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Weekly competition 2010-04

2x2x2: 9.52, (10.78), (4.38), 10.09, 7.78 = 9.13
3x3x3: (20.19), 22.06, (26.36), 24.96, 22.11 = 23.04
4x4x4: 1:57.88, 1:56.19, (2:02.28), (1:47.11), 1:55.81 = 1:56.63
5x5x5: 3:36.88, (3:17.68), 3:38.08, 3:29.16, (3:48.75) = 3:34.71
Comment: These could've been much better.

2x2x2 Blindfolded: DNF(57.09), DNF(46.09), 56.93 = 56.93
3x3x3 Blindfolded: DNF(2:54.11), 1:53.34, DNS = 1:53.34
Comment: Wow, the second solve was incredibly easy. That's my first sub-2. I didn't even bother with the third solve after that!
3x3x3 Multiple Blindfolded: 2/4 = 0 in 26:37.07
Comment: I mismemorized some corners but I worked out what they were supposed to be. 15 minutes for memo.

3x3x3 One Handed: 1:01.02, (1:11.78), 1:11.58, 1:00.06, (56.71) = 1:04.42
Comment: I need to practice more!

2x2x2 + 3x3x3 + 4x4x4 Relay: 2:41.44
2x2x2 + 3x3x3 + 4x4x4 + 5x5x5 Relay: 5:37.80
Comment: Not too bad, I guess.

Magic: (1.65), (1.55), 1.58, 1.59, 1.59 = 1.59
Pyraminx: 20.03, 19.34, (16.61), 24.31, (36.71) = 21.23
Square-1: 1:56.81, (2:55.77), (1:34.40), 2:34.90, 2:15.91 = 2:15.87
 
2x2: 5.88 4.83 (7.71) 5.97 (3.53) = 5.56
Wtf? Where did this come from. Huge pb. But I guees the scrambles were good.
3x3: 22.06 (15.90) 20.40 (26.31) 20.72 = 21.06
I wish I'd been filming :( Great average. And non-rolling? THis might be a non-rolling pb.
5x5: 4:30.30 DNS DNS DNS DNS = DNF
I thought the weekly comp finished tomorrow night. Wish we didn't stay in Canberra so long.
 
2x2x2: avg = 13.257
(19.685), (10.924), 10.989, 15.389, 13.394

Comments: Crap, on the first solve I stuffed up the PBL and on the 4th I had a bad lock. The rest were just plain crap.

3x3x3: avg = 22.192
(27.573), 23.176, 20.387, (19.673), 23.012

Comments: On the first solve I had a bad F2L. Overall it's pretty good.

3x3x3 BLD: avg = DNF
DNF (6:17.698) not sure what went wrong.
DNF (7:01.217) bad memo. Again, I'm not sure what went wrong.
DNF (That has got to be the worst scrambled cube I've ever got in BLD, I switched the corners so much, that the corner targets were pretty much equal with the edges, my memo screwed up real bad and my cube bumped the space bar 3 minutes into the memorising)

Comments: F**K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM SO ANGRY WITH THIS PATHETIC ATTEMPT, MY LAST BLD AVG WAS DNF ASWELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3x3x3 OH: avg = 53.696
49.971, 55.908, 55.208, (1:04.831), (47.455)

Comments: Good.

FMC: 57 [The Z-perm didn't help]
 
2x2x2: 4.82, (4.19), 5.39, (6.56), 5.05 = 5.09
Love my LanLan
3x3x3: (19.32), 14.83, 14.02, 16.97, (12.67) = 15.27
Nice single
4x4x4: 1:11.87, (1:17.18), 1:13.10, (1:10.61), 1:11.01 = 1:11.99
Pretty consistent
5x5x5: (2:24.82), (2:19.59), 2:24.07, 2:22.24, 2:20.13 = 2:22.15
Even more consistent
6x6x6: (4:32.42), 5:01.36, 5:16.05, 5:18.05, (5:20.27) = 5:11.82
7x7x7: (8:48.33), 9:08.81, 9:05.44, (9:20.94), 8:57.87 = 9:04.04
2x2x2BLD: DNF, DNF, 50.10 = 50.10
3x3x3BLD: 2:32.50, DNS, DNS = 2:32.50
4x4x4BLD: 10:45.14 [4:29.10], 11:01.48 [4:17.60], DNS = 10:45.14
Yay, 2 successes out of 2!
5x5x5BLD: 30:51.49 [13:13.86], DNS, DNS = 30:51.49
1 out of 1!
MultiBLD: 2/2 8:42.02
Feeling lazy at the moment (probably because I haven't slept for 40 hours)
OH: 37.50, (29.41), 32.48, 36.69, (39.94) = 35.56
Feet: (1:32.86), (1:48.63), 1:36.62, 1:42.30, 1:40.00 = 1:39.64
Improvement happens pretty quickly with this!
MTS: 59.14+, (51.90+), 59.85+, 1:02.01, (1:06.86) = 1:00.33
First 3 solves were +2s...hmmm
2x2x2+3x3x3+4x4x4: 1:48.05
2x2x2+3x3x3+4x4x4+5x5x5: 4:21.44
Megaminx: (3:06.53), 3:00.27, (2:42.55), 2:55.07, 2:58.65 = 2:58.00
Pyraminx: (7.11), 8.96, (9.64), 7.36, 9.42 = 8.58
FMC: 47 moves.
2x2x2 Block: x2 y' D U' B' L' U' D' R2 F'
2x2x3 Block: U2 L2 B2
Last 2 pairs: y' U' L F' L2 U L R U R' U L' U' L
OLL+PLL: y R U2 R2 F R F' U2 R' F R F D' L U' L U L' D F2 R U' R' U'
 
