Weekly competition 2010-08

[04mucklowd]

3x3x3 BLD: 25:07.30
1. 25:07.30 [16:33.43 + 8:33.86]
2. DNS
3. DNS
Wow, my first ever successful 3x3x3 BLD!!! So happy, especially after so many close failures. What was weird was when I got close to the finish, I somehow had a feeling it was going to be a success. Finally, I can solve the Rubik's cube blindfolded

EDIT: Funniest thing is I used a pink blindfold with "The b**ch is Sleeping" embroidered on the front. I wonder if they'll let me use this at competition

Well done man
Ive learnt how to do it BLD, but I haven't put the time in to get a successful solve, What method do you use?

 

[kinch2002]

3x3BLD: 2:00.82 2:00.85 1:59.38 = 1:59.38 amazing consistency
4x4BLD: dnf dnf dnf = DNF
5x5BLD: dnf dnf dnf = DNF

3 consistent times and 3 successes - always good! What on earth happened in big cube BLD?!

 

[Googlrr]

3x3x3:
34.34, 37.55, (32.53), 39.31, (39.88) = 37.07
Pretty good rouxing for me, I'm getting closer to my old times again.
2x2x2:
10.05, 8.41, 7.75, (13.97), (7.23) = 8.74
Bleh

 

[MatsBergsten]

3x3x3 BLD: 25:07.30
1. 25:07.30 [16:33.43 + 8:33.86]
Wow, my first ever successful 3x3x3 BLD!!!

Congratulations!

What on earth happened in big cube BLD?!

Trying to go to fast I had one sub-21 5bld and one sub-10 4bld.
DNF:s as reported but not so far away. I have to try to keep pace with
you, Maarten, Lars N and Daniel L so I must go faster than I really like.

 

[Cride5]

Wow, my first ever successful 3x3x3 BLD!!!

Well done man
Ive learnt how to do it BLD, but I haven't put the time in to get a successful solve, What method do you use?

For execution I use Old Pochmann. I guess I've had a fair bit of practice with 2x2x2 BLD, but 3x3x3 needs more algs. I use T-Perm and both J-perms for edges, then Y-Perm and the J-perms for corners. I also use R-perm to fix parity, but it wasn't necessary on this one.

For memo I just visualise it directly. I put a finger on each sticker in the cycle in turn, and just imagine a kindof 3D circuit visiting each of the stickers in turn. When I first started learning I tried using letter pairs, but it seemed like a lot of effort. Direct just feels much easier for me.

Congratulations!

Thx

 

[guusrs]

fmc D' R2 D' B' F2 U'L B2 U' F U B2 L'U L R F' U F2 U' B' D B U2 B' D' B R' U2 (29)

explanation:
all but 4 edges and 2 corners: D' R2 D' B' F2.L R F' U F2 U.R' U2 (13)
Now I tried to insert a conjugation to get all of these 6 unfixed blocks to one layer. I found an insertion at the first dot:
conjugate forward U'L B2 U'
fix all edges and 1 corner: F
conjugate back U B2 L'U
Which resulted in an insertion of 9 moves: U'L B2 U' F U B2 L' U (22)
now 3 corners left, at second dot insert U2 B' D B U2 B' D' B, 1 move cancels
Hard scramble, but funny solution
Gus

 

[Mike Hughey]

Mike Hughey:

My non-BLD event of the week:
3x3x3 One Handed: 47.86, 40.80, 34.83, 46.97, 55.56 = 45.21
Comment: I decided to do a silly event this week. You're welcome, Shaden! I also did a PLL time attack OH: 3:52.31. I'm pretty sure it's my best. (It's probably only the second time I've tried it.)

The BLD events:
2x2x2 BLD: 32.43, 32.34, 25.18 = 25.18
Comment: Nice.
3x3x3 BLD: 1:36.75, 1:36.71, 2:16.44 = 1:36.71
Comment: Notice how I got everything right in the weekly competition, and then failed almost everything in the real competition.
4x4x4 BLD: 8:17.25 [4:05], 8:49.73 [5:02], 9:54.81 [5:31] = 8:17.25
Comment: I used up all my accuracy on this competition, I guess. The third one was a terrible scramble - I may have used 2 minutes picking an orientation - terrible.
5x5x5 BLD: 17:06.93 [9:12], 16:00.16 [8:51], 16:47.52 [8:37] = 16:00.16
Comment: Yes, I got all of the officially BLD solves correct this week. Every single one. And then all I could do is get one pathetic 5x5x5 BLD this weekend. Have you gotten sick of me complaining yet? Still, I'm glad my one successful solve this weekend was a 5x5x5 BLD. For these here, first solve was a reorient from 7 centers solved to 10, second was reoriented from 10 to 13, and third was reoriented 7 to 10. I had a bad memory recall pause on the last one.
3x3x3 multiBLD: DNS yet
Comment: I still might do this later tonight.

