I'm happy that I got no DNF averages this week. Usually I miss something, so it was nice to get them all to count this week.
Mike Hughey:
My non-BLD event of the week:
5x5x5: 2:37.75,
3:19.46, 2:44.93, 2:50.84, 3:03.97 =
2:53.25
Comment: Yeah, I’m hooked. This is again using the bigcubes.com method for edgematching. So this is only about 20 seconds worse than my typical AVG times, so I guess I’m getting better. I’m still terrible at the bigcubes.com method with bigger cubes, though. My biggest problem is that I take too long because I can’t decide which edge to go for next. The nice thing about AVG is that there is always just one correct answer, so there’s never any indecision. With bigcubes, there’s way too much opportunity to be indecisive, which kills me.
The BLD events:
2x2x2 BLD: 28.30, 27.06, 33.75 =
27.06
3x3x3 BLD: 1:42.61, 1:53.53, 1:44.38 =
1:42.61
4x4x4 BLD: 12:38.04 [5:05], 8:48.00 [4:31], 6:13.00 [2:56] =
6:13.00
Comment: Wow, that last one was easy! 14 pieces solved, so 25% solved – definitely lucky. On the first one, my memory just wouldn’t stick at all – it was horrible.
5x5x5 BLD: DNF [15:41.14, 7:49], 17:57.86 [9:56], DNF [14:40.42, 6:59] =
17:57.86
Comment: Ugh. The first one was off by 2 central edges flipped – I didn’t see one of the flipped edges when memorizing. The last one was off by a center slice M2 and 6 centrals; apparently I forgot to do an M2 somewhere in the middle of doing the centrals at the end.
3x3x3 multiBLD: 3/3 = 3 points, 12:14.67 [4:40]
Comment: A shame – this would have been fast, but I had a terrible memory recall pause (of several minutes) on the second cube. But at least I finally got one again – my record has been terrible on this the past few weeks, so it’s nice to finally get one again.
And non-BLD events done BLD:
2x2x2: 38.72,
26.86,
DNF [30.05], 27.05, 36.83 =
34.20
3x3x3: 1:55.83,
1:30.43, 2:02.56,
2:08.81, 1:42.09 =
1:53.49
Magic: 9.00, 10.47,
16.16, 10.50, 9.47 =
10.15
Comment: OHITABLD, of course. So sad that it wasn’t sub-10 this week.
Master Magic: 4.47,
4.50,
3.61, 4.02, 3.83 =
4.11
Clock: 1:58.84 [0:26],
2:16.13 [0:28], 1:53.91 [0:23], 1:44.13 [0:23],
1:43.84 [0:23] =
1:52.29
Pyraminx: DNF [45.02], 1:12.88,
52.03, 1:09.68, 1:21.25 =
1:14.60
Comment: First one off by 2 edges – I forgot what my bottom color was.
Square-1: 5:13.61 [3:07], 4:43.34 [2:59],
DNF [5:26.30, 3:30.15], 5:13.81 [3:16],
4:42.28 [2:36] =
5:03.59
Comment: 4 corners wrong for the third one. Cases NS, LA, NU, PS, PV.
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