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[moralsh]

Seems like Mark got the 5x5x5 average he didn't want to jinx. that was it, wasn't it?

Huge congrats on that 2:30 average and good luck for next round!

 

[h2f]

Yes. I've seen in on cubecomps. Congratulations!

 

[mark49152]

Thanks, yeah, that was my target. Sneaking that 2:28 on the second solve was like scoring a goal. I nearly ripped my shirt off and dived on the table

Ben got a PB 3x3 average and 5x5 single but he's had to leave early despite making it to 3x3 second round

 

[mafergut]

What Isaac said; plus, try to predict during inspection what permutation you'll get on the bottom layer. Then you know what to expect when you get to PBL and that simplifies recognition. Remember that some Ortega OLLs affect the bottom layer permutation though!

My arm aches this morning from excessive cubing yesterday

Yeah, predicting the permutation you''l get in the bottom face/layer is a must in Ortega. Not only that but, if you know you'll get a bar you need to know which bar it is and where you put it. E.g.: almost all my PBLs have bottom bar in front so I already make the face so that the bar will end up in front so that I avoid rotations when I have to execute the PBL.

 

[chtiger]

Thanks guys. Got a 2:27 mean as well...! My target was sub-3 single so I'm well happy with today

Great overall times, consistency and accuracy. Did you go safer on your 3rd solve in the finals to make sure you got a mean?

 

[Logiqx]

Thanks, yeah, that was my target. Sneaking that 2:28 on the second solve was like scoring a goal. I nearly ripped my shirt off and dived on the table

Ben got a PB 3x3 average and 5x5 single but he's had to leave early despite making it to 3x3 second round

Well done both of you... PB fest!

 

[mark49152]

Well done both of you... PB fest!

Cheers - yeah lots of green blobs on cubecomps today

Great overall times, consistency and accuracy. Did you go safer on your 3rd solve in the finals to make sure you got a mean?

Yes but I didn't start out intending that. I was going for speed again, but struggled with the memo. When I realised it was not going to be fast, I decided to make it safe.

 

[JanW]

Lots of PBs today. Ao5: 30.79, Ao12: 32.00, Ao50: 33.83, Ao100: 34.85. (Best Ao5 was >33 before this.) Only the single remained untouched, still at 26.20 since a couple of weeks back. In the past couple of days I've done a few hundred F2L solves with the metronome, slowly increasing the tempo, and it seems like it's paying off.

 

[Jason Green]

Lots of PBs today. Ao5: 30.79, Ao12: 32.00, Ao50: 33.83, Ao100: 34.85. (Best Ao5 was >33 before this.) Only the single remained untouched, still at 26.20 since a couple of weeks back. In the past couple of days I've done a few hundred F2L solves with the metronome, slowly increasing the tempo, and it seems like it's paying off.

Cool you'll be under 30 soon I bet!

 

[mafergut]

Yeah, I agree. You will be sub-30 in no time, I'm sure. But, just one piece of advice from what just happened to me. It's the same advice I give me several times every day

I was solving and, as usual, the times were not really what I expected. Last 12 were:

(21.77), 19.96, 21.50, 18.78, 20.18, (17.87), 20.08, 20.00, 21.33, 19.99, 21.18, 20.38 = 20.34 Ao12.

So, I say to myself, let's stop trying to go fast and let's go slow, focus on lookahead, forget about the times...

And then, in the very next solve, this happens:

14.67 F' U' F' R B' U' L U2 F R2 F2 B2 U2 R2 L' U2 F2 R' U2 L'

Not PB or anything but probably one of my best times (if not the best) while "slow solving" (full step).

 

[muchacho]

Lots of PBs today. Ao5: 30.79, Ao12: 32.00, Ao50: 33.83, Ao100: 34.85. (Best Ao5 was >33 before this.) Only the single remained untouched, still at 26.20 since a couple of weeks back. In the past couple of days I've done a few hundred F2L solves with the metronome, slowly increasing the tempo, and it seems like it's paying off.

Nice, are you still using your method for LL or a more conventional one?

 

[JanW]

Cool you'll be under 30 soon I bet!

Thanks! Sub-30 still feels far away. Even single sub-30 solves are still quite rare. That Ao5 was exceptional, only time I've ever done consecutive sub-30 solves. But hopefully I'll get there soon.

