Weekly competition 2010-01

[cookingfat]

My first entry after a 6 week break. My times have dropped (I mean gone up) a bit >

2x2x2 : 6.83, (5.27), (8.78), 7.43, 5.96 = 6.74
easy scrambles? I dunno.

3x3x3 : (21.40), 26.84, (32.18), 22.21, 27.19 = 25.41
inconsistency

4x4x4 : 1:50.91, (1:47.91), 1:58.25, (1:59.47), 1:50.25 = 1:53.14

5x5x5 : (4:43.36), (3:21.05), 3:33.69, 3:40.19, 3:42.02 = 3:38.63

3x3x3 BLD : 4:48.84, DNF (3:54.52), DNF (4:00.44) = 4:48.84
first success for a long time. I'm happy.

2x2x2 BLD : DNF, DNF, 34.68 = 34.68
old pochmann still.
might do some more.

3x3x3 OH : 1:02.11, (47.00), (1:13.91), 50.27, 1:12.59 = 1:01.66

3x3x3 Match : (2:18.27), 1:57.30, 1:43.33, 1:53.38, (1:41.72) = 1:51.34

Magic : 2.06, 2.25, (3.36), (1.84), 2.03 = 2.11


reply to James - Thanks !! I have some serious catching up to do, especially on 4x4.

 

[James Ludlow]

Welcome back Pete.

I think I may have just pipped you for 3x3 as well this week. I'ma catch you on 2x2 soon hopefully. I'm finally getting round to thinking about Full ortega lol not with just T and Y perms. I only need to learn the op/adj swap alg and I'm done. I'm horribly slow with them at the mo though. You can be sub 1.30 by end of Jan I reckon.

 

[Bogyo]

2x2: 7.90
5.02 6.68 9.63+ 9.84 7.40
3x3: 15.23
13.19 14.68 17.83 12.03 17.93
4x4: 1:02.19
1:00.05 1:05.19 57.88 1:01.34 DNF
5x5: 1:45.04
1:43.68 2:05.68 1:40.93 1:41.09 1:50.34
Megaminx: 1:02.60
1:01.08 1:03.52 1:08.52 1:00.69 1:03.21
Magic: 2.33
5.03 1.03 0.93 0.90 DNF


LOL, everything is so bad. : (

More:
7x7: 5:16.02
5:21.95 5:11.22 5:23.48 5:12.95 5:13.16

 

[Tyrannous]

2x2: 7.90
5.02 6.68 9.63+ 9.84 7.40
3x3: 15.23
13.19 14.68 17.83 12.03 17.93
4x4: 1:02.19
1:00.05 1:05.19 57.88 1:01.34 DNF
5x5: 1:45.04
1:43.68 2:05.68 1:40.93 1:41.09 1:50.34
Megaminx: 1:02.60
1:01.08 1:03.52 1:08.52 1:00.69 1:03.21
Magic: 2.33
5.03 1.03 0.93 0.90 DNF

LOL, everything is so bad. : (

well the world record average for a megaminx is 1:04.34, so beating that i would call good lol

 

[nlCuber22]

2x2: 7.90
5.02 6.68 9.63+ 9.84 7.40
3x3: 15.23
13.19 14.68 17.83 12.03 17.93
4x4: 1:02.19
1:00.05 1:05.19 57.88 1:01.34 DNF
5x5: 1:45.04
1:43.68 2:05.68 1:40.93 1:41.09 1:50.34
Megaminx: 1:02.60
1:01.08 1:03.52 1:08.52 1:00.69 1:03.21
Magic: 2.33
5.03 1.03 0.93 0.90 DNF

LOL, everything is so bad. : (

well the world record average for a megaminx is 1:04.34, so beating that i would call good lol

Do you know who that is? He holds the world record single for megaminx, and he's in second for a mean of 3 >_>

 

[James Ludlow]

Do you know who that is? He holds the world record single for megaminx, and he's in second for a mean of 3 >_>

And current World Champ.

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Your point being... Ninja'd. Doh.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Mike Hughey:

My non-BLD event of the week:
3x3x3 WF: 2:54.44, 1:21.13, 1:43.30, 1:50.41, 1:41.66 = 1:45.12
Comment: I was in the mood for foot solving. On the first one, I got a V perm and couldn’t remember it again. I really need to practice it. Maybe I should do some PLL time attacks, like Tim has done. Anyway, I’m really happy with the second one – it was non-lucky!

