
28.13
3x3x3 BLD: DNF, 2:20.48, DNF =
2:20.48
Comment: I had a 1:27.67 solve warming up before these. But for some reason these were all awful. The DNFs were very slow: 4:15.29 and 2:56.04.
4x4x4 BLD: 8:37.69 (4:45), 11:49.64 (5:10), 10:31.00 (5:01) =
8:37.69
Comment: It was nice to get them all again. First one was a very lucky scramble.
5x5x5 BLD: 18:14.29 (9:30), DNF (23:26.56, 10:32), DNF (17:21.63, 9:40) =
18:14.29
Comment: Second one was off by 2 central edges and 2 corners – I memorized the centrals wrong and as a result thought I had parity. Third one was off by just 2 + centers.
3x3x3 multiBLD: 4/11 =
DNF, 60:00.00 (37:23)
Comment: This was the first time I ever really felt like I could actually handle 11 cubes, so I’m not so disappointed with it despite the result. The problem was that I applied my memorization for cube 9 to cube 10, and didn’t realize it until I went on to cube 9. Then I decided my memory was so good on both cubes that I just had to try to fix it, so I went back to cube 10 and undid the entire solve and applied the correct solution instead. As it turned out, I messed that cube up by 4 edges and 4 corners – bad, but not really that bad considering. Cube 9 was off by 3 corners, cube 7 by 3 edges, cube 6 by 6 edges (I couldn’t remember them), cube 5 by 3 edges and 7 corners (I couldn’t remember the corners), cube 3 by 3 edges, and cube 1 I was on my way to succeeding with but my timer started beeping – my time had run out. I really think that if I had not made the mistake with applying the solution to the wrong cube, I wouldn’t have felt so rushed, and I wouldn’t have had a DNF. I’ll have to try again next week.
3x3x3 OH: 49.50, 50.58,
50.61,
35.78, 42.18 =
47.42
3x3x3 WF: 1:33.68, 1:42.19, 1:44.00,
2:29.11, 1:57.16 =
1:47.78
Comment: Wow – a good week for me!
3x3x3 Match the scramble: 1:22.43, 1:18.65,
1:14.96, 1:20.43, 1:21.27 =
1:20.12
Comment: A good week for me on this event too. It was particularly nice because it was so consistent.
2-4 relay: 2:30.93 (OP)
2-5 relay: 5:26.90 (OP)
Magic: 1.93,
1.75, 1.80, 2.30,
DNF =
2.01
Master Magic: 4.61,
6.30, 5.56,
4.21, 5.03 =
5.07
Clock: 21.56, 19.94, 19.65,
21.66,
19.18 =
20.38
MegaMinx: 3:31.81,
3:37.46, 3:13.14, 3:03.52,
2:55.76 =
3:16.16
Pyraminx: 18.61,
18.36, 22.80,
31.16, 21.66 =
21.02
Square-1: 53.55 (P),
52.78 (P), 53.84 (P), 56.72,
1:17.90 (P) =
54.70
3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 34 moves
Comment: See solution earlier in thread.
Marie Hughey:
2x2x2: 24.36, 23.86,
DNF,
7.30, 46.58 =
31.60
Magic: 2.75,
2.58,
DNF, 3.15, 4.80 =
3.57
Rebecca Hughey:
2x2x2: 30.28, 34.97, 33.71,
9.00,
36.08 =
32.99
Comment: I told the girls they just
had to try this 2x2x2 scramble, so they went ahead and did the whole average. That fourth scramble is now the PB lucky solve for all three of us.
