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[meskelto]

Hello to everyone on the Speedsolving.com forum!

I have been cubing for a long while now, on and off since around 2009. I have been to a few competitions, with my best event being FMC. Currently I am thinking about developing and improving methods, so I have some ideas I want to share on this forum.

So what are your favourite events?

Thanks!

 

[CornerCutter]

Welcome to the forum! 2009 that's great!

Pyraminx is my favorite event.

 

[meskelto]

Welcome to the forum! 2009 that's great!

Pyraminx is my favorite event.

Cool. What's your PB in Pyraminx?

 

[FireCuber]

Hey @meskelto, welcome!

My favorite event is Pyraminx. What about you?

 

[pjk]

Welcome! Glad to have you here. At the moment my favorite event is 5x5.

 

[meskelto]

Hey @meskelto, welcome!

My favorite event is Pyraminx. What about you?

FMC definitely. I average just over 30 moves. Official PB 29, unofficial 21.

What's your PB in Pyraminx?

 

[meskelto]

Welcome! Glad to have you here. At the moment my favorite event is 5x5.

Cool. I've always enjoyed 5x5 but I'm not very fast! What do you average in 5x5?

 

[pjk]

Cool. I've always enjoyed 5x5 but I'm not very fast! What do you average in 5x5?

Right now around 1:30. That hard part is doing it in competition, which I've always struggled with.

 

[cubeshepherd]

Hello to everyone on the Speedsolving.com forum!

I have been cubing for a long while now, on and off since around 2009. I have been to a few competitions, with my best event being FMC. Currently I am thinking about developing and improving methods, so I have some ideas I want to share on this forum.

So what are your favourite events?

Thanks!

Welcome to the forums @meskelto. It is great to have you here. What are you averaging in FMC at the moment?

A few of my favorite events at the moment are 5x5, Skewb, 3x3, and 3x3 FMC, although that changes quite often.

 

[meskelto]

Right now around 1:30. That hard part is doing it in competition, which I've always struggled with.

Nice. Yeah, I've struggled with competition nerves before. It's not easy! Taking your time before the cube is revealed may help, and I'm sure there are resources out there with other advice.

 

[meskelto]

Welcome to the forums @meskelto. It is great to have you here. What are you averaging in FMC at the moment?

A few of my favorite events at the moment are 5x5, Skewb, 3x3, and 3x3 FMC, although that changes quite often.

Thanks. Right now, I'm still around 30-32 moves but I DNF more often than I used to. Ah cool, what do you average in FMC?

 

[FireCuber]

FMC definitely. I average just over 30 moves. Official PB 29, unofficial 21.

What's your PB in Pyraminx?

Nice! My PB is 3.17 on pyra.

 

[CornerCutter]

Cool. What's your PB in Pyraminx?

It's 1.50.

 

[Duncan Bannon]

Welcome! FMC is a great event. Check out https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/threads/the-fmc-thread.13599/page-236 that's the FMC thread on here. Share solves/ look at others and ask questions there! Some wonderful FMC'ers there.

 

[meskelto]

Welcome! FMC is a great event. Check out https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/threads/the-fmc-thread.13599/page-236 that's the FMC thread on here. Share solves/ look at others and ask questions there! Some wonderful FMC'ers there.

Thanks for the tip! I'll check it out.

 

[cubeshepherd]

Thanks. Right now, I'm still around 30-32 moves but I DNF more often than I used to. Ah cool, what do you average in FMC?

Cool and thanks for letting me know. At the moment I have averaging around mid to low 30's with every now and then getting a sub 30 mean. I am hoping before the end of this year to be sub 30 consistently, and have a sub 25 single.

 

[meskelto]

Cool and thanks for letting me know. At the moment I have averaging around mid to low 30's with every now and then getting a sub 30 mean. I am hoping before the end of this year to be sub 30 consistently, and have a sub 25 single.

That's pretty decent. Good luck with sub-30! I've hit a bit of a wall, even though I know all the techniques. I guess I should improve edge commutators; I find some of them confusing.

 

[cubeshepherd]

That's pretty decent. Good luck with sub-30! I've hit a bit of a wall, even though I know all the techniques. I guess I should improve edge commutators; I find some of them confusing.

Thanks and sorry for the late reply. Other then edge commutators is there anything else that you are having trouble with? Good luck with learning edge commutators

I myself do not know to many edge commutators, and to be honest I do not really like to have edges left after I get everything else done (as in AB3C etc.) so I have not practiced as much as I probably should, but never the less, I still enjoy what I know.

 

[meskelto]

Thanks and sorry for the late reply. Other then edge commutators is there anything else that you are having trouble with? Good luck with learning edge commutators

I myself do not know to many edge commutators, and to be honest I do not really like to have edges left after I get everything else done (as in AB3C etc.) so I have not practiced as much as I probably should, but never the less, I still enjoy what I know.

Maybe time management, and sometimes finding insertions takes me too long if there are more than three pieces. It's possible that I look at one or two starts for too long.

I'm the same regarding edges. I think learning as much as possible is important, since you don't want to be restricted in FMC, so if you stumble across a great skeleton with LxE then you can go for it if you're good at edge commutators.

 

[curitiba]

hi all,

my name's curitiba, i come from toronto, canada. i am happy to join this forum and lovely to meet you all.