Older cubers discussions

[muchacho]

I don't use a specific method. First time it tooked me one hour.
I applied all I already known about 333... Layer, f2l, sune,...

Roux is the only method I know for 333 so the megaminx may be a bit harder for me, and my eyes have trouble distinguishing some of those colors (it's a stickerless yuhu), I'm not sure if I will like it enough to care to learn more for it, but at least I think I'll try a few more times.

 

[mafergut]

I'd like to learn a good method...after improving my 444...

I just checked some simple algs for the last layer, which include things you'd already know from 3x3, like niklas, sune / anti-sune, beginner's corner orientation and did like 5-6 solves to get the grasp of it. Then somebody challenged me on the Accomplishment forum to time myself, as I was afraid it would take like forever. It took 9 minutes and a half or something like that. I have yet to get my Megaminx again but 3x3, OH, 4x4, 2x2... too many events to have time to practise all of them regularly. I have to say that I enjoyed Mega a lot but my Yuhu is absolute crap

 

[cubesp]

I have a shengshou and I'm waiting for yuhu...

 

[Logiqx]

Oh yeah... new OH PB... Ao12

Old: 32.46, New: 32.45

I almost broke the 30 second barrier for Ao5 as well... 30.21

 

[Jason Green]

Oh yeah... new OH PB... Ao12

Old: 32.46, New: 32.45

I almost broke the 30 second barrier for Ao5 as well... 30.21

Cool!

 

[Logiqx]

Cool!

I was tempted to set up the camera after some nice solves but I decided against it... it's a sure fire way to ruin a good session!

 

[Jason Green]

I was tempted to set up the camera after some nice solves but I decided against it... it's a sure fire way to ruin a good session!

Yes I'm sure it would! Camera first if you want to video I think.

 

[EvilGnome6]

New 3x3 PB.

 

[mafergut]

Oh yeah... new OH PB... Ao12

Old: 32.46, New: 32.45

I almost broke the 30 second barrier for Ao5 as well... 30.21

Oh my! I'm so far from those times... yet Congratulations. What's your OH PB single?

New 3x3 PB.

http://azcubing.com/IMG_20151017_092452.jpg

Hey! Great! And you just said like 1 week ago that you had no sub-18 single. Now you have! Go, go, sub 17!

 

[Logiqx]

New 3x3 PB.
17.687

Nice work!

Oh my! I'm so far from those times... yet Congratulations. What's your OH PB single?

22.61 although I don't recall the nature of the solve (most likely an OLL or PLL skip). I've definitely had 24-26s full step solves.

10 out of todays 60 solves were sub-30.

 

[Jason Green]

Oh my! I'm so far from those times... yet Congratulations. What's your OH PB single?



Hey! Great! And you just said like 1 week ago that you had no sub-18 single. Now you have! Go, go, sub 17!

Great job, but darn... I got excited thinking it was a video.

 

[SenorJuan]

Mike: What would you say your typical 333 OH 'split' time for completing the first 2 layers was?
I'm aware that my own last layer is poor, I need plenty of practice, it's not unusual for me to take the same amount of time on the LL as the first two.

 

[Logiqx]

Mike: What would you say your typical 333 OH 'split' time for completing the first 2 layers was?
I'm aware that my own last layer is poor, I need plenty of practice, it's not unusual for me to take the same amount of time on the LL as the first two.

I don't really know as I try not to look at the timer during OH. It feels like a similar percentage of the solve as 2H but some LL cases feel a bit slow. There is a big difference between my U-perm and F-perm!

 

[Lid]

Did a a12 for both F2L & LL OH, here is what I got, 67% / 33%. So almost an exact 2/3+1/3 split.

OH-F2L: 16.33, 14.20, 14.77, (13.84), 15.59, 15.23, 17.10, (20.17), 17.77, 17.00, 15.23, 14.86 = 15.81
OH-LL: 6.81, 6.35, 8.58, 6.98, (9.29), 7.83, (2.35), 8.17, 6.95, 6.21, 7.85, 7.81

 

[SenorJuan]

Hmmm..that's why I asked, the last layer does seem (to me) proportionally longer than it is for two-hands. There's that tps limit, the awkwardness of the F / F' turn, the cube rotations, all seem to conspire....

More practice needed, definitely.

@Lid: Those 15 -17 sec first 2 layer times are what I'm aiming for, sometimes it seems close, other days just don't....teflon fingers, can't warm up my brain, wondering what this coloured thing in my hand is....

 

[mafergut]

Did a a12 for both F2L & LL OH, here is what I got, 67% / 33%. So almost an exact 2/3+1/3 split.

OH-F2L: 16.33, 14.20, 14.77, (13.84), 15.59, 15.23, 17.10, (20.17), 17.77, 17.00, 15.23, 14.86 = 15.81
OH-LL: 6.81, 6.35, 8.58, 6.98, (9.29), 7.83, (2.35), 8.17, 6.95, 6.21, 7.85, 7.81

I can sometimes (but rarely) get F2L completed in under 20 seconds but my LL takes like forever. My PB, which is a 33.04 full-step, must have been something like 18 sec F2L + 15 sec LL more or less, so imagine how bad my LL is.

 

[Lid]

Late night practice gave a new a12 PB: 16.224

13.090, 18.711, 13.785, 18.246, 17.892, 13.643, (11.953), 17.188, 15.693, 17.709, (19.570), 16.281

All solves were full step :tu

 

[cubesp]

It starts with with a quite epic fail... 444 5:08!!! Destroyed centers 2 times. Second try 3:2x..
Ok end of 444, but it was fun!

 

[mark49152]

It starts with with a quite epic fail... 444 5:08!!! Destroyed centers 2 times. Second try 3:2x..
Ok end of 444, but it was fun!

Good luck with the rest of it.

And I just noticed it's Dutch Open today. Good luck Marcel!

Edit: WOOHOO! 19.80 average in 1st round! Congrats Marcel You are now officially sub-20 and fastest of this little group . A very well-deserved PB!

 

[muchacho]

And he is doing fine, 2 PBs already :tu