Older cubers discussions

[Lid]

Do you prefer a Dayan with ridges or with tiles?

My main is one of my Mefferts, but if I had to go with Dayan, I would choose my tiled one. I guess it's hard after so many years with tiles to change style/preference.

12 first solves with the 4x4 CB: 1:10.19, so thumbs up so far, getting some minor locks hope those goes away with time.

 

[Selkie]

My time, though, should have been a bit better but I'm not complaining about 2nd week in a row with a sub-5 average at 2x2.

Great averages!

My main is one of my Mefferts, but if I had to go with Dayan, I would choose my tiled one. I guess it's hard after so many years with tiles to change style/preference.

12 first solves with the 4x4 CB: 1:10.19, so thumbs up so far, getting some minor locks hope those goes away with time.

The CB does have minor locking early on Stefan, especially on the inner layers. Have to say mine cleared in about 200 solves or so and as you probably know set loads and loads of 4x4 PBs on it in the last few weeks.

@Stickerless

Should get my 6x6, 7x7, Skewb and a few other goodies just after the weekend

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Watched videos on Hoya before but following seeing Mark solve Hoya and after some walkthrough solves by Adam Greenwood in Exeter at the weekend I have been practicing a little. Have to say I love the method. Have a sub 2:15.x single 2:24.x Ao5 and 2:28.x ao12. Will probably still use freeslice at the end of the month in London but after that its going to be Hoya all the way

 

[muchacho]

Also, maybe I'll make another 2x2 video this week. I liked the 1st scramble in the weekly comp #14 My time, though, should have been a bit better but I'm not complaining about 2nd week in a row with a sub-5 average at 2x2.

Tip: Full 1-look possible on 2nd try (not when I timed it for the WC). I wish I had gotten this scramble for 2BLD, I could have beaten my 2BLD PB by... a lot by solving with Ortega instead of with OP

Was this your solution? I only saw that there would be nothing solved in the bottom.
https://alg.cubing.net/?setup=F-_R2...R2- R_U_R-_U_R_U2_R- R2_F2_R2 U &puzzle=2x2x2

 

[mafergut]

Was this your solution? I only saw that there would be nothing solved in the bottom.
https://alg.cubing.net/?setup=F-_R2...R2- R_U_R-_U_R_U2_R- R2_F2_R2 U &puzzle=2x2x2

No, I went for another face but this one is quite nice also because of the double diag swap PBL
What time did you get on that?

I did this (spoiler for those that still did not do WC 2x2 this week):

Spoiler

x2 // Inspection, I predict OLL and see a move cancellation
U2 R' U R U2 R' // Cancellation of face into Sune
R2 U' B2 U2 R2 U' R2 // PBL
U' // AUF

After finishing the average, on a second, longer inspection, it was easy enough to 1-look the entire solve

 

[muchacho]

That's like magic to me.

Mine was 5.63

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Skewb PBs
Single: 6.496 (was 7.784)
Ao5: 11.887 (13.138)
Ao12: 14.530 (15.648)

 

[Selkie]

Watched videos on Hoya before but following seeing Mark solve Hoya and after some walkthrough solves by Adam Greenwood in Exeter at the weekend I have been practicing a little. Have to say I love the method. Have a sub 2:15.x single 2:24.x Ao5 and 2:28.x ao12. Will probably still use freeslice at the end of the month in London but after that its going to be Hoya all the way

New 2:06.14 Hoya PB

Excuse the "Bless you" mid solve. My wife sneezed

 

[h2f]

Maybe I will give Hoya a third try. Im practicingn yau5 in last few weeks and my times are around freeslice.

 

[newtonbase]

A Qiyi 2x2?! Better get one. I'm getting a spare G4 too as I love mine so much. Anything else I need to own before I check out?

 

[mafergut]

A Qiyi 2x2?! Better get one. I'm getting a spare G4 too as I love mine so much. Anything else I need to own before I check out?

Nothing I can think of right now, except the list of official WCA puzzles. So, if you have everything, that's it. Gonna have to get a QiYi Cavs 2x2 myself Not sure I can wait until you guys tell me how it is and then 1 month for lightake to send it to me
My Aofu GT still is missing and the tracking says it's at Guanzhou terminal or however it's written. It will not arrive on time for my birthday

 

[newtonbase]

O find Champion's Cube Store much faster than Lightake.

 

[Jason Green]

I always wake up to a load of updates, sometimes I read them before I get out of bed. I think of comments I want to make but then have a hard time remembering when I get around to replying.

Mark, I subscribed to your YouTube now also. That will make it nicer for me NOT to miss your videos when I catch up on YouTube some evenings. So I'll get to watch that awesome 4 BLD later!

Awesome averages Mike! Glad I'm part of the motivation, as you all certainly are for me!!

Well, I guess you guys convinced me I progressed pretty fast so far. I certainly don't think it's because of any special ability I have, but just that I've been lucky enough to find quite a lot of practice time. If you think about it, that's probably a major factor in kids getting so good as well. Sure they have more nimble minds and fingers, but being able to spend many hours a day cubing helps! I saw Anthony Brooks saying he probably cubed 5 or 6 hours a day for the first 3 years (on a video cast about the Beyond Rubik's exhibit).

