Random Cubing Discussion

[guysensei1]

Moyu should make a dino cube and call it the KongLong

 

[the super cuber]

at NCR open 2015 on april 11-12th, in the 2x2 finals there was a potential WR scramble which came in the 4th solve of group A- U2 R' U2 F2 U' R U' R U' R' U'

solution- z y U' R2 U2 R' U2

the best time on it was 1.51 and there were 1.91 and 1.94 solves on it as well.

 

[cmhardw]

Katie asked me to explain the Roux method to her, so I showed her a walk-through solve. She then asked what the method that I used was called (I taught her a keyhole F2L and commutator LL approach). I told her that I use "CFOP" and then said what each letter stood for. She then said that she thought it should stand for "Cluster **** Of Permutations" instead That totally cracked me up and I thought I would share!

 

[joshsailscga]

She then said that she thought it should stand for "Cluster **** Of Permutations" instead

I guess she's not wrong. That's pretty funny

 

[Iggy]

Wow, I've been spending the past few days doing many 5BLD sighted solves to improve my comms, and now a Malaysian comp without any BLD events gets announced

 

[guysensei1]

Wow, I've been spending the past few days doing many 5BLD sighted solves to improve my comms, and now a Malaysian comp without any BLD events gets announced

I signed up too

 

[Iggy]

I signed up too

See you there Also I think it's time I start practising skewb lol

 

[Stefan]

Katie asked me to explain the Roux method to her, so I showed her a walk-through solve. She then asked what the method that I used was called (I taught her a keyhole F2L and commutator LL approach). I told her that I use "CFOP" and then said what each letter stood for. She then said that she thought it should stand for "Cluster **** Of Permutations" instead That totally cracked me up and I thought I would share!

LOL, she's a keeper . You should ask her about all our other acronyms.

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

4x4: (U' r' U r' U r U2 r U r' U r' U')2

 

[Sub20Pls]

Katie and I were on campus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison at the Dairy store. The school's dairy department makes ice cream, milk, cheese and sells them to the community on campus via this store. While eating ice cream there, we saw a class of middle school students who were there on a field trip. There was a group of about five of them who had a whole bunch of Rubik's puzzles. Katie and I introduced ourselves as also being cubers and chatted with them for a little bit. Small world to meet a bunch of cubers like that! It was very neat

I'm one of the kids you met that day at Babcock Hall. It was a pleasant surprise to run into you. It really is a small world and the internet is very much the same way. It was really cool to meet you, one of the state's better cubers, and it was shocking to me that I was able to stumble upon you online.

 

[cmhardw]

I'm one of the kids you met that day at Babcock Hall. It was a pleasant surprise to run into you. It really is a small world and the internet is very much the same way. It was really cool to meet you, one of the state's better cubers, and it was shocking to me that I was able to stumble upon you online.

Welcome to the forum! It was very cool to meet you at Babcock hall, and it is a little crazy how even the Internet is such a small world too Happy cubing!

 

[qqwref]

Silly 1LLL things:
- NLL is a way of splitting 1LLL into subsets based on the minimal number of pieces left unsolved after AUFing. 2LL has 2 pieces unsolved, 3LL has 3 pieces unsolved, etc. Everything up to 3LL should be pretty easy to learn, and 4LL is probably doable with effort. 5LL is very big. I don't know what the case counts are for all the groups, though.
- ΔLL-I and ΔLL-II. These are by analogy with the Tripod and Line subsets - there are 3 solved pieces in a roughly equilateral triangle. ΔLL-I has ULF/ULB/UR solved and ΔLL-II has UL/UB/UFR solved. Greek letters and Roman numerals go great together.

 

[guysensei1]

Someone should organize a comp called 'Elitist Open 2015' and the cutoffs for events will be sub-(top 10% time in that event)

 

[qqwref]

I remember talking about the same kind of idea with people at a recent competition. Just something with really tough cutoffs on every event, so only the best people in the area will get solves... and then of course you can do pretty much every speed event. Given how many people typically compete in competitions around here, it is probably the only way to get most events done without a several-day comp.

 

[guysensei1]

This probably isn't a big deal, but when people in competitions don't start the timer and proceed to make moves to the cube, shouldn't the solve be considered a DNS? Because they didn't actually start the solve?

 

[Isaac Lai]

This probably isn't a big deal, but when people in competitions don't start the timer and proceed to make moves to the cube, shouldn't the solve be considered a DNS? Because they didn't actually start the solve?

But they technically also exceeded inspection because it is counted as moves made during inspection

EDIT: unless they realised immediately

 

[guysensei1]

What's the shortest 3 cycle of corners on 2x2? Is it still 8 moves? What's the longest optimal 3 cycle on 2x2? Still 12 moves?

 

[TDM]

What's the longest optimal 3 cycle on 2x2? Still 12 moves?

Isn't God's number 11 on 2x2?

 

[guysensei1]

Isn't God's number 11 on 2x2?

Derp.

Are there any 11 movers that are 3 corner cycles?

 

[willtri4]

I just had this 4x4 mo3:



Notice anything?