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2x2x2: 7.52 , 5.97 , (10.65) , 8.84 , (3.34) =7.44
3x3x3: 19.21 , (15.31) , 19.30 , 19.33 , (20.36) = 19.28
4x4x4: 1:00.88 , 1:10.93 , (1:00.65) , (1:12.43) , 1:05.43 = 1:05.78
5x5x5: 2:29.18 , (2:34.33) , 2:25.58 , (2:41.81) , 2:28.61 = 2:27.79
7x7x7: 9:10.02 , 8:58.52 , (8:20.21) , 10:14.34 , (DNS) = 9:27.63
2x2x2 Blindfolded : DNF , DNF , DNF = DNF
3x3x3 Blindfolded: DNF , 2:51.00 , 4:40.59 = 2:51.00
3x3x3 One Handed: 59.08 , (1:47.81) , (40.36) , 53.06 , 43.94 = 52.03
2x2x2 + 3x3x3 + 4x4x4 Relay: 1:34.27
2x2x2 + 3x3x3 + 4x4x4 + 5x5x5 Relay: 4:25.15
Magic: (1.66) , 2.33 , (3.61) , 2.46 , 1.68 = 2.16
PyraMinx: 16.34 , (26.03) , 13.50 , 20.18 , (6.86) = 16.67
 
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I just had to try 3x3FMC BLD.

Solution:
M2 B L B' M2 B L' B' U R2 U' M2 U R2 U' F E R U R' E' R U' R' F' M2 B' R B M2 B' R' B L U' L' U M2 U' L U L' U' L U M2 U' L2 U M2 U' L U R B' R' B M2 B' R B Rw' U2 M U' R U' M2 U R' U' M2 F R U R' E R U' R' E' F' L U2 L' U' L U2 R' U L2 U2 R U' R' U2 R L U2 D' R2 U' R2 U F U F' R2 F U' F' R2 D F' R2 U' R2 U' R2 U F U F' R2 F U' R2 F' R2 U' R2 U' R2 U F U F' R2 F U' R2 D F' R2 U' R2 U' R2 U F U F' R2 F U' D2 F' R2 U' R2 U' R2 U F U F' R2 F U' D2 F' R2 U' R2 U' R2 U F U F' R2 F U' D' R' D2 R F D2 F' U2 F D2 F' R' D2 R U2

Result: 214 moves.
 
Mike Hughey:

My non-BLD event of the week:
5x5x5: 2:41.15, 2:41.61, 2:59.81, 2:28.33, 2:36.69 = 2:39.82
Comment: Wow, I need to practice this more. Rather disappointing.

The BLD events:
2x2x2 BLD: 31.15, 31.27, 34.38 = 31.15
Comment: At least it was consistent. Pity that doesn’t mean anything on a best of x event.
3x3x3 BLD: 2:31.05, 1:43.90, DNF [1:59.86] = 1:43.90
Comment: The second scramble was really super easy, but I was slow that night for some reason. It really should have been 1:15 or so. :(
4x4x4 BLD: 9:06.71 [4:16], 8:47.21 [4:32], DNF [8:23.90, 4:34] = 8:47.21
Comment: The first one was particularly easy, but I did these and the 3x3x3’s that same night; I was still slow. Very disappointing. On the third solve, off by just 2 corners – I mismemorized them.
5x5x5 BLD: DNF [19:01.87, 10:48], 16:36.17 [8:54], 16:59.12 [8:51] = 16:36.17
Comment: I missed the first one by 3 wings because I thought I could do an optimization for r2, but I actually solved the wrong piece when I did it. All three of these had good reorients; the second one in particular went from something like 4 centers to 15 – a very nice one!
3x3x3 multiBLD: 3/4 = 2 points, 16:43.87 [9:43]
Comment: So sad - once again a failure. I just always seem to mess something up. This time, on the fourth cube, I did a commutator incorrectly - for some reason I just turned it around in my head and got it completely wrong. Very disappointing.