 

[MarcelP]

Super excited about todays times!

Ao5=15.00, Ao12=15.87, Ao25=16.41

Edit: That's 0.6-0.7 faster than my previous PBs for Ao5 and Ao12.

Spoiler

Title: 3x3x3 Cube
Scrambler: 3x3x3 Simple
Session: 202
# of solving: 25
# of penalty: 0
# of DNF: 0
Std Dev: 1.439
Best of all: 12.998
Worst of all: 19.281
Average of all: 16.415
Best Avg of 5: 15.008
Best Avg of 12: 15.870
Best Avg of 25: 16.415
Avg of Inspection: 1185:56.091
---- Generated by KingEn Timer v3.3

Solving times: 18.595 15.804 15.883 18.706 16.120 17.640 16.718 16.997 19.281 16.111 15.090 12.998 19.131 16.982 16.379 17.686 14.808 15.071 16.878 15.147 14.657 18.261 16.729 13.802 14.368

Nice!! Time for some vids?

 

[newtonbase]

30.25 AO12 PB with a Thunderclap.

 

[Shaky Hands]

That's great Mark, congratulations. Did you finish up the G-perms in the end?

Well done too for the Hoya solve Chris, plus Michael for his own successes.

I managed 3x3 PB's earlier today for Ao5 (23.33), Ao12 (25.60), Ao25 (26.43) and Ao100 (28.12). Looks like my best run since about 2000 solves ago.

 

[earth2dan]

O find Champion's Cube Store much faster than Lightake.

Yep, much much much faster. I'm waiting on two Lightake orders right now, one is from January. They also messed up my most recent order for an AoFu GT and sent the wrong one. They were able to recall the package before it left the country and fix it, but now it's going to be even longer before I get it. I've never had a CCS order take longer than 3 weeks to arrive. I ordered my 13x13 from CCS and it was here in two days! TWO DAYS!

I do like the prices at Lightake, and their customer service is usually pretty good, but these waits are killing me. At this point I would gladly pay the extra $10 I saved right now just to get my puzzles

 

[newtonbase]

That's great Mark, congratulations. Did you finish up the G-perms in the end?

I do know them but there's a bit too much thinking time involved. Ga is the only one I'm confident with but Gc is still quicker than 2 look.

I'm going to have to have a look at Hoya after North London.

 

[newtonbase]

Yep, much much much faster. I'm waiting on two Lightake orders right now, one is from January. They also messed up my most recent order for an AoFu GT and sent the wrong one. They were able to recall the package before it left the country and fix it, but now it's going to be even longer before I get it. I've never had a CCS order take longer than 3 weeks to arrive. I ordered my 13x13 from CCS and it was here in two days! TWO DAYS!

I do like the prices at Lightake, and their customer service is usually pretty good, but these waits are killing me. At this point I would gladly pay the extra $10 I saved right now just to get my puzzles

2 days is amazing. 1 to 2 weeks is fairly typical and is half the time of Lightake. As you say, Lightake can be cheap but when I sit there thinking I've saved a dollar but could have had my order a week earlier it is usually with regret.

 

[earth2dan]

New 2:06.14 Hoya PB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hYNWD28Pn8&feature=youtu.be

Excuse the "Bless you" mid solve. My wife sneezed

Very nice. I've been doing more 5x5 than any other event lately and this really makes me want to give Hoya5 a go

 

[Logiqx]

Nice!! Time for some vids?

I'll have a go when I'm at home this weekend. I might get funny looks on the train.

 

[mark49152]

So nice, Mark. Without those mistakes (incredible that you could undo them and end up with a solved cube!!!) it could have been sub-8 or close. What was your race target time here in the thread? Sub-7? It certainly feels attainable for you. Great job!

Thanks (everyone!). Yes the target was sub-7 but that is some way off. This solve could have been sub-9 for sure and I have a few of those at home. Currently my best memos are around 4:30 and best executions around 3:30 so sub-8 might be within reach on a lucky day .

For the next few weeks my plan is to work on 3BLD memo. I need to push that to be faster anyway, and getting into faster memo habits will hopefully have a knock-on effect on my 4BLD times.

Very impressive. Were you aware of the judge change during this or was it a surprise when you took the BF off?

No I wasn't aware, but it wasn't a big surprise. James is a busy man and I appreciate him giving up his time to judge me.

Watched videos on Hoya before but following seeing Mark solve Hoya and after some walkthrough solves by Adam Greenwood in Exeter at the weekend I have been practicing a little. Have to say I love the method. Have a sub 2:15.x single 2:24.x Ao5 and 2:28.x ao12. Will probably still use freeslice at the end of the month in London but after that its going to be Hoya all the way

Hoya FTW. Would you still use Freeslice for L8E or switch to AvG instead?

Here's some of my solves from Exeter. The 5x5 solve is Hoya of course . It wasn't the fastest but I chose it because it had the best angle.