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Selkie

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@pglewis , @Nervous Nico - Thanks for the trainer links, much appreciated. I have to confess I have just signed up for CubeSkills premium membership if only for a couple of months, always happy to support good sites and interested to see video sets on subjects such as training strategies.

@Logiqx - Great photos buddy. I missed meeting two legends in Erno and @Brest . Your Faz filming is becoming legendary matey :cool:

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Managed to get a sub 5 minute 7x7 sooner than I had anticipated but unfortunately not on film. 4:58.92. Centers were a very pleasing PB sub 2:20 but the rest of the solve didn't feel great which gives me hope for more improvement.
 

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Time for a summary of Paris!

The competition in London was really cool a couple of weeks ago and Paris was an amazing experience. It was great to meet so many cubers and spend time in the company of like-minded people who share the same hobby.

It was fun to work as staff alongside the likes of Ron Van Bruchem (@Ron) and Chris Hardwick (@cmhardw) on Thursday and Sunday. I also enjoyed meeting up and talking with @Brest, Jeremy Fleischman and Lucas Garron who are all cool guys.

Hanging out with the UK guys was great and it was awesome to have the likes of Alex Lau, Jayden McNeil, Sebastian + Philipp Weyer, Feliks and Mats hanging out and solving at our practice table. I witnessed Feliks getting a 2:03 PB whilst practicing 7x7x7 so maybe we'll see a sub-2 in competition some time soon!

I got to judge a bunch of people who I've only seen on YouTube - Antoine Cantin, Anthony Brooks, Chris Olson and Dana Yi to name just a few. Judging on the main stage for the 3BLD final was also a really memorable experience. I've almost lost count of the number of records that I've watched over the past week and Paris provided yet more WRs; 5x5x5 single, 6x6x6 single + average, 7x7x7 single + average, pyraminx average and nearly a new 4x4x4 average. Charlie Stark also produced an impressive ER average on Square-1.

Another cool moment was when I was judging for someone who had just got a PB single on 3x3 - 10.3 / 10.4 iirc. He told me that it was a new PB and my response was "nice... sub-10 this time?". He then banged out a 9.6s full-step solve so we did the obligatory photos of him with the cube and the comp display. :)

It was great to meet Raul @moralsh for the first time and it was a stroke of luck that Erno was passing at the time we were doing our oldies photo. Apologies to @David Zemdegs for rushing off before introducing you to the rest of the guys on this thread. I had to dash for the Eurostar back to the UK.

I don't think I would have gone to Paris had it not been for Billy Jeffs (@BillyRain) arranging the group travel so many thanks for your efforts! The staffing, spectating and socialising were all worth making the trip but it was also nice to compete and get PB averages in comp resembling my global averages for 3x3x3 and Pyra - 16.32 and 8.07 respectively. It was a small relief to get an average in 2x2x2 as the 6s soft cut made me a bit jittery and I locked up on the last 2 solves to produce a mediocre but acceptable 6.20 average.

Congratulations to everyone who got the times / performances that they were after in Paris and respect to @mark49152 for his 14/14 MBLD - amazing!
 

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Great posts everyone. I use another PLL recognition tool but the premium version which is obviously better. This is from Feliks' site https://www.cubeskills.com/tools/pll-recognition-trainer
He also has a blog on colour neutrality. I tried it for a while but I think I am too old to switch now. @Selkie

@Logiqx would it be possible to add me to the over 40s competitors' list please?
https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/persons/2017VIDO02
Date: 1976 Country: France

@Shaky Hands @Logiqx So cool the picture with Erno!!

Done
 

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Thank you so much @Logiqx for adding me! Loving the videos too. I could see @Shaky Hands in the background of Max's new OH WR average. Sounds like you guys had the best time. Teaching a Rubik's Cube club at my school tomorrow, last one of the year, nice to see their progress and lots of them solving the cube around the school between lessons and at break times. A couple of them have PBs of 24 and 26 seconds if I don't watch out...
 

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@mark49152 - Nice MBLD ranking mate and well deserved, 10 more cubes makes ... 24?
I now have 30 MBLD cubes. Aim high: )

Nice videos Mike, and nice summary. Indeed meeting top cubers and long time pioneers, judging and competing alongside the world's best were the highlights of this comp for sure. There are too many examples to mention, but the whole experience was inspiring and I truly hope to have another opportunity to attend a big comp like this one day.

Meanwhile here's my MBLD. Many thanks to Ben and Andy for judging :)

 

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I now have 30 MBLD cubes. Aim high: )

Nice videos Mike, and nice summary. Indeed meeting top cubers and long time pioneers, judging and competing alongside the world's best were the highlights of this comp for sure. There are too many examples to mention, but the whole experience was inspiring and I truly hope to have another opportunity to attend a big comp like this one day.

Meanwhile here's my MBLD. Many thanks to Ben and Andy for judging :)

Great stuff.
Did your shoulders hurt the next day @bubbagrub ?
 

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I now have 30 MBLD cubes. Aim high: )

Nice videos Mike, and nice summary. Indeed meeting top cubers and long time pioneers, judging and competing alongside the world's best were the highlights of this comp for sure. There are too many examples to mention, but the whole experience was inspiring and I truly hope to have another opportunity to attend a big comp like this one day.

Meanwhile here's my MBLD. Many thanks to Ben and Andy for judging :)


lol @bubbagrub... I even know how it ends and I was still holding my breath saying "nooooo, no no no!"
 

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Thanks Andy and yes the judging setup was a bit awkward. The harmonica holders were clearly assembled by someone who hadn't used one as the cards were stuck on too low. Not only would some competitors have been able to see right over the top, but it made them difficult to get over the head in the first place :)

So Mark, what was the story with that cube you went back to? Were you thinking you might have made a mistake?

Also, looking at the results I wondered - was there a cutoff on the third solve at 10 points?
Yes there was a 10 point cutoff. 27 made it through and we were all put in the same room for the third attempt, which is why I'm surrounded by world class MBLDers :).

Regarding that cube, I suspected I had forgotten to flip an edge, but wasn't sure. So I left it until last then retraced the edges already solved by my memo. Only FL was untouched, and I was pretty sure I had not attempted to memo my FL flip image, so I concluded it was solved.
 
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