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ok.
That is my first official 3x3x3. Not the best nor the worst of the competition, so exactly my time know.
Suggestions are welcome !!!
https://youtu.be/ZeqwgWGLgT4
cross is terrible !!!
Very nice. No nervous hands. One tip: when stopping the timer.. hold your hands on the timer untill you see with your eyes that the timer has stopped. Just tapping the timer like you did might not stop the timer. Also, you need to (start and stop) touch with fingers and not palms. Although 99% of judges will not say something, but stopping with palms will give you an advantage since you could still hold the cube in your fingers.
I can tell from this video that you have great potential to be very fast. Slow deliberate turning is great for lookahead. LL is allready pretty fast. Yup.. you will be faster than me soon
h2f
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ok.
That is my first official 3x3x3. Not the best nor the worst of the competition, so exactly my time know.
Suggestions are welcome !!!
https://youtu.be/ZeqwgWGLgT4
cross is terrible !!!
Nice. No unnecessary moves, calm, good fingertricks. You will be arond 20 very soon.
Jason Green
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Good job, I'd be happy to finish in my first contest I think.ok.
That is my first official 3x3x3. Not the best nor the worst of the competition, so exactly my time know.
Suggestions are welcome !!!
https://youtu.be/ZeqwgWGLgT4
cross is terrible !!!
h2f
Premium Member
I'm a noob in excel. How you do that?
Logiqx
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ok.
That is my first official 3x3x3. Not the best nor the worst of the competition, so exactly my time know.
Suggestions are welcome !!!
https://youtu.be/ZeqwgWGLgT4
cross is terrible !!!
Very nice. Your turning is really smooth and you look pretty calm, except during the cross.
Use your inspection wisely. You had your hands back on the timer after 7-8 seconds and there was a good while remaining to mentally rehearse your cross plan.
muchacho
Veteran
ok.
That is my first official 3x3x3. Not the best nor the worst of the competition, so exactly my time know.
Suggestions are welcome !!!
https://youtu.be/ZeqwgWGLgT4
cross is terrible !!!
I know nothing about CFOP, but that solve looks pretty efficient, and that was your worst time! Very nice for being the first one :tu
Not feeling nervous?
muchacho
Veteran
I'm a noob too.
The times were in the C column, the number of solve in A. First I had to convert (I used Vim for that) times that were formatted like 2:03.30 to 123.30.
In D1 I pasted this:
=TRIMMEAN(C1:C50,6/50)
I copied that to the rest of D column.
I selected A and D columns and pressed the "make a chart" button.
h2f
Premium Member
I'm close to make it, but some things are wrong. I gave up - I can't creat it. Thanks for your help.
mafergut
Legend
ok.
That is my first official 3x3x3. Not the best nor the worst of the competition, so exactly my time know.
Suggestions are welcome !!!
https://youtu.be/ZeqwgWGLgT4
cross is terrible !!!
Yeah, maybe cross was not very good. You need to fully plan it during inspection, this will come with time. But the rest of the solve was very nice. I agree that you will be around 20 very very soon.
cubesp
Regular
I'll punish myself with regular avg100 only cross
It was really bad.
I hope you'll right!!
Thanks
cubesp
Regular
Uhm.. It was the second best in the line... But is very usual for me, even if I had better PB.
Inspection time was my worst enemy.
And starting with a terrible 444 didn't put me in comfort zone.
My 222 and 333 were a little higher then my usual avg
By the way I have 5 new PBs and I already know that I can do better!!
muchacho
Veteran
Ah ok, I didn't looked at the time in the video and I was thinking that you said that it was your first solve (that if I recall was 43 or something like that).
JanW
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Hi there cubers! Mind if I join the fun, despite being a youngster in my mid 30s? I've been lurking this thread for a while now, and I must say it is very inspirational to see the progress of all you guys.
