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Yeah, you totalled owned me and the order I'm waiting for, that I think I already mentioned here anyway, with a Yuexiao, Tornado, SS Gigaminx, SS 3x3 mirrorblocks, Yuxin 2x2, QiYi Pyra and YJ Guansu.
 
Sub-5 single or ao12? if it's average it may be difficult for me (I'm not even going to try to learn to build pairs for now), my plan is doing 6 solves every day until I average less than 6 minutes.
 
muchacho said:
Sub-5 single or ao12? if it's average it may be difficult for me (I'm not even going to try to learn to build pairs for now), my plan is doing 6 solves every day until I average less than 6 minutes.
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I was just kidding but if you wanna give it a go I don't mind either one of those or other like Ao5 or Mo3. Of course if it is Ao12 it will take much longer. I also only do the 5 solves in the WC and even this past week I could not find the time to do Mega as I'm trying to do more and more time consuming events (at least for me) like 5x5 and the relays, etc.

MarcelP said:
I take around 30 minutes so you are fine here :)
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I'm sure you're exaggerating by a lot :)
 
So 6 solves a day against 5 solves a week? it seems fair to me, let's go! :p

I'm trying to focus in 1 or 2 events at a time, I would probably improve less than 0 if I only did 5 solves each week.
 
muchacho said:
So 6 solves a day against 5 solves a week? it seems fair to me, let's go! :p

I'm trying to focus in 1 or 2 events at a time, I would probably improve less than 0 if I only did 5 solves each week.
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I know what you mean. I'm trying to practice too many new events and progress is quite slow. In skewb and pyra I have stumbled aroud 15 average and in 4x4 and 5x5 I can't get even close to decent times yet. The same with Mega.

So, it's a race! :)

EDIT: Sorry, but... was it a race to Ao12? Because, I'm afraid, if it is single, I was doing the WC#07 scrambles and on my 1st solve (yes, 1st Mega solve in two weeks, as last week I didn't do Mega) I got a quite easy LL and stopped the timer at 4:22.38. I don't have it on cam but trust me, it's real! The only explanation is that 5x5 practise has helped my lookahead on mega and the super-easy LL I got (it was just F 2-sexy F' to orient edges, 2 sunes to permute edges, one Niklas to permute corners and voilá, all corners were already oriented :)
 
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I feel bad about bringing up my n00bness, but I just now solved the first two layers on a 3x3 cube completely by inspection, first solving one 1x2x3 side, then the opposite 1x2x3 side, and then the middle two layers between them. There was tons of trial and error, but this might be a breakthrough. As I recall this is something like the Roux method.

I then got greedy and just solved the last layer with the beginners' method, but maybe I should have left that middle slice free instead of solving it, and instead solved what I could of the last layer using the slice and the U face. I will give it a try later.
 
ryuusei86 said:
I feel bad about bringing up my n00bness, but I just now solved the first two layers on a 3x3 cube completely by inspection, first solving one 1x2x3 side, then the opposite 1x2x3 side, and then the middle two layers between them. There was tons of trial and error, but this might be a breakthrough. As I recall this is something like the Roux method.

I then got greedy and just solved the last layer with the beginners' method, but maybe I should have left that middle slice free instead of solving it, and instead solved what I could of the last layer using the slice and the U face. I will give it a try later.
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Cool! Yeah I think that's like Roux although I don't know it. I probably would have a very hard time doing that middle later stuff!
 
@Jason Green

I've relearnt dot cases in OLLs. I havent used them and finally forgot but realized I need to know them - it's better. Now I finally know all OLLs and PLLs. :)
 
MarcelP said:
No, I can only solve Megaminx intuitively, So lot's of trial and error with Sune, anti Sune :) It takes that long.
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I know what you mean. I started that way and slowly started to make it more sistematic but it still is a 4 step last layer where I have to apply the same alg several times per step so, the difference from a very lucky LL like the one in my new PB yesterday of 4:22.xx and a bad one can be over a minute.

Orienting edges is easy, you have basically 3 cases and all of them can be solved with FRUR'U'F' or variants of that. For permuting edges I just use sune or antisune, but as this only cycles 3 edges I might need from just 1 or 2 up to 5-6 sunes, then I use an adaptation of Niklas to permute corners, that has the same problem, it only cycles 3 corners, so, for these two steps, whenever you have two non-adjacent pieces in place it's hard to leave all correctly permuted and I can't do the alg in the other direction so lots of Niklas in bad cases. Then orienting the corners is easy with beginners' corner twist procedure but it can take a while when you have to orient more than 2 or 3.

I have to definitely learn some algs to speed up the permutation of edges and corners. I would also benefit from swapping the order of the two last steps (CP and CO) as CP is easier to see when corners are already oriented. It's not the first time that I fumble the corners around when they were already in the right spot.
 
MarcelP said:
Nice order :) Did you get it with 'rush'?
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Yes but then realised my mistake as the order contains a Cubicle custom 3x3 so cannot be rushed :)


Been re-learning forgotten puzzles preparing for the comp in April. This week is clock week. Quite pleased with progress, this is the fastest Ao12:-

Ao12 16.27 - 18.15, (12.74), (18.71), 18.01, 17.02, 14.29, 14.64, 15.21, 18.14, 15.35, 16.60, 15.30

Megaminx, now there is a puzzle I have not solved for a while. My LL consisted to sune, asune and commutators. Not sure I'll solve it at comp again but may do a bit of practice next month.
 
Selkie said:
Been re-learning forgotten puzzles preparing for the comp in April. This week is clock week. Quite pleased with progress, this is the fastest Ao12:-

Ao12 16.27 - 18.15, (12.74), (18.71), 18.01, 17.02, 14.29, 14.64, 15.21, 18.14, 15.35, 16.60, 15.30
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Looks good to me. I was thinking of doing Clock in April too, but figure I'll be about 40 seconds. I do like Clock... it's an easy puzzle, I'm just far from quick at it.
 
Shaky Hands said:
Looks good to me. I was thinking of doing Clock in April too, but figure I'll be about 40 seconds. I do like Clock... it's an easy puzzle, I'm just far from quick at it.
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I have never tried clock but, from all WCA puzzles it's the only one that I don't think I'd like. It's the only one that's not a "twisty puzzle" and what I like is moving pieces around so, clock is just not for me.
 
It is a very different puzzle to twisty. I use Pochmann method which is also always the same order of solving so not much to learn to be fair. Only good thing about the event for me is I use the same clock as I received as a Christmas present in the late 1980's :)
 
h2f said:
@Jason Green

I've relearnt dot cases in OLLs. I havent used them and finally forgot but realized I need to know them - it's better. Now I finally know all OLLs and PLLs. :)
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It's a fun feeling, even though I need much practice to get recognition and recall down. Plus it's another cool thing you can tell non cubers how many you know and sound impressive. Of course they are impressed if you solve the cube in 1:30. :)
 
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