Here is my once-per-quarter full participation. It was fun doing everything again.
Hopefully I’ll do it again about 3 months from now.
Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: 9.00,
7.50, 11.05,
27.80, 9.18 =
9.74
Comment: I messed up the last layer on the fourth solve and had to start again.
3x3x3: 20.33, 21.27, 22.02, 22.43,
25.18 =
21.91
Comment: Woohoo! Sub-22. Amazing average for me.
4x4x4: 1:40.50 [O],
1:29.21,
1:59.88 [O], 1:49.83 [OP], 1:42.34 [OP] =
1:44.22
Comment: Awful. I was just too erratic this week – must come from lack of weekly practice.
5x5x5: 2:30.46,
3:02.77,
2:29.72, 2:40.69, 2:39.50 =
2:36.88
Comment: Not too bad. I’ve noticed that since not doing the weekly competition every week, my centers and 3x3x3 phases have both sped up, but my edgematching has slowed down. Second solve was a bad pop.
6x6x6: 6:05.33 [OP], 4:48.69, 4:59.22, 5:22.36 [O],
4:47.55 [OP] =
5:03.42
Comment: I couldn’t bear the thought of having that 6:05.33 count, so I decided to skip really big cubes BLD this week. I’ll do them next week. On the first one, I was trying to do yellow for my first center, but I’m used to blue or white (usually blue). It seems like that always kills me. Color neutrality FTL (for me, at least). Still, I’m very happy with this average!
7x7x7: 8:06.47,
7:29.72, 8:03.89, 7:38.73,
8:23.59 =
7:56.36
Comment: At least it was sub-8. Several bad pops on the fifth solve.
2x2x2 BLD: 37.33, 45.21, 23.27 =
23.27
3x3x3 BLD: DNF [1:23.91], 2:09.22, 1:40.36 =
1:40.36
Comment: First one was off by 3 corners – so disappointing. Second one had a bad memory pause. Third one was actually a pretty tough scramble for me, so I’m pretty happy with the time.
4x4x4 BLD: 7:40.25 [3:43], 8:01.43 [4:23], DNF [7:26.10, 3:36] =
7:40.25
Comment: Third one was off by 2 centers – I memorized one piece wrong.
5x5x5 BLD: DNF [15:20.62, 8:53], 14:57.06 [7:06], DNF [17:12.63, 10:07] =
14:57.06
Comment: First one was off by 9 centrals plus U and D turns – I executed the first centrals algorithm wrong; I didn’t reorient – there were only 8 centers solved, but I couldn’t find better. Second one was really easy; no reorient with 12 centers solved. To get a WR time, I generally need to memorize sub-8. Third one was off by 2 + centers (which I simply forgot to do) and 2 centrals (I memorized the wrong sticker on a piece); reorientation took me from 5 to 13 centers solved.
3x3x3 multiBLD: 8/10 = 6 points, 48:58.68 [30:03]
Comment: Wow, that was a nice memorization time! I did have a couple of recall problems, which is why execution was so slow. But this makes it look like I might actually be able to handle 12 sometime soon. Second cube had 3 edges wrong plus two more flipped; ninth cube was off by 3 corners because I cycled them the wrong direction.
3x3x3 OH: 39.93, 42.90,
1:18.53, 56.43, 49.44 =
49.59
Comment: Lack of practice apparently killed me here. On the third one I messed up an R perm.
3x3x3 WF: 1:48.97,
1:37.97, 2:19.38,
2:24.44, 1:45.96 =
1:58.10
Comment: I had a really bad foot cramp on the third one. On the fourth one, I forgot the V perm. The other three went really well, though.
3x3x3 Match the scramble: 1:33.21,
2:05.56, 1:44.69, 1:38.50, 1:39.40 =
1:40.86
Comment: Really out of practice here.
2-4 relay: 2:21.06 [OP]
2-5 relay: 4:48.36
Magic: 2.06,
5.27 [3.27 + 2 = 5.27],
1.84, 2.02, 1.88 =
1.99
Comment: Done BLD.
Master Magic: 4.44, 4.30,
4.94,
4.00, 4.59 =
4.44
Comment: Done BLD.
Clock: 19.77, 18.21,
29.06,
16.31, 24.18 =
20.72
Comment: Out of practice.
MegaMinx: 2:58.63,
2:47.94,
3:05.40, 3:02.91, 2:55.81 =
2:59.12
Pyraminx: 1:02.97,
DNF [1:44.66], 1:06.55, 1:04.19, 1:24.08 =
1:11.61
Comment: Done BLD. Second one was off by just 3 edges.
Square-1: 42.68, 55.80 [P],
1:07.55, 49.19 [P], 43.26 =
49.42
Comment: So I finally did it – I switched from Jason Baum’s method back to Lars Vandenbergh’s method. I’ve been thinking about doing this for quite some time, but when I started warming up for this week, I realized I had forgotten half the PLLs, so it seemed like it was time to do it. Having Dan Cohen’s selected list of algorithms to learn really helped – I learned about two-thirds of those and then did these solves. It was still a bit lucky – I think I average around a minute with this method – these were easy solves. I still don’t think Jason’s method is a bad method, but it does suffer from some drawbacks from my personal perspective. First, the algorithms for Jason’s method are much harder to remember – the moves are more random (at least to me). So if you don’t do them regularly, you forget them. Second, Jason’s algorithms aren’t going to be as useful for BLD solving the square-1, which I want to start working towards doing. Anyway, it’s nice to know I can already do almost as well with Lars’s method as I can with Jason’s method after just a couple of days practice.
3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 35 moves
Comment: See explanation earlier in thread.
finally sub 3!!!
