2x2BLD: 33.05 [ 11], 32.84 [ 12], 32.07 [ 12] = 32.07 consistent times, but the second was actually 30.84 +2 3x3BLD: DNF [1:40.88, 24], 2:13.60 [ 52], 1:33.51 [ 30] = 1:33.51 good 4x4BLD: 7:39.15 [ 4:38], 7:35.74 [ 4:06], DNF [8:29.30, 4:58] = 7:35.74 no sub-7 this week . Still ok. 5x5BLD: 14:37.72 [ 8:15], DNF [15:41.70, 7:45], DNF [14:03.56, 7:00] = 14:37.72 Good and all three attempts sub-16. 6x6BLD: 33:59 [ 17:37] = 33:59 !! PB with almost 2 min 7x7BLD: DNF [53:24, 30:30] = DNF so fast, both memo and exec . Only +centers were wrong, but lots of them . Multi:6/11 = 1 in 58:08 [37:30]. First time I don't dnf an 11-attempt. Actually I had more time left, I sat a couple of minutes
trying to remember corners of one cube. 6 of 11 may perhaps not be so good, but three cubes were only one error and the last
one was a L-move too much, so perhaps also one error. All in all not dissatisfied with this attempt.
Done BLD
3x3: 2:02.73, 1:49.96, 1:57.19, 1:53.34, 1:43.87 = 1:53.49
Somewhat better accuracy than in this weeks bld-thread . Actually better avg than when I had 20 solves . 4x4: DNF, DNF, DNF, DNF, DNF = DNF Four close and one bad. Tried to go extra fast. 5x5: DNF, 14:10, DNS, DNS, DNS = DNF
Solution: F R' B2 R D2 U2 F' R2 F' U R2 L' U2 L U' R' U' R L F2 R' F' R F' L' F' U' L R' F2 L' R U' F U
2x2x2: F R' B2 R D2
2x cross: U2 F' R2 F' U R2
F2L - 1 edge: L' U2 L U' R' U' R
Leave 3 edges: L F2 R' F' R F' L'
Last 3 edges: F' U' L R' F2 L' R U' F U
Found this solution in the first 15 minutes...got nothing better after that
4x4x4 Blindfolded: DNF [13:23.86], DNSy, DNSy = DNF
1st: Off by 3 edges. memo 7:59.53
5x5x5 Blindfolded: 27:25.72, DNS, DNS = 27:25.72
1st: New PB! (memo: 16 min or so) http://twitpic.com/61r0bk
3x3x3 Multiple Blindfolded: 4/6 (60:00.00) memo 45:52
1st try for 6 cubes, not good
5th: unsolved, set-up miss. 6th: solved but not in time. http://twitpic.com/61y4vb
3x3x3 Fewest Moves: 28 HTM
Scramble: U2 B' U' B' D B' U L B D' B F' L B R2 B' U2 R'
Solution: F D2 L' D2 L2 D F U2 F D R' U L R' F R F2 L2 F R F' L2 F L' U F U F'
Skeleton found at my 1st try. maybe within 3 min.
1st square: F D2 L'
2x2x2 block: D2 L2 D2
Siamese 2x2x2: D' F U2 F D
Make tripod: R' U L R' F R F' * R L' U2
All but 3 corners: U' F U F'
solution: L2 R2 U' L D2 L' U2 L D2 L' R' U' R2 B2 R' B' L' D U2 R2 U' D' B' D' F R' (26)
On inverse scramble
pre-scramble moves [R2 L2]
all but 3 corners: R F' D B D U R2 U2 D' L B R B2 R2 U R @ U' (17+2)
pre-move correction: R2 L2
at @ insert L2 D2 L' U2 L D2 L' U2
NB after 8 moves I decided to do pre-moves R2 L2
welcome back Stini!
Tomoaki, congratz with your 1st place at FMC at Japan Open and your wonderful 20-move solution at Per's FMC #356!
Thank you Guus, your every compliment excites/encourages me.
I have a hunger to achieve Sub 30 at the next competition.
And congrats on your short solution this time.
And welcome back Teemu.
You got Sub 30 five times in official competitions, amazing!
