Negative Time Solving Contest 2013

Scrambles

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

This is the ONLY main Negative Time Solving Scramble for 2014. Do not use this scramble before the real attempt.

There were 31 participants representing 4 countries (and Smerbia). Of these, 2 participated in Europe and the rest were from North America.

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Dylan Rhee	USA	-59 minutes, 49 seconds	meh
1	Tim Sun	USA	-59 minutes, 49 seconds
3	Jules Manalang	USA	-59 minutes, 47.62 seconds	Meh
4	AJ Blair	USA	-59 minutes, 47.17 seconds	Only .17 better than last year :/ Ah well.
5	Steven Xu	USA	-59 minutes, 47 seconds
6	Felix Lee	USA	-59 minutes, 46.88 seconds	Done on a 42mm ZhanChi...
7	Lucas Garron	Germany	-59 minutes, 45.98 seconds	Managed to let my camera fall halfway through?
8	Jeremy Fleischman	USA	-59 minutes, 45.15 seconds	I guess being sober doesn't help.
9	Ike Lee	USA	-59 minutes, 45 seconds
10	Ryan Przybocki	USA	-59 minutes, 43.977 seconds	A bit lucky with the Waterman method ;)
11	Louis de Mendonça	United Kingdom	-59 minutes, 43.93 seconds
12	devin corr-robinett	USA	-59 minutes, 43.45 seconds
12	Dan Dzoan	USA	-59 minutes, 43.45 seconds
14	Andrew Nelson	Smerbia	-59 minutes, 43.24 seconds	Hail Smerbia
15	Justin Lin	USA	-59 minutes, 42.56 seconds
16	Boris Perkhounkov	US	-59 minutes, 40.22 seconds
17	Graham Van Goffrier	USA	-59 minutes, 38.14 seconds	Shoutout to the Norwell Speedcubing Society!
18	Ryan Przybocki	USA	-59 minutes, 34.274 seconds	Not a very good solve, but I'm tired. This is my first negative solve ever. Good luck to everybody.
19	Michael Young	USA	DNF	I was short on time, and twisted a corner in the scramble >.
19	Vincent Sheu	USA	DNF	I popped, lost my blue center cap, and still can't find it.

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Sesi Cadmus	USA	-59 minutes, 7.1 seconds
2	Leyan Lo	USA	-58 minutes, 17.21 seconds	Pretty drunk.
3	Chris Hardwick	USA	-56 minutes, 28.39 seconds	Done at a Waffle house with my fiancee Katie and friend Paul from high school. The adjacent booth was a table of drunk people watching me solve, and their commentary both during and after the solve was very entertaining! :) The waffle house negative time run was also a success! We returned home 9 minutes before we left :)
4	Lucas Garron	Germany	DNF (-51 minutes, 14.96 seconds)
4	Dan Dzoan	USA	DNF (-57 minutes, 43.83 seconds)	2 edges oriented wrong
4	Brandon Mikel	USA	DNS	So I went to bed before the change time and had my phone wake me up at 1:56am so I could do my solve. I think it somehow woke me up at the 2nd 1:56am and not the first one :( I got a 1:52.00 BLD success

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Mike Hughey	USA	-17 minutes, 2 seconds	Memorization time: 22:18; execution time: -39:20.

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	François Courtès	France	-6 minutes, 27.75 seconds	Not really fast, I was aiming for sub-(-10). I think the biggest challenge is not to fall asleep during the attempt :-p

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Michael Gottlieb	USA	-7 minutes, 43.562 seconds	8077 moves. I was gonna do a 25x25x25, but odd cubes are hard.

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Shelley Chang and Kenneth Lu	USA	-56 minutes, 41.14 seconds	At 1:50am, we decided to do a team BLD. Shelley gave Kenneth a crash course on the Berkeley method and managed one practice solve before starting at 1:59.xx. Kenneth got nervous and forgot an algorithm he normally knows, so Shelley ended up calling the last PLL move by move and we finished in 3:18.86. On a personal note, Shelley and Kenneth hope to compete in the Husband/Wife Team Blind category in the near future :)

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Ravi Fernando	USA	-58 minutes, 15.01 seconds	Slow solve. I thought about gigaminx or 2-7 relay OH while juggling, but wasn't sure if I could finish in negative time.

Place	Name	Country	Negative Time	Comment
1	Ben Whitmore	USA	-17:23.912