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Been practicing 2x2 and 3x3 for comp tomorrow. Usually 200 2x2 solves and 50 3x3 solves per day. I didn't spend much time with Ortega before realizing I'd be better off sticking with layer by layer. My last 2x2 session
number of times: 100/100
best time: 2.75
worst time: 13.03

current avg5: 6.57
best avg5: 4.62

current avg12: 6.49
best avg12: 5.51

current avg100: 6.60
best avg100: 6.60

session avg: 6.60
session mean: 6.62
My last 3x3 session was 23.56, which was PB for mean of 50. Going to be really annoyed if I don't get sub-10 and sub-30 at comp.

Also did a few MBLDs. Had a 5/6 which is PB for most cubes solved correct, but it was so close to 6/6. Executed FL edge instead of BL on the last regular target (not counting flipped edge targets) of last cube.
 
MarcelP said:
Improvement is here to stay (apparently) :)

avg of 100
current: 18.09 (σ = 1.43)
best: 18.06 (σ = 1.40)
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Wow! Congrats. That's a nice Ao100. You are a full second faster than I am. That's a clear motivation for me to improve ;)

I have continued with 2x2 and it looks like paying some attention to other events (instead of just practicing them just a bit in between 3x3 sessions) is paying off. I am now clearly below 7 seconds average with Ortega, after a 500 solve session.

single
best: 1.56 --> This was a stupid scramble with a 6-move solution but PB anyway
worst: 12.21 --> Still some sup-10s, but only when I mess up the solve, otherwise most of them are 4-7 seconds.

avg of 5 best: 4.84 (σ = 0.16) --> First sub-5 Ao5. Nice!
avg of 12 best: 5.71 (σ = 0.75) --> Also first sub-6 Ao12.
avg of 50 best: 6.39 (σ = 1.01)
avg of 100 best: 6.51 (σ = 0.96) --> Almost half a second of improvement!

This is the scramble for the 1.56. Can you see the 6-mover?

464. 1.56 F2 R U R2 U2 R2 U2 R2 U'

I have to say I just saw the OLL skip and was expecting a T or Y perm. I was so astonished by the PBL skip that I wasted some tenths before I stopped the clock. Otherwise it would have been close to 1 sec. Well, 2x2 singles are dumb anyway. I consider the real 2x2 PB to be the Ao5 at the very latest.

EDIT: It's in fact a 5-mover, probably not legit by WCA regulations. Or is it just 4 moves for 2x2?
 
mafergut said:
This is the scramble for the 1.56. Can you see the 6-mover?

464. 1.56 F2 R U R2 U2 R2 U2 R2 U'

I have to say I just saw the OLL skip and was expecting a T or Y perm. I was so astonished by the PBL skip that I wasted some tenths before I stopped the clock. Otherwise it would have been close to 1 sec. Well, 2x2 singles are dumb anyway. I consider the real 2x2 PB to be the Ao5 at the very latest.

EDIT: It's in fact a 5-mover, probably not legit by WCA regulations. Or is it just 4 moves for 2x2?
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Looks like a 3-mover to me. z' R2 U' R2
Very nice improvement with your 2x2 solves.
My PB is 1.48 on a 4-mover. Scramble F' U' R' F' U F' U2 R' U'. I don't know what WCA regulations are for minimum length.
 
chtiger said:
Looks like a 3-mover to me. z' R2 U' R2
Very nice improvement with your 2x2 solves.
My PB is 1.48 on a 4-mover. Scramble F' U' R' F' U F' U2 R' U'. I don't know what WCA regulations are for minimum length.
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Yeah, my doubt was whether the R2s were counted as 1 or 2 moves. I counted them as 2 but if they are to be counted as 1 then the scramble is not legit. I checked WCA regulations and I found this:

4b3b) 2x2x2 Cube: The (random) state must require at least 4 moves to solve.

Nice scramble by the way. Did you see the full solve in inspection?
x' y F' L' U' L :)

EDIT:

12a1) Face Moves:
12a1c) 180 degrees: F2, B2, R2, L2, U2, D2.

12a3) Outer Block Turn Metric (OBTM) is defined as:
12a3a) Each move of the categories Face Moves and Outer Block Moves is counted as 1 move.

So it looks like it is not a legit scramble (just 3 moves), which is strange, as it was generated by csTimer in WCA 2x2x2 configuration.
 
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Jason Green said:
It's been kind of quiet here... It's a little depressing when there aren't any posts to read. :)

What else is up?
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I've not had so much time for cubing this past week. I've been offered a new job and handed in my notice at work. I'm also in the process of buying a new house and trying to understand the impact of issues reported in the survey. Busy, busy!

