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Negative Time Solving Contest 2022

We had participants in a record-breaking number of events!

🔗 3x3x3 Speedsolve

Rank Name Country Negative Time 🎥 ▶️ Comment
1 Zeke Mackay USA -59min, 52.69sec
2 Kael Hitchcock USA -59min, 51.23sec ▶️
3 Jon Esparaz Canada -59min, 51.07sec 🎥 ▶️ Hi Lucas
4 Ben Whitmore UK -59min, 50.07sec scramble is D2 U F L2 D L D2 B L' D' L2 D2 L' D F' R' U' (I think?)
5 Jeremy Fleischman USA -59min, 49.46sec Thanks to Reese for chatting and keeping me awake for this!
6 Zachary Miller USA (Eastern) -59min, 49.42sec First negative time solve! was a lot of fun :)
7 Harris Chan Canada -59min, 49.14sec 🎥 It's been a journey!
8 Michael Gottlieb USA -59min, 48.59sec
9 Erik Cheng USA -59min, 47.89sec actually remembered this year yay
10 Clement Cherblanc USA (Montana) -59min, 47.65sec I'm not sober ...
11 cuberswoop/Ashton Froude USA (Detroit) -59min, 46.73sec thanks for hosting
12 Lucas Garron USA -59min, 46.73sec Pretty gnarly this year, but a solve is a solve!
13 Chris Hardwick USA -59min, 42.60sec 🎥 I have the flu this year, but am happy to still be able to participate.
14 Mark Neumann Switzerland -59min, 28.99sec zzzzzzz
15 Draco Tong USA -59min, 28.62sec
16 Jason White USA -59min, 19.30sec
17 Evyn Chiappe USA -58min, 11.40sec

🔗 2x2x2

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Vlad Hordiienko Ukraine -59min, 57.43sec
2 O Perfeito Portugal -59min, 54.82sec

🔗 7x7x7 Computer Cube

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Michael Gottlieb USA -56min, 58.34sec

🔗 3x3x3 Blindfolded

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 David Karalli USA -59min, 3.45sec
2 Draco Tong USA -54min, 58.05sec
3 Lyle Lowry USA -51min, 46.26sec After many years, this was the first contest or competition where I actually finished a BLD solve. So even though it was extra slow and NTS isn't techically official, my excitement made me DNS everything else I had plans for.

🔗 4x4x4 Blindfolded

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Draco Tong USA -34min, 49.10sec

🔗 Pyraminx

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Vlad Hordiienko Ukraine -59min, 57.04sec

🔗 Negaminx*

*Note: Negaminx is just like Megaminx, but solved in negative time.

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Evyn Chiappe USA -50min, 33.33sec

🔗 Skewb

Rank Name Country Negative Time Comment
1 Vlad Hordiienko Ukraine -59min, 56.75sec

🔗 Face-Turning Octahedron

Rank Name Country Negative Time 🎥 Comment
1 Aedan Bryant USA -59min, 39.33sec 🎥
2 Lucas Garron USA -57min, 26.95sec I definitely had to restart the solve to fix a first-layer mistake, but I'm glad I have a negative FTO solve now! 😃

🔗 Master Tetraminx

Rank Name Country Negative Time 🎥 Comment
1 Harsha Paladugu USA -59min, 43.37sec 🎥

🔗 Kilominx

Rank Name Country Negative Time 🎥 Comment
1 Ethan Davis USA -59min, 37.94sec 🎥
2 Daniel Goodman USA -59min, 31.39sec Was planning to do Redi Cube but didn't recognize the scramble format so I couldn't scramble it... my bad for not taking a quick look beforehand. Pivoted to my 2nd best event on the list at the last minute, the solve was pretty bad, but it's 1am so that's to be expected :P
3 Kael Hitchcock USA -59min, 27.23sec pretty bad for me

🔗 Redi Cube

Rank Name Country Negative Time ▶️ Comment
1 Chris Van Der Brink USA -59min, 55.10sec
2 Kael Hitchcock USA -59min, 47.13sec ▶️
3 Mike Hughey USA -59min, 13.60sec That was horrible. In the stress of watching the time, I didn't notice I had solved the first layer wrong, so I had to resolve the whole thing.

🔗 Melinda's 2x2x2x2

Rank Name Country Negative Time 🎥 Comment
1 Rowan Fortier Canada -58min, 20.67sec 🎥 now I have done both physical and virtual 4D puzzles in negative time :D

🔗 Scramble for 3×3×3

The 3x3x3 scramble for 2022 is below. This is the only Negative Time Solving 3x3x3 speedsolve scramble for 2022. Do not use it before the real attempt:

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

🔗 Scrambles for other events

Scrambles for 2022 for all WCA events, as well as FTO, Kilominx, Master Tetraminx, and Redi Cube, are in this ZIP file, and you can also view the scramble for a given event below. For any other challenges, use your own scrambles.

Results

Please submit your results for 2022 using this form and come back after November 2022 to see everyone's results.