It also makes me the number 1 ranked female in Oceania for 3bld, lol. But that's pretty much the best way to be top at something... pick something really obscure that nobody does, or combine weird things. It's like me being the number one handstand opera singer or something, lol
So most of you now have the GTS I guess. I have been using it ever since I got it. I needed a lot of adjustment in my solves. I started to go way faster in TPS resulting in really bad times because lookahead was completely gone. But it is nice to see that without lookahead I can get 21 averages just by turning as fast as I can
I have slowed down a lot and overlubed my GTS-ses and now times are quite allright again. Low 19 averages.. I have a lot of 13 and 14's now.. Without the GTS I did not have these. I guess these are pure because the cube performs very good. On the other hand I get many sup 23's. I think that's because I think GTS is still hard to handle sometimes..
I just did these.. which come very close to a PB if it was not for that freaking 23.. LOL..
25. 14.32 B L U2 B U R' U D' R2 L' F' R2 B' R2 D2 L2 D2 F B' U2 F'
26. 23.58 D2 L2 D2 B2 L2 U' L2 U' B2 F2 R2 L F2 D L D' L2 F U2 F U
27. 18.40 R2 D L2 B2 U R2 D2 R2 F2 U2 F' U' L' F2 R' D2 U2 B F U
28. 14.80 R' F2 U2 R2 U2 R B2 R U2 L' U B F' D U' F2 L' R2 D' F'
29. 15.60 U B2 R2 U' F2 L2 D' F2 U L2 D' F' D F2 L B D2 R' U' L' U2
(Ao30 19.23 btw)
LOL, great! I am curious how you feel about GTS vs Gans now? I also had Gans Stuff in my GTS order from The Cubicle.. Never touched a Gans after the unboxing though..
I got a GTS last Saturday, and I like how it kinda of feels like a cross between the yuexiao and my main the aolong. Although I use an aolong mini thanks to my child like hands, and have yet to find a full size cube that works as a main for me for that reason.
I like the GTS though, I think I will try tightening it a touch so I can control it better and then I just need to work on look ahead because as everyone's said it turns fast! Then I can see if I can get comparable times.
Now I finally own like 7 3x3s so I can work on multi blind too
Hi everyone, long time no see again! I am the best at showing up for a few weeks and then disappearing for a few months. Sorry! I often read even if I don't get around to posting.
I read through a ton of pages on this thread though to get here So cool to see you are all progressing heaps and hello to the people that have come along since I was last here.
I still don't get tons of time to cube, maybe an hour or two per week, maybe double that on a good week. But I have bought a range of new puzzles and learned them all (so my 3x3 time is still not that great!) including 4x4, 5x5, skewb and I just got a Mega but haven't learnt the last layer yet.
But, I DID enter my first competition 2 weeks ago - Wellington Autumn 2016 here in NZ, so that's pretty cool. I finally have a WCA ID (2016TAYL04) and some official PBs. I decided to get as much flight time as possible an entered 2x2, 3x4, 4x4, pyraminx and... 3BLD. I only really started learning BLD a few weeks or so before the competition (I learnt the lettering scheme at the end of last year but then got new puzzles for xmas and left blind alone until recently), so I went into the competition just wanting a success, since very few people enter BLD here in NZ.
So here is a video with my best solves for each one:
All in all, I was totally worried about being nervous so I was aiming for sub-40 for 3x3, sub-15 for 2x2, sub-3:00 for 4x4, didn't care about pyra and wanted a BLD success. And I WAS really nervous in the first 3x3 round, so I messed up and got 36 second average, but I had a lot more experience under my belt by the second round and did much better.
Overall pretty happy with the results, and next comp I will be aiming for a much faster BLD time
@Rastinha, I'm impressed. After just a few weeks of learning 3BLD you go to your first comp and have 2 out of 3 successes and a 7:11.xx solve!!! I feel so dumb
By the way, no GTS here either. And I'm also not ordering the new Yuxin 6x6 yet so, yeah, nerves of steel
Took me 13 months and 4 comps to go from first solve at home to first official solve. I'd have liked to have seen your reaction to the first one @Rastinha
I think I have that on video too, it might have been really underwhelming because I was trying to be quiet for the others and wasn't sure what I was allowed to do, lol. I'll try to find it when I get home, haha
I think I have that on video too, it might have been really underwhelming because I was trying to be quiet for the others and wasn't sure what I was allowed to do, lol. I'll try to find it when I get home, haha
First sub-25 ao100 (24.83). I'm exhausted because I was trying to stay focused all the time and plan as far as I can see. I knew that only under this condition I can do it today. New AO5 in the solves (21.50).
My first thought of the GTS was that it is out of my league. Extremely fast and difficult for me to control. The YueXiao, which came in the same shipment, is the opposite. Or it is also fast, but it's somehow super stable and I feel like I'm completely in charge of everything I'm doing. However, when I did some test solves, my times on both cubes were pretty similar. There was some occasional slips with the GTS during F2L that cost some time, but the super fast last layer made up for this.
With the GTS, it is the first time ever that I feel like a real speed cuber, when I see my fingers blast through those last layer algs.
I was wondering about this, if you do MBLD in comp, does all the cubes have to be the same model, or can you show up with an assortment of different cubes?
I was wondering about this, if you do MBLD in comp, does all the cubes have to be the same model, or can you show up with an assortment of different cubes?
LOL, great! I am curious how you feel about GTS vs Gans now? I also had Gans Stuff in my GTS order from The Cubicle.. Never touched a Gans after the unboxing though..
I've not done much 3x3 since the unboxing. I did entirely 4x4 while commuting yesterday. My new 4x4 seemed quiet enough to use in company.
The Weilong GTS is fantastic. It has a nice light / effortless feel when turning and super fast. I've only used it for untimed solves but I think it will be my new main. It feels fantastic for OH so I may have the same cube for both events. The new Gans is likely to be my new commuting cube as it retains the quietness of the V1. That being said the Weilong GTS is also relatively quiet.
I'll break them both in and report back next week!
