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It looks like one cannot get a bit of practice without the thread going on and on :)
Congratulations to everyone who posted BLD successes, PBs, on cam PBs, etc.
I tried to record a good average with no luck. The best I got was a 17.74 Ao5 and then a 14.69 full step... DNF (two faces turned by accident when finishing a G-perm) and then another stupid 14.69 PLL skip that should have been a 10-11 sec solve with all F2L pairs coming at me already paired shouting please insert me!!!
I can post a video if anyone is interested in having a good laugh
 
mafergut said:
It looks like one cannot get a bit of practice without the thread going on and on :)
Congratulations to everyone who posted BLD successes, PBs, on cam PBs, etc.
I tried to record a good average with no luck. The best I got was a 17.74 Ao5 and then a 14.69 full step... DNF (two faces turned by accident when finishing a G-perm) and then another stupid 14.69 PLL skip that should have been a 10-11 sec solve with all F2L pairs coming at me already paired shouting please insert me!!!
I can post a video if anyone is interested in having a good laugh
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Yes please, I'm sad when I catch up on my YouTube subscriptions. :)
 
muchacho said:
Nice average, and I love the extra content :p
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h2f said:
Very nice.
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Thank you guys but not really nice, if you think that at least two or three of the solves should have been significantly faster but I will take it anyway. Probably my on cam PB Ao5. The solve after the average was a 23.xx so no chance to roll the 20.xx :( And I still have so many pauses and PLL recog errors that I even wonder how I can sub-20 at all. The 14.69 PLL skip is also on cam PB single but I cannot be proud of the solve, to be honest.
 
mark49152 said:
Does anyone here always listen to music while cubing? Or never? I never usually do, but tonight I put some music on and wiped a second off my 4x4 ao50. Perhaps that's where I've been going wrong...
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Never when cubing, but I listen to music a lot, so usually when I'm cubing I leave the headphones on :rolleyes:
 
day 2 results -- http://cubecomps.com/live.php?cid=1554&compid=14

got a sub-10 clock single, messed up too much to get my avg goal, but came sorta close 2nd rd
rd 1 -- 16.06, DNF, 11.60, 9.94, 13.41 = 13.69
rd 2 -- 12.54, 11.81, DNF, 11.90, 11.30 = 12.08

4BLD -- DNF x 3. First attempt memo went well and solve felt good until I couldn't remember the last 3 edges. Spent at least 3 minutes thinking. So that was probably the edges that were wrong, but also had a few centers wrong. 2nd attempt couldn't memo edges and quit. 3rd attempt took forever to memo, then messed up and quit midsolve.

Considering buying headphones for BLD. Any other BLDers gone from no headphones to headphones and noticed an immediate improvement?
 
mafergut said:
Thank you guys but not really nice, if you think that at least two or three of the solves should have been significantly faster but I will take it anyway. Probably my on cam PB Ao5. The solve after the average was a 23.xx so no chance to roll the 20.xx :( And I still have so many pauses and PLL recog errors that I even wonder how I can sub-20 at all. The 14.69 PLL skip is also on cam PB single but I cannot be proud of the solve, to be honest.
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I like extra stuff. For me your solves look decent. Just keep doing and you will break sub20 ao100. I think the bad pauses etc. are the part of the solve even if it's a pb. When I look at my pbs - both CFOP and Roux I find every time things to make them better: pauses, bad look ahead, too long recognition of OLL or CMLL etc.
 
chtiger said:
Considering buying headphones for BLD. Any other BLDers gone from no headphones to headphones and noticed an immediate improvement?
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Commiserations on the 4BLD. Maybe next time. It's the hardest event in my opinion (except 5BLD of course) because it's a lot of concentration and execution and it's completely unforgiving of any error. Just the smallest slip and it's all over. At least in MBLD it's not all or nothing.

I do use bins and think they help. They don't block out all noise but they muffle it enough that it feels like I'm in a world of my own, like an isolating effect. I can't say they'd give an immediate improvement but they're worth a try.

