From cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Fri Jun 7 14:55:11 1996 Return-Path: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Received: from curry.epilogue.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by curry.epilogue.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA12839 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 14:55:10 -0400 Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@curry.epilogue.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 21:43:50 -0700 To: CUBE-LOVERS@ai.mit.edu From: Lars Petrus Subject: Re: fastest hands in the midwest... >> By the way, I can do the cube in 1 minute 26 seconds. >> How does that compare with everyone else! I've teached a lot of people the cube, and after 6 weeks, that is a really good time. I think it's much better than I did after that time. To get *really* good times, you need a really good method, averaging 50-60 moves. >37.72 won me the midwest championship, my best official time was >35.30 seconds which placed me 5th in the country. I think it was 1981. >Now? I don't get timed very often, but it's still usually under a minute. > >I guess it is like riding a bicycle. > >Anyone else on this list from those contest days? Minh Thai - are you >out there? How about Jeff Verasono? or David P. Conrady? I've often >wondered what that crazy guy with the bright maroon hair ended up >doing with his life... > >Kristin (used to be Wunderlich) Looney >kristin@tsi-telsys.com I won the swedish championship with 40.48 (*very* hard cubes), and ended 4th in the world championships with 24.57. My personal best is 15.92, and best average of 10 consecutive solutions about 23.50. Nowadays I'm 2-4 seconds slower, but (fortunately!) I don't do it nearly as much. Yes, its a lot like riding a bike. Sometimes I haven't done it for years, get a new cube, and it's just like before. Weird... - - - - For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist. Lars Petrus, Sunnyvale, California - lars@netgate.net