The BLD events:
2x2x2 BLD: 36.05, DNF, 31.31 = 31.31
Comment: Pretty bad.
3x3x3 BLD: 2:05.40, 2:07.97, DNF [1:57.33] = 2:05.40
Comment: Horrible! These were hard scrambles for me. The third one was off by 3 corners. I think I need to practice my corners – I’m making too many mistakes with them lately.
4x4x4 BLD: 8:16.16 [4:32], 6:43.68 [3:22], DNF [7:46.55, 3:53] = 6:43.68
Comment: I’m very happy with these times! The second one was the lucky scramble I reported earlier in the Blindfold Accomplishments Thread. The third one was off by 3 wings – I got two images out of order. Actually, I did them in the proper order, then decided it was wrong and undid them and did them in the other order. Very disappointing.
5x5x5 BLD: 19:04.76 [9:40], 16:00.08 [8:06], DNF [17:01.26, 8:47] = 16:00.08
Comment: First one was a really easy scramble (after reorienting, there were 15 center pieces solved), but I did it right after I woke up and so I was very slow. I also had a pop on that one, and had to feel around on the floor for a while to find the piece. The second one was also nice – I think it went from 3 center pieces solved to 14 after reorienting! The third one was terrible – off by 4 corners, 3 + centers, 4 central edges, and 6 wings. I didn’t even bother with a post-mortem because I was so disappointed with the result. How could I have been that far off? It didn’t look like it was a single problem that carried through all the piece types – everything was scattered, as if I had simply made a bunch of mistakes. I really thought it was solved.
3x3x3 multiBLD: 3/4 = 2 points, 15:04.87 [9:34]
Comment: Bleah. Fourth cube was off by 3 edges - I memorized 'B' instead of 'D'. I hate when that happens.

And non-BLD events done BLD:
6x6x6: DNF [31:32.60, 13:49], DNS, DNS, DNS, DNS = DNF
Comment: Off by 5 inner wings – I got 2 sets of images out of order. I had a lot of problems with that this week.
7x7x7: DNF [2:22:51.75, 1:18:00], DNF [2:22:51.75, 1:18:00], DNS, DNS, DNS = DNF
Comment: They’re the same time because I did them all at once – this was my 7x7x7 multi attempt. The first one was off by just 2 obliques; the second one was off by just 3 corners. So close, and yet both bad.
Magic: 2.31, 1.96, 2.02, 3.94 [1.94 + 2], 6.18 = 2.76
Comment: This is surprisingly challenging for me. For the magics, I guess I’m cheating a little because I get some free “inspection time” since I have to place it myself, so I know exactly where it is. To do this properly, there should probably be a handkerchief placed over the puzzle, and someone else would have to place it for me. But then we’d need a rule as to how to place it. I guess it’s complicated to make BLD magic a real event, huh? I’m still going to keep doing it, though.
Master Magic: 5.30, 4.90, 4.50, 5.41, 6.15 = 5.20

I might do some more of these if I get bored before the next competition comes out. Wow, it's weird to do so little of the competition.

 

[TEGTaylor]

2x2-
5: 00:07.54
4: 00:08.32
3: 00:08.75
2: 00:05.42
1: 00:07.89 = 00:07.58
3x3-
5: 00:18.64
4: 00:20.89
3: 00:18.84
2: 00:17.90
1: 00:17.37 = 00:18.73
3x3 OH-
5: 01:37.92
4: 01:20.46
3: 01:11.60
2: 01:25.40
1: 01:20.46 = 01:23.17
3x3 FMC-
U x D2 L R' B2-Cross=5
U' R U' R' B U B' - F2L 1= 7
B' U B U R U R' - F2L 2 = 7
U L' U' L U2 L' U2 L U2 L' U L - F2L 3 = 12
L U2 L' U B' U' B - F2L 4 = 7
B U B' U B U2 B' R' U L' U2 U' R' U2 R L - LL = 16
Total Moves = 54

 

[MatsBergsten]

Wow, it's weird to do so little of the competition.

Nice "medium" blind. I did reorientation of the two first 5x5BLD but
I don't remember getting that much extra centres.

A little tip: FMC is easy to do BLD , the hardest thing for you
would be to write the solution.
(You will not get 35 moves as a result, but you don't
get normal times for a 6x6 with 6x6BLD either.
FMC gets you extra points also)


(ps ... and I beat you on time in 3x3BLD too , that may be a first)

 

[Mike Hughey]

Wow, it's weird to do so little of the competition.

Nice "medium" blind. I did reorientation of the two first 5x5BLD but
I don't remember getting that much extra centres.

A little tip: FMC is easy to do BLD , the hardest thing for you
would be to write the solution.
(You will not get 35 moves as a result, but you don't
get normal times for a 6x6 with 6x6BLD either.
FMC gets you extra points also)

An interesting thought. I really shouldn't, you know. But you're really tempting me...

(ps ... and I beat you on time in 3x3BLD too , that may be a first)

I noticed that, very nice!

I don't know why I was so bad at 3x3x3 BLD this week - it was very disappointing. But the scrambles really did seem hard for me.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Sorry for the double post, but...

