Older cubers discussions

[mafergut]

Nice. But with last f2l with sledge you could miss that OLL and PLL skip.

Sure, but I didn't know that when I was solving so, in the end, it was good that I missed both improvements, because both lead to non-PLL-skips solves, as you say. Anyway, I normally don't pay much attention to EO with last slot because generally I don't find dot cases so much harder than others, nor all cross cases easier than others, like in this case where, by avoiding to orient all edges I got a T OLL Meanwhile, had I oriented all the edges I would have gotten a bowtie, which is a bit slower. Lucky me!

Anyway, I think, statistically, it must be worth it, as you can get more sunes/antisunes or easy COLL cases, etc. At least I think I should concentrate a bit more on that for OH.

 

[moralsh]

Congrats Mark, I'll follow soon, I hope

And I did, 42:50 (23:xx), first scramble on the weekly comp. Yay!!!!

 

[mark49152]

Thanks everyone, and ...

And I did, 42:50 (23:xx), first scramble on the weekly comp. Yay!!!!

Congrats Raul !! . 5BLD is cool. What method do you use?

 

[moralsh]

Thanks!

I use r2, OP with some comms, and comms for both types of centers, which at the moment takes most of my execution time, but I'll improve that.

And yes, in the last 2 weeks I have gone from pure laziness to wanting to try again and again. My improved memo system since last week has helped a lot, I didn't have enough precision before that to even bother trying.

Feels great.

 

[h2f]

Congrats Raul. Great! You will improve very soon with comms. They are very easy and efficient.

BTW. I was doing that scramble and I havent got any parity on it. I'm sure I have miscrambled it...

 

[moralsh]

I just rescrambled the cube and the memo is OK, so either you misscrambled once or I did twice

and Thanks!

 

[h2f]

Yeah, I had to miscramble it.

 

[mark49152]

I use r2, OP with some comms, and comms for both types of centers, which at the moment takes most of my execution time, but I'll improve that.

I don't find comms as easy as everyone says they are, but I have started doing a lot more setups to the U2 interchange to avoid the trickier cases. My X-centres execution now takes me about 1:20 on average on 4x4. No idea about T-centres but much longer due to less practice.

 

[h2f]

You will find +centers much easier than x-centers. Theres no any special alf for U or D layer. Just a simple trick which is a 3cycle. I dont know how many time my xcenters take - I think that it's still too long because I'm afraid to make a wrong 3cycle.

 

[Hssandwich]

And I did, 42:50 (23:xx), first scramble on the weekly comp. Yay!!!!

Although I am not an older cuber, I do read this thread sometimes, and I couldn't help noticing the vast number of people getting their first 5BLD success on the weekly comp this week, me included. Congratulations to all!

 

[mark49152]

Although I am not an older cuber, I do read this thread sometimes, and I couldn't help noticing the vast number of people getting their first 5BLD success on the weekly comp this week, me included. Congratulations to all!

You don't have to be old to be welcome here . I have seen your 4BLD and 5BLD progress on the accomplishment thread. It's great to see other UK cubers getting interested - hopefully the events will get held more often .

 

[SenorJuan]

You remember me saying I bought a LingPo 2x2x2 as a Christmas present for a 'lapsed 80's cuber' friend? Well he was sufficiently impressed that he's gone and bought himself a MoYu 3x3x3 (not sure which one). Could this be the start of something? Will he be showing off his collection of ghost cubes/mirror blocks/helicopter cubes next time I visit?

 

[mafergut]

You remember me saying I bought a LingPo 2x2x2 as a Christmas present for a 'lapsed 80's cuber' friend? Well he was sufficiently impressed that he's gone and bought himself a MoYu 3x3x3 (not sure which one). Could this be the start of something? Will he be showing off his collection of ghost cubes/mirror blocks/helicopter cubes next time I visit?

Oh man! You might not know what you started there! I hope he's on this forum in no time sharing thought, times and everything. Congratulations on spreading the speedcubing virus.

 

[Logiqx]

I guess my commuter practice is paying off. Quite a few 16's today...

12+: 1
13+: 3
14+: 4
15+: 5
16+: 20
17+: 17
18+: 29
19+: 14
20+: 18
21+: 12
22+: 2
23+: 1

 

[Selkie]

First 5BLD success, in 39:49 - yay!

