Negative Time Solving Contest 2008
Scrambles
(Generated by Cube Explorer...true random scramble!)
This is the ONLY main Negative Time Solving Scramble for 2008. Do not use this scramble before the real attempt.
The following are additional 3x3 algorithms to be used only for 3x3 multi-blind. Decide on the number of cubes, n, to be attempted beforehand, and take the first n-1 from this list in addition to the main scramble above.
- R B L F2 L' F' L U D' F' L' U D2 R2 D' L2 F2 R2 F2 D' L2
- U' L2 U' L2 U' L' F B D' F' R2 U2 R B2 L' F2 B2 U2 L' U2
- L D B U2 L2 D R' B R2 F2 D' F2 L B2 L'B2 L2 D2 L' B2 L2
- U R' B2 D2 F U' F2 D F' R' F2 R' U2 F2 U2 L F2 L D2
- F B2 U' D R B R B2 U2 L U F' R2 F D2 B2 R2 U2 F' D2 R2
- F2 D' B L B2 U' F2 L2 F' D2 L2 F2 U B2 U' L2 U R2 L2 F2 D2
- R' B R F' R' L' U' D L D2 L' B U B2 U L2 D B2 D2 B2 D
- B' L D' R B' R' F2 L F U R' D2 R L' U2 R F2 U2 D2 F2 R'
- U' R2 F2 U' B' U2 F R D' B' R2 U2 F2 B2 L U2 L B2 L' D2 F2
- L U' R B2 L U2 B U' D' F' U F R2 D2 B' D2 L2 F2 U2 D2
- U D R D' B2 D' B2 L B U' F' R' F2 L F2 R B2 R' L B2 R'
- F R2 D2 F' L D L2 U' R2 B R F2 U2 L2 F R2 B D2 B2 U2 B2
- U' L' F' L2 U' D2 F2 B2 L B' U' R2 D2 F2 L2 B U2 F' U2 B2 D2
- U D' L' F U R B R2 B' D' R B2 R' F2 U2 D2 L' D2 L' B2
- R B2 R D' F' R' D R2 B' L F2 L2 F' B' D2 L2 D2 B L2 D2 F
- R U F L2 B2 U D2 F2 L' D2 F D2 F2 U2 B2 R' U2 L' F2 B2 L2
- B R2 B2 U' F U B2 D F R2 D2 R' B2 U2 R D2 R B2 L' B2 L2
- yU2 D L' B U' L' D2 L' U R2 B2 D2 L F2 U2 R2 D2 B2 L F2 B2
- F R' F' L' U F B R2 D R2 D2 F D2 B2 R2 D2 F2 L2 B' R2
- b d2 B2 F' d2 L2 U' D2 f F' L' R2 u B l B L' F2 u d b2 u2 f' F' l2 u2 U' r' l' U' b r D' L' U2 f2 d U b D2
- R' L' U l2 u2 F2 l2 B' l2 R' u d B2 L2 u' B2 f2 l2 L F2 u2 U R2 U B2 L b2 B2 D' f F2 d2 L2 U' l F2 u2 F f U
- l2 d' F' f2 u2 R L b f2 U f B2 d2 U' L d2 L l2 u' R2 l F2 L f' F' D2 F2 u' L f' D b r R' D2 R' u2 B' u R
- U f r' B U B' d' F' L' f2 B' L f d' l B' l R' d2 r' b u' D' b D' f F2 R f u2 d2 B L b2 R' b2 F l' d' f2 b U' B' R' F' U2 R r2 D2 u2 L' f' l' b L2 U2 r2 D2 b u
You can scramble other puzzles on your own.
Results
There were 45 participants representing 6 countries (plus Smerbia). Of these, 2 participated in Europe and the rest were from North America.