A little tip: FMC is easy to do BLD , the hardest thing for you
would be to write the solution.
(You will not get 35 moves as a result, but you don't
get normal times for a 6x6 with 6x6BLD either.
FMC gets you extra points also)

An interesting thought. I really shouldn't, you know. But you're really tempting me...

Wait, now I realize this really isn't true. You see, for FMC you're not allowed to apply the scramble until after the timer is started. But for BLD you're not allowed to make any moves on the cube until after you pull on the blindfold, and then you're not allowed to make any more moves after you take it off. I guess you could consider writing down the solution to not be making any moves, but I think that sounds like cheating. So I think that means that in order to do FMC BLD, you must come up with the solution without ever applying the scramble to a cube, and then write down the solution with the blindfold on.

Still, that's far from impossible - I can't deny I'm still tempted. (You could trace each piece through the scramble mentally to memorize the pieces one by one. If you did it match-the-scramble style, memorizing in reverse, it might not be that bad.) But suddenly this seems like it might be hard to get done successfully in under an hour. I'm not sure I'm willing to go for that this week.

 

[Toad]

Sorry for the double post, but...

A little tip: FMC is easy to do BLD , the hardest thing for you
would be to write the solution.
(You will not get 35 moves as a result, but you don't
get normal times for a 6x6 with 6x6BLD either.
FMC gets you extra points also)

An interesting thought. I really shouldn't, you know. But you're really tempting me...

Wait, now I realize this really isn't true. You see, for FMC you're not allowed to apply the scramble until after the timer is started. But for BLD you're not allowed to make any moves on the cube until after you pull on the blindfold, and then you're not allowed to make any more moves after you take it off. I guess you could consider writing down the solution to not be making any moves, but I think that sounds like cheating. So I think that means that in order to do FMC BLD, you must come up with the solution without ever applying the scramble to a cube, and then write down the solution with the blindfold on.

Still, that's far from impossible - I can't deny I'm still tempted. (You could trace each piece through the scramble mentally to memorize the pieces one by one. If you did it match-the-scramble style, memorizing in reverse, it might not be that bad.) But suddenly this seems like it might be hard to get done successfully in under an hour. I'm not sure I'm willing to go for that this week.

Mike, for your own sake, don't try it.

 

[kinch2002]

Sorry for the double post, but...

A little tip: FMC is easy to do BLD , the hardest thing for you
would be to write the solution.
(You will not get 35 moves as a result, but you don't
get normal times for a 6x6 with 6x6BLD either.
FMC gets you extra points also)

An interesting thought. I really shouldn't, you know. But you're really tempting me...

Wait, now I realize this really isn't true. You see, for FMC you're not allowed to apply the scramble until after the timer is started. But for BLD you're not allowed to make any moves on the cube until after you pull on the blindfold, and then you're not allowed to make any more moves after you take it off. I guess you could consider writing down the solution to not be making any moves, but I think that sounds like cheating. So I think that means that in order to do FMC BLD, you must come up with the solution without ever applying the scramble to a cube, and then write down the solution with the blindfold on.

Still, that's far from impossible - I can't deny I'm still tempted. (You could trace each piece through the scramble mentally to memorize the pieces one by one. If you did it match-the-scramble style, memorizing in reverse, it might not be that bad.) But suddenly this seems like it might be hard to get done successfully in under an hour. I'm not sure I'm willing to go for that this week.

Mike, for your own sake, don't try it.

I'm quite tempted by this...seeing as I don't do FMC anyway. So I would have the scramble in front of me, work out the scramble, memo as per normal BLD, then put the blindfold on and write the solution?

 

[Mike Hughey]

Sorry for the double post, but...

A little tip: FMC is easy to do BLD , the hardest thing for you
would be to write the solution.
(You will not get 35 moves as a result, but you don't
get normal times for a 6x6 with 6x6BLD either.
FMC gets you extra points also)

An interesting thought. I really shouldn't, you know. But you're really tempting me...

Wait, now I realize this really isn't true. You see, for FMC you're not allowed to apply the scramble until after the timer is started. But for BLD you're not allowed to make any moves on the cube until after you pull on the blindfold, and then you're not allowed to make any more moves after you take it off. I guess you could consider writing down the solution to not be making any moves, but I think that sounds like cheating. So I think that means that in order to do FMC BLD, you must come up with the solution without ever applying the scramble to a cube, and then write down the solution with the blindfold on.

Still, that's far from impossible - I can't deny I'm still tempted. (You could trace each piece through the scramble mentally to memorize the pieces one by one. If you did it match-the-scramble style, memorizing in reverse, it might not be that bad.) But suddenly this seems like it might be hard to get done successfully in under an hour. I'm not sure I'm willing to go for that this week.

Mike, for your own sake, don't try it.

I'm quite tempted by this...seeing as I don't do FMC anyway. So I would have the scramble in front of me, work out the scramble, memo as per normal BLD, then put the blindfold on and write the solution?

