What happened in his last attempt?

[shelley]

Imagine this:
For speedsolving event, memo cube during inspection time. Then solve BLD. Anyone tried this?

When I can consistently memorize in 15 seconds, I'll do it

 

[fanwuq]

Imagine this:
For speedsolving event, memo cube during inspection time. Then solve BLD. Anyone tried this?

When I can consistently memorize in 15 seconds, I'll do it

awesome! I would want a video of that! Well, you can always spend 10 more seconds staring at cube and then start.

 

[cuBerBruce]

Ha, that would be awesome! I would love to see that. What is the current slowest time? I can't figureo ut how to find that.

I think the slowest time in the WCA database is probably:

3x3x3 Multi-BLD Rowe Hessler 22/30 4:24:11 USA Armonk Spring 2008

Stefan listed the top 4 not exceeding 10 minutes in late 2006.
See: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/message/31746

The only other times in that range since then that I know of (and I was present at both) were Adam's and Tyler's.

Incidently, 25% of the competitions I've been to have had a solve time between 9:58.00 and 9:59.99.

One more thing, I believe the new rules allow you to get +4 in penalties.

 

[shelley]

I'm curious as to what the slowest non-DNF solve time is for 3x3 speedsolve. I think it's a good bet that Tyler Wilkinson and Adam Zamora have that distinction for 2x2 and Magic respectively.

Where's Stefan? *shines Stefan Pochmann searchlight into the clouds*

 

[Mike Hughey]

I'm curious as to what the slowest non-DNF solve time is for 3x3 speedsolve. I think it's a good bet that Tyler Wilkinson and Adam Zamora have that distinction for 2x2 and Magic respectively.

Where's Stefan? *shines Stefan Pochmann searchlight into the clouds*

<singing> Pop - Man (da da da da da da da da da da da da) Pop - Man (da da da da da da da da da da da da) ...

 

[Stefan]

I skipped this thread, but you're lucky, egocentric as I am I just ran a search for my name. So here's the current "top 10 not exceeding 10 minutes" list:

10:00.00  Doug Li                    333bf  CaltechDallas2005
10:00.00  Mark Gaines                333ft  SwedishOpen2005
 9:59.66  Brent Morgan               333bf  US2004
 9:59.63  Adam Zamora                magic  VirginiaOpen2007
 9:59.10  Josh Ito                   555    FloridaOpen2007
 9:59.06  Tyler Wilkinson            222    ArmonkSpring2008
 9:58.28  Bruce Norskog              555    US2006
 9:57.72  Bertrand Bordage           555    Euro2004
 9:57.20  Dennis Nilsson             555    SwedishOpen2005
 9:54.96  Diego de Pereda Sebastian  333bf  MadridOpen2008

Oh and the slowest 3x3 speedsolve took 9 minutes 6.04 seconds.

 

[shelley]

Hooray, it worked! Thanks Stefan

 

[Lucas Garron]

Hmm, you know, I wonder which 10 WCA cuber's results have the most averages/means (on any/all puzzles) that agree in the last digit with the sum of all constituent non-DNF, non-DNS results from that round (including dropped times).

EDIT: Oh!
Where's Stefan? *shines Stefan Pochmann searchlight into the clouds*

 

[Dene]

I skipped this thread, but you're lucky, egocentric as I am I just ran a search for my name..

LMAO, this made me laugh almost as much as the other stuff

 

[Stefan]

Hmm, you know, I wonder which 10 WCA cuber's results have the most averages/means (on any/all puzzles) that agree in the last digit with the sum of all constituent non-DNF, non-DNS results from that round (including dropped times).

I intend to work on that this weekend.

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Stefan, a while back, I remember seeing Macky mention that he had a string of 100 consecutive sub-20 3x3 speedsolves. If you have time and the ability to do so, I'd be interested to see who has the longest such strings.

 

[Stefan]

Longest sub20 streaks:
http://stefan-pochmann.info/misc/sub20streak.png

 

[Tim Reynolds]

Thanks Stefan!

An interesting thing about Thibaut's 85-cube streak: The average he took before the streak started was
13.57 13.74 13.91 DNF DNF
If we omit those DNFs from his streak, that's another 29 solves sub-20. So Thibaut's last 114 completed 3x3 solves have been sub-20. That's pretty impressive. (I'm not saying that we should omit those solves, but it is interesting to see that fact anyway). Harris Chan's also really impressive; before the DNF that came before his streak started, he had 33 sub-20 solves, so his last 83 completed 3x3 solves have been sub-20.

 

[Hadley4000]

Enter the blindfold competition even if you don't know how to blindfold *coughDavidBuckcough*. Spend ten minutes "memorizing" *coughRafaelAlgarincough* before donning the blindfold and then madly twisting the cube for a few seconds.

I just realized, I actually did that. For the 4x4x4. Jason Baum wanted to enter it for Stetson, but there needs to be a specific number of people.

I decided to try to get the centers. Just the centers. Got 2 of them, was 1 turn off from getting 2 others.

 

[ROOT]

peters 2x2 kept popping and tyler stayed with him to the end.

 

[striderxo]

One of the competitors at Drexel's local competition got a 9:58.54 in his 3x3 solve. Beginner's method and he wasn't waiting for the timer to hit 10 either.

 

[pcharles93]

Hmm, when it comes time for the Cincinnati Open I should enter under a fake name and submit my diy set as tight as possible so it is just a plastic brick. And if it comes back scrambled, I am in for one hellishly embarrassing solve.

 

[hdskull]

Hmm, when it comes time for the Cincinnati Open I should enter under a fake name and submit my diy set as tight as possible so it is just a plastic brick. And if it comes back scrambled, I am in for one hellishly embarrassing solve.

If they can't scramble it, then you have to use another cube, its under the regulations, lol.

 

[DavidWoner]

i think i am going to go for the 1337 move FMC solve. or maybe i will go all the way down to the very last turn and just RUR'U' until time is almost up then finish it to get the ultra high score.

 

[shelley]

Hmm, when it comes time for the Cincinnati Open I should enter under a fake name and submit my diy set as tight as possible so it is just a plastic brick. And if it comes back scrambled, I am in for one hellishly embarrassing solve.

"Lube" it with a little superglue and you should be okay