2x2x2BLD: 32.27 34.45 20.58 3x3x3BLD: DNF DNF 1:23.66 4x4x4BLD: 4:35.08 7:30.19 9:15.51
comment: 4:35.08 is my new pb single! :tu 5x5x5BLD: DNF 10:56.71 12:07.61 6x6x6BLD: DNF
comment: It looks like I was only off by a slice turn setup error somewhere in the middle of the solve, based on the DNF pieces. 7x7x7BLD: DNF
comment: Skipped a journey location during the solving phase. Those pieces were the only ones unsolved Fewest Moves: 33 moves
Scramble: L2 D2 R' B D B2 L2 D2 F' U B' F U' L R B F' R
Solution: B R' U F2 B R L D' R F R' F2 D' F' D2 F2 L2 F' D2 L B L' F' L B' L' D' F D2 F' D2 F D'
2x2x2: B R' U F2 B R
2x2x3: L D' R F R' F2
F2L minus one pair: D' F' D2 F2 L2 F'
Skeleton leaving a 3 corner cycle: D2 F' . D' F D2 F' D2 F
Insert F L B L' F' L B' L' at the dot to cancel 2 moves.
Done BLD
2x2x2: 29.51 (21.54) 23.42 (40.10) 30.68 = 27.87 3x3x3: 1:26.28 1:40.51 (1:20.46) (DNF) 1:38.72 = 1:35.17 4x4x4: 7:29.25 DNF 6:40.62 DNF 6:37.39 = DNF 5x5x5: DNF DNF 11:04.44 12:20.05 (10:24.92 or DNF?) = DNF
comment: On the 5th solve I popped a wing edge out near the end of the solve. Rather than waste time trying to find the piece, I just finished the solve without the piece. I'm pretty sure this would be a DNF in a competition solve, but I'm still unsure how to call this. Anyone have any ideas? 7x7x7: DNF 55:49.46 DNS DNS DNS = DNF
comment: The first solve was my most epic fail BLD solve I've ever had. I posted about it in the failures thread. You can go find it if you want, I don't really want to link it The second solve is my new pb single! :tu
Wow, Chris, you've really been getting into 7x7x7 BLD lately. Three attempts in one week?! Nice. Congratulations on the sub-hour solve. I bet sub-45 minutes is not far away.
Wow, Chris, you've really been getting into 7x7x7 BLD lately. Three attempts in one week?! Nice. Congratulations on the sub-hour solve. I bet sub-45 minutes is not far away.
Thanks Mike! I'm using the 7x7x7 as cross training. I've found that if I do a 7x7x7BLD solve, and then immediately after do a 5x5x5 blind solve, resting max 1-2 minutes between them, that I tend to get very good times on the 5x5x5 solve (if it's successful of course). I'm trying to view 7x7x7 BLD as swinging the weighted bat before I step up to the plate for reals so to speak.
I can see how sub-45 would be possible to be honest. I would have to not review my memo, and then I could do it. I've found that I have started to develop a "groove" on the 6x6x6 so to speak. I know how to memo such that I don't have to review very much yet I'll still recall all of the stuff. For 7x7x7 I still feel like I'm fumbling around in the dark with my pacing. I'm trying to apply synergistic pacing to it, but I still haven't clicked in exactly how that translates to 7x7x7BLD. If nothing else, practicing on the very large cubes shows me how synergistic pacing has to adapt as the cube gets larger. That could be useful information for transitioning from say 4x4x4 to 5x5x5.
Mike, do you notice a significant difference in the way you memorize 6x6x6 vs. 7x7x7? I'm noticing subtle differences, but at the same time I still feel that I haven't quite gotten it right yet on 7x7x7.
This week was nice because it’s the first time I’ve done at least one blindsolve attempt for each type of puzzle in the competition (thanks to the megaminx attempt).
