Older cubers discussions

[h2f]

Of course im happy with my 4bld rrsult but being 4th is worst than being 3th.
Thats why ive made sad face.

patataj patataj patataj

 

[mark49152]

Of course im happy with my 4bld rrsult but being 4th is worst than being 3th.

Could be worse, you could have been 5th...

 

[h2f]

Unsolved problem if glass is half empty or half full.

patataj patataj patataj

 

[MarcelP]

How much of the plastic core do you have sticking through your nuts? My nuts are level with the ends.

Yes, the same!

 

[mark49152]

Yes, the same!

Oh, mine doesn't feel at all tight though, actually quite loose...

 

[cubesp]

Unsolved problem if glass is half empty or half full.

patataj patataj patataj

The glass is full,
half water (or beer) half air
(and in my case I probably know
where the other half beer is)

Compliments. Nice result!

 

[MarcelP]

Oh, mine doesn't feel at all tight though, actually quite loose...

Maybe your metal arms (octopus arms) are not screwed in the core as far as mine..

 

[mark49152]

Maybe your metal arms (octopus arms) are not screwed in the core as far as mine..

OK ignore me, I'm being dumb. I'm thinking of my 357. I haven't even looked under my 356 caps. They are both on stock tensions anyway.

 

[h2f]

1:35.92 in 3bld.

patataj patataj patataj

 

[MarcelP]

1:35.92 in 3bld.

Awesome!

 

[Logiqx]

1:35.92 in 3bld.

patataj patataj patataj

Congrats. That's a big PB looking at your previous results!

 

[mark49152]

1:35.92 in 3bld.

Great result, congrats! How long for memo? How many targets?

 

[Logiqx]

I'm going to start practicing and see what happens to my times. I'm barely sub-4 at the moment but I want to get down to sub-3. It's going to require a lot of practice!

Quick update... I'm averaging about 3:20 after a month back on the 5x5. I'm a long way off the UK cut-off but it's good to be improving!

 

[mark49152]

Quick update... I'm averaging about 3:20 after a month back on the 5x5. I'm a long way off the UK cut-off but it's good to be improving!

That's good progress. At our speed, for me two solves has been enough in comp. It feels like plenty of time solving, and five would be dragging it out, so I enjoy just shooting for single PBs. I did say that I was going to focus on 5x5 and try to give myself a better chance of an average at UKC, but realistically it will take many months of practice to get close to 2:30. I'll be happy to get two sub-3 solves, and a PB would be great.

 

[newtonbase]

Quick update... I'm averaging about 3:20 after a month back on the 5x5. I'm a long way off the UK cut-off but it's good to be improving!

Hard cut off is my target for the UKs. Same with 4x4. Neither are guaranteed.

 

[EvilGnome6]

Today was my first major timed session doing 3x3 OH and this 53.94s solve was one of the better ones. My mean of 32 solves was 1:11s. OH still feels very awkward for me but it took months just to be able to do more than a few simple turns without my hand cramping up. Cube used was a MoYu Mini WeiLong.

 

[Jason Green]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQbdeE8K-LU

Today was my first major timed session doing 3x3 OH and this 53.94s solve was one of the better ones. My mean of 32 solves was 1:11s. OH still feels very awkward for me but it took months just to be able to do more than a few simple turns without my hand cramping up. Cube used was a MoYu Mini WeiLong.

I can't do it yet. I can finish F2L after a long time, but I can't do the algs for LL from memory well enough without the muscle memory of both hands. Maybe some day.

 

[h2f]

Congrats. That's a big PB looking at your previous results!

It looks like it is, but my previous offcial pb was made 6 month ago. I had a hard time during last comp 3 weeks ago and couldnt break that time. My times are around 1:20 - 1:50. During that home I had a lot of practice: 4bld means you practice all your targets with M2. 5 bld means the same. I did 5 and 9 cubes during mbld. I had a lot of luck I was qualified to final with 2:20 time - I was 12th and won with 13th only by 1 second. The last day I had only 3bld final so I could made a little memo practice and rest. I had a good time in final - got good concentration flow: no thinking about anything, just me, the cube and the solve.

Awesome!

Thanks.

Great result, congrats! How long for memo? How many targets?

I belive memo was between 40 - 50. My son said it was 45. If I remeber it well I had two brekings in cycle and it was 12 targets for edges and 8 for corners with twisted corner. I solve with M2 and comms, but for corners I did two of them with OP - there was case I dont like and I knew I couldnt figure out fast how to solve it with comm. And I was sitting next to Maskow. Second solve was 1:41 and third was 1:41 too. Both with parity. I did 3rd solve with safe memo, because I wanted to make mo3. Ive checked corners twice and missed twisted corner and it was dnf. I hope I will mo3 next time.

 

[MarcelP]

So who is the guy next to you in black? LOL

 

[mark49152]

I belive memo was between 40 - 50. My son said it was 45.

Nice photos! That memo is fast. Any tips? I started learning some corner comms but have abandoned that this weekend after timing some splits. Memo 2 mins, edges 33 sec, corners 27. Memo is what I need to work on and there is a ton of room for easy improvement. Corner comms might save me what, 7-8 seconds, if I learn them fully? That's not worth it and I will just put my execution at risk by trying to use them now. Maybe I'll restart once my memo is sub-1 min.