2x2x2: 7.59, 9.40, 8.29, 7.98, 6.37 = 7.95 3x3x3: 23.32, 21.95, 33.12, 25.12, 24.27 = 24.24 4x4x4:1:19.56, 1:21.11, 1:28.09, 1:22.41, 1:30.51 [P] = 1:23.87
Comment: I whispered “Frank Morris” to my cube right before I started, which scared it into giving me what I think was my best average 3/5 ever. I guess it was wearing off at the end because I got that stupid PLL parity – the only parity in the whole average! 5x5x5: 2:28.25, 2:28.88, 2:38.24, 2:26.85, 2:29.17 = 2:28.77
Comment: Just like with 4x4x4, 4 out of the 5 solves were fast enough to make combined finals at Nationals! We’ll see how it goes during the real thing. 6x6x6: 5:07.44 [O], 8:17.22 [P], 4:59.72, 5:23.21 [OP], 5:04.57 [O] = 5:11.74
Comment: Very disappointing; it seems my differential lube is wearing down after just two weeks. Looks like I need to load it up again. Right now it has a terrible tendency to pop because it’s getting loose again. 7x7x7: 7:03.98, 6:45.50, 7:10.31, 6:45.55, 6:53.34 = 6:54.29 2x2x2 BLD: 25.19, 25.42, DNF [31:46] = 25:19
Comment: Third solve was completely scrambled. 3x3x3 BLD: 1:57.88, 1:28.45, 1:29.39 = 1:28.45 4x4x4 BLD: DNF [8:31.99, 4:41], DNF [8:30.31, 3:37], DNF [7:04.60, 3:19] = DNF
Comment: Awful! First one off by 2 centers, second one off by 2 centers and 3 wings, third one off by 3 centers. 5x5x5 BLD: 14:04.26 [7:13], 18:23.41 [10:29], 13:13.90 [6:17] = 13:13.90
Comment: I guess this makes up for the bad 4x4x4 BLD solves. The second one was a horrible scramble – I noticed I spent 1:38 just choosing an orientation (which is ridiculous; if it takes more than 10 seconds you should just give up and pick one at random, but I just couldn’t seem to bring myself to do it). 6x6x6 BLD:DNF [33:02.12, 18:17]
Comment: Off by 16 inner X centers, 16 obliques, and 8 inner wings. They were all in strips of two or more; it seemed quite clear that somewhere during the solve I must have done u2 instead of d2 or d2 instead of u2; that could have explained all the mistakes. 7x7x7 BLD:44:06.52 [23:19]
Comment: A good 7x7x7 BLD solve still feels so awesome when it happens. This really made me feel better after the terrible 4x4x4 BLD solves. Not quite a PB, but only a couple of minutes away. 3x3x3 multiBLD:8/15 = 1 point, 60:00 [43:48]
Comment: Looks like 15 is still just too many for me. This one felt better than my 9/15 last week, though, because I was more successful with memorization; I just solved a little too slow. Cubes 1, 2, 3, and 7 were all left unsolved when I ran out of time, but I kept going afterward and solved them all successfully, so if it were not for the time limit, I would have had 12/15 in 70 minutes. Cube 15 was off by 2 corners and 2 edges, cube 8 was off by 4 corners, and on cube 6 I couldn’t remember the corners at all. 3x3x3 OH: 44.30, 46.81, 44.19, 44.08, 36.33 = 44.19 3x3x3 WF:1:48.00, 2:19.80, 3:14.28, 3:08.11, 2:06.78 = 2:31.56
Comment: Messed up Z perm on third one; messed up V perm on fourth one. Terrible. 3x3x3 Match the scramble:1:09.09, 1:43.61, 1:18.82, 1:44.54, 1:15.52 = 1:25.98 3x3x3 Fewest Moves:35 moves
D F’ B’ R2 D U2 L B U2 B L’ B’ U2 R D R’ U R D’ R’ B U F R U R’ U’ F’ L F’ L’ F2 U2 F’ U
2x2x2: D F’ B’ R2 D
2x2x3: U2 L B U2 B
3x cross: L’ B’ U’ . B
switch to inverse scramble:
4th pair: U’ F U2 F2 L F L’
pseudo OLL: F U R U’ R’ F’
insert at .: U’ R D R’ U R D’ R’
U’ U’ become U2 before insertion.