3x3 Speedsolve
| Name | Country | Negative Time | Comment |
| Jason Baum | USA | -59 minutes, 49.43 seconds | I did ZBF2L and ended with this ZBLL case: F R U' R' U' R U' L U' R' U L' U2 F' |
| Jun Hyuk Kim | USA | -59 minutes, 48.20 seconds | ahaha, that was fun, but i got in trouble by my parents :S |
| Stefan Huber | Austria | -59 minutes, 46.91 seconds | not really good (bad PLL recognition), but better than last year ;) |
| Patrick Jameson | USA | -59 minutes, 46.62 seconds | |
| Joseph Gibney | USA | -59 minutes, 45.59 seconds | Bad solve. Almost missed this! |
| Darren Kwong | USA | -59 minutes, 45.48 seconds | I can't pee straight! |
| Shotaro Makisumi | Japan (in USA) | -59 minutes, 45.31 seconds | Out of practice, but so much fun! |
| Andy Tsao | USA | -59 minutes, 45.26 seconds | not good |
| Michael Gottlieb | USA | -59 minutes, 45.14 seconds | Yeah, sub--59:45! It was pretty cool to look back at the clock after this and see a time almost an hour earlier. |
| Lebillie Wu | USA | -59 minutes, 45.1 seconds | Stephanie's apartment is the best! |
| Jim Mertens | USA | -59 minutes, 44.99 seconds | Cool. Maybe 5 seconds faster than last year? |
| Jeremy Fleischman | USA | -59 minutes, 44.98 seconds | I can't see straight! |
| David Woner | USA | -59 minutes, 43.94 seconds | Scrambled white on top, green on front. this was an easy scramble with yellow cross, Good C-OLL plus ccw U-perm. |
| Lucas Garron | Germany (in USA) | -59 minutes, 44.13 seconds | Cold hands (despite an hour of warmup), cross on top, bad F2L cases, bad recognition delays, G-perm with wrong handedness... at least it could have been worse. Video |
| KevinK | USA | -59 minutes, 42 seconds | 33 sec., a slow time. |
| Michael Young | USA | -59 minutes, 41.06 seconds | I just can't solve in the morning |
| Timm[ie] Wong | USA | -59 minutes, 41.90 seconds | actual solve time of 18.10, beats last year's time by 0.35 seconds...yay~ The F2L wasn't that great (my execution was fine, but the cases just weren't that nice), but I made up for it by getting a really easy OLL case, and a pretty nice PLL case as well. |
| Justin Adsuara | USA | -59 minutes, 41.7 seconds | I haven't practiced in months, :( kthxbai |
| Shelley Chang | USA | -59 minutes, 41.41 seconds | |
| Patrick Kelly | USA | -59 minutes, 40.95 seconds | |
| Raku Watari | USA | -59 minutes, 41 seconds | I did not think that I would be this tired... it could have been a lot better. |
| Devin Corr-Robinett | USA | -59 minutes, 40.92 seconds | i suck |
| Guillain Potron | France (in USA) | -59 minutes, 40.6 seconds | I was half sleeping at 3AM, so it explains the bad time :p |
| Ambie Valdés | USA | -59 minutes, 40.19 seconds | Take that, Mitch! |
| Huy Nguyen | USA | -59 minutes, 40.05 seconds | That was an easy scramble. =D I enjoyed this contest! |
| Kaoru Maeda | Japan (in Germany) | - 59 minutes, 38.80 seconds | I'm a Japanese who live in Germany. Start: 2008/10/26 02:59:52.421 Finish: 2008/10/26 02:00:13.625 |
| Ben Zoller | USA | -59 minutes, 38.75 seconds | Very cool concept. |
| Nick Young | USA | -59 minutes, 38.17 seconds | Can't cube straight...need diagonals on my 3x3 |
| Alexei Gousev | USA | -59 minutes, 38.04 seconds | |
