Double Post! 2x2x2 average of 100:

Fastest time: 0:83 seconds
Slowest time: 9:89 seconds

Best out of 5: 3:62 seconds
Best out of 12: 4:28 seconds
Best out of 100: 5:12 seconds

And now the times!: 5.59, 3.28, 6.55, 2.75, 4.83, 1.33, 5.94, 6.91, 4.61, 4.69, 3.67, 2.89, 5.39, 6.13, 4.47, 7.34, 4.31, 6.47, 5.38, 5.27, 2.22, 5.48, 3.28, 6.20, 2.83, 3.20, 5.36, 4.06, 5.56, 5.61, 2.92, 9.89, 3.28, 6.64, 5.14, 2.61, 5.17, 5.61, 6.52, 7.64, 2.73, 4.70, 3.88, 6.23, 4.89, 5.38, 2.44, 2.63, 3.39, 6.55, 7.70, 2.45, 7.31, 6.94, 5.92, 3.08, 6.00, 3.94, 5.33, 5.38, 5.05, 2.34, 6.36, 5.75, 9.63, 3.14, 0.83, 6.03, 5.61, 5.53, 7.69, 7.97, 6.67, 4.67, 7.78, 5.48, 5.56, 6.63, 6.48, 1.36, 2.48, 5.25, 3.34, 9.66, 6.63, 7.61, 3.92, 4.48, 3.84, 5.39, 1.14, 3.64, 5.92, 6.84, 4.31, 6.05, 9.20, 5.94, 7.81, 6.44

So close to sub 5!

Are you sure about the fastest time?

Wow! Someone took the effort to check the times. Thanks theVDude, edited!

There's another thread dedicated for time
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17640

At Summer Camp last week I taught someone how to solve a 4x4x4 using Reduction Method. Even better: he had absolutley no idea how to do a 3x3x3 until then. Last year at camp I taught someone else how to solve the cube and now he's got his own collection going.

Decided to solve all puzzles in y collection that I have not yet solved before.
The FTO, chess puck and hungarian rings were all done quite soon, now to tackle the 10 billion barrel

I got a sub-15 the other day, which broke my record by 2 seconds- and then I got another one a few hours later, both non-lucky!

I just did my first ever Teraminx solve, and I didn't do as well as I wanted to. I got around an hour and 27 minutes, but I wanted it to be under an hour. Oh well, I used a different method, so next time I'll try and do it the normal way.

On this site there is a 4-dimensional maze. Well, I figured out how to work it and what do you know?

PB Square-1 single and average!

Single: 26.55 seconds
Average: 38.71 seconds

Times: 40.81, 39.86, 52.20, 26.55, 35.47

My first ever sub 30 second solve, and my first average where every solve is sub minute, and the average is sub 40!

After learning how to solve the 3x3, I made up my own full method for the Teraminx... takes me about 2h45 to solve it

Greg

PB 3x3x3 Average of 12:

Fastest: 10:70 seconds
Slowest: 17:69 seconds
Average: 14:64 seconds

Times: 13.02, 13.67, 12.67, 16.20, 17.69, 12.95, 15.84, 14.42, 10.70, 16.58, 15.30, 15.73

Teraminx average of 12...

Ok maybe not

Greg

Yay! 2x2x2 PB Average - It would put me 3rd in the World!

Best Time: 1:91 seconds
Worst Time: 5:02 seconds
Average: 2:78 seconds!!!

Times: 1.91, 3.78, 2.23, 2.33, 5.02

Say I had a decent time, say 2:78 seconds, (the actual average) instead of the 5:02, my average would be joint first with Rowe's official average of five!

Probably not a big deal but, I've managed to solve a 2x2x4 ShenShou. Since it's a relatively new puzzle, it's always rewarding and challenging to solve a new puzzle with your own methods and knowledge from solving previous puzzles .

Solved my helicopter cube with jumbling moves. Super fun!

I solved Okamoto's Latch Cube. As far as I know I'm the first person to do so. Unfortunately I smeared his signature, though I was trying very hard not to.

Yay! first time that I get to post in this thread, and it's for two different puzzles which is an additional bonus for me. First, on the 4x4, I finally got a sub 1:30 average of 5, and I don't normally care for 4x4, and I normally average around 1:45ish. And for 3x3, I got a 13.48 single, non-lucky.

I solved my teraminx with a layer-by-layer method. It wasn't worth it and it took like 5 hours longer than usual.

I have done 17 second averages back when I cubed every day. but today I am not that fast anymore. I wanna get at it again.

Keeping away from cube rotation. ("multi angle insertion mapping")
more f2l shortcuts maybe.
I need to learn 5 olls I think I found out I dont have anymore..
regular practice..

my goal for now would be a sub 15 average.

OK! I can still get sub20 averages!!

look here:
21.22 21.09 18.66 19 (22.89) 20.58 20.72 20.09 19.78 (16.42) 19.86 18.88
nothing else but a 19.99 second average...

I just figured out a solution to my fully functional Siamese.

