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I've been at 8 competiotions so far and I'm going to go to 9th in 3 weeks. I january it will be 2 years since I've started competing.

BTW. Marcel - nice ao5 in weekly competiotion. I dont have hope to beat it. :)
 
h2f said:
I've been at 8 competiotions so far and I'm going to go to 9th in 3 weeks. I january it will be 2 years since I've started competing.

BTW. Marcel - nice ao5 in weekly competiotion. I dont have hope to beat it. :)
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LOL yeah... and I did a few warm up solves that where 21 - 25 secs.. so the good result came as a total surprise :)
 
moralsh said:
I'm finally back home after my 3 day Spanish nationals in Granada, a rally nice experience.

It's been a good enough comp for me, here's what I did: [...]
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Hey Raul, you forgot to tell us about your other competition during Nationals, which I'd say you definitely won. The delayed 3BLD comp with your roommates APdRF1 and Alberto Masó :)
For those not knowing what I'm talking about here is the video (it's in Spanish, though):

 
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mafergut said:
Hey Raul, you forgot to tell us about your other competition during Nationals, which I'd say you definitely won. The delayed 3BLD comp with your roommates APdRF1 and Alberto Masó :)
For those not knowing what I'm talking about here is the video (it's in Spanish, though):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCh3nycORgM
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hehe, it was fun, we woke up recalling the memo perfectly, our only fear was execution. gotta try it with 4BLD some day :P

muchacho said:
apdrf1 memo was funny, it seemed easy to remember.
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Yeah, APdRF memo was very funny and easy to visualize, for those not able to understand spanish there were two synonims of ******* in his corner memo very easy to recall as all the dirty words :D

Mine was a little more chaotic but had no problem to remember it even 2 weeks later.

The only downside was that sleeping less than 5 hours may have had an impact in my disastrous saturday in which I failed everything that was not 3BLD.
 
moralsh said:
hehe, it was fun, we woke up recalling the memo perfectly, our only fear was execution. gotta try it with 4BLD some day :P

Yeah, APdRF memo was very funny and easy to visualize, for those not able to understand spanish there were two synonims of ******* in his corner memo very easy to recall as all the dirty words :D

Mine was a little more chaotic but had no problem to remember it even 2 weeks later.

The only downside was that sleeping less than 5 hours may have had an impact in my disastrous saturday in which I failed everything that was not 3BLD.
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Yeah, APdRF's memo was, well, memorable, which is the whole point of it, right? Dirty words are so useful for that, hehehe.
The power of images for memorization is incredible. Even before I got involved in cubing I bought a book on tips and tricks for memorization. One of the tricks was the link of absurd images one after the other to remember a sequence of words. My first try was with an arbitrary list of 10 words and, years later I can still remember most of it. My second try was with the 50 states of the USA in alphabetical order, which I can still remember perfectly (I have also included the capitals in the link afterwards).
 
"How many of you old cubers (40 or older) have gone to competitions?"
Well, I gave in to peer pressure and registered for the UK Champs. Now all I need to do is many months of practice beforehand, and I'll be able to put in a creditable attempt. Oh, it's next week, scratch that. I'll have to find my Stackmat timer and practice with it, and make sure I get used to the proper 15 sec inspection time. And pimp up my stickers. And read up on all the rules. And I registered for FMC, too, just fer fun. I used to do it a fair bit, but using slice-turn metric, and maybe just 10 minutes max solve time. I don't know how one hour and face-turn metric is going to pan out. Hopefully in the 30's, and not a DNF.
Q: my timer has a bag of cups with it. Are they for serving refreshments in, or something??
 
OH - 27.18 Ao5 (PB)

I had two PLL skips resulting in two 22s singles. :)

If I hadn't mucked up the final solve (clockwise U-perm) the Ao5 would have been 26.21. Idiot!

 
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MarcelP said:
LOL yeah... and I did a few warm up solves that where 21 - 25 secs.. so the good result came as a total surprise :)
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17.92 Ao5, nice!

I was doing some solves around 30 seconds (after several days of doing like 33) and thought... this may be a good moment to do the Ao12 for the "race to sub-30" thread, and I was right, 30.18 (my best Ao12 is 29.38) :D
 
Thanks, usually I do better than normal for that competitions, must be just the right amount of "pressure", but at an official competition rounded by people and all that noise I would probably perform really bad.
 
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