And non-BLD events done BLD:
6x6x6: DNF [36:30.97, 17:13], DNS, DNS, DNS, DNS = DNF
Comment: Off by just 3 inner X centers. At least it was close!
7x7x7: DNF [1:10:38.25, 39:37], DNS, DNS, DNS, DNS = DNF
Comment: Off by just 3 inner X centers. I think it was an execution mistake. I didn't reorient; I think 27 centers were already solved. Again, it was close.
Magic: 3.80, 2.08, 1.93, 2.43, 1.84 = 2.15
Master Magic: 5.68, 5.40, 4.09, 4.50 = 5.19
Pyraminx: 1:26.83, DNF [1:09.88], 59.25, 1:04.38, 1:00.94 = 1:10.72
Comment: I practiced a little, and look - I got another average! Sweet.

 

[Kian]

2x2- 6.26, 6.16, 5.28, 4.82, 5.65
3x3- 16.18, 17.57, 15.28, 14.67, 14.56
4x4- 1:37.69, 1:14.81, 1:20.38, 59.09, 58.05
Comment: lolwut?
3x3 OH- 27.62, 36.77, 27.14, 32.59, 36.95
Pyraminx- 17.78, 16.62, 16.26, 19.41, 16.25
5x5- 2:23.51, 2:20.25, 2:35.10, 2:18.46, 2:20.31
2-4 Relay- 1:40.40
2-5 Relay- 3:50.10
3x3 WF- 4:09.89, 3:18.92, 4:08.90, 3:18.22, 4:05.33
Magic- 2.15, 2.40, 2.51, 2.05, 1.86
7x7- 9:38.43, 8:25.03, 8:32.21, 8:26.80, 8:33.08
2x2 BLD- DNF, DNF, 27.57
3x3 BLD- 3:32.19, DNF, DNF
4x4 BLD- DNF, DNS, DNS
MultiBLD- 4/6 2 Points 55:29.93
MTS- 1:56.73, 1:52.98, 1:45.12, 2:03.41, 1:46.83
Megaminx- 3:45.91, 3:29.00, 4:02.18, 3:56.73, 3:42.11
Square-1- 1:03.32, 56.77, 34.28, 1:02.12, 53.19
FMC- 48 Moves
x' y2 U2 R U2 R' U' R U R' U B2 U2 y R U2 R' U' R U R' y R2 y U' R U2 R' U F' U' F U2 F U F' y' R U R' U R U2 R' U y2 x R2 D2 R U R' D2 R U' R

 

[Tim Major]

2x2: 7.76 7.72 8.31 6.36 4.22
Yeah good. My 2x2's been in pieces for like, a week. It pops too much now, so I have to turn care when turning, which slows me down a lot.
3x3: 17.03 25.56 17.15 18.78 21.36 = 19.1
Video. First sub 20 average on camera. Btw, it's fairly good for me
4x4: 1:59.55 1:57.96 1:38.71 2:07.97 2:06.08
Yeah alright. I'm selling this cube soon 3rd solve felt like pb, but wasn't. Bad scramble though
5x5: 4:42.36 4:39.30 4:28.97 4:31.84 4:41.00
Good. 4x4 is helping my times. Don't ever solve my 5x5 now, except for this comp, and very very occasional relay.
2x2BLD: DNF 40.19 DNF
Niklas would've solved the first one. 3rd need y then J-perm. I guessed pbl, but had J on top. I so should've skipped pbl.
3x3OH: 50.40 56.61 43.72 44.13 37.72
5th is pb? I think so. Not sure. Wow, two counting 40's. Great average. Should be pb a5
2x2 + 3x3 + 4x4 relay: 2:36.88
Very good. I'm happy with this. I had a J-perm on 2x2, J-perm on 3x3, while solving 4x4, I had PLL parity, and it and had another J-perm. I normally would've done it from a different angle, to get a T-perm. J-perm is faster though.
2x2 + 3x3 + 4x4 + 5x5 relay: not done yet
Clock: 21.31 17.25 17.68 18.78
Argghhh. I still need to practise this, or David will get the AuR.
Pyraminx: 6.61 8.81 8.47 9.96 6.03
Meh. Used Polish V on 1, 2, 3 and 5. 4 was lbl. Using Polish V so many times, but having a **** average

 

[Toad]

Clock: 21.31 17.25 17.68 18.78

That's only 4 solves...?