2-4 relay:2:13.61 2-5 relay:4:49.68 [P] Magic: 14.16, 15.91, 11.63, 11.02, 11.33 = 12.37
Comment: OHITABLD, of course. Terrible this week. My youngest daughter beat me pretty handily! Master Magic: 4.38, 4.46, 4.94, 3.86, 3.90 = 4.25 Clock:DNF [2:16.93, 0:34], 21.06, 16.78, 15.58, 15.50 = 17.81
Comment: For BLD solve, a pin was halfway down on one turn while solving a corner – two clocks were off by 5. MegaMinx:DNF [32:21.47, 17:57], 3:00.26, 3:21.30, 3:33.14, 2:56.90 = 3:18.23
Comment: So close - BLD solve was off by just two corners twisted. Pyraminx:1:42.91, 7.50, 14.16, 13.72, 16.46 = 14.78 Square-1:5:15.31 [2:56], 52.34 [P], 41.23 [P], 46.40 [P], 35.47 = 46.66
Comment: BLD solve was case IA. I’m really starting to feel back in shape for square-1 BLD now. The speedsolving was terrible this week, though. Skewb:4:14.16 [2:56], 17.45, 19.61, 25.02, 19.49 = 21.37
Rachel Hughey: Magic: 7.02, 7.52, 6.27, 7.27, DNF = 7.27
Comment: She was practicing for Nationals next week.
2x2x2 7.14, 3.82, 5.73, 5.39, 2.33 = 4.98 3x3x3 16.62, 13.97, 18.47, 14.76, 14.34 = 15.24 4x4x4 1:21.78, 1:25.57, 1:13.08, 1:01.09,1:23.36 = 1:19.41 5x5x5 2:20.08, 2:09.51, 2:14.20, 2:09.03,1:55.77 = 2:10.91 6x6x6 4:12.55, 4:04.03, 4:06.19, 4:13.62, 4:33.43 = 4:10.79 2x2x2 BLD 32.41, 43.42, 36.43 = 32.41 3x3x3 BLD DNF, DNF, 2:55.52 = 2:55.42
The second one was also a success but the timer didn’t start. 4x4x4 BLD DNF(20:58.28), DNF(23:11.98), DNF(21:26.82) = DNF
The second and third attempts were both two corners off. 3x3x3 Multi BLD 0/3 19:13.35 = DNF
Two were off by a two edges that were wrongly oriented. The other I screwed up a Y perm. 3x3x3 OH 27.73, 34.32, 31.80, 27.05, 33.85 =31.13 2-4 1:33.95 2-5 4:02.01 Magic 1.81, 1.81, 2.19, 2.19, 1.63 = 1.94 Megaminx 1:02.08, 1:11.13, 1:06.33, 1:15.52,1:05.41 = 1:07.62 Pyraminx 10.67, 6.43, 10.96, 8.98, 7.53 = 9.06
Really easy scrambles for Pyraminx this week Square-1 31.18, 55.22, 43.38, 38.55, 50.36 = 44.10
3x3x3: (22:02), 18.34, (17.78), 20.81, 19.55 = 19.57 Not so good 5x5x5: (2:22.65), (2:06.12), 2:07.54, 2:07.40, 2:13.81 = 2:09.58 Not so good 6x6x6: (3:57.83), (3:47.20), 3:57.50, 3:52.06, 3:55.22 = 3:54.93 Not so good
2x2 BLD: 20.37, DNF, DNF = 20.37 3x3 BLD: DNF, DNF, 48.72 = 48.72 4x4 BLD: DNF, DNF, DNF = DNF 5x5 BLD: DNF, DNF, DNF = DNF 3x3 Multi BLD: 11/12 (32:10.40)[19:50] = 10 points Comment: I wanted to try something less than usual, I'll go back to bigger attempts next week. 3x3 MTS: DNF, DNF, DNF 1:51.89 DNF = DNF Comment: On the first 2 I applied the solution on the scrambled cube, on the last I slipped.
U’ F D’ L’ B (EO) 5
L’ U’ L’ D R2 D2 R’ D2 L2 (edges and face) 14 L U L’ U L U2 L . (Sune for last three corners) 20 F2 U B2 (separate U/D corners) 23
U’ B2 U B2 U2 R2 U R2 (pair up corners) 31
F2 B2 D (fix bad edges, leave pseudo ending) 34
R’ L U2 R L’ (edge cycle magically solves part of pseudoness) 39
F2 (undo pseudoness, leaves three edges) 40
At . insert U’ D R2 D’ U F2 to cancel 3 moves U F2 F2 U = U2 to make 43
final solution:
U’ F D’ L’ B L’ U’ L’ D R2 D2 R’ D2 L’ U L’ U L U2 L U’ D R2 D’ U2 B2 U’ B2 U B2 U2 R2 U R2 F2 B2 D R’ L U2 R L’ F2 = 43 HTM
My apologies for the late entry, I did not have internet acces during our trip to the Eiffel region.
Welcome back Teemu!
Some nice solutions this week!