And non-BLD events done BLD:
6x6x6: 32:38.27 [15:46], DNS, DNS, DNS, DNS = DNF
Comment: Nice number of centers solved! A pretty easy scramble. Unfortunately, I took too long to memorize it.
7x7x7: DNF [47:17.33, 23:42], DNS, DNS, DNS, DNS = DNF
Comment: Off by 9 inner wings and 3 centrals. For the inner wings, I realized while I was solving that I had memorized one of the cycles twice, and was missing a whole other cycle. So I knew it was hopeless to solve it – very disappointing. For the central edges, I accidentally memorized the wrong letter for one piece. It had a good reorient – 23 to 34 pieces – and I had very secure memory. I was so disappointed when I hit the bad wing memorization – up until that point, I was thinking it might have had a chance at beating Ville’s time.
Magic: 2.08, 1.81, 3.55, 2.25, 2.25 = 2.19
Master Magic: 4.27, 11.78, 5.33, 4.55, 6.27 = 5.38
Pyraminx: 1:22.78, DNF [2:04.06], 1:39.21, 1:58.81, 2:10.33 = 1:56.12
Comment: DNF had one center rotated – I memorized it going the wrong direction. These were done a couple of days ago, before I had learned full BH edges for pyraminx. Now I’m averaging well under 1:30 (my best time is around 45 seconds), so I’m looking forward to doing better next week. But I’m very happy I got a full average – it will be a challenge to do this every week.

And nice job on the FMC BLD, Maarten!
 
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3x3x3: (19:94) (15:53) 18:27 17:52 17:09 ==> 17:63

Why so few FMC solutions this week? com'on folks!

My solution:
fmc: B2 U' F2 R U' B' U' F2 D2 F' D' F' D' F D2 L2 D2 L F L F L' F U2 B' R B U2 F (29)

explanation:
2x2x3 + pairs: B2 U' F2 R U' B' U' F2 D2 F' (10)
F2L: D' F' D' F D2 L2 D2 L (18)
LL: F L F L' F U2 B' R B U2 F (29)

Gus
 
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Okay, Maarten, since you tried it too, I figured I had to give it a go, and guess what, I got it right too! So that means the whole world is currently 3/3 successful on FMC BLD? Pretty cool!

Here's mine.

Mike Hughey:

3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 118 moves
corners:
R' D' R D R' D' R D U' D' R' D R D' R' D R U
L U2 L D L' U2 L D' L2
U R2 U' L U R2 U' L'
D R2 D' L2 D R2 D' L2
U' z2 y' U2 R2 D R2 D' R2 U2 R2 D R2 D' R2 y z2 U
edges:
M2 B L B' M2 B L' B'
B R' B' M B R B' M'
S' U' F2 U S U' F2 U
U' L U M2 U' L2 U M2 U' L U
B M' U2 M U2 B'
M D R' D' M' D R D'

Comment:
The hardest part seemed to be dealing with writing on paper BLD in such a fashion as to guarantee I wouldn't overwrite my previous stuff. And I wrote one move on the table, off the paper, but fortunately I realized it and moved. :) The most frustrating part was that I would start into the next pieces, realize I had a cancellation, and then realize I couldn't fix the cancellation since I couldn't see what to cross out. :( It took me 19 minutes to memorize, total time was 27:41.47 when it was all written down.

I thought it was surprisingly fun!
 
trying-to-speedcube... said:
I just had to try 3x3FMC BLD.
Result: 214 moves.
Click to expand...

Mike Hughey said:
Okay, Maarten, since you tried it too, I figured I had to give it a go, and guess what, I got it right too! So that means the whole world is currently 3/3 successful on FMC BLD? Pretty cool!

Here's mine.

Mike Hughey:

3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 118 moves
Click to expand...

Yay...nice job guys! I guess Mike has taken the UWR from me then :p. Not sure whether you guys know but the program that detects results doesn't like anything over 100, so you'll have to make sure Mats knows to input it manually.

Mike Hughey said:
The hardest part seemed to be dealing with writing on paper BLD in such a fashion as to guarantee I wouldn't overwrite my previous stuff. And I wrote one move on the table, off the paper, but fortunately I realized it and moved. :) The most frustrating part was that I would start into the next pieces, realize I had a cancellation, and then realize I couldn't fix the cancellation since I couldn't see what to cross out. :(
Click to expand...

