Peter and I competed at the Rubik's World Championships in Budapest, Hungary on 5-7 October. As usual, Worlds was awesome. Lots of fun competing, catching up with our cubing buddies, and meeting new cubing friends. Here are some pics...
From left to right: Joel van Noort from The Netherlands, me, Erno Rubik
Rubik's World Championship 2007 medallion
Competition stage at the Novotel Budapest CongressI got a new best average of 100 yesterday. Here are the details.
Average of 100: 27.99s
Median: 27.25s
Best time: 21.81s
Worst time: 39.10s
Breakdown of solves: sub-30s solves: 77%; sub-29s solves: 67%; sub-28s solves: 57%; sub-27s solves: 41%; sub-26s solves: 26%; sub-25s solves: 15%; sub-24s solves: 7%; sub-23s solves: 2%; sub-22s solves: 1%; sub-21s: 0%; sub-20s: 0%
My beginner cube solution reached two million hits a little while ago! This is exciting because it was only about six months ago that it reached one million hits.
Go cubes!!
I was totally on a roll this morning and I beat my best average for the 3x3x3 by over 1.5 seconds! This is a huge margin in speedcubing terms, so I'm very excited.
It's very rare for me to do 12 consecutive sub-30s solves, let alone 12 consecutive sub-28s solves since my real average is around 28 seconds. And of the 10 solves which count in the average, they are all sub-27s!! Here are the details...
Average: 24.56 seconds
Fastest: 22.35 seconds
Slowest: 27.22 seconds
Individual times: 25.43, 25.21, 23.20, 26.49, 24.06, 23.29, (27.22), 25.26, 25.06, 23.45, 24.12, (22.35).
What's the reason for the inspiration? Well, as usual, I've been practicing more since Worlds than I did before Worlds. I always feel very inspired after a big cube competition. Perhaps I should just see this as very early practice for Worlds 2009!
A new world record for the 3x3x3 single solve was set today by Erik Akkersdijk of The Netherlands. The competition was the Dutch Open 2007, and the record-breaking time was 9.77 seconds!
