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Any good comps coming up in Spain or Netherlands? :)
Tomorrow in Mijas (Málaga) three-minute cutoff for 5x5.

Next weekend in Terrassa (Barcelona) also a three-minute cutoff.

I think that's normal in Spain, I also remember seeing some four-minute cutoffs for 5x5. It must be to attract turists from UK and Poland :D
 
Registration is closed. Looks like my options are Finland or South Africa.
Finland is usually nice, but Finland in November isn't necessarily the nicest experience...

Looks like I would already have a chance to make it into the top 100 in national rankings for both 3x3 single and average, if I can avoid excessive amounts of vodka in the last few hours leading up to the comp and perform at normal level. In 3bld a successful solve would be enough to get into the top 20. :D Unfortunately I can't make it to the next comp and the one after that is side events only, no 3x3. The quest for official results will have to wait.
 
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.

I did it kind of cross in front for half and then cross on bottom. I know my look ahead needs improving, probably one of the main reasons why my F2L is so slow. That and I need some better algorithms so it doesn't take me 20 moves to do an F2L pair where the pieces are adjacent or on top of each other, haha :)
 
I did it kind of cross in front for half and then cross on bottom. I know my look ahead needs improving, probably one of the main reasons why my F2L is so slow. That and I need some better algorithms so it doesn't take me 20 moves to do an F2L pair where the pieces are adjacent or on top of each other, haha :)
I just recently saw this video on f2l and I like it. Especially how you can try the four triggers for any case where they are paired to teach yourself the best solution. (I'm on my phone and don't recall how to insert the link like Mike showed me)

https://youtu.be/-3qLnfDZqG0
 
Go get them! Break a leg :)

I think I've broken my leg and got a little disaster: http://cubecomps.com/live.php?cid=1223&compid=29
But I know you didnt mean it. :)

What happedn if FM? Answer is simple: mistakes in notation. I wrote y instead of y', B instead of B' and D instead of D'. In last solve I found 33 moves solution. Next time gonna be better. In OH - I dont know what happend. In 3bld - I was very tired and memo was awfull. There wasnt any bigger break. But I'm quite happy with time: first official solve with turbo/3style. I need much more practice. Next two were dnfs because of mistakes in undoing setups. They were sub 2 (I remeber last one 1:47.xx). And only in 3x3 I've made a pb ao5: 22.65. In 20.20 I got Nb perm which I dont like and I do it in 3 seconds. With hard recognition it took me 5 seconds.
 
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