Sorry for the belated grats, been away on business. Awesome stuff

Pretty crazy PB single. First sub-12!!!!

Fantastic

And I did, 42:50 (23:xx), first scramble on the weekly comp. Yay!!!!

Congratulations too, so many 5BLD successes. Must get back on my 3BLD


Been practicing Square 1 on my new Qiyi last few days having had to relearn. Gone down from ~55 average a few days ago to sub 45 with a 37s average on film. Really enjoying Square 1 and really want to try and push for sub 30

 

[ryuusei86]

You remember me saying I bought a LingPo 2x2x2 as a Christmas present for a 'lapsed 80's cuber' friend? Well he was sufficiently impressed that he's gone and bought himself a MoYu 3x3x3 (not sure which one). Could this be the start of something? Will he be showing off his collection of ghost cubes/mirror blocks/helicopter cubes next time I visit?

That friend of yours could basically be me. Soon I'll have that kind of collection to show off too as I just placed an order at cubezz.com for something like half a dozen puzzles. They're on vacation for another week, so I took a chance and placed a separate order at the Cubicle for a whole bunch of stickers. I'm setting my expectations low -- I'm thinking I won't see either shipment for at least three weeks if not a month.

Since I can now solve the Square-1 (with online cheat sheets), I'm no longer as afraid of shape-shifting puzzles, so at cubezz.com I ordered one of their 2x2x2 mirror blocks. (The larger ones are still a bit scary to me.) I think I also ordered a Shengshou Skewb, a YJ Yupo 2x2 and their GuanSu 4x4, a clock puzzle, and (just because I used to have one of these too in the 1980s) a snake puzzle. The order will take forever to get to me as I said, but getting six puzzles for $35 shipped, I feel like I won the lottery.

I am well aware that this is only beginning, and the 5x5 will come next, and possibly a 3x3 mirror block. I'm glad this hobby is fairly cheap compared to, say, playing golf or motorcycle riding.

 

[Selkie]

You remember me saying I bought a LingPo 2x2x2 as a Christmas present for a 'lapsed 80's cuber' friend?

Haha. That was me and my wife bought me a 3x3 as a stocking filler in Christmas 2010, oh what did she rekindle!?

 

[mark49152]

Went through the video of my 5-cube 44:32 MBLD and worked out where the time went:-
- average first-pass memo per cube = 3:25
- average full review per cube = 1:32 (recall and trace on cube to check for mistakes)
- total time spent in light reviews = 4:23 (recalling memo without checking against cube)
- amount of life utterly wasted memorising cube 5 in the wrong orientation = 5:26
- execution = 9:55

It's probably of interest to nobody except me, but I learned a few things. First of all, reviews are expensive. I spent ~17 mins on memo and ~12 mins on reviews - so 40% of total memo time was reviewing. That's way more than I thought. Secondly, my execution in MBLD is really slow - like twice the time of regular 3BLD - but it's still a small proportion of the attempt, less than a quarter.

I now have a scientifically formulated masterplan for my next attempt .

 

[muchacho]

I am well aware that this is only beginning, and the 5x5 will come next, and possibly a 3x3 mirror block. I'm glad this hobby is fairly cheap compared to, say, playing golf or motorcycle riding.

Fairly cheap it is, I've just bought a Yuxin 5x5 for $12.xx as fasttech, and a Qiyi Square-1 for less than $7.

 

[earth2dan]

Selkie. Watching your Square-1 video makes me want to buy a QiYi Square-1. I have an old one, I don't even know what brand it is, but it's awful. Strictly for casual solving. I'd lost interest in Square-1 but if the QiYi moves as good as you make it look, I want one

Your 3x3 videos are an inspiration too. It looks like you're turning slow, but you're killing it. I've been chasing sub20 for over a year and I'm finally getting close. Watching you solve gives me hope that I could even see sub15 one day.

Lots of discussion about blind solving here too. I've been wanting to give that another try. I tried last year and I should have put more time into learning technique. I tried to develop my own memory system and I only ever had success with 2-look solves. I could memorize the edges in one look, solve them, then memorize the corners in a second look, and solve them. After watching the first of Noah's tutorial videos I can see there is a much better way. I think I'll be giving 3BLD another chance soon.