Practice when you enjoy it, and stop for a while when you don’t.
Compete inwardly and not outwardly. Compare yourself to your skill last week/last month/last year and not to someone else’s skill now.
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Here is a histogram showing the differences between the Maximum number of solved centers and the reference orientation. This effectively shows you for each of the 100 million simulated solves what the difference is between the number of solved centers when choosing the optimal orientation and...
This wouldn’t be too difficult of a code change, but it would probably take me about a week to run the simulations and tabulate the results. I’ll definitely look into this! I also am almost certain I can reuse and repurpose my 4x4 simulations for this, but I want to examine this more thoroughly...
In this post I will give the results of an analysis I ran using R to answer a couple unanswered questions for 4x4x4 BLD and 5x5x5 BLD.
Background
On 4x4x4 BLD it is common practice at the beginning of the solve to rotate the cube such as to maximize the number of solved centers when viewing the...
I enjoyed the video! Thanks for being a maker. My advice is to take what you like from the constructive criticisms you’re given, but don’t let them get in the way of enjoying what you do.
I’ve been fortunate enough to know a lot of artists, and they have stressed to me that the best artists are...
CFOP was definitely the most popular at first because Jessica Fridrich's website had all the F2l/OLL/PLL algs published. There were some people who knew the Waterman corners first method that had learned in the 80s (David Allen, Gene Means) and some people were learning it but there wasn't a...
I average about 13.5 seconds so take this with a grain of salt for sure. I’ve been doing righty and lefty PLLs (mirroring) since I started cubing (late 90s). I always disliked the advice to not mirror, as I also find it relatively easy to learn an alg for both righty and lefty from the start...
I haven’t posted in a long time, so I guess that means I’m back. I am still cubing regularly, as much as work and kids will allow at least. I’ve been mainly focusing on big cube BLD and 3x3, but I also still very much enjoy FMC. I miss going to competitions terribly and am excited for the next...
Cubing has always been a consistent way for me to relieve my stress and center myself. I think it has many benefits, but the one I value the most is its ability to calm me and help me center and focus.
Hi Stachu!
First day back on this site in a long time for me. I started having problems with Tapatalk connecting a couple years ago and mostly migrated to a Facebook around that time.
I’m still cubing, though parenting means that free time for cubing is a precious and rare commodity these...
Right on, makes sense.
Shoot for an 80% success rate on each solve until you get one.
1-(1-x)^3>=0.99 gives x>=0.7846
If you get a solve, then go for something faster, but the “safest” you really have to go is 80% to guarantee a greater than 99% chance of getting at least one solve. Going for...