I can now get times in the two minutes for the 4x4. I am proud of this and unfortunately my QJ corner piece broke

PB 4x4x4 average of five: 1:09:69

Fastest: 1:04:44
Slowest: 1:13:25

Times: 1:04.44, 1:13.25, 1:09.77, 1:06.91, 1:12.41

Solved a Teraminx for the first time today. Took a while did it over three days with about 1h30- 2 hours a day

After neglecting it for months and only being able to solve one layer, I can now solve the 2x3x3. Although my times could do with a little work.

Bump! PB Pyraminx average of 5: 9:78 seconds

Fastest: 6:70 seconds
Slowest: 12:45 seconds

Times: 9.70, 8.22, 6.70, 11.42, 12.45

Got a sub-30 solve on Ryan Heise's simulator for 3x3x3. http://hi-games.net/cube-3x3x3/watch?u=3930.

Note: I just started on the simulator yesterday.

::EDIT:: Haha, make that a sub-25. . Multislotting FTW! ::EDIT:

Average of 5: Sub-20. (19.57)

With a Rubik's Icon. That's harder than it sounds.

New PB Pyraminx average of five and single:

Average: 8:06 seconds

Fastest: 4:74 seconds
Slowest: 15:89 seconds

Times: 8.03, 8.64, 15.89, 7.52, 4.74

I really messed up badly on the 15 second solve, and if I was a little less rough with it it would have been sub eight seconds.

Wow sub-20 average on a mini eastsheen 2x2

I solved the Brillic (Pyraminx Crystal) using a layer-by-layer method. By the time I got to the last layer I figured it'd have been easier to do it as Kilominx then edges, but I was too far to give up...

Finally! After months and months of trying, I finally got a sub 1 4x4x4 solve!: 59:30 seconds!

I'm not great at 4x4x4, but that just really cheered me up!

I almost always solve my pyraminx crystal in 'layers'.

New 3x3x3 single PB(20.63), rolling Avg5(23.32), and Avg12(25.12).



number of times: 12/12
best time: 20.63
worst time: 35.04

current avg5: 23.78 (σ = 0.54)
best avg5: 23.32 (σ = 0.47)

current avg12: 25.12 (σ = 2.15)
best avg12: 25.12 (σ = 2.15)

session avg: 25.12 (σ = 2.15)
session mean: 25.57

22.11, 26.70, 27.49, 29.19, 26.30, 35.04, 22.95, 23.03, 24.32, 20.63[SOO CLOSE!! R2 F2 L' R' B2 F U2 R2 D U' R2 F2 D' U2 R' U B L' D' U2 B2 R U2 D2 L2], 23.98[Dang Fridrich. 4 move cross.], 25.11

Woo! New 4x4x4 single PB!: 53:50 seconds!

I'm certainly improving, as yesterday I got my first sub 1 ever, and then today I've had two sub 1s so far!

Double post! PB 3x3x3 Average of 12: 14:31 seconds.

Fastest time: 12:41 seconds.
Slowest time: 16:55 seconds.

Times: 12.73, 12.43, 13.88, 14.65, 16.55, 14.19, 13.27, 14.72, 15.72, 15.73, 15.80, 12.41

Sub-minute on the Spin Out from ThinkFun!!

Shortcut solution or the full solution?

If by shortcut you mean taking off the end cap, then the ful solution. Also, sub-1 on the shortcut solution!! Woo Hoo!

There's a shortcut where you twist pieces that have already come out of the end. It's neat.

After a few dozens solves a day for a few weeks, I've gotten my solve time on the 3x3x3 at around 40 seconds. My goal is a 30 second average.

I don't twist any pieces except when they are in the groove, so it looks like I use the full solution (I intend to put up a tutorial in YouTube, just in case someone out there is looking for one and this tutorial features the solution that I used when I solved it in less than one minute).

I despise the spinout. I solved it within 5 minutes the first time, and it stopped being fun.

Try solving it with the pegs alternating up-down or one side-other side or other patterns to break up the boringness. I uploaded the solution that I filmed to YouTube.com.

The shortcut solution can be found here:

http://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/spinout.htm

Jaap also described the full solution.

First time I picked up the 3x3x3 in few months. My best time before was 24.something. Just hit 17.54

New 3x3 PB: 27.78

After two days, I finally solved the Latch Cube. This cube is evilly hard. In the beginning, I was lucky getting some edges in position.

Like an idiot I posted in the wrong thread. Sorry!

NEW PB: 17.28
Scramble: R' L' D2 R L2 F L' U' D' L' B2 D B2 R' B D' R F R' D' R2 L D' B' U
Solution: (y') R D' R' y U' M U' M' U2 r B' M U M' U2 r' U' r R U' R' U R U2 R' U' R U' R' M' U' M' U M' U2 M U' M' M2 U' M2 U' M2 U2 M2 U2 M' U2 M2 U2 M'

I know, I know, not that efficient and it has canceling moves. Whatever, I wrote it out the way I solved it.