Ellis
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Shock oil rant:
Okay... so I finally called around today and found a shop that sells shock oil. I've been wanting to get some for a while. Here are the improvements I've made in the first day of using it
4x4: (previous best -> current)
Single- 57.xx -> 54.48 (two 54's today)
Avg 5- 1:05.85 -> 57.75 (uhhh what??)
Avg 12- 1:11.9x -> 1:03.19 (yes that's an ~8 second leap in average)
5x5: My previous best average of 5 was 1:58.75. The first 5 solves I did with shock oil averaged 1:59.93.... pretty awesome for the first solves considering it was my second sub-2 avg of 5 ever. My previous average of 12 was 2:03.xx and now it's 1:59.76. I'm not sure what the best average of 5 was there, but I don't really care because I finally broke sub-2 of 12 and had a ~4 second improvement on my best average of 12.
7x7: Previous best single was 6:59... I've been having an extremely hard time beating it. I did only 5 solves today for the weekly comp, and the average was 7:01, with a 6:41 and a 6:22. So that's almost a 40 second improvement on a single that I didn't think I was going to break for a while, and an average that was only a couple seconds off from it. The average improvement was also around 40 seconds.
Conclusion: If you don't have shock oil... please ask yourself why. This stuff is so awesome.
Okay... so I finally called around today and found a shop that sells shock oil. I've been wanting to get some for a while. Here are the improvements I've made in the first day of using it
4x4: (previous best -> current)
Single- 57.xx -> 54.48 (two 54's today)
Avg 5- 1:05.85 -> 57.75 (uhhh what??)
Avg 12- 1:11.9x -> 1:03.19 (yes that's an ~8 second leap in average)
5x5: My previous best average of 5 was 1:58.75. The first 5 solves I did with shock oil averaged 1:59.93.... pretty awesome for the first solves considering it was my second sub-2 avg of 5 ever. My previous average of 12 was 2:03.xx and now it's 1:59.76. I'm not sure what the best average of 5 was there, but I don't really care because I finally broke sub-2 of 12 and had a ~4 second improvement on my best average of 12.
7x7: Previous best single was 6:59... I've been having an extremely hard time beating it. I did only 5 solves today for the weekly comp, and the average was 7:01, with a 6:41 and a 6:22. So that's almost a 40 second improvement on a single that I didn't think I was going to break for a while, and an average that was only a couple seconds off from it. The average improvement was also around 40 seconds.
Conclusion: If you don't have shock oil... please ask yourself why. This stuff is so awesome.
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