I did find time to do some timed solves today. Nice to get some PBs... possibly inspired by Marcel!

First sub-19 Ao100 and an OH sub-30 Ao5.

2H...
Best of all: 13.034
Best Avg of 5: 17.494
Best Avg of 12: 18.074
Best Avg of 50: 18.790
Best Avg of 100: 18.970
Std Dev: 1.276

OH...
Best of all: 22.820
Best Avg of 5: 28.884
Best Avg of 12: 32.109
Best Avg of 50: 34.288
Std Dev: 3.434
 
mark49152 said:
Great to see the wide variety of things other oldies are working on.
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My goal (not sure how realistic it is!) is to get at least singles in all official events. The ones I don't yet have are:

  • 6x6
  • 7x7
  • 4BLD
  • 5BLD
  • Square 1
  • Feet

Of those, I'm going to be attempting feet, Square 1 and 4BLD at the upcoming UK Championships. I don't hold out much hope for 4BLD, but I do hope to beat the hard cut for the other two (5 minutes and 2 minutes for feet and sq-1, respectively).

I started trying feet solves a few weeks ago, and have done some proper practice this past week. My best time is around 3 minutes now. My biggest hurdle (apart from just doing U' and D moves) is the lack of muscle memory meaning the majority of my OLLs and quite a few PLLs are not possible for me. I just started trying to relearn some of the important ones (e.g., 2-look OLLs) for feet.

I quite like square-1, although I have absolutely no idea how people solve it so quickly. The first stage (cube-shape) is still quite an intuitive, slow process for me, and then the rest of it I guess I'm using quite inefficient algorithms. My best time is just over 1 minute but I'm typically more like 2 minutes.
 
And a lubing tip for the older folks:

Two or three drops of Pjur Body Glide *ahem* personal lubricant will make any slow cube super fast. It's also good to know that it's non-toxic and non-corrosive. Just in case you were wondering, of course.
 
EvilGnome6 said:
And a lubing tip for the older folks:

Two or three drops of Pjur Body Glide *ahem* personal lubricant will make any slow cube super fast. It's also good to know that it's non-toxic and non-corrosive. Just in case you were wondering, of course.
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Haha. I might find some other things to work for my cube now that you have me an idea.
 
Logiqx said:
I've not had so much time for cubing this past week. I've been offered a new job and handed in my notice at work. I'm also in the process of buying a new house and trying to understand the impact of issues reported in the survey. Busy, busy!

I did find time to do some timed solves today. Nice to get some PBs... possibly inspired by Marcel!

First sub-19 Ao100 and an OH sub-30 Ao5.

2H...
Best of all: 13.034
Best Avg of 5: 17.494
Best Avg of 12: 18.074
Best Avg of 50: 18.790
Best Avg of 100: 18.970
Std Dev: 1.276

OH...
Best of all: 22.820
Best Avg of 5: 28.884
Best Avg of 12: 32.109
Best Avg of 50: 34.288
Std Dev: 3.434
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I guess with your PBs we can overlook your limited cubing. Good job on those btw!! Remember, houses and jobs come and go, but cubing is forever.
 
"And a lubing tip for the older folks:...etc"

I wasn't expecting that...I thought this was going to be the answer:
GlucosamineSulfate.gif


I've never tried it, I don't suppose it would help my dodgy look-ahead, anyway.
 
Incredible session this morning. I've made 10 bld solves and then few warmup solves. I had to make something in the garden and I was back I've made solves breaking my pbs in ao5 and ao 12. It was amazing feeling - my cross was good and fluent, I was finding first f2l very quickly and my lookahead was very good.

Avg of 5 17.92 (17.60, 18.37, (17.58), (18.90), 17.78)

avg of 12: 18.49 (19.32, (17.24), (22.60), 18.71, 20.83, 17.93, 17.60, 18.37, 17.58, 18.90, 17.78, 17.90).



avg of 12
current: 18.97 (σ = 1.29)
best: 18.49 (σ = 1.01)

single
best: 14.62
worst: 30.66

mean of 3
current: 22.43 (σ = 3.81)
best: 17.85 (σ = 0.45)

avg of 5
current: 20.60 (σ = 0.66)
best: 17.92 (σ = 0.40)

avg of 12
current: 18.97 (σ = 1.29)
best: 18.49 (σ = 1.01)

Average: 21.26 (σ = 2.80)
Mean: 21.48

Time List:
23.38, 21.27, 22.69, 27.88, 23.90, 25.43, 25.00, 20.42, 21.74, 21.03, 29.86, 23.61, 24.09, 21.80, 30.66, 14.62, 20.19, 19.32, 17.24, 22.60, 18.71, 20.83, 17.93, 17.60, 18.37, 17.58, 18.90, 17.78, 17.90, 20.66, 19.92, 19.36, 21.23, 26.70
 
Comp thoughts & results -- 2x2 is hard with nervous fingers.
Median age was probably about 12, but that's ok. Still had a couple of parents compete and some 20+ year olds. Supposedly more parents are going to compete at next comp, so that's cool.

