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Woah, lots of catch up to do on 5x5x5, I should have it If I'm really, really lucky by this friday and in time for my 2-week vacation, if I'm not lucky after holidays, with a further catch up to do :p . I think I'll see what my times are with reduction and then maybe I'll try to learn hoya.

Main use should be speedsolve, but I'd love to get my first 5BLD success with it, and I'll definitely be trying.

keep it up guys :)
 
MarcelP said:
Wow, your average is faster than my PB single (4.05) :) Nice going. I suspect to break the 4 minute barriere this week.
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I've set targets based on Logiqx's study. So 4x4 is 5x my 3x3 target, and 5x5 is 2x my 4x4 target. Targets are 20, 100 and 200 seconds.

For 4x4 I'm already there with PB ao50 of 1:39.69. For 5x5 it feels like I'm way, way off 3:20 - although I've made rapid progress down 40 seconds in a week, 4:00 already feels really fast for me, like I'm at my 4x4 level, and I have no idea how I'll lop another 40 seconds off.

Oh and thanks Moyu for making 4x4 and 5x5 such fantastic fun! :D
 
mark49152 said:
So far yes, I've just shoved the pieces back in no problem.

Mine needs a service though - tension and lube - before it becomes unusable. I've only done about 100 solves on it.
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I didn't really like mine at first, I did about 100 solves on it to break it in and then totally disassembled it, lubed, and restickered it. I had to play with the tensions a lot before I found something that I liked. I really believe that tighter is better. I liked it looser in the beginning, but once broken in and lubed, it moves much better tight than it did out of the box loose. It is a pain to do, but if you put some maintenance into it I guarantee it is worth it.
 
sk8erman41 said:
I liked it looser in the beginning, but once broken in and lubed, it moves much better tight than it did out of the box loose. It is a pain to do, but if you put some maintenance into it I guarantee it is worth it.
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I tightened it a bit last night and it feels more stable. Could go tighter though. It's still loose enough that my fingers go inside the edges sometimes.
 
mark49152 said:
I tightened it a bit last night and it feels more stable. Could go tighter though. It's still loose enough that my fingers go inside the edges sometimes.
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I loosened mine a bit. I still can not get my fingers between like you describe and still it does not pop (luckily). I like it just the way it is right now. I did 27 solves yesterday evening. Mean average was 4.51, best Ao12 4.38. It takes a few solves to get warmed up because the first 5 was Ao5 5.05 :) I really admire the people who can do it in about a minute :)
 
Best ao12 now 3:46.21. I had my first proper AoChuang explosion today. It did its usual lockup thing where a center and an edge swap places, but I got a bit impatient with it because I was nearing the end of a fast solve, and pushed it a bit too hard to try to get it back into shape. The thing completely disintegrated all over the desk and floor. Took forever to reassemble it! That's my first big cube explosion - I know it sounds silly, but I didn't realise it had so many pieces :D
 
mark49152 said:
Best ao12 now 3:46.21. I had my first proper AoChuang explosion today. It did its usual lockup thing where a center and an edge swap places, but I got a bit impatient with it because I was nearing the end of a fast solve, and pushed it a bit too hard to try to get it back into shape. The thing completely disintegrated all over the desk and floor. Took forever to reassemble it! That's my first big cube explosion - I know it sounds silly, but I didn't realise it had so many pieces :D
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Haha, explosions are not fun to put back together :P you guys are improving rapidly, what's your goal avererage?
 
MarcelP said:
Anyone knows what the wingsswap at 12.55 in here is: http://youtu.be/uIoBzbDY_ZU

is it an alg or can you do that intuitive? I do not want learn any algs today :)
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Yeah to swap the two wings in the checker case I put it in UF and use the 4x4 OLL parity alg but without turning the middle layer - so turning the left and right two layers only. Then at the end, do U2 and M' on just the middle slice. Try it on a solved cube to see what it does.

This is the only alg I use for edge pairing. Everything else is intuitive, and I either end up with all paired or with one checker, 50/50.

I'm not set up for doing videos but will try to write down an example solve tonight.
 
MarcelP said:
Any tips on how I could improve my 5X5 solving would highly be appreciated :)
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Have a look at my Hoya variant a little further back in the thread. It's probably not as move-efficient as freeslice, but I think the reason I improved quickly is that I pause very little. Everything is easy to find, so minimal time wasted hunting around the cube.
 
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