 

[Toad]

Sorry for double post but is week 09 coming soon...?

Just wondering if Mike is due to take over this week or maybe there's been some confusion?

 

[04mucklowd]

Clock: 21.31 17.25 17.68 18.78

That's only 4 solves...?

For goodness sake...

 

[ben1996123]

Sorry if this is too late

Magic - 0.99, (0.93), 1.00, 0.95, (12:42.47) = 0.98

Comment - This is about average. On the 12 minute solve, my magic broke so I had to restring it, and just for fun, I left the timer running

 

[Toad]

Clock: 21.31 17.25 17.68 18.78

That's only 4 solves...?

For goodness sake...

What's wrong with what I said there? I noticed it was only 4 solves so thought I'd inform him incase he didn't post the 5th by accident. I realise that quite often I can correct people with typos and I'm very much trying to stop but this is more useful, especially because I doubt Mats software will register it correctly.

 

[Yes We Can!]

Sorry if this is too late

Magic - 0.99, (0.93), 1.00, 0.95, (12:42.47) = 0.98

Comment - This is about average. On the 12 minute solve, my magic broke so I had to restring it, and just for fun, I left the timer running

I would really like to know, which timer software you are using.

 

[Alex DiTuro]

4x4x4: (1:37.56, 1:41.12, 1:38.80, 1:48.71, 1:21.14) = 1:39.16

I was recorded on camera during the second solve = o. Unexpected sub 90 on fifth!

3x3x3: (29.51, DNF(26-ish), 18.67, 21.29, 26.82) = 25.87 Standard Deviation of 4.3 = P

This was my first timed 3x3 solve in a while. I've been home from school this weekend without power = P. I suck = o

 

[AvGalen]

Sorry for double post but is week 09 coming soon...?

Just wondering if Mike is due to take over this week or maybe there's been some confusion?

No, I told Mike that I would post the scrambles because I knew I would have internet this weekend. But for some reason it never accepted the post. It seemed like speedsolving was offline most of the time while other sites were working just fine.

Next weeks competition will be posted at the end of this week and after that the schedule will be normal again. Mike will take over when I leave and I will send him the tooling I created to make generating the weeklies a lot easier this weekend

 

[Toad]

Sorry for double post but is week 09 coming soon...?

Just wondering if Mike is due to take over this week or maybe there's been some confusion?

No, I told Mike that I would post the scrambles because I knew I would have internet this weekend. But for some reason it never accepted the post. It seemed like speedsolving was offline most of the time while other sites were working just fine.

Next weeks competition will be posted at the end of this week and after that the schedule will be normal again. Mike will take over when I leave and I will send him the tooling I created to make generating the weeklies a lot easier this weekend

Awesome, thanks for letting me know

 

[ben1996123]

Sorry if this is too late

Magic - 0.99, (0.93), 1.00, 0.95, (12:42.47) = 0.98

Comment - This is about average. On the 12 minute solve, my magic broke so I had to restring it, and just for fun, I left the timer running

I would really like to know, which timer software you are using.

I'm using a stackmat. But on the 12 minute solve, after 10 minutes, I just turned the timer back on and started it again and added 10 minutes on to the total time.

 

[Yes We Can!]

Sorry if this is too late

Magic - 0.99, (0.93), 1.00, 0.95, (12:42.47) = 0.98

Comment - This is about average. On the 12 minute solve, my magic broke so I had to restring it, and just for fun, I left the timer running

I would really like to know, which timer software you are using.

I'm using a stackmat. But on the 12 minute solve, after 10 minutes, I just turned the timer back on and started it again and added 10 minutes on to the total time.

So, your Stackmat can actually stop 0.99 seconds?
Then you probably have the old version, is that right?