Mike Hughey:
My non-BLD event of the week:
6x6x6: 5:33.27 [O], 6:19.36 [O], 5:21.64 [O], 5:14.06, 5:11.93 = 5:22.99
Comment: Quite good for an average at home for me these days – I’m very happy with this!
The BLD events:
2x2x2 BLD: 36.30, 38.84, 31.72 = 31.72
Comment: Not very good.
3x3x3 BLD: 1:48.22, DNF [1:57.38], 1:14.96 = 1:14.96
Comment: Nice easy third one saved it. Second one was off by 3 edges.
4x4x4 BLD: DNF [8:07.40, 4:36], 8:17.80 [3:05], DNF [6:52.64, 3:35] = 8:17.80
Comment: Pretty bad. The DNFs were both off by 3 corners. The second one was really good and fast for me, but then I couldn’t remember a location and probably spent more than 2 minutes recalling it. So sad – it could have been very good.
5x5x5 BLD: 17:10.09 [9:51], 16:51.44 [9:17], 14:12.99 [6:20] = 14:12.99
Comment: Done “real man”-style – I applied the next scramble as soon as I wrote down the result from the previous solve. The first one was really hard; the second one I wasted probably about a minute trying to find a good reorient; the third one was really easy and nice, but again I had a location where I spent probably about 2 minutes recalling it. Without that memory pause, it might have been sub-12!
3x3x3 multiBLD: 1/3 = DNF [9:28.34, 5:19]
Comment: First cube off by 3 corners, third cube off by 3 edges. Very disappointing.
And non-BLD events done BLD:
2x2x2: 23.00, 46.34, 24.94, 34.02, 29.34 = 29.43
Comment: Always nice to get sub-30.
3x3x3: 1:10.71, 1:31.66, DNF [1:45.34], DNF [2:24.43], 2:02.68 = DNF
Comment: I hate DNF averages. First solve was really easy, third one had 2 edges flipped, fourth one was completely scrambled.
4x4x4: 7:27.47 [3:40], 7:15.04 [3:35], 8:21.50 [4:45], 8:09.94 [3:46], 7:06.56 [3:22] = 7:37.48
Comment: Wow, that’s a nice average! Pity I did so badly on the true 4x4x4 BLD solves.
Magic: 9.83, 11.33, 11.15, 8.88, 9.66 = 10.21
Comment: OHITABLD, of course. Wow, that was nice.
Master Magic: 4.09, 4.83, 3.61, 3.56, 3.55 = 3.75
Comment: Very good for me.
Clock: 2:16.47 [0:26], 2:01.53 [0:27], DNF [2:41.38, 0:30], DNF [2:33.16, 0:39], DNF [1:52.16, 0:24] = DNF
Comment: Sometimes it seems like my clock behaves worse than others; this week was a bad week.
Pyraminx: 1:44.46, 1:22.05, 1:13.61, 1:13.94, 1:21.36 = 1:19.12
Square-1: 4:55.09 [3:14], 5:57.97 [3:24], 4:04.86 [2:27], 4:19.16 [2:20], 5:06.88 [2:32] = 4:47.04
Comment: Very nice average – sub-5! Cases FA, NU, NR, FA, IB. I’ve had successes with 63 of the 90 possible shape cases now.
Doing the post-mortems is how I discovered that I should re-letter my R face. That re-lettering, I think, is what is leading to my slightly faster times as of recently. It still sometimes causes DNFs with mis-memorizations of R face pieces, but it's hard to describe how natural and "right" it feels to memorize with the new lettering.
