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Jason Green said:
It would be fun to be at a competition and say, "are you a Marcel from Holland" to someone and have them say yes! And then go on to beat all the kids and set new world records of course... Yes I have an active imagination ;)
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LOL. I have had many people come up to me and ask me if I am Marcel from Holland. I think that is pretty cool :)

Isaac Lai said:
Lol Holland=/=Poland
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No, never been to Poland.
 
Heh, I like the new thread title, now if the move to genereal cubing discussion, it would be awesome ;)

chtiger said:
Question for Mark or anyone else who is around 3-4 minute 3bld. How long does it take you to trace the pieces if you aren't trying to remember them? I don't mean just flying thru it visually (unless that's how you memo), but say the letters to yourself, pair them up or however you would normally memo, but don't actually try to memorize anything.
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I'm a little bit faster (I've been sub 2, but I'm around 2:20 now), to me tracing takes a little less than 30 seconds with corners taking a little less of 10 seconds of that. Reviewing often takes some 20-30 more seconds and the execution takes the rest.

Mark, Your 2/2 also beats my 3/5, I also have an official 3/6 in which 3 cubes where off by the M2 parity, one of them I completely forgot about it and picked a solved cube to do the parity that I didn't forgot of :p

Welcome to all the new oldies!
 
moralsh said:
Mark, Your 2/2 also beats my 3/5, I also have an official 3/6 in which 3 cubes where off by the M2 parity, one of them I completely forgot about it and picked a solved cube to do the parity that I didn't forgot of :p
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Ouch! That must have been annoying.

There's no MBLD at Cuthberts' Open so I have started learning 4BLD. I'm hooked on BLD :D
 
I have been cubing for just over a week! 2 days of beginners method before changing my mind and just on one week of CFOP/Fridrich. Pretty addicted but a bit fumbly (my cube is quite flexible so I get it locked up quite frequently) so I'm averaging around 1min20 at the moment. Aiming to be under 1 min in another week if I can :) I'm finally having moments where my brain is working faster than my hands, so now it's time to train up my finger tricks and get better at turning accurately. Or be brave enough to take my cube apart and see if I can make it tighter or something.

I teach computer science at a high school and some of my students started bringing cubes to school, so decided to tick it off my bucket list :)

Yeah I'm sure my type are not R7 or R8 globally, but based on the chances of me running into another one I'd say we're pretty few and far between!
 
Rastinha said:
Or be brave enough to take my cube apart and see if I can make it tighter or something.
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There are lots of good cubes that are inexpensive online too. I ordered three when I started learning CFOP, my favorite is a New Island stickerless right now. It has easily adjustable tension, and I also got some cube lube which helps (Maru). My tension is loose enough that I will pop it during a solve very rarely, probably once in 100 tries or less.
 
How did you (old ones) get into speed cubing?

I had a rubiks cube when I were young but never solved it. Three months ago I was looking (in banggood.com) for a present for my 4 years old niece, I saw a 2x2 and thought it should be easy enough for her. When I received it I searched for videos on how to solve it (resulted to not be as easy as I thought), and I also encounter a video of someone solving a 3x3 in less than 10 seconds, I was hooked right there.
 
muchacho said:
How did you (old ones) get into speed cubing?

I had a rubiks cube when I were young but never solved it. Three months ago I was looking (in banggood.com) for a present for my 4 years old niece, I saw a 2x2 and thought it should be easy enough for her. When I received it I searched for videos on how to solve it (resulted to not be as easy as I thought), and I also encounter a video of someone solving a 3x3 in less than 10 seconds, I was hooked right there.
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Here's my story, although I'm down to around 41 seconds now. :)

https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54733
 
Jason Green said:
There are lots of good cubes that are inexpensive online too. I ordered three when I started learning CFOP, my favorite is a New Island stickerless right now. It has easily adjustable tension, and I also got some cube lube which helps (Maru). My tension is loose enough that I will pop it during a solve very rarely, probably once in 100 tries or less.
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I have a Cyclone Boys stickerless, which is pretty slick but the flexibility get me jammed up. I think I need to practice being more accurate with my turning, but at least my brain is starting to be faster than my hands!

When I have a bit of spare cash I'll probably order a few online, thinking a Gans 357 and maybe a MoYu one, based on my "extensive knowledge" gained from youtube, haha. The closest place I can get them from is Australia by the looks.

Fort Worth, huh? My dad's side of the family lives there :)
 
Rastinha said:
I have a Cyclone Boys stickerless, which is pretty slick but the flexibility get me jammed up. I think I need to practice being more accurate with my turning, but at least my brain is starting to be faster than my hands!

When I have a bit of spare cash I'll probably order a few online, thinking a Gans 357 and maybe a MoYu one, based on my "extensive knowledge" gained from youtube, haha. The closest place I can get them from is Australia by the looks.

Fort Worth, huh? My dad's side of the family lives there :)
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Cool, let me know if you ever visit. We can meet up and have some races. :)
 
muchacho said:
How did you (old ones) get into speed cubing?

I had a rubiks cube when I were young but never solved it. Three months ago I was looking (in banggood.com) for a present for my 4 years old niece, I saw a 2x2 and thought it should be easy enough for her. When I received it I searched for videos on how to solve it (resulted to not be as easy as I thought), and I also encounter a video of someone solving a 3x3 in less than 10 seconds, I was hooked right there.
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Hola Muchacho!

My story is in my own thread here in speedsolving , I was 10 seconds slower back then :P and even slower if you look at the first pages of this very tread, the video of Feliks' 5.66 also played a strong part in getting me into speedsolving.

And Still improving!
 
I can't find my story with the forum search. Either the search index is broken or the post has gone!

I got into cubing when my nephew received one for Christmas a few years ago. I could only do one side so I decided to learn it that night and be able to solve his cube the next day. I didn't know how enjoyable and addictive it would turn out to be for me! I never intended to get into speed solving and I certainly didn't plan to compete... one thing just lead to another. :)
 
Do you guys use any particular apps/software to record all of your averages that I see in your signatures? I downloaded a couple of timers for Android, and one gives my averages out of last 5 and 10, and lifetime, but that was the best I could find so far.

For those of you who have been to competitions, are the young folks pretty accepting of older folks, or are we like the weird old people in the corner? Haha :)
 
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