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grrrr!

Single PB: 13.831 (it was 14.352 from 21-apr)
Ao12 PB: 20.871 (it was 21.308 from 10-may)

I should have tried to reconstruct the 13.831 right there, but I was looking for an ao12 PB and didn't stop. I'll try now.

17864 20-may-2016 19:58:04 00:20.198 F2 U F2 D B2 R2 D2 U B2 L2 U2 R B F L' F U' B' F' D2 U2
17863 20-may-2016 19:57:13 00:17.792 D F2 R2 U' R2 D L2 D2 R2 B2 D L U2 F' U' L U2 F' U2 B R' U'
17862 20-may-2016 19:56:26 00:13.831 F2 D L2 U2 F2 R2 D L2 B2 R2 F' R' U2 R' F U' B' R2 F2 L'
17861 20-may-2016 19:55:42 00:23.767 D2 R2 F2 U2 L2 B2 U' B2 D' F2 U B F D' L' B2 F2 R B R2 F2 U'
17860 20-may-2016 19:54:46 00:30.886 R2 L2 U2 R2 U B2 D U' B2 U' F' L2 D R' L F' L2 D' U' L U
17859 20-may-2016 19:54:03 00:20.783 F2 D L2 U F2 U2 L2 B2 L2 F2 U R B' F' U B' D U2 B' F' U'
17858 20-may-2016 19:53:20 00:18.190 F2 D' B2 U' B2 D2 F2 D L2 D' U2 F' D' F R' B' D2 U' R B F2 U'
17857 20-may-2016 19:52:37 00:21.174 D F2 D B2 L2 U' L2 D2 R2 D' U B F' U' L2 B' D2 R' B2 D L' U'
17856 20-may-2016 19:51:54 00:21.189 F2 U2 F2 D' R2 D2 R2 B2 D' R2 U F' R' L F' U2 F D2 F2 L D2
17855 20-may-2016 19:51:09 00:21.231 U R2 L2 F2 L2 D F2 D' R2 D' F2 L B F2 D R2 L B2 U R' L'
17854 20-may-2016 19:49:54 00:24.079 L2 F2 L2 D L2 U F2 L2 U B2 F2 L' D R' F2 L U2 F' U' R
17853 20-may-2016 19:49:00 00:20.311 R2 L2 D2 U R2 B2 F2 U L2 B2 U R' B' U' F' U' B2 R U' F' L'


Edit: reconstruction done

A "mistake" lead me to CMLL skip, and I was lucky with a short LSE.

37 STM
2.67 tps

x' y
R Uw U M2 L U' L'
U' M' U R U' R U' R U' R' U M' U2 Rw' U' Rw
U M' U M U' M' U2 M U2 M U2 M2 U M2

https://alg.cubing.net/?setup=F2_D_L2_U2_F2_R2_D_L2_B2_R2_F-_R-_U2_R-_F_U-_B-_R2_F2_L-&alg=x-_y R_Uw_U_M2_L_U-_L- U-_M-_U_R_U-_R_U-_R_U-_R-_U_M-_U2_Rw-_U-_Rw U_M-_U_M_U-_M-_U2_M_U2_M_U2_M2_U_M2
 
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Congratulations to you both. Very nice times!

I think I already have work for the weekend: disassembling my Tanglong to clean it and lube it. It was great out of the box but right now the factory lube has completely dried out and the cube is so slow that I cannot use it for OH any more. So, time for cleaning. While I do that I will go back to my Hualong, which was my previous OH main but does not feel bad at all for 2H too.

I also tried my new Yuxin 5x5 stickerless today and I like it but not sure yet if I prefer it over the BoChuang. My times were worse but I'm sure it was because of lack of practice.

I also tried a bit more my new 2x2s and I think I have finally found something that will retire my Dayan 2x2. That Moyu Weipo just feels fantastic. The Wittwo v1 is quite nice as well and flows great... until you turn a bit inaccurately and it catches because the corner points are too thin and when they overlap they catch on each other diagonally.

Apart from that I have not practiced much this week. And my Dayan Mega keeps popping center caps and screws. It just unscrews itself with use. I'm afraid the core is defective or something. To avoid that I had to tighten it so much that it is not good anymore.

The best piece of my collection now is the 35mm YuQuiLin. I love it. It turns great for such a tiny cube. :)
 
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Congratulations to you both. Very nice times!

