A pretty good week for me. I still need to do 6x6x6 BLD and multi; I’ll try to get them done later today.
Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: 8.81,
3.96,
13.58, 8.16, 12.81 =
9.93
3x3x3: 32.47, 25.77, 23.69, 24.65,
21.88 =
24.70
4x4x4: 1:53.55 [O], 1:44.15 [OP],
1:30.40, 1:46.25 [OP], 1:36.80 [O] =
1:42.40
5x5x5: 2:38.47,
2:53.05,
2:27.13, 2:48.55, 2:42.55 =
2:43.19
6x6x6: 5:34.83, 5:53.90 [OP], 5:38.41 [O],
5:21.81 [O],
39:51.43 [17:45] =
5:42.38
Comment: BLD solve went pretty nice except for a few memory recall delays. It could have been pretty fast if it hadn't been for them. It's nice to finally get a really big cube BLD again - it's been several weeks since I got one right.
7x7x7: 7:51.84,
7:28.41, 7:55.63, 7:47.76,
DNF [1:14:46.20, 31:45] =
7:51.74
Comment: BLD solve was off by 9 inner wings, 6 outer wings, and 2 centrals flipped, plus an F2. I had a terrible time with the memorization – I just couldn’t get it to stick, so I knew I’d be in trouble on the solve, and I was. I saved some of both the inner and outer wings for last because I couldn’t remember them, and apparently I forgot to do an F2 somewhere, which left all of the rest of the wings wrong. The 2 centrals were due to my messing up handling of parity for a case that I often mess up – hopefully I’ll never make that mistake again now. This was a disaster – that makes 4 7x7x7 DNFs in a row.
2x2x2 BLD: 46.30, 45.18, 44.00 =
44.00
Comment: Sorry, Mats – I just barely beat you. These were all hard for me.
3x3x3 BLD: 1:44.81, 1:54.59, DNF =
1:44.81
4x4x4 BLD: 7:35.33 [4:08], 9:53.39 [5:10], 7:53.84 [3:48] =
7:35.33
Comment: Wow – a good week for me on 4x4x4 BLD! All 3 under ten minutes and successful, and two of them sub-8! Amazing.
5x5x5 BLD: DNF [16:18.82, 8:45], DNF [22:20.99, 8:24], 14:55.60 [8:04] =
14:55.60
Comment: First one was off by 3 centrals – I memorized H instead of F for one piece. Second one was off by 10 wings – I realized while solving that I had made a mistake memorizing (I had the same letter twice), and I tried to recall visually to correct for it, but just wound up messing everything up instead. It was very frustrating, because I was on world-record pace with this solve until I hit that problem. But the third solve made up for it – fast enough to be the world record – for about 2 days.
(I had to go ahead and post this now so I’d be in time to still claim this.) My prediction for worlds: new 5x5x5 BLD world record will be 12:10 – Rafal will be angry about having DNFed both 4x4x4s, and so he will take it nice and slow and get it right. Chris and Mondo will also both beat Chris’s former world record, but won’t be fast enough to beat Rafal's "safety solve".
3x3x3 multiBLD: 4/4 = 4 points, 21:10.11 [12:24]
Comment: I know it's slow, but hey, give me a break - I did this immediately after finishing my 6x6x6 BLD, and it was 3 AM. I was a little tired. Sorry I didn't have time this week for a real attempt.
3x3x3 OH: 41.97, 42.88,
36.80, 40.69,
52.91 =
41.85
3x3x3 WF: 1:50.34,
1:36.66,
DNF, 1:46.13, 1:53.66 =
1:50.04
Comment: On the DNF, the timer read 13.18 when I finished. I must have accidentally stopped it. (Either that or I’ve gotten really good!)
3x3x3 Match the scramble: 1:24.96,
1:47.30, 1:37.77, 1:27.18, 1:33.96 =
1:32.97
2-4 relay: 2:53.40 [P]
Comment: The 2x2x2 was a disaster – it took over 30 seconds. That’s why this was so bad. I really need to work on 2x2x2.
2-5 relay: 5:23.61 [O]
Magic: 2.02, 1.78,
1.65, 2.08,
4.11 =
1.96
Master Magic: 3.78, 5.91, 4.80,
8.36, 4.05 =
4.92
Clock: 19.08,
21.77, 19.71, 21.34,
17.58 =
20.04
MegaMinx: 3:10.71, 2:41.93, 3:00.49, 2:49.07,
2:29.12 =
2:50.50
Pyraminx: 21.34, 15.59,
22.80, 20.81,
14.84 =
19.25
Square-1: 56.46, 42.71, 39.31, 40.63,
34.00 =
40.88
3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 33 moves
Comment: See solution earlier in thread.