| Vincent Sheu | USA | -59 minutes, 36.75 seconds | Connie: Connie's apartment is the best! Stephanie; No, Stephanie's apartment is the best! Me: Both your apartments' lighting screws me up. |
| Felix Lee | USA | -59 minutes, 36 seconds | bad :P |
| Daniel Chan | USA | -59 minutes, 34.56 seconds | I sort of panicked and messed up a few times during the solve. This probably would have been better had I not done so. Oh well, happy negative time solving, everyone! |
| Stephanie Chow | USA | -59 minutes, 33.06 seconds | My vasopressin is being inhibited! |
| Kevin Jorgensen | USA | -59 minutes, 31.95 seconds | |
| Shafiq Mohammed | USA | -59 minutes, 32 seconds | pretty bad solve...well, I did have to keep it quiet so I don\'t wake my parents up. Anyways I am glad I could take part in it this year! |
| William Chen | USA | -59 minutes, 28.76 seconds | |
| Connie Chen | USA | -59 minutes, 29 seconds | this sucked. can't think straight... |
| Shari Kuroyama | USA | -59 minutes, 20 seconds | |
| Ummon Karpe | USA | -59 minutes, 16.17 seconds | |
| Henry Fung | Canada | -59 minutes, 15.21 seconds | |
| Tim Black | USA | -21 minutes, 51 seconds | Same time as Negative Time Tommy's. |
| Dan Dzoan | USA | +15.26 seconds | i probably should have done this last night... |
3x3 Blindfolded
| Place | Name | Country | Negative Time | Comment |
| 1 | Shelley Chang | USA | -57 minutes, 57.66 seconds | |
| 2 | Felix Lee | USA | -54 minutes, 53 seconds | Successful! :D |
| 3 | Lucas Garron | Germany (in US) | DNF | The cube got misoriented after CO (bad regrip), so I have no idea how close I should have been... |
3x3 MultiBLD
| Place | Name | Country | Negative Time | Result | Comment |
| 1 | Mike Hughey | USA | -12 minutes, 46.12 seconds | 4/7 | 2 cubes off by 3 edges, one off by 2 edges and 2 corners. |
4x4 Speedsolve
| Place | Name | Country | Negative Time | Comment |
| - | David Woner | USA | +1 minute, 14.22 seconds | the second scramble. PLL parity. pretty good. |
7x7 Speedsolve
| Place | Name | Country | Negative Time | Comment |
| 1 | Michael Gottlieb | USA | -54 minutes, 18.78 seconds | Not bad. I just HAD to do this in celebration of having a real-life 7x7x7! Yeah V-cubes! |
| 2 | Henry Fung | Canada | -37 minutes, 57.20 seconds | Started before and finished after solving 3x3x3. B2 U22 B F2' L32 F3 D2' D3 B2 D32 L2 B2' L L32 R2' R' F R' D U32 U22 F2 D3 U3' U2 F2 L2' U2 B3' F32 L2 R3 B2 U2 F3' F2 L2 B B22 B32 F3 F22 F' R32 R2 F22 U2' F32 F2' F2 L2 B2 F2 R3 R2 R2 D3 U22 L2 R2 D2 U' L22 U2 U2 B3' R3 D32 L L32 B2 F3 L2' R2 B3' L22 U3 U2 R' B2' L2 D2 D3' U22 F D3' L3' D2 D2' D3' U3 U2 U R22 R D32 R2 B2' F3' L22; single-slice |
Square-1 Mean of 3
| Place | Name | Country | Negative Time | Comment |
| 1 | Andrew Nelson | Smerbia | -59 minutes, 14.52 seconds | 3 cubes, all started before the timechange. Looking at seconds and rounding up, times were 18.99, 41.99, and 1:15.47. |
Megaminx
| Place | Name | Country | Negative Time | Comment |
| 1 | Hadley Sheffield | USA | -55 minutes, 31 seconds | I actually forgot until right before. My megaminx was scrambled, so I just went for that. I started at 1:55.29, and finished exactly at 1am. Kinda cool. |
Rubik's Clock
| Place | Name | Country | Negative Time | Comment |
| - | David Woner | USA | +9.88 seconds | just wanted a sub-10. |