First solve could have been 10 seconds faster because I started to do wrong PLL, tried to fix, and had to start over the last layer
50 second 3x3 stage on the 3:21 :fp
Don't even know what went wrong with the 3:31...everything just seemed to take forever
3x3 OH: 55.41, 58.84, 57.80, DNF, 54.35 = 57.35
I hate myself. The DNF was going to be sub-50 and then I messed up a G-perm :fp
2-4 Relay:2:09.72
absolutely awesome, my two warmup relays were 2:25 and 2:27
Meh. Just now coming back from my month-plus-long break from megaminx so of course I can't expect it to be that great
No 4x4 this week, just because i don't feel like it.
Tried doing Square-1, popped on the first solve. Even though I was still going to submit a DNF anyway, I tried the same scramble again just because i want to see some actual times because it has been so long since I've practiced Square-1 seriously, and DNF'ed it again, this time because I messed up three different algs, and was already at 1:30 when I messed up again and would have had to start over from EO... Then when I messed up the scramble for the second solve I ran out of patience and gave up...:fp at my level of patience...
Comments: Wow, my first entry since.. I can't remember when. My times are all messed up no thanks to lack of practice, especially 4x4x4 and 5x5x5. Missed my Sq-1 PB avg5 by 1.4 sec.
Premove D'
Scramble L2 D2 F' R F' R' D2 L R B2 U' F2 L' R' U L R'
2x2x2 U' B2 R' U2 D' R' U2
2x2x3 D' L D R' (L2) D' R
3x X-Cross D' (L) D'
F2L L B' L2 B L' D L D'
LL SKIP L
Solution: U' B2 R' U2 D' R' U2 D' L D R' L2 D' R D' L D' L B' L2 B L' D L D' L D'
I worked bit for this LL (the 2 L moves between brackets) but mostly it was just luck. I had an LL skip during a warmup solve today as well
For multiblind I did an experiment. I didn't sleep much the last week, but in the last 30 hours I haven't slept at all. I did some test-blinds and got 1 succes (one at a time) and 2 failures (minor errors). Then I tried the real multi and I also got 1/3 (all at once) with the other 2 only having minor errors (1 had 2 twisted corners, the other had a 3-cycle of edges in the wrong direction)
VERY happy with that result, especially because I did it in a crowded restaurant with 2 different tv-channel and another movie thoroughly distracting me!
Ah, it's that time of quarter for me to do everything! I couldn't resist doing a few of them BLD. As bad as 2x2x2 went, I wish I had done it BLD too - I might have gotten a better average. Most of the rest of it wasn't bad.
Mike Hughey:
2x2x2: 11.93, 21.18, 10.18, 10.93, 10.33 = 11.06
Comment: Just awful. I couldn’t remember how to do separation. I really need to warm up before doing 2x2x2. So very sad – ruined my points for the week. 3x3x3: 21.75, 21.55, 23.46, 22.77, 24.77 = 22.66 4x4x4:1:20.15, 1:30.72 [OP], 1:29.33 [O], 1:30.08 [O], 1:38.18 [OP] = 1:30.04 5x5x5: 2:35.16, 2:52.08, 2:31.97, 2:30.68, 2:39.88 = 2:35.67 6x6x6: 5:25.00 [OP], 5:28.50, 4:59.94 [OP], 5:35.11 [OP], 5:26.16 [P] = 5:26.55 7x7x7: 7:29.22, 7:30.40, 7:14.43, 8:49.60, 8:02.71 = 7:40.78
Comment: I have no idea why that fourth one was so bad; it didn’t seem that bad when I was doing it. 2x2x2 BLD: DNF [34.08], 37.88, 23.09 = 23.09