I think I already have work for the weekend: disassembling my Tanglong to clean it and lube it. It was great out of the box but right now the factory lube has completely dried out and the cube is so slow that I cannot use it for OH any more. So, time for cleaning. While I do that I will go back to my Hualong, which was my previous OH main but does not feel bad at all for 2H too.

I also tried my new Yuxin 5x5 stickerless today and I like it but not sure yet if I prefer it over the BoChuang. My times were worse but I'm sure it was because of lack of practice.

I also tried a bit more my new 2x2s and I think I have finally found something that will retire my Dayan 2x2. That Moyu Weipo just feels fantastic. The Wittwo v1 is quite nice as well and flows great... until you turn a bit inaccurately and it catches because the corner points are too thin and when they overlap they catch on each other diagonally.

Apart from that I have not practiced much this week. And my Dayan Mega keeps popping center caps and screws. It just unscrews itself with use. I'm afraid the core is defective or something. To avoid that I had to tighten it so much that it is not good anymore.

The best piece of my collection now is the 35mm YuQuiLin. I love it. It turns great for such a tiny cube. :)
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I wasn't a fan of Yuxin's stickerless shades. The Orange and Red were too similar. Made it really hard to recognize in sub-optimal lighting. That might be one problem you're facing. And I'm sure I'm beginning to sound like a broken record on these forums, but the BoChuang is just a better cube, in my opinion.

I wish I knew what the WeiPo was like, but I got sent the wrong cube when I ordered it. Luckily they're sending a replacement the next time I place an order. At least that gives me an excuse to go shopping :)

And I've heard of Dayan Megas having the problem lately. It's happening to a friend of mine as well as to a bunch of people on some facebook groups I follow. Sorry to hear it, man. Makes me feel lucky that I bought mine when I did.
 
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Impressive progress here, as always! Sub14 roux and sub1 3bld is awesome!

I should follow mafergut's example and clean out my gray TangLong as well. When I first got it I had some recognition problems on it, but over the past few months it slowly became my main as I got more used to recognition. Yesterday I took out the black TangLong I got later (and didn't like as it didn't feel anything like the gray one), lubed and tensioned it and did some solves. After that I noticed just how sluggish the gray one has become lately. The black one is way faster and actually feels quite okay to solve with now. Only got about 100 solves on it so far, but I can feel that it has great potential, as long as I learn to control the speed better.

Otherwise no new records to report. Got my first sub30 Ao100 1-2 weeks ago, then something happened... The next Ao100 after that was >33 seconds. It felt like I lost my ability to solve overnight. I think it was a case of trying too hard, going too fast during F2L and just being generally frustrated by not seeing the results I expected. Since then I've been doing mostly slow solves and focusing on calming down the solve. Now times are back at the level they were before this temporary setback.

I've also been doing quite a lot of slow ZZ solves with 2 look PLL. Doing ZZ F2L slowly is a lot of fun, as there's a lot of thinking involved and coming up with solutions still at this point. If I ever manage to get that part up to an acceptable solving speed remains to be seen. I'm aiming to get the third consecutive success in the race to sub 30 with my old method next week, then I can switch more focus over to ZZ.
 
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I wasn't a fan of Yuxin's stickerless shades. The Orange and Red were too similar. Made it really hard to recognize in sub-optimal lighting.
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That's funny. I said this exact same thing many pages back about the stickerless Yuxin 5x5. I took mine to the office where we have bright fluorescent lighting and it's fantastic. Zero problems with the shades there, in fact they look really good under that bright white light. At home however, red/orange was causing me real grief. So the Yuxin is my office 5x5 now ;)

mafergut said:
Too busy with work this week to do anything but 10 solves in a row at most :(
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Yeah I hear ya. I had a couple really late nights this week just to get in some cubing time. Monday is a holiday here so I've got a long weekend ahead of me. Hopefully I can set aside some time in there for cubing. I still haven't set up my two BoChuangs like I wanted to. And I've got a bunch of new puzzles that need breaking in :) Though, I've got some overdue yardwork to get done, and it's "remove the training wheels" weekend for my kids (that should be entertaining).

It's encouraging to know others had the same impression as me about the Cyclone Boys G4. I'm not sure I want to put in the effort of a grueling break in with a puzzle that doesn't feel good when I have an awesome AoSu right there. Also, to my pleasant surprise, I was going through the collection and found that I had purchased a stickerless AoSu and shelved it way back when as well. It's the normal coloured one that MoYu has since discontinued. I'm going to try and set it up like I did my stickered one. If I can do that, then I've found my stickerless 4x4.
 