Yeah, I agree. You will be sub-30 in no time, I'm sure. But, just one piece of advice from what just happened to me. It's the same advice I give me several times every day

...

So, I say to myself, let's stop trying to go fast and let's go slow, focus on lookahead, forget about the times...

So familiar! I really need to concentrate on going slow, or times go up by 5+ seconds.

Nice, are you still using your method for LL or a more conventional one?

Yes, still the same one. I'm planning to switch to ZZ and learn PLL as soon as I can say with confidence that I'm sub-30 with this method.

 

[h2f]

Thanks! Sub-30 still feels far away. Even single sub-30 solves are still quite rare. That Ao5 was exceptional, only time I've ever done consecutive sub-30 solves. But hopefully I'll get there soon.

I'm sure that with slow turning practice you will get sub30 soon than you think. You are very close. Maybe before the end of the year.

At the moment I do a lot of sight solves with advanced M2/3style based on Mark's thread.

 

[newtonbase]

21.58s PB single. Full step. Used a new OLL I learned here straight into T perm with no AUF or rotation needed.

Have you considered FMC JanW? I think you'd like it.

edit: 9.23s PB single on 2x2 too but the AO12 was awful. I had a counting solve that was slower than any of my 3x3 solves this evening.

 

[JanW]

Nice PB newtonbase!

Have you considered FMC JanW? I think you'd like it.

Yes, I also think I would like it. I've looked at it a bit, just the basics, but noticed that I'd need to know a lot more algs, and probably also spend some time with block building methods, before I could do it seriously. I'm pretty sure I will look more into it later, seems very interesting to me.

 

[mark49152]

My strategy of picking two events and practising only those between comps seemed to work well for me at WTC. I practised only 5x5 and 3BLD since UKC, got good PBs in both, and it didn't seem to hurt my 3x3 or 4x4 too much. I can't decide which two to practise next though. Next comp is end of January and there's no big BLD. Not even sure what my goals should be.

At the moment I do a lot of sight solves with advanced M2/3style based on Mark's thread.

How's it going? One goal I definitely have is to add some corner comms to my solving. Although I know some, I'm hesitant, and so at comp I revert to simple OP. Same goes for M2. At the comp last weekend, I used very few tricks, I just hammered out basic M2/OP as fast as I could. I'm not sure how to eliminate the hesitation - I would have thought just lots of practice, but that hasn't done it for me...

 

[h2f]

It works fine. I had a tooth pain in the night so I've watched Noah's tutorial about 3style. I've realized I do seldom sighted solves and maybe thats why my accuracy is so bad. Thats why I've tried it. After one day my accuracy today is 7/10 and I've solved using few nice tricks. Same with corner comms - some hard cases when you have to do them backwards because the interchange goes through buffer seemed to me easier. I also started to analyze Ollie's list for big blds and there are few easy tricks for 3style for example y' U' R2 U, M/M2/M' (or r/r2/r' for big cubes). The same is with Meneghetti's list which I use when I cant figure out hot to do a case with comms. I think advanced M2 really makes transition to 3style easy.

Intresting thing about practicing only 2 events.

 

[mark49152]

Intresting thing about practicing only 2 events.

I don't have much practice time these days so figured it would be better to focus rather than try to practise everything.

For the next 5 weeks I'm thinking maybe 3BLD/multi and 4x4. I'm going to switch from mini to full-size Aosu because I've finally given up hope that the mini's catching will go away. I can't see myself beating 3BLD PB for a while, so might focus on accuracy and multi, as well as learning some comms for fun.

Edit: Maybe 4BLD would be a good way to practise accuracy...

 

[h2f]

I found 4bld my the most liked bld event. You have memorize more information than 3bld not as many as in 5bld. Execution is nice, comms for centers are easy and there are only 6-8 3cycles. But I've never done a week practice - I mean doing only it for a week or few days. It must be intresting. Next week maybe? Or just 5x5 to be sub-3?

 

[mark49152]

I found 4bld my the most liked bld event. You have memorize more information than 3bld not as many as in 5bld. Execution is nice, comms for centers are easy and there are only 6-8 3cycles.

Yes I like 4BLD too. It's not enough information to be good practice for 4+ cube multi though. 5BLD might be good for that. Practising multi is boring, so I might do 5BLD as a way of practising memorizing that much info.