Mike Hughey:
2x2x2:11.19, 6.86, 7.93, 7.43, 7.25 = 7.54 3x3x3:23.91, 27.34, 25.94, 25.84, 25.00 = 25.59
Comment: Absolutely horrible. I don’t know why, but sometimes I have bad streaks like this. 4x4x4:1:59.02 [OP], 1:30.84 [OP], 1:43.13 [OP], 1:17.78, 1:26.84 = 1:33.60 5x5x5: 2:39.84, 3:00.65, 2:34.25, 2:31.02, 2:23.83 = 2:35.04 6x6x6:5:36.33 [OP], 4:41.68, 5:20.38 [O], 4:43.63, 4:32.72 = 4:55.23
Comment: Wow, that was my best single ever, and perhaps my best average ever. 7x7x7:8:26.52, 7:13.39, 7:41.81, 7:34.72, 7:09.30 = 7:29.97 2x2x2 BLD: 20.55, 27.61, 34.72 = 20.55 3x3x3 BLD: 1:22.40, 1:34.22, 1:21.96 = 1:21.96 4x4x4 BLD: 8:19.24 [4:15], DNF [8:25.54, 4:13], 7:47.13 [3:59] = 7:47.13
Comment: Pretty bad. Second one off by 3 wings – I executed OX backwards. 5x5x5 BLD: DNF [17:50.24, 8:45], 14:55.07 [7:39], 16:09.00 [8:39] = 14:55.07
Comment: First one off by 2 + centers – I didn’t memorize the final piece in the last cycle. Third one was a really nice reorient, but then the solve was really hard. 6x6x6 BLD:DNF [32:53.27, 16:26]
Comment: Off by 2 corners (I didn’t think about parity), 3 outer wings (memorized KS instead of LS, giving me K twice), and 3 inner wings (memorized FU instead of FV, giving me U twice). Bad. 7x7x7 BLD:DNF [52:59.70, 28:55]
Comment: Off by 2 outer + centers (executed UR instead of WR) and 2 right obliques (memorized VS, then realized it was VT, then during solving phase, recalled VS). For this solve, I really couldn’t get the memo to stick, which is why it was so slow. 3x3x3 multiBLD:6/9 = 3 points, 42:37.16 [28:59]
Comment: Second cube off by parity (didn’t memorize last piece to finish out an extra cycle), third cube off by 3 corners (memorized LD instead of KD), ninth cube off by 3 corners (mismemorized). 3x3x3 OH:34.58, 52.97, 51.03, 40.65, 36.97 = 42.88 3x3x3 WF:4:23.09, 2:42.34, 1:50.19, 1:25.68, 1:39.02 = 2:03.85
Comment: On the first one, I messed up the PLL so bad it scrambled the entire cube and I had to start over. On the second one, I messed up the PLL, but not as bad. 3x3x3 Match the scramble: 1:18.02, 1:13.05, 1:29.00, 1:23.05, 1:11.68 = 1:18.04 3x3x3 Fewest Moves:37 moves
R2 U R2 U’ B2 U2 B D B’ U2 B D’ R’ D’ R D B R’ U2 F’ U F R’ B’ R B’ U R U’ B U’ B L2 D’ L U2 F’
inverse scramble:
2x2x2: F U2 L’ D L2
2x2x3: B’ U B’ U R’ U’ B2
3x cross: B’ R’ B R F’ U’ F U2
switch to regular scramble:
F2L: R2 U R2 U’
pseudo OLL: B’ . R’ D’ R D B R’
insert at .: B’ U2 B D B’ U2 B D’
B2 B’ become B before 3x cross; B’ B’ become B2 before insertion.
