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h2f said:
http://m.cubecomps.com/competitions/1392/competitors/36

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Wow! Nice times, specially in 3x3 and skewb, and also a nice OH single! And nice 3BLD times, a pity that one of those two last attempts were not fully correct as the times were so good. I assume that you maybe forced a bit after the 1st "safe" success?

muchacho said:
Megaminx race to sub-5 ao12... not improving much, in fact mo6 from today is worse than yesterday's by 20 seconds (ao12 PB: 5:27)
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Have you learned some algs for LL this week? I still find it so tedious with my current method... Anyway, you still have plenty of time and, also, this can happen to me as well. I did my 6th solve of the week apart from WC and it was not good either (well over 5 minutes).

But after doing like 200 3x3 solves this weekend I'm now improving 4x4 and 5x5 with the WC scrambles. It was like 1 month ago that I had last done a long 3x3 session and it looks like it is paying off, and not only at 3x3 :)
 
No, I looked at it but it was too late for learning anything useful for LL, but probably for the race to sub-4 (in a few months, and I'll learn how to make pairs). Tomorrow I should be doing most solves really close to 5 minutes (and it looks impossible right now) or I'll lose.
 
midwatchcowboy said:
49yo here. Hadn't picked up a cube since maybe 1983? Had solve the original Rubik's Cube by feel. No algorithms. Wife bought my son a new Rubik's at Target. He got frustrated. I found out about CFOP solve techniques via youtube and have a new Moyu HuaLong and am sub 3 min with a few simple algorithms. Hope to add more to the bag of tricks.
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Welcome. You've found the best place on the internet to improve.
 
Again 3 fails at 3BLD in the WC. Far from my 1st success. At least I got success in the 3 2BLD scrambles :)

EDIT: I just verified the 3rd scramble, repeated it sighted and I had it all right. My only mistake was when executing R-perm for parity. I did an extra U turn at the end. The R-perm I use needs a U as setup and ends with a U, that I should have canceled with the U' to undo the setup but I did it out of muscle memory and then I did not undo the setup, ending with a wrongly oriented U face for edges :(
 
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h2f said:
http://m.cubecomps.com/competitions/1392/competitors/36

patataj patataj patataj
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Super awesome! It slipped past me that you were first in BLD! Have you ever gotten first before? What other older cubers have gotten first in an event? I know winning isn't everything, but it can sure make everything else seem like nothing. :)

So I've been talking to my brother about creating some t-shirts for me. I think I want something to do with being an older cuber. He'd probably put them on red bubble so others could order if you like. We are open to ideas. I envision an "old man cube", like a cube with a white beard and maybe reading glasses. I'm not sure what it should say. I considered "I'm the cuber, not the parent". I think my favorite idea is capital CFOP that says "Cubing is For Old People". ;) Any ideas are appreciated!
 
Jason Green said:
Super awesome! It slipped past me that you were first in BLD! Have you ever gotten first before? What other older cubers have gotten first in an event? I know winning isn't everything, but it can sure make everything else seem like nothing. :)
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At least François Courtès, Ron van Bruchem, Lars Petrus and Guus Razoux Schultz won while being "officially old". Nice group to join in, Grzegorz!
 
moralsh said:
Some PBs also for me:

http://cubecomps.com/live.php?cid=1388&compid=2

I hope for a better 3x3x3 tomorrow, but very happy with my bigcubes averages :)
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Raul - great! You got mean in 6x6 an 7x7, ao5 in 4x4 and 5x5 - impressive! Good luck, today!

muchacho said:
Nice, you are close to getting some serious times in 3BLD.
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Yeah. My goal now is to be sub-1, I know it's possible to me though when I started I've never dreamed to be sub-2.

mafergut said:
Wow! Nice times, specially in 3x3 and skewb, and also a nice OH single! And nice 3BLD times, a pity that one of those two last attempts were not fully correct as the times were so good. I assume that you maybe forced a bit after the 1st "safe" success?
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OH single in 2nd sove was a surprise for me - I havent practiced OH for 3 months (since last comp). Skewb makes me fun and my progress in that event is surprise to me. I think I will practice it more. Scrambles were fine - no 1 movers and only 1 Zperm (the worst time).

In 3bld I knew theres no top 10 in Poland on that comp, so it's enough to make a solve to win. This thought made me paralyzed. Luckily I got first solve on cam and you will see reaction. After that I thought it's not a great result to be the first so I pushed myself to make a real good solve. But in both I've messed up corners. The 3rd was really good and easy (8 corners to memo but only 10 edges) but I did wrong comm and finished with all top corners twisted.
after all - there's gold and I'm happy. It was worth to practice 3bld so hard. :)

@Mark @David @Jason @Mike @all - Thank you. It matters to me. :)
 
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@Jason Thank you!

@Grzegorz, How does it feel to have a gold? I'm envious of your times :) I really need to push BLD

I also DNFed (1 attempt each) 4BLD (a non existant edges parity and 2 centers in 12:50) and 5BLD (2 centers also and a lot of wings and midges because I didn't undid an edge setup, I think) I'll try to do another 2 today, but organizing a big comp is a pain.

I'll comment further tonight, I'm leaving like in 10 minutes for day 2.
 
moralsh said:
Some PBs also for me:

http://cubecomps.com/live.php?cid=1388&compid=2

I hope for a better 3x3x3 tomorrow, but very happy with my bigcubes averages :)
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Very nice, congrats! And good luck today!

I don't know much about big cubes, but that 7x7 times seems to be the best of them, right? Why is 6x6 ones not as good? The cube is worst? BTW, what cubes did you use? (I'm thinking of buying a 7x7 Shengshou Mini, although I don't expect I'll try to speedsolve it, is that cube good enough?)
 
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