Okay, so I definitely have a problem with good results leading to worse solves. As soon as I see a possibility to set a new Ao5 or Ao12 pb, I start making mistakes and rushing through solves without lookahead. First 5 solves today averaged slightly over 27s, followed by a 20.38. Then I realized I had a really good start for new Ao12 pb and the 6 following solves were in the 30-37s range. I kind of wish I had a timer that didn't display the time immediately, but would let me do a session without seeing any times, then look at stats later. That Would help me get away from such results oriented thinking and focus on the solve instead.

Later I came across one very nice scramble:
R' D2 F' L' B2 L2 U R' F2 D B D R B L' D2 F U2 F U2 B2 R' F2 D L

Possibly the first time I managed to plan 2 F2L pairs during inspection (which I'll admit I probably used more than 15 seconds for). Ended up solving it in 22.85s without last layer skips.
 
Quote:"And my Dayan Mega keeps popping center caps and screws. It just unscrews itself with use."
You could try fixing it with thread-locking compound (stud-lock / nut-lock etc), such as the Loctite brand ones.
I had to lock one of the screws on my Zhanchi that way, as out of the box it kept loosening on one face.
Edit: Choose the appropriate compound - you should still be able to fine-tune the tension if need be. Some of the threadlocks are ridiculously permanent, the instructions for disassembly say 'heat the item to 650 C' so basically glowing red, then.....

"The best piece of my collection now is the 35mm YuQuiLin. I love it. It turns great for such a tiny cube."
I quite fancied one of them, it looks to have all the modern cube innards, compared to the 25mm cubes, which are all old-skool design. I have a 25mm cube from the 80's, it's fun, I never quite managed to sub-30 it back then, but I was intending to refurbish it and see what my more 'advanced' skills can squeeze out of it.
 
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SenorJuan said:
Quote:"And my Dayan Mega keeps popping center caps and screws. It just unscrews itself with use."
You could try fixing it with thread-locking compound (stud-lock / nut-lock etc), such as the Loctite brand ones.
I had to lock one of the screws on my Zhanchi that way, as out of the box it kept loosening on one face.

"The best piece of my collection now is the 35mm YuQuiLin. I love it. It turns great for such a tiny cube."
I quite fancied one of them, it looks to have all the modern cube innards, compared to the 25mm cubes, which are all old-skool design. I have a 25mm cube from the 80's, it's fun, I never quite managed to sub-30 it back then, but I was intending to refurbish it and see what my more 'advanced' skills can squeeze out of it.
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I might try to follow your advice with the Mega but the very thought of disassembling it completely to put loctite in all the screw holes makes me mad. I'd better just wait and see if the new Moyu and QiYi Megas are good and buy one (or mod my SS :)).

Regarding the YuQuiLin you can certainly speedsolve with it. I just did a dozen solves with it and got some 21s but no sub-20 yet :(

Also, @earth2dan, it's a pity that you won't take the time to break the G4 in. It doesn't take that much time and it's really great afterwards but, anyway, if you are happy with your Aosu that's fine. Already planning my next stickerless order after watching your vid. I will pick a Qiyi Skewb, for sure, but as I already have a stickered Qiyi Pyra I might wait for the new Qiyi/X-Men Pyra with magnetic mechanism. Also, as mentioned above, probably a Qiyi Mega as well. Still waiting for a good stickerless non-candy colors 6x6.
 
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I had a nice competition today. Really enjoyed myself, but messed up all events. Started out with a 4x4 solve that I stopped after 2 minutes because I made so many mistakes. I had my first Skewb in competition. First solve was 1.01 and last solve 1.00.08 leaving me with a DNF average :) 3X3 first round 22 average and second round 21 average.. Could have been worse but also could have been way better. I should take practice before competition more seriously. LOL
Best solve of the day..

On a brighter note, I used the Weilong GTS in second round and it is now my main. I was affraid it was too fast to control in competition, but I had way more trouble controlling my main Gans. The GTS is freakin awesome..
 
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@MarcelP

I tried someone's Weilong GTS and it feels like a dream! I'm definitely going to get one.

Mire comp updates. 3x3 was ok considering I never practice. I had four 22.xy solves and a 26. Consistency at least!

I killed Pyraminx. Was expecting a 12-13 second ave. Ended up with a 10.7x with an 8.31 single!
 
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