I also found this nice 18-move F2L start, but couldn’t find a good ending:
2x2x3: L2 U’ F L R’ U’ F D’
3x cross: R2 B’ R2 B R’ B’
4th pair: R B’ R’ B
2-4 relay:2:07.58 [P] 2-5 relay:5:02.59 [O]
Comment: 2x2x2 was over 20 seconds. Magic:9.02, 12.27, 9.33, 11.65, 10.09 = 10.36
Comment: OHITABLD, of course. Master Magic:3.91, 4.46, 7.94, 4.08, 4.21 = 4.25
Comment: First one done BLD, as usual. Clock:2:13.34 [0:25], 15.75, 16.80, 16.00, 13.40 = 16.18 MegaMinx:DNF [57:26.87, 38:50], 3:05.24, 3:36.86, 2:45.77, 2:40.50 = 3:09.29
Comment: BLD solve was correct except for 4 corners twisted. I mentioned this in the blindfold failures thread, but I’ll say it again here: I switched from the old Pochmann-style “solve one piece at a time and solve it fully” approach to a 3OP method: I first orient all pieces to a specific chosen orientation, and then permute them, and when permuting I can solve 2 pieces at a time with 3-cycles easily because the setup moves are really easy when the orientations are all the same. I love this new method – it makes megaminx BLD much less tedious! Pyraminx:54.18, 10.16, 16.88, 13.94, 18.44 = 16.42
Comment: First one done BLD, as usual. Square-1:DNF [6:19.46, 3:15], 49.05 [P], 55.36 [P], 49.34 [P], 47.44 = 51.25
Comment: On the BLD solve, I messed up parity at the end really bad, which scrambled the puzzle. Case QV. Skewb:1:37.03 [0:36], 15.77, 23.06, 9.97, 19.27 = 19.37
Comment: BLD solve had corners already permuted, so it was ridiculously easy.
Mike, do you notice a significant difference in the way you memorize 6x6x6 vs. 7x7x7? I'm noticing subtle differences, but at the same time I still feel that I haven't quite gotten it right yet on 7x7x7.
Well, they're a little different just because of the nature of the pieces to solve; I group the piece orbits two to a room on big cubes, and they have to group differently on 6x6x6 vs. 7x7x7 for me, so that's different, and it affects my pacing. I usually try to fill up a room and then go back and check my memory on that room. For 6x6x6, it's three rooms, so I do outer wings and left obliques in one room, inner wings and right obliques in the second room, and then the two sets of X centers in the third room. With 7x7x7, I use a fifth room for central edges, so I memorize them first, then the outer wings and left obliques from the first room, then refresh both rooms (the fifth room is tiny), then I do inner wings and right obliques for the second room and refresh it, then I usually tackle the third (outer X and + centers) and fourth (inner X and + centers) rooms together, and refresh them together instead of individually (they usually have less information because of my floating buffers for centers). So that might lead to faster times on 7x7x7 than 6x6x6, since I spend a little less time refreshing.
2x2: 19.05 21.13 24.03 21.44 15.75 = 20.54
No easy solves 3x3: 43.48 42.95 40.29 42.63 70.52 = 43.02
Given up full OLL, still got one bad 4x4: 3:42.18 2:52.26 2:23.01 2:42.18 2:43.94 = 2:46.13 5x5: 7:32.81 7:32.06 6:41.49 7:58.17 6:33.64 = 7:15.45 2-4Rel: 3:25.01 PB
Bld 2x2BLD: 48.83 dnf dnf = 48.83
The two dnf:s were equally slow. Sometimes it just does not work 3x3BLD: 2:26.68 2:06.44 01:31.02 = 1:31.02
One good 4x4BLD: 7:14.49 8:06.36 7:20.55 = 7:14.49
Two good and 100% 5x5BLD: dnf 22:21 dnf = 22:21 6x6BLD: = DNF 7x7BLD: = DNF
Not close on neither of the big ones. Multi: 5/10 = 0 in 60:00, memo 40:30
Not so bad as it seems. I had time over but sat approx.
five minutes trying to remember the corners of one cube
before the chimes went off.
The preferable way to write results is with all the entry for one event on one line.
Now it should have worked anyway, don't know why it did not. Anyway your 2x2
is in now.
:tu
