Weekly competition 2009-49

[AvGalen]

Chris, that really surprises me, because last night I was doing the same thing with 3x3x3 BLD. My wife and I were sitting in the family room, and she was watching TV and occasionally talking to me about the stuff that was on, and I was doing BLD solves, and trying to maintain conversation with her whenever she asked me something. It's not the same as doing big BLD (which is MUCH harder), but I rarely ever do distraction training these days, and I think it's funny that you posted this the day after I did that. By the way I was averaging around 2 minutes, and I only missed one out of 7 or 8 solves, so I was pretty happy with it.

Hey Mike,

That's funny that we both apparently train the same way without realizing! I used to do this kind of distraction stuff from time to time, but I got out of the habit for a while. I figured I would try it again and see what happened. I'm glad I did because this was kind of eye opening for me, I was really expecting to see a solved cube on the first two. The last one I discovered a memory error during solving, and tried to see if I could figure it out. I thought I did, but it was still a DNF.

In this particular case, I am quite interested - about how fast were they? I'm curious what the difference is in time for you between a distracted solve and a non-distracted one.

First two DNFs were 16's, the last one was almost 21 minutes. The extra time on the last solve I think came from the fact that I was probably starting to get really sensory overloaded, and also on trying to rework my memorization and see if I could figure out the memory error. I knew I had made an error because I memorized one location twice.

Chris

I use a similar, but different kind of distraction training that has made me almost immune to distraction in competitions:
1) Go to a bar
2) Do whatever you do normally in a bar, including getting (almost) drunk
3) When you had enough, try to do a blindsolve (the bar should be noisy as hell)
4) If you fail the blindsolve you are not allowed to drive so you will have to try again

I have only failed once and that was because somebody was whispering a very distracting story directly in my ear for minutes.

I normally need about 5 minutes for a solve, but under those circumstances I need about 6.

 

[MatsBergsten]

I use a similar, but different kind of distraction training that has made me almost immune to distraction in competitions:
1) Go to a bar
2) Do whatever you do normally in a bar, including getting (almost) drunk
3) When you had enough, try to do a blindsolve (the bar should be noisy as hell)
4) If you fail the blindsolve you are not allowed to drive so you will have to try again

I have only failed once and that was because somebody was whispering a very distracting story directly in my ear for minutes.

I normally need about 5 minutes for a solve, but under those circumstances I need about 6.

I do like your telling stories , but it is your results I want

 

[zaub3rfr4g]

i dont have results for 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 and 3x3multi bld, they're here again (page 2)

222
avg 4.90
3.45, 5.23, (6.89), 6.01, (3.41)

333
avg 15.82
16.00, 16.70, (18.03), 14.75, (14.31)

444
avg 1:20.39
(1:42.87), 1:26.98, 1:12.09, (1:11.02), 1:22.09 PB!

222BLD
dnf, dnf, 32.67 the first two scrambles were too long xD

333BLD
2:47.21, 2:41.67, 2:17.45 happy about that

333MULTI BLD
1/2 6:22.53

234
1:54.39

333FM
47 moves, friedrich