Few Better Mean It Diliman 2024

2024-01-21 ~ 2024-01-21

By Scramble By Person

Wong Chong Wen (黄崇文)

Detected as competition participant

First

#1Mean23.33Single22 (24 / 22 / 24)

No solutions submitted yet.

Second

#1Mean22.33Single21 (21 / 24 / 22)

No solutions submitted yet.

Final

#1Mean21.00Single19NR (19 / 22 / 22)

Attempt 1

Scramble

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

Results

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

F' (F' L2 R' B')//EO (5/5)
(U B2 R2 U' L)//DR, 2c3 (5/10)
(D R2 F2 U L2 U')//HTR (6/16)
(B2 D2 B2)//solve (3/19)

Final: F’ B2 D2 B2 U L2 U’ F2 R2 D’ L’ U R2 B2 U’ B R L2 F

6/6/4 with 2 3 move EOs, there was absolutely no reason for me to check this EO but I did and uh yeah XD. It’s been a habit for me to add a few deranged EOs every attempt and this one time it worked out in comp.

Optimal finish

Other:

(D2 F' D')
(L' R' D2 B L)//8 to 2c4

(L B D)
R' B L' F L2 B//cool 9 to 4b2, 
(R U2 R' U2 L' B2 L)//4q 🙂
(D2 F' B' U2 F' B)//20 to slice

March 3, 2026 10:28 PM

Attempt 2

Scramble

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

Results

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

(R U' L' F')//EO (4/4)
(L') F2 U2 L' U L//DR, 4b2 (6/10)
(F2 [D2 F2 L2 D] R2 D)//HTR (7/17)
(L2 U2 L2 B2)//E slice (4/21)

[]->(U’ D’ R2 F2 U) (22)

Final: F2 U2 L’ U L B2 L2 U2 L2 D’ R2 U’ F2 R2 D U F2 L F L U R’

4/6/4 is a good count but I only was able to find any kind of slice from this DR. At first I found a 21 to slice:

(R U' L' F')
(L) F2 U2 L' U L
(U2 B2 U' F2 U)
(R2 F2 U2 R2 F2 D2)//21 to slice, no +0 or +1 however.

Only in the last 5 minutes did I find the other 21 to slice and I somehow managed to panic out a +1 which turns out to be optimal from DR.

March 3, 2026 10:28 PM

Attempt 3

Scramble

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

Results

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

U (U2 B' L U')//EO (5/5)
(L B' L)//DR, 4b5 (3/8)
(F' U2 B') L2 B L2 B L2 B'//HTR (9/17)
D2 R2 B2 D2 L2//S slice (5/22)

...L2 [B L2 B L2 B’ D2 R2 B2 D2 L2 B] U2 F L’...

[]->F U2 F R2 F’ L2 D2 F2 R2 D2 F (22)

Final: U L2 F U2 F R2 F’ L2 D2 F2 R2 D2 F U2 F L’ B L’ U L’ B U2

For some reason despite being 6/4/6 with 2 3 move EOs I was unable to find anything better than this 8+5. I was also fairly tired at this point and I considered stopping my DR search immediately after finding this DR as I was fairly confident that if I found something like 22 from this I’d probably win the comp, but I didn’t stop (and still didnt get anything better)

This DR is 21 optimal but you need 18 to htr so meh

Interesting DRs:

(F D2 F' R)
F D' B D2 F' U B F//take a guess what this is 🙂

(R) F2 L'
U2 D2 B' L2 U' D F

March 3, 2026 10:29 PM