I got myself a rubik's brand cube a few years ago and learned some beginner's method for solving it, but then it lay on the shelf for a few years, until I picked it up again about 3 weeks ago. Last few weeks I've been trying to learn intuitive F2L and experimenting with some other techniques as well. Also realized that the rubik's brand is way too heavy to turn and ordered a couple of ZhanChis, which I finally got last week.
Yesterday I decided it's time to see where I stand, so I installed a timer app and did two sets of 50 solves. Here are the results:
Very happy to (barely) average under one minute. Also happy to say that the fastest 43s solve did not include any skips.
For now I will focus on getting more comfortable with F2L. That is by far the slowest part of my solve. My goal at the moment is to get faster in small steps, next milestone would be the 50 second barrier. I think I can get there quite fast by improving F2L.
I'll try to post progress updates with Ao50s or Ao100s at least every week, and at some point I must figure out a way to set up a video camera so that I can get better feedback on my solves. Though the next week I will spend mostly doing slow F2L solves instead of timed solves. Possibly I'll try practicing with a metronome, which I read could be a good technique. At least that wouldn't be anything new to me. As a professional pianist, I've done thousands of hours of metronome drills in the past.
I got myself a rubik's brand cube a few years ago and learned some beginner's method for solving it, but then it lay on the shelf for a few years, until I picked it up again about 3 weeks ago. Last few weeks I've been trying to learn intuitive F2L and experimenting with some other techniques as well. Also realized that the rubik's brand is way too heavy to turn and ordered a couple of ZhanChis, which I finally got last week.
Yesterday I decided it's time to see where I stand, so I installed a timer app and did two sets of 50 solves. Here are the results:
Very happy to (barely) average under one minute. Also happy to say that the fastest 43s solve did not include any skips.
For now I will focus on getting more comfortable with F2L. That is by far the slowest part of my solve. My goal at the moment is to get faster in small steps, next milestone would be the 50 second barrier. I think I can get there quite fast by improving F2L.
I'll try to post progress updates with Ao50s or Ao100s at least every week, and at some point I must figure out a way to set up a video camera so that I can get better feedback on my solves. Though the next week I will spend mostly doing slow F2L solves instead of timed solves. Possibly I'll try practicing with a metronome, which I read could be a good technique. At least that wouldn't be anything new to me. As a professional pianist, I've done thousands of hours of metronome drills in the past.
h2f
Premium Member
Hi Jan. It's nice to see your post in this thread. Your times are good and the barrier of 50s you will get very soon
Welcome. Two Zhanchi's? One set up for two-handed solving, one dedicated to one-handed use?
It would be interesting to see how metronome training works for you, I personally found it unsuitable, solves aren't naturally 'smooth', cube rotations in particular affect things, and there are times when bursts of speed are OK, times when slower is more helpful.
It would be interesting to see how metronome training works for you, I personally found it unsuitable, solves aren't naturally 'smooth', cube rotations in particular affect things, and there are times when bursts of speed are OK, times when slower is more helpful.
JanW
Veteran
Thank you for the welcomes!
One stickered and one stickerless. So far I haven't done any fine tuning, because I really don't know what is needed. I only have experience from that first rubik's brand (which feels ridiculously stiff after a few days with the Dayan's) and those 2 new cubes out of the box. I don't know if the new cubes are good or would require some tuning/lubing, because I don't know what a good cube should feel like. Any tips for how I could tell if the cubes behave as they should?
cubesp
Regular
Welcome! I remember well first avgs under the minute, a few months ago.
It was a big goal, but immediately after I started defining new goals, exactly like you!
It was a big goal, but immediately after I started defining new goals, exactly like you!
h2f
Premium Member
It comes with practice and experience. Some issues are personal preferences.
One simple test of your cubes is to look for symmetry. If all 6 faces feel similar, that's good. Pull two opposite faces apart, is the pull evenly spread between the faces, does the gap when the limit is reached look about the same? Any imbalance can be adjusted out with a cross-head screwdriver. Just pry off the centre-piece caps with your fingernail, the screw head is clearly visible inside. Take it easy, 1/4 of a turn can make a difference.
