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mafergut said:
Is that the CB G4 stickerless then? And is it already broken in? I was told it takes a while until it's good but you seem to have no problems whatsoever.
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To be fair though the cube is only a few days old I have done about 250 solves on it already. I absolutely love it and it gets better and better each solve, a fantastic cube, can't recommend it enough.

h2f said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6-IIuAgrLM
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Lovely solve and so few pauses Grzegorz :tu

EDIT: Grzegorz, what was the name of your camera again, I need to order one for comp and I cannot find the post, sorry :(
 
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Selkie said:
52.2 4x4 PB - LL was just OLL parity! - On a Cyclone Boys G4 Stickerless and I said I couldnt solve on stickerless, its growing on me :)
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Mine has now arrived and today I went on from equalising my PB (2:03.xx) then onto getting a new PB, breaking the 2-minute barrier for the first time with a 1:59.68. Very impressed by this cube, seems to work for me better overall than the Aosu and is probably an insta-main. Sometimes the Cyclone gets caught on an inner-M slice in ways my Aosu doesn't, but it may just need more breaking in.

mark49152 said:
For anyone interested, here's my MBLD from Manchester Open 2016. Sorry for the glum reaction - I was just mentally tired and glad to get the blindfold off :).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63t_X7-fIOQ
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Thanks for sharing. This was good to relive. And once again, well done. :cool:
 
Shaky Hands said:
Mine has now arrived and today I went on from equalising my PB (2:03.xx) then onto getting a new PB, breaking the 2-minute barrier for the first time with a 1:59.68. Very impressed by this cube, seems to work for me better overall than the Aosu and is probably an insta-main. Sometimes the Cyclone gets caught on an inner-M slice in ways my Aosu doesn't, but it may just need more breaking in.
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Pleased it has had a similar impact on you. Congratulations on the PBs Andy :)

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Another unboxing of a few cubes from UK Cube Store for those interested. Apologies for the video spam today :) ... And apologies I cant review a Pyraminx :D

QiYi Square-1 Stickerless
QiYi Pyraminx Stickerless
MoYu Tanglong Black
MoYu AoFu Cubic 7x7 Black
MoYu GuanSu 4x4 White

 
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muchacho said:
I'll take a break when I reach sub-4, not from Megaminx but from racing, I'll just do untimed slow solves for some weeks to practice pairing, and I'll also try to learn some algs and mod a Shengshou.
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Well, yeah, maybe I should do the same and stop for a bit to learn a proper set of algs for LL :)
Regarding modding I'm just too lazy but I know I should do it.
 
mafergut said:
Well, yeah, maybe I should do the same and stop for a bit to learn a proper set of algs for LL :)
Regarding modding I'm just too lazy but I know I should do it.
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This describes exactly my current state of Megaminx.
I use a YuHu and ordered a ShengShou to have a better one after modding and finally I was too lazy so keep using the YuHu.
I still use the beginner method for LL (with sune spam etc.).
Although I'm at low 3min now after learning Westlunds S2L method.
 
Awesome 4x4 progress Chris & Grzegorz, thanks for posting! Nice reaction Grzegorz :)

h2f said:
I do R U R' U' seutp and when I do parity r2 U2 r2 Uw2 r2 Uw2 U2 I dont do last U2 but only U' R U R'.
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I tried this out this evening and actually prefer the inverse - so R U R' U setup and U R U' R' undo. I push the second U with left index while adjusting right hand for the slice.

Jason Green said:
Amazing. I want to do something amazing some day. :)
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Dude you're doing something amazing every day you pick up a cube :cool:
 
@ Mark, @Chris - I was very surprised - I got flew and I thought it was much longer.

I remember about 6bld race - finally I did 5bld in sub 20:00 - 19:58. I got it on cam. Execution was around 8 minutes.
 
Hello fellow oldies,

I've been lurking but not posting much on this thread for the past few months. Mainly this has been because I have been single-mindedly focused on FMC. I wanted to do well in the FMC Europe comp a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, I had a total melt-down and got 3 DNFs... :-(

Anyway, I"ll be coming to the first day of the North London comp, so I'm going to focus practice on the events that are on that day (feet, mega, pyra, 2x2, 3bld, 4x4 and 5x5). I see a few of you have been practising megaminx... I've not done a timed solve in over a year, I think, but I'll do some soon and will post my times. Anyone else into feet? I quite enjoyed doing it last year, although I found the stackmat rumpled up and got in the way. The other thing I'd really like to manage is a 3bld average, although I have a feeling that might be out of reach at the moment...
 
bubbagrub said:
OK -- here's my first Ao5 for Mega:

5:38.02
5:47.73
5:32.40
5:09.53
4:06.14

I got lucky on the 5th one (easy EO case and EP skip)
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Nice to see more Megaminx solvers in this thread! :D


Ao5 PB on 2x2... I was not expecting it, I've done only 135 solves in last 30 days, but it happened, twice, previous PB (5.997) was set on December 3rd, today I first did a 5.922 and a few solves later 5.784. One of the scrambles had a layer already built :p ...I could have used CMLL, I tried later and got a 3.863.

5. 6.768 R U' R2 U' R U2 F2 R' U
4. 6.057 U R U2 F2 U' R2 U R
3. 5.888 R' F2 R' U R F2 R U R2 U'
2. 4.856 U' F' U2 F' U' R2 F U R'
1. 5.407 F2 U' R F' R2 U' F2 U2 R'
 
Finally, megaminx ao12 under 4 minutes...

Ao12 PB: 3:46.847

12. 3:27.039
3:35.675
(DNF)
4:25.519
3:47.202
3:51.130
3:48.161
3:37.260
3:46.609
3:29.372
3:49.739
1. 3:37.811

Also ao5 PB (first 5 solves): 3:40.560
 
Very nice, David. Better than mine. Today I have done another 5 solves but nothing great, to be honest. If I try to push a bit to go faster I lock up a lot and end up with worse times. I will have to consider either modding my SS or buying a Dayan.
 
h2f said:
Nice David. On cam?
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mafergut said:
Very nice, David. Better than mine. Today I have done another 5 solves but nothing great, to be honest. If I try to push a bit to go faster I lock up a lot and end up with worse times. I will have to consider either modding my SS or buying a Dayan.
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Thanks. Not in cam, I'll try to record some solves once I am good at pairing and have the Shengsou modded and broken in... so in three-six months :o
 
Here's a nice video from one of the competitors at AZCubing Winter 2016. I think they captured the venue and atmosphere of the event really well.

 
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