Hi Everyone,
Firstly I'd like to thank all of the people who were interested in my
attempt. I laughed at Stefan's pictures and some of the guesses were close. I
would also like to thank the Caltech members who participated in my attempt,
and who worked _very_ hard to make this possible. I would like to officially
thank the following people: Mark Polinkovsky, Mark Sullivan, Daniel Lo, Shelley
Chang, Leyan Lo, Michael White, Michael Inadomi, Eileen Xie, Christopher
Kreuger, Matthew Wallisa, Adam Zamora, Tyson Mao, and Chris Hunt. Chris,
thanks for your timer- I think we ended up using a combination of Netcube and
the Marathon timer... Not sure :). Thanks to my mom who took care of the
transportation while I was half asleep.
People have asked what it's like- the fatigue, the results, etc. Let's
just say my wrist went out within the first 2 hours- so imagine at the 12 hour
mark it hurt pretty badly. I guess this can be fixed with a set of super loose
cubes. The pain goes away after a very long hour nap though :). I think my
arms are twice as strong now that it's over.... I do think I could have done
2001 at 12 hours flat, if I didn't take the 15 minutes of break within the
first 12 hours. It's tough- nonstop cubing. The hardest part is keeping the
time down with no-preinspection. A little more practice with no inspection
would have helped. Nonetheless, it's very good practice for 24 hours straight.
Honestly I do think 4000 is possible, with the motivation and training.
I agree with the Caltech members that it was tiring for them; some of
them were doing homework and were up as long as me (some even more, some less).
I respect the fact that people like this exist in the Cubing community to make
things like this happen. I did enjoy this, because the Caltech people were
pretty cool about it.
I see a few people have become interested in this category now, and see
it possible to beat. That's really awesome- go for it! If anyone is up for a
try at it, I do say that I'll be willing to do this again; actually, I'm up for
a dual match. In other words, I'd do the next attempt racing head on (one vs.
one) with anyone else who wants to do it. Personally I wouldn't ask Tyson and
his crew to do this again- they're all cool, and I respect their successful
effort in helping me, but they probably have more important things to do :).
So if anyone wants to break 3141, I'm up for a head on one-to-one 24 hour
marathon race with someone else setting it up. If you're interested, send me
an email. I'm game.
By the way, after the 2001st solve at 12 hours and 8 minutes, I took an
hour break. By the time I finished, I had about an hour left, so I did have
some time left. I do think 3141 is possible to beat, but... If someone else
is willing to break it, I'm willing to do a 24 hour marathon again to race with
them. Again, if you're interested, email me. I respect that Tyson and his
crew are setting up Nationals later this year and that's super duper cool
enough for me.
And thanks to all the people who personally emailed me about it- that's
pretty cool. Thanks to Frank Morris for sending me a cube to practice on
before nationals, and thanks to everyone else. If I didn't include your name
and you were a part of this, I deeply apologize, and you can email me about it.
Besides, the scramblers seemed to have increased their speed as well ;)
[namely Matt Wallisa]. Racing the scramblers was a motivation, too, to keep
the pace. It worked for many hours...
For the caltech people, I do ask one more thing: can you send me the
data of my solves vs. time graph you had? I would appreciate it. Thanks a
bunch.
Again, if you're interested in a 24 hour marathon attempt, maybe we can get
all the people interested at one time and race head on, so email me. I'm
definately game. I completely understand if Tyson's crew can't do it for a
year or whatever- it's all good with me, because they worked hard as well, and
they shouldn't be "the" people to do this every time.
Peace everybody,
-Brent Morgan
:)
--Brent
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