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MarcelP said:
I haven't practiced 3x3 for a month but my times are still allright. My AoLong V2 is the best cube there is. It is awesome. Faster than Weilong but way more controllable. Too bad you did not order the aochuang. I think it is great. At least much better than my unmodded ss. ;)
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Well, my WeiLong is really nice and fast. I relubed and retensioned it some time back and it's still smooth and speedy. Great feeling. I am really curious about the AoLong and can't wait to get my hands on it now. I'll be letting you know when I get it and how I like it. Anyway, I remember when I first got the WeiLong I didn't really like it. I actually preferred the ShuangRen at the time. I'm sure the AoChuang is really good too and better than my SS, but since I don't really do 5x5 right now I felt like it would be a waste of money. By the time I get into 5x5 seriously (who knows when) there would be an AoChuang v2 or something like that... so why bother getting a cube that will be outdated before I even use it? For 4x4 I am just using my WeiSu. I guess I could have gotten an AoSu, but I have loads to improve on 4x4 before I feel I deserve a new cube. 3x3 is still my favourite so I felt that getting the AoLong was overdue. I have so many 3x3 cubes now.
 
sneaklyfox said:
For 4x4 I am just using my WeiSu. I guess I could have gotten an AoSu, but I have loads to improve on 4x4 before I feel I deserve a new cube.
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WeiSu is still a great cube. I do at least half my 4x4 practice on WeiSu and in some ways I prefer it to my AoSu. It took a long time to break in, and it's a little heavier and slower, but it's very smooth and controllable, and less locky than my AoSu.
 
MarcelP said:
I think you have your AoSu too loose. When tight it never locks. I also like my Weisus. I just did a few SS 4X4 solves.. Oh man... now that is locky.. LOL
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I should say catchy, not locky. I don't get lockups. It's pretty tight, tighter than my WeiSu. It feels like because it turns faster than the WeiSu, I get a little sloppier and catch more on corner cuts or with layers misaligned. I could tighten it, but the faster turning is really the only way it feels different to the WeiSu anyway, so I don't want to lose that. It's still a great cube.
 
I had a blast at the Dutch Open today. Broke 4X4 Average PB with about 20 secs resulting in a 1.54 and had my first offical 5X5. It was a nice 4.18. Since cut-off was 3 minutes I could do only one more solve. I had my first pop. It was an explotion.. Bleh.. it took me half an hour to put back together. ;) Never mind I was happy with the 4.18 and that was all I came for. I got some great tips from AvG and Reinier Schippers and AntoinieFazFan. Next time on a 5X5 comp I suspect to do better ;) 5X5 is great fun! My Rubikscube was not great, but with an 23 average first round and 22 second round I was pretty steady. I feel less nervous. I just did not solve that good. All solves the F2L was really good, All solves F2L in about 12 secs.. But doing wrong OLLs and locking in PLLs messed every thing up. I had a 19 and a 20 second solve with a +2.. just because I made a mistake doing AUF. Oh well... no problem.. next time will be better :)
 
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Awesome Marcel! Great that you got a 4:18 official 5x5 and a sub-2 in 4x4.

5x5 has got me interested in 6x6 now, but I'm still around 15 minutes because my SS is so stiff. Tried to loosen it and it exploded everywhere, and I can't figure out how to get it back together, so I might hang on for an AoShi! :D
 
mark49152 said:
Awesome Marcel! Great that you got a 4:18 official 5x5 and a sub-2 in 4x4.

5x5 has got me interested in 6x6 now, but I'm still around 15 minutes because my SS is so stiff. Tried to loosen it and it exploded everywhere, and I can't figure out how to get it back together, so I might hang on for an AoShi! :D
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Thanks! My first 6X6 was a pillow shaped Eastssheen. It exploded on me and I tried it to put back together for an hour and then threw it out :) I have a SS but solved only a few times to avoid that problem :)
 
MarcelP said:
Thanks! My first 6X6 was a pillow shaped Eastssheen. It exploded on me and I tried it to put back together for an hour and then threw it out :) I have a SS but solved only a few times to avoid that problem :)
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Yeah the funny thing is, I had tensioned, lubed it and solved it a bit, and was just thinking to myself "hey this cube is starting to feel so much nicer", when kaboom, pieces flew everywhere. So if I do get it back together, I guess I'll have to tighten it up again.
 
sneaklyfox said:
Nice times for your comp. I am jealous you have gone to all these comps. I still have only gone to one...
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Yeah, I am really happy my wife allows me to go to a comp every now and then :) Next month I will do my first offical 3BLD.. :) Since I have only 2 successes ever I highly doubt I will get an official one. I will try to focus for that :)
 
MarcelP said:
Yeah, I am really happy my wife allows me to go to a comp every now and then :) Next month I will do my first offical 3BLD.. :) Since I have only 2 successes ever I highly doubt I will get an official one. I will try to focus for that :)
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Nice job on the results. What do you use for BLD? OP/OP? OP/M2? I have been getting into it a lot more recently and really like M2. Took me awhile to get the hang of it, but once I got it down I like it much better
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qpqgv0rvvhy4xtk/2014-10-28%2020.56.52.png?dl=0
....so far.
i saw you tried to do a 3BLD last week, so I thought I would get a successful solve before you did ;)
I don't think this info will help anyone, but if you think it is cheating then
MO EI buffer FU VF buffer CW C buffer KL (piece flipped) last piece solved
Parity
(I need to change my corner system. I'm just going "this color goes here and then this goes here")
Cant remember the first one, but the it was green, buffer, twisting three pieces, then swapping the last two pieces and done! Memo in 5:02.xx, solve in 1:47.xx
 
sk8erman41 said:
Nice job on the results. What do you use for BLD? OP/OP? OP/M2? I have been getting into it a lot more recently and really like M2. Took me awhile to get the hang of it, but once I got it down I like it much better
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Yeah I found M2 tricky at first but it's so much more efficient than OP edges, once you get the hang of it. I still screw up those M edges sometimes though.
 
mark49152 said:
Yeah I found M2 tricky at first but it's so much more efficient than OP edges, once you get the hang of it. I still screw up those M edges sometimes though.
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sneaklyfox said:
Yeah, I don't remember my M edge algs anymore, though it shouldn't be hard to learn again. I haven't done BLD in so long...
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Yeah FU and BD are really the only tough ones, the others are either short or fairly intuitive if you break them down. Then it's the fact that you have to switch the odd targets that threw me at first but it wasn't until I got M2 down that I really started to enjoy BLD. The biggest aspect that I am struggling with now is my corner memo. I use audio for edges and have gotten that down pretty well, but am using letter pair sentence memo for corners and I don't have a set list yet and it's tough to come up with my letter pair on the fly sometimes and it slows me way down. Sneakly- when you were practicing and doing the race to sub-? With memo how were you doing it again and what was your best result?
 
sk8erman41 said:
Sneakly- when you were practicing and doing the race to sub-? With memo how were you doing it again and what was your best result?
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I also did audio edges and I think I did letter pair corners? I think I did this:
Memo: 1) edges 2) corners
Execution: 1) edges 2) corners
But honestly, I can't quite remember haha. I might have memorized corners first. When I stopped practicing, I think I hadn't completely settled on a memo method for corners. I considered PVO (Person Verb Object) memo too which I used sometimes.

You'll have to check the race thread that you mention. I can't even remember. BLD is far from my mind though I suspect that if I were going to enter competition again I would aim to get a success at some point. Getting my first success was exciting but somehow BLD just doesn't hold enough interest for me to be motivated enough to practice it much. My PB is only sub-4. Not much practice.
 
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