This video was recorded at the Weston-super-Mare Open on Sunday 25th November 2018.
Head-to-heads were run during the lunch break and used the "double elimination" format. If you're not familiar with the concept then take a look at the Wikipedia page!
Seedings were based on the first round of...
Ciarán beat the ER average with his fifth solve but Sebastian beat it just 15 seconds later with his fourth solve.
Apologies for missing the final solve from Sebastian. I was slightly distracted and forgot they were on different solves!
Quite some time back, I built a reactive website for my cubing algs, mainly for personal use but also to share with friends.
It’s by no means a replacement for AlgDB but it's probably useful to other cubers due to some of the features that it provides.
Features
Includes 2H and OH algs for...
Introduction
This post gives a simple overview of the different parities that can occur during a reduction solve on 4x4x4 upwards.
Even layered cubes (e.g. 4x4x4 and 6x6x6) have the concept of OLL parity and PLL parity whereas odd layered cubes (e.g. 5x5x5 and 7x7x7) only have the concept of...
My first sub-20 and it was on camera!
F L F B2 L' U' L2 F' R2 F2 L2 U' D' R2 U L2 B2 R'
y // Inspection
u' R' L F // Cross (4/4)
z U' R U z' // F2L #1 (3/7)
U2' R' U2' R U y R' U R // F2L #2 (8/15)
U' z U' R2 U R U' R' U z' // F2L #3 (8/23)
U' R U R' U2' R U R' // F2L #4 (8/31)
R U2' R'...
My third cubing competition and the first one I've attended in almost a year.
Officially sub-20 for 3x3 - 17.08
Best of my 13.x singles - 13.75
Full-step OH single - 24.43
PB single on 4x4 - 1:15.89
Bonus... needing to make the 01:30 soft-cut on 4x4 - 01:29.996
It was great catching...
This project started when I wanted to determine the relative solve times for 2x2x2 - 7x7x7. The original thread around this topic can be found on the Speedsolving.com forum. To determine relative solve times, I needed a simple way to calculate vigintile rankings for the baseline event (i.e...
I've been working on my 4x4 recently and now averaging about 1:32.
This video shows 3 of my better solves whilst practicing - 1:22.94, 1:16.88, 1:22.22
There is still loads of room for improvement but I seem to be getting faster!
Chris Wright's thread got me wondering what range of times are being produced by the over 40's in competition.
I've created some reports using the WCA database and they can be found on GitHub.
These are refreshed on a regular basis, typically every Monday and Tuesday each week.
I've created a diagram which shows the hierarchy of last layer sub-steps with OLLCP and ZBLL at the top.
The diagram should be pretty self-explanatory. Please let me know if I've made any mistakes or major omissions.
Here's the link - http://cubing.mikeg.me.uk/LLSS.pdf
What I mean by a "pure"...
I just stumbled across a recent story about Simba Toys GmbH challenging the trademark held by Rubik's Brand Limited in the EU courts, during November 2014. I know these stories occasionally pop up on the forum in relation to Seven Towns/V-Cubes/Dayan but I wasn't aware of the Simba case. A...