I thought about these problems beforehand, so what I did was that every time I wanted to put my pen down I left the nib right next to the last letter I wrote so that I knew where to keep going from. I also wrote on a pad so that I would notice when I got near the edge. Making sure that I knew where my nib was let me do cancellations as well
 
kinch2002 said:
trying-to-speedcube... said:
I just had to try 3x3FMC BLD.
Result: 214 moves.
Click to expand...

Mike Hughey said:
Okay, Maarten, since you tried it too, I figured I had to give it a go, and guess what, I got it right too! So that means the whole world is currently 3/3 successful on FMC BLD? Pretty cool!

Here's mine.

Mike Hughey:

3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 118 moves
Click to expand...

Yay...nice job guys! I guess Mike has taken the UWR from me then :p. Not sure whether you guys know but the program that detects results doesn't like anything over 100, so you'll have to make sure Mats knows to input it manually.

Mike Hughey said:
The hardest part seemed to be dealing with writing on paper BLD in such a fashion as to guarantee I wouldn't overwrite my previous stuff. And I wrote one move on the table, off the paper, but fortunately I realized it and moved. :) The most frustrating part was that I would start into the next pieces, realize I had a cancellation, and then realize I couldn't fix the cancellation since I couldn't see what to cross out. :(
Click to expand...

I thought about these problems beforehand, so what I did was that every time I wanted to put my pen down I left the nib right next to the last letter I wrote so that I knew where to keep going from. I also wrote on a pad so that I would notice when I got near the edge. Making sure that I knew where my nib was let me do cancellations as well
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That makes sense, but I don't feel like I know my writing style well enough that I would trust myself to scratch through something for a cancellation - I'm afraid I might scratch through 2 moves by accident or something.

Thanks for the inspiration to try this - you were the first!

Eventually I want to try this as a speedBLD (which I still have never done yet). It would basically be just like normal speedBLD except that you would not be able to look at the scramble - you'd have to start from the beginning of the scramble every time instead of just from the scrambled cube. (And of course, you'd write down the moves instead of just performing them.) So it would be a bit slower, but it should still work, and you'd wind up with far fewer moves. It might be the excuse I need to finally learn to speedBLD.
 
guusrs said:
Why so few FMC solutions this week? com'on folks!
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You asked for it.

Skeleton: L'B2UL'BD2BLBF'L2DL'DLD2L'DL2
19 moves leaving 3 corners.
I'll edit in the insertion later. Expect a solution around 25 moves.

I was about to submit a 37 move solution that I've found after 10 minutes, then I decided to try harder. This is one of the best skeletons I've ever made. The F2L was just over 10 moves! :)
 
2x2x2: 8.47
8.30, (9.31), 8.95, 8.16, (7.08)

3x3x3: 23.14
(24.86), (21.01), 23.04, 24.16, 22.21

2x2x2 BLD: 3:20.01
3:20.01 [1:42.16 + 1:37.85], 5:28.78 [3:38.11 + 1:50.67], 3:46.33 [1:47.55 + 1:58.78]
Comment: New PB, yay! Gonna try for sub-3 next time :)

3x3x3 Match the Scramble: 5:58.28
(5:02.11), (9:20.40), 6:00.94, 6:35.64, 5:18.25
Comment: First time in this event, harder than I thought!

3x3x3 FMC: 36 moves
U2 F R U' L F' L' B2 L' U' F U' R U2 R U F2 L2 D' L' D2 L D2 L d L2' D L2 U' L' D' L F2' L' D L
Solution:
2x 1x2x2s: U2 F R U' L F' L' B2 (8/8)
F2L minus slot: L' U' F U' R U2 R U F2 L (10/18)
Orient corners last slot: L D' L' D2 L D2 L' (7/25)
Y-Perm: L2 d L2' D L2 U' L' D' L F2' L' D L (13/38)
minus 2 cancellations
Comment: Really nice block building start, but couldn't find a good finish and had to settle for a Y-perm.
 
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trying-to-speedcube... said:
I knew I shouldn't have used M2. I was too lazy to find commutators. I'll freestyle this next week. :D I expect I should be able to get sub-100 then. I'll take your UWR, Mike! :p
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Yeah, once you do that, I'll probably only beat you by doing speedBLD. But I might try that next week, and maybe I'll have a chance. Or I could do BH edges (which I can figure out on the fly if I'm not trying to go too fast), and I'd probably be able to more or less keep up.
 
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