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Negative Time Solving Contest 2014

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Scramble

D2 U R' U' L2 R B2 R' F2 R D' U2 L R2 U L2 U2 F R B' F R D U B F' L2 B' F' D'

Scrambles were not provided for other puzzles.

Results

There were 32 participants representing 3 countries (and OX4). Everyone partipated in North America.

3x3 Speedsolve

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Theodore Chow	Canada	-59 minutes, 50.56 seconds	Green COL FTW! I honestly thought my time would be 2-3 seconds slower, I'm pretty happy. Yay lucky scrambles.
2	Waffo	kaanada	-59 minutes, 49.37 seconds
3	Ryan Jew	USA	-59 minutes, 47.85 seconds	gj
4	Devin Corr-Robinett	USA	-59 minutes, 47.66 seconds
5	Jeremy Fleischman	USA	-59 minutes, 47.64 seconds	this is the most sober i've been for this in a long time
7	Lucas Garron	Germany	-59 minutes, 46.69 seconds	Not really warmed up, but tradition is tradition. :-)
7	Felix Lee	USA	-59 minutes, 46.54 seconds	Decided to use the same Rubik's brand cube that I used for the Negative Time Solving Contest in 2007. Not a bad time either.
8	Michael Young	USA	-59 minutes, 46.29 seconds	bleh that was bad :P Pity I'm not CN
9	Dan Dzoan	USA	-59 minutes, 46.28 seconds
10	Justin Lin	USA	-59 minutes, 45.05 seconds
11	David G	USA	-59 minutes, 41 seconds	LIFE IS AN ABSURD COMEDY
12	Brandon Mikel	USA	-59 minutes, 40.18 seconds	First time successfully getting negative time.
13	Andrew Chen	USA	-59 minutes, 39.45 seconds	yolo
14	Daniel Lo	USA	-59 minutes, 35.11 seconds
15	Andrew T	USA	-59 minutes, 32.70 seconds
16	Shari Kuroyama	USA	-59 minutes, 30.22 seconds
17	Ryan Kuroyama	USA	-59 minutes, 26.25 seconds
18	Heven Kaufman	USA	-59 minutes, 14 seconds	vgj
19	Kenneth Lu	USA	-59 minutes, 10 seconds
19	Jon Tanguay	OX4	-59 minutes, 10 seconds
21	Matt Theriault	OX4	-59 minutes, 9.02 seconds
22	Faszt	USA	-59 minutes, 1 seconds
23	Joshua Gordon	USA	-58 minutes, 34 seconds

3x3 Blindfolded

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Shelley Chang	USA	-57 minutes, 49 seconds	Sleeeep
2	Leyan Lo	USA	-57 minutes, 31.95 seconds	Pretty out of shape and tipsy in Vegas
3	Chris Hardwick	USA	-57 minutes, 28.05 seconds	This is so much fun! I love the negative time contest! No Waffle House negative time run this year, but I did do this solve at the Boston Mensa Regional Gathering. I'm here with my wife Katie, who is a Mensan. We've been enjoying seeing old friends, and we attended an incredible Halloween wedding of two of our good friends!

3x3 Team BLD

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Antoine Cantin + Micah Stairs	Canada	-58 minutes, 38 seconds	UWR?

2x2 - 5x5 Relay

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Graham Van Goffrier	OX4	-54 minutes, 19.42 seconds	Shoutout to the entire UMO Cube Society!!!

Square-1

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Ryan DeLine	USA	-59 minutes, 0.17 seconds

FMC

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Result	Comment
1	Michael Young	USA	0 minute 0 second	36	Argh I found a 34 and wrote it down but didn't trust it so wrote the 36 qq D B' F2 U' B U F' U' F B' U2 B2 U' B' R F R' F' U F' U2 R' U R F R U2 B D F D' B2 D F' D' B2

Megaminx

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Jon Tanguay	OX4	-51 minutes, 1 seconds

Skewb

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Walker Welch	Skewb	USA	-59 minutes, 55.88 seconds	6.12 U R' B' U' L B' R U R

2x2

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Jon Tanguay	OX4	-59 minutes, 28 seconds

Gigaminx OH while juggling

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Result	Comment
-	Ravi Fernando	USA	DNF (-+4 minutes, 47.60 seconds)	4 drops	Start: 1:13am. Centers in 24:35, edges in a little under -30 minutes, and megaminx in about 11 minutes. I'm usually very consistent with OH + juggling: I'd done 4-7, mega, and giga before, and had never dropped while attempting any of them. I thought the main difficulty would be time, since my previous gigaminx OH + juggling solve took almost 1:06. I was wrong. Once during the last few centers, and again after about 6-8 edges, I accidentally did a double slice move, didn't notice until it was too late to undo, and had to re-solve several centers. Then I started dropping--twice at 39 minutes, then at -10 minutes and -1 minute. I finished about (6)1 minute(s) faster than I had before, but it was still a DNF because of the drops. Maybe I should have tried a 2-7 relay while juggling instead.