2x2 -- Screwed up 3rd solve, couldn't find a starting point and inspection time was running out, panicked and started with no plan. 4th solve got a +2, not sure if I did wrong AUF or cube turned when I dropped it. So kinda slow, but did get sub-10
(7.96), 9.23, (16.05), 9.58, 8.68 = 9.16

3x3 -- went smooth, a couple of minor errors like F2L pair in wrong slot, but nothing major. Much better than my previous 45 avg
25.26, 26.61, (23.23), (27.76), 25.00 = 25.62
 
h2f said:
Incredible session this morning. I've made 10 bld solves and then few warmup solves. I had to make something in the garden and I was back I've made solves breaking my pbs in ao5 and ao 12. It was amazing feeling - my cross was good and fluent, I was finding first f2l very quickly and my lookahead was very good.

Avg of 5 17.92 (17.60, 18.37, (17.58), (18.90), 17.78)

avg of 12: 18.49 (19.32, (17.24), (22.60), 18.71, 20.83, 17.93, 17.60, 18.37, 17.58, 18.90, 17.78, 17.90).



avg of 12
current: 18.97 (σ = 1.29)
best: 18.49 (σ = 1.01)

single
best: 14.62
worst: 30.66

mean of 3
current: 22.43 (σ = 3.81)
best: 17.85 (σ = 0.45)

avg of 5
current: 20.60 (σ = 0.66)
best: 17.92 (σ = 0.40)

avg of 12
current: 18.97 (σ = 1.29)
best: 18.49 (σ = 1.01)

Average: 21.26 (σ = 2.80)
Mean: 21.48

Time List:
23.38, 21.27, 22.69, 27.88, 23.90, 25.43, 25.00, 20.42, 21.74, 21.03, 29.86, 23.61, 24.09, 21.80, 30.66, 14.62, 20.19, 19.32, 17.24, 22.60, 18.71, 20.83, 17.93, 17.60, 18.37, 17.58, 18.90, 17.78, 17.90, 20.66, 19.92, 19.36, 21.23, 26.70
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Nice! Just need to recreate that flow next time. :)
 
Logiqx said:
I did find time to do some timed solves today. Nice to get some PBs... possibly inspired by Marcel!



2H...
Best of all: 13.034
Best Avg of 5: 17.494
Best Avg of 12: 18.074
Best Avg of 50: 18.790
Best Avg of 100: 18.970
Std Dev: 1.276

OH...
Best of all: 22.820
Best Avg of 5: 28.884
Best Avg of 12: 32.109
Best Avg of 50: 34.288
Std Dev: 3.434
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LOL, very nice!!

h2f said:
Incredible session this morning. I've made 10 bld solves and then few warmup solves. I had to make something in the garden and I was back I've made solves breaking my pbs in ao5 and ao 12. It was amazing feeling - my cross was good and fluent, I was finding first f2l very quickly and my lookahead was very good.

Avg of 5 17.92 (17.60, 18.37, (17.58), (18.90), 17.78)

avg of 12: 18.49 (19.32, (17.24), (22.60), 18.71, 20.83, 17.93, 17.60, 18.37, 17.58, 18.90, 17.78, 17.90).



avg of 12
current: 18.97 (σ = 1.29)
best: 18.49 (σ = 1.01)

single
best: 14.62
worst: 30.66

mean of 3
current: 22.43 (σ = 3.81)
best: 17.85 (σ = 0.45)

avg of 5
current: 20.60 (σ = 0.66)
best: 17.92 (σ = 0.40)

avg of 12
current: 18.97 (σ = 1.29)
best: 18.49 (σ = 1.01)

Average: 21.26 (σ = 2.80)
Mean: 21.48

Time List:
23.38, 21.27, 22.69, 27.88, 23.90, 25.43, 25.00, 20.42, 21.74, 21.03, 29.86, 23.61, 24.09, 21.80, 30.66, 14.62, 20.19, 19.32, 17.24, 22.60, 18.71, 20.83, 17.93, 17.60, 18.37, 17.58, 18.90, 17.78, 17.90, 20.66, 19.92, 19.36, 21.23, 26.70
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That's the way to go!! Keep it up.
 
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