In other news I had a phone accident yesterday and lost about a week of solve data, which was a bit upsetting because there were some PBs in there, including my recent 4x4 PB averages. I must remember to do backups regularly and after each PB average.
 
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chtiger said:
day 2 results -- http://cubecomps.com/live.php?cid=1554&compid=14

Considering buying headphones for BLD. Any other BLDers gone from no headphones to headphones and noticed an immediate improvement?
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I definitely memo faster with noise reduction, it helps me focus on the blindsolve both while putting them on and while memoing. I don't use them at home, though.

@mafergut, nice average, don't be so hard on yourself! :P
 
I've started to practice OH Roux few days ago, after all these talks about OH solving. Here are few of my solves. I've found OH Roux easier than I thought. M moves are hard at the beginning but when you used to it's easy. I wont change my CMLL's - they seem to me quite good to OH too. My ao100 is now around 55 seconds but often due to relearning CMLL's to OH.

 
h2f said:
I've started to practice OH Roux few days ago, after all these talks about OH solving. Here are few of my solves. I've found OH Roux easier than I thought. [...]
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Wow! You progress fast. Already sub-40 solves OH with Roux! Congratulations.

My only highlight of the weekend apart from the video I posted yesterday has been a new PB single and Ao5 at 5x5. I'm so slow that it's easy to improve. It was done with the weekly comp scrambles. Still long way to go to sub 3:00, which is what I'm aiming for as compared with sub 1:30 4x4. (3:26.xx single & 3:48.xx Ao5 that I later improved to 3:41.xx).
 
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mafergut said:
Wow! You progress fast. Already sub-40 solves OH with Roux! Congratulations.
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I think this is the advantage of Roux. 40 stm with 1 TPS give you 40 sec solve. If the scramble has an easy FB - like in cases from video - or skip, you are sub-40. :) And with CFOP I was sub50 OH with 24.xx pb.
 
h2f said:
I think this is the advantage of Roux. 40 stm with 1 TPS give you 40 sec solve. If the scramble has an easy FB - like in cases from video - or skip, you are sub-40. :) And with CFOP I was sub50 OH with 24.xx pb.
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Wow! My PB Ao100 at CFOP OH is 44,62 but I have become a tad slower now because of lack of practice. My PB single was just 29.51 but full step. I have never had the luck of putting together a good solve and a skip. That 24.xx is pretty dang good, though! Anyway, what you say about low movecount in Roux makes a lot of sense. Of course I never learned CMLL and only practiced Roux for like 2 weeks so my best times with 2H were around 40 seconds. You can beat me with your right hand tied behind your back... literally! :p (not sure this will make sense in English, it's a direct translation of a saying in Spanish meaning that one person is clearly better at something than other so that they can beat you even with just one hand).
 
mafergut said:
You can beat me with your right hand tied behind your back... literally! :p (not sure this will make sense in English, it's a direct translation of a saying in Spanish meaning that one person is clearly better at something than other so that they can beat you even with just one hand).
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It's a clear translation. :) In Poland we say - you can beat me with a finger in your nose. I think it's not so fast progress - I had a Roux OH practice sessions last year so I have some kind of practice in it. But I gave up after some time. And that solve (I mena 24.41) was just a luck, I dont remember how.
 
Wow really nice solves!

The right question is... how fast can you do it with your left hand tied behind your back? :D

I've filmed (I should have done it from the left) a good solve (for me), it was 2-look, for OH I still don't use half of the CMLLs I know. Tell me how many weird things do you spot in that solve :p

Solve starts at @0:19
 
mafergut said:
You can beat me with your right hand tied behind your back... literally! :p (not sure this will make sense in English, it's a direct translation of a saying in Spanish meaning that one person is clearly better at something than other so that they can beat you even with just one hand).
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The common idiom in American English is "one hand behind your back" without reference to right or left, but I'm rather fond of the one about a finger in your nose. It's a very vivid picture.
 
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