Well, not the way I spelled it out above. If you follow the WCA rules for fewest moves, you can't look at the scramble (or apply the moves) until the timer is started. And BLD rules don't allow you to make moves until you pull on the blindfold. So what I'm saying is, you actually would have to look at a solved cube (if that's helpful to you; I'm sure it would help me to trace the pieces on the cube, so I'd want to have the solved cube to hold), trace the pieces to see where they end up after the scramble, and use that to memorize it. So this is actually quite challenging. It's sort of an easier version of speed BLD. Actually, people who are good at speed BLD probably wouldn't bother with this - they'd just do a speed BLD solution and write that down. It would probably be as fast as my solution, and many fewer moves.

 

[Fox]

3x3x3:
(35.99) - 40.88 - (41.96) - 38.20 - 37.91 = 39.00
Not very good solves...

3x3x3 OH:
2:09.55 - 1:59.38 - (1:52.63) - (2:23.02) - 2:04.16 = 2:04.36
Nice for me

 

[Cride5]

2x2x2: 8.24
(9.55), (6.68), 9.19, 7.98, 7.55

3x3x3: 22.44
(24.34), (20.11), 24.03, 21.39, 21.90

2x2x2 BLD: 4:08.27
DNF, [2:29.42 + 1:38.85 = 4:08.27], DNF

3x3x3 FMC: 36 moves
Solution:
2x2x3: R L2 D U R' L U B F R B2 F2 D (13/13)
F2L minus slot: L D' L2 D F L' (6/19)
Two pairs: U F U F' U L' (6/25)
Permute edges: U2 L U2 L' (4/29)
Nikalas: B D B' U' B D' B' (7/36)
..quite happy with this straight Heise solve, I think it may be a PB too

 

[fanwuq]

FMC: 31 moves.

Found a great skeleton on my first try. Unfortunately, the insertion only cancelled one move.

First block: RF'DF2U
Insertion: UB'U'FUBU'F' (-1)
Second block: BRDR
3rd block: U'F2UL'
Finish skeleton: FL'FLFD'LDL'F
Undo premove: R
31 moves

 

[kinch2002]

Spoiler

Sorry for the double post, but...

A little tip: FMC is easy to do BLD , the hardest thing for you
would be to write the solution.
(You will not get 35 moves as a result, but you don't
get normal times for a 6x6 with 6x6BLD either.
FMC gets you extra points also)

An interesting thought. I really shouldn't, you know. But you're really tempting me...

Wait, now I realize this really isn't true. You see, for FMC you're not allowed to apply the scramble until after the timer is started. But for BLD you're not allowed to make any moves on the cube until after you pull on the blindfold, and then you're not allowed to make any more moves after you take it off. I guess you could consider writing down the solution to not be making any moves, but I think that sounds like cheating. So I think that means that in order to do FMC BLD, you must come up with the solution without ever applying the scramble to a cube, and then write down the solution with the blindfold on.

Still, that's far from impossible - I can't deny I'm still tempted. (You could trace each piece through the scramble mentally to memorize the pieces one by one. If you did it match-the-scramble style, memorizing in reverse, it might not be that bad.) But suddenly this seems like it might be hard to get done successfully in under an hour. I'm not sure I'm willing to go for that this week.

Mike, for your own sake, don't try it.

I'm quite tempted by this...seeing as I don't do FMC anyway. So I would have the scramble in front of me, work out the scramble, memo as per normal BLD, then put the blindfold on and write the solution?

Well, not the way I spelled it out above. If you follow the WCA rules for fewest moves, you can't look at the scramble (or apply the moves) until the timer is started. And BLD rules don't allow you to make moves until you pull on the blindfold. So what I'm saying is, you actually would have to look at a solved cube (if that's helpful to you; I'm sure it would help me to trace the pieces on the cube, so I'd want to have the solved cube to hold), trace the pieces to see where they end up after the scramble, and use that to memorize it. So this is actually quite challenging. It's sort of an easier version of speed BLD. Actually, people who are good at speed BLD probably wouldn't bother with this - they'd just do a speed BLD solution and write that down. It would probably be as fast as my solution, and many fewer moves.

Thanks for clearing that up. I think that's what I meant...I just didn't word it very well. I meant that I would have the scramble written down in front of me and didn't mean that I would have a scrambled cube. Might not have time for it this week but will definitely try in the future

 

[Micael]

3x3x3 multiBLD: 3/4 = 2 points, 15:04.87 [9:34]
Comment: Bleah. Fourth cube was off by 3 edges - I memorized 'B' instead of 'D'. I hate when that happens.

That is what I call "pain in the ass". I do not use letter pair images (yet... in progress), but it happens sometime with person or action. It is the most painful BLD error for me.