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mafergut said:
Wow! That last F2L pair + OLL!!! How did that happen? :) Is it some sort of VLS alg or what!!!!?
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The LU moves are a standard setup for insertion. The final FRU moves are a VHLS algorithm.

I don't know whether he was just trying to orient edges and got lucky or knew it was a VLS case and would also orient the corners. :)
 
I've been chasing it for months and finally got my first sub 4 on 6x6 yesterday.

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Logiqx said:
The LU moves are a standard setup for insertion. The final FRU moves are a VHLS algorithm.

I don't know whether he was just trying to orient edges and got lucky or knew it was a VLS case and would also orient the corners. :)
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Yeah, the first part of the pair I more or less knew. It is a nice way to setup the pair without having to rotate in this case. Ciotheking has some nice algs similar to these in his alg of the week series that I have watched but not memorized :( It was the last part what I was a bit shocked with.

APdRF said:
I was trying to orient edges but I knew I would skip corners from experience :P
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Hi man! Nice to see you again around here. This thread is really nice indeed. And yep, I guess experience counts for a lot in those cases. I guess I need to keep cubing for 2 more years... or 4... or 10... :) Do you recommend studying some easy cases for EO during last slot?

MarcelP said:
Cool! Where are the 3X3 results ;) I had a bad week... sup 20 does not occur very often any more..
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I'm waiting until this weekend to be able to do 3x3, OH and maybe 4x4 and I'll add them to my 2x2 post.
But yesterday night I did my first try at Racing to sub-20, which I just posted a minute ago here.

Yeah, anyone can have a bad day / week, that's what long averages are for :) I'm really beginning to feel that I'm globally sub-20, as I have a running session of over 500 solves at 19.7x average right now (excluding warmup solves).

EvilGnome6 said:
I've been chasing it for months and finally got my first sub 4 on 6x6 yesterday.
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Congrats man! You're really my big-cube, old-cuber super-hero. I'm trying to beat sub-2 again at 4x4 and it's tougher than I thought. Problem is that I got a bit into Mega lately and that takes time from my big cube training as it is also a very big "cube" for me (around 7 minutes right now). I just got a new SS Mega and it's sooo smooth... a pity it does not reverse-corner cut at all :( I'll maybe have to mod it.
 
mafergut said:
Yeah, the first part of the pair I more or less knew. It is a nice way to setup the pair without having to rotate in this case. Ciotheking has some nice algs similar to these in his alg of the week series that I have watched but not memorized :( It was the last part what I was a bit shocked with.
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I used to make use of this VHLS alg before I knew full OLL but it's fallen by the wayside over time.

I've noticed Faz use it in quite a few solves, presumably to increase the chances of a nice LL. Maybe he only uses it when he knows the result is likely to be a ZBLL group/case that he knows?
 
New fullstep PB, 31.78.

F2 U2 B2 U' R' B' D2 L F' L2 F U2 L D' R U2 B D L' D' R' F2 R2 U B2

Inspection x2, saw F2L pair in U layer and decided to preserve. Cross D B U2 R' F2 D', which conveniently happened to put another pair in the U layer as well.
 
mafergut said:
Hi man! Nice to see you again around here. This thread is really nice indeed. And yep, I guess experience counts for a lot in those cases. I guess I need to keep cubing for 2 more years... or 4... or 10... :) Do you recommend studying some easy cases for EO during last slot?
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Hi! :) I recommend easy cases in general, they always help you a bit in some solves hahaha. I always orient edges when this case or the R' F R F' happens ;)

And everyone needs to keep cubing for a looong time :P
 
LL Cool Skip said:
I've been doing mainly OH and 2x2 practice in preparation for my competition this weekend. I've been hoping I will get a sub-5 avg on 2x2.

New 2x2 Ao12 pb today: 3.895 = (5.233), 3.633, 4.484, 4.683, 3.900, 4.483, 4.250, 3.435, 3.200, 3.683, 3.200, (2.834)

I got a 4.05 Ao12 two days ago also. These are crazy stupid and were both done without stackmat. Starting to think I should only count 2x2 pbs if stackmat.
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Damn man... I think you're at least gonna make it to finals. Might even make it to the same podium as Anthony Brooks :)
 
Everybody here is improving so much at everything, I need to practice more to keep up somewhat. So I tried my first MBLD in a few weeks, and finally got 6/6. Woohoo. Time was 40:50.78, which is about normal for me. Memo ~27 minutes.
 
EvilGnome6 said:
I've been chasing it for months and finally got my first sub 4 on 6x6 yesterday.
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Congrats! :D. Today I got my first sub-7, at 6:55 :). I don't practice 6x6 much but have done a few solves this week because it was lying on the desk. What method do you use and how much do you practise?

I am determined to get an official 5x5 average, which means either travelling abroad or meeting the UK comp 2:30 soft cut. The latter is cheaper in money but more expensive in time. I got 2:48 PB ao12 today so am heading in the right direction, but my projection tells me it will take about 2000 solves to get to 2:20 average, which is where I'd start to be optimistic of a sub-2:30 bo2 in comp. That's an ao12 per day for about 6 months. Hmmm. Any good comps coming up in Spain or Netherlands? :)
 
mark49152 said:
Congrats! :D. Today I got my first sub-7, at 6:55 :). I don't practice 6x6 much but have done a few solves this week because it was lying on the desk. What method do you use and how much do you practise?
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I use Yau with half centers on 4x4 through 7x7. I have a 4:15 6x6 solve posted on my YouTube channel which is slow enough to be a walkthrough. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5RL_TvM610

Process:

2 Centers
3 Cross edges
4 Centers
1 Cross edge
3x3

I work on 2x2 through 7x7 pretty much evenly and steal as much practice time as I can. I probably get 2-3 hours on each cube in 2-3 sessions through the week.

I am determined to get an official 5x5 average, which means either travelling abroad or meeting the UK comp 2:30 soft cut. The latter is cheaper in money but more expensive in time. I got 2:48 PB ao12 today so am heading in the right direction, but my projection tells me it will take about 2000 solves to get to 2:20 average, which is where I'd start to be optimistic of a sub-2:30 bo2 in comp. That's an ao12 per day for about 6 months. Hmmm. Any good comps coming up in Spain or Netherlands? :)
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Alternately, you can organize your own competition and set the cutoffs high enough for you to make them. :) That's how I got my 6x6 and 7x7 averages. ;)
 
I tried to film an average of 5 or 12 a couple of days ago but my partner came home halfway through the first solve and then I was talking to him and it messed me up, so I thought I would just upload a single so you can all see my crazed and uncoordinated panicky approach, haha! You can hear me say hello to him halfway through. There are a million things wrong with my technique, haha, but I would love some advice on which of them you think I should work on *first* to make the most impact. The last video I took was a 1:02.xx about 1.5 weeks into cubing, now it's been a couple of months and I managed to film this one.

 
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Rastinha said:
I tried to film an average of 5 or 12 a couple of days ago but my partner came home halfway through the first solve and then I was talking to him and it messed me up, so I thought I would just upload a single so you can all see my crazed and uncoordinated panicky approach, haha! You can hear me say hello to him halfway through. There are a million things wrong with my technique, haha, but I would love some advice on which of them you think I should work on *first* to make the most impact. The last video I took was a 1:02.xx about 1.5 weeks into cubing, now it's been a couple of months and I managed to film this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZmvOQt2-AI
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Hmmm, I'm pretty horrible at coaching anything. Looks like everything was good to me. :) Did you start the cross on top? I guess you might try to do it on bottom to help look ahead for your first F2L pair.
 
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