Comment: First one was off by 3 corners; third one was a REALLY easy scramble. 3x3x3 BLD: 1:50.41, 5:09.16, 1:22.75 = 1:22.75
Comment: I couldn’t remember the edges at all on the second one, but I wasn’t willing to give up. 4x4x4 BLD: DNF [7:38.66, 3:46], 7:30.45 [3:30], 7:02.27 [3:37] = 7:02.27
Comment: Not bad for me. I guess I have to get used to being not very good at big cubes BLD now; at least this week I beat Aron (because he DNFed all three). First one was off by 5 edges (bad memorization). 5x5x5 BLD: DNF [14:56.07, 8:03], 14:53.20 [7:11], 17:08.53 [9:56] = 14:53.20
Comment: First one was off by 3 wings, reoriented 7->13. Second one reoriented 8->14. Third one no reorient. On the third one, my memory was fried, which is why it was so slow; I did them back to back as fast as I could. I did all three in less than an hour total time (including scrambling). 3x3x3 multiBLD:3/3 = 3 points, 9:02.02 [5:45]
Comment: Yes, multi really is a lot more fun on a stackmat. 3x3x3 OH: 49.93, 48.09, 56.22, 53.55, 38.00 = 50.52
Comment: My OH times get so bad when I don’t practice... 3x3x3 WF:2:05.18, 1:35.40, 1:34.96, 1:37.91, 1:31.27 = 1:36.09
Comment: ... but strangely, my feet times don’t. I don’t know why. I cheated, though – I did these with the stackmat on the carpet instead of a hard floor because I wanted some good times. 3x3x3 Match the scramble: 1:52.81, 1:41.58, 1:17.12, 1:11.91 , 1:55.85 = 1:37.17
Comment: Really out of practice here. 2-4 relay:2:14.30 [P] 2-5 relay:4:57.75 Magic: 15.52, 12.71, 21.81, 10.58, 9.71 = 12.94
Comment: OHITABLD again, of course. I couldn’t resist, since I know I’ll come in close to the bottom at Magic anyway. Master Magic: 3.91, 7.56, 5.05, 3.58, 3.52 = 4.18
Comment: Done BLD, since it’s almost the same as doing it sighted for me now anyway. Clock: 3:13.46 [0:34], 4:11.33 [0:31], 2:04.03 [0:33], 1:53.72 [0:23], 2:04.59 [0:27] = 2:27.36
Comment: Wow, these were easy scrambles – I’m glad I did them BLD! Is the 1:53.72 a UWR? (Not that it’s very good, especially on this scramble.) MegaMinx:3:18.93, 2:57.90, 3:03.61, 3:01.94, 2:48.75 = 3:01.15 Pyraminx: 14.36, 12.55, 17.16, 14.69, 13.75 = 14.27 Square-1: 5:54.47 [3:15, PS], 5:12.03 [2:43, FB], DNF [5:35.15, 2:35, QS], 6:13.34 [3:47, PQ], 5:31.35 [3:03, PV] = 5:53.05
Comment: Of course I had to do these BLD. I’m getting pretty consistently between 5 and 6 minutes now. 3x3x3 Fewest Moves:39 moves
B L’ B’ R2 B2 R’ F2 L2 U L’ U’ L2 D’ L’ D L2 U L D R2 D’ L2 D R2 D’ U’ F U L U’ L’ F’ L2 D’ F’ D2 L’ F D’
regular scramble
2x2x2: B L’ B’ R2 B2 R’
inverse scramble
2x2x3: D F’ L D2 F D
regular scramble
3x cross: F2 L2 U L’ U’ L2 D’ L’ D
F2L: L2 U L’ . U’
OLL: F U L U’ L’ F’ L2
insert at .: L2 D R2 D’ L2 D R2 D’
L’ L2 become L before insertion.
Comment: Very bad; an amazing amount of work (NISS plus insertion) for such a bad result. It didn’t help that pretty much nothing canceled.
3x3x3 15.93, (16.58), 15.97, 16.14, (15.45) = 16.01
At least I’m consistent
3x3x3 BLD DNF, DNF, DNF
I’ll get one eventually
3x3x3 OH 37.60, (28.25), 34.15, 38.50, (38.88) = 36.74
The 28.25 was a PLL skip
I did a lot better than last week.
