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Yes, Nice PBs muchacho and h2f!

ZZ is driving me crazy. I'm up to 750 timed solves so far. I would say I see a lot more 22-23 second solves than I did with the previous method, but also a lot more 40 second solves. It is so incredibly uneven. I have plenty of sub 30 Ao12s, but in the same session there can be sup 36 Ao12s as well. For example the 50 solves this morning, Ao12 for last 12 solves: 27.87, Ao50: 32.55. The first 38 solves were horrible.

It's kind of strange. Sometimes I get "in the zone" and get almost nothing but sub 30 solves. At other times, can be 10 minutes earlier/later, it seems impossible to get anything sub 33. It must be some kind of mental thing. When solves are not going as well as I'd want them to, I make more mistakes. Not sure how to deal with this.

If you start a session and notice it is not going well. Perhaps you are not not very concentrated and times are worse than you would expect. Do you just push through, or take a break, or do something else to regain focus?
 
JanW said:
Yes, Nice PBs muchacho and h2f!

ZZ is driving me crazy. I'm up to 750 timed solves so far. I would say I see a lot more 22-23 second solves than I did with the previous method, but also a lot more 40 second solves. It is so incredibly uneven. I have plenty of sub 30 Ao12s, but in the same session there can be sup 36 Ao12s as well. For example the 50 solves this morning, Ao12 for last 12 solves: 27.87, Ao50: 32.55. The first 38 solves were horrible.

It's kind of strange. Sometimes I get "in the zone" and get almost nothing but sub 30 solves. At other times, can be 10 minutes earlier/later, it seems impossible to get anything sub 33. It must be some kind of mental thing. When solves are not going as well as I'd want them to, I make more mistakes. Not sure how to deal with this.

If you start a session and notice it is not going well. Perhaps you are not not very concentrated and times are worse than you would expect. Do you just push through, or take a break, or do something else to regain focus?
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More or less the same happens to me with CFOP (my only method). There are days when seemingly I can't get in range of sub-20 solves, there are others when I don't seem to need any warmup at all. I normally just keep trying even if the session is a pile of trash.
 
Glad I'm not the only one who has bad days. :)

I'm sure I had bad days with old method as well. But I think ZZ is less forgiving. Make a mistake with EOLine to find badly oriented edges later, and this easily adds 10 seconds to the solve. Also, doing F2L without rotation, I find I'm more likely to accidentally pull out already solved pairs. ZZ is a very fun technique to solve with, but I think it requires a higher level of concentration. At least for now, when I still have so few solves under the belt.
 
earth2dan said:
Welcome aboard @megagoune! I've been maintaining the Racing to sub-20 thread for some time now. We get 12 scrambles each week and the objective is to "graduate" from that thread and move on to the next benchmark. You graduate when you get 3 consecutive rounds with a sub-20 average. We're currently on round 504. I was around 25s as well when I started in that thread. You're more than welcome to participate. I usually close out the round on Fridays, but I won't get to that for several hours yet because I still need to do my average for the week.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I think I will try the race next week, I did not have much time yesterday.

I see that a lot of you talk about Mo100. I cannot do that many solves in a row. If I time myself, after 30 solves my times start to get worse. Do you guys practice endurance :) ? Anyone feels like me that the focus disappear quite fast?
 
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JanW said:
Also, doing F2L without rotation, I find I'm more likely to accidentally pull out already solved pairs.
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It's a couple of years since I messed with ZZ and Roux, but personally I think rotationless is overrated, at least for 2H. The problem isn't really rotations anyway, it's regrips, and sometimes regrips are required even without rotations. Sometimes regrips can happen quickly and smoothly, sometimes not.

Personally (with CFOP) I like to have rotations/regrips mid way through a case rather than between cases. I like to have multiple ways to start an F2L case so that I never have to do an ad-hoc rotation first, and then if a rotation is involved mid way through, at least it is smooth and quick because it's part of an algorithm that has had plenty of practice.
 
@JanW usually I push through for a while at least. Unless I just do a few solves and realize I'm not in the mood at all. The biggest issue affecting me I feel is being tired during week practice. But I think the practice can still help. It feels like swinging a weighted ball bat, and then when I practice well rested I can see it paid off more. To me that explains why my official averages have been close to my home averages, because I'm well rested and warmed up.
 
Hello oldies! I've lurked on this thread for a long while, and know a few of you IRL, but haven't really posted much here. I've not been to a competition for a while, and it turns out that no competition means not much motivation to practice. So I had a few months of not really practising cubing at all. I did the FMC Europe competition which was a total, demoralising disaster (3 DNFs) which also set me back a bit. Anyway, there's a competition coming up in few weeks (Macclesfield) which I plan to go to, so now I've got back into practising. I've been focusing on a few things: 4x4, 6x6 (which I've never competed in) and lookahead on 3x3 (lots of slow solving). Seems to be going pretty well, although the lack of practice means by 3x3 times are incredibly inconsistent. Surprisingly, lookahead on 3x3 seems to have helped with lookahead for edge pairing on 4x4, which is handy...

So, anyway, my plan is to be a bit more active here (if I can keep up with the flood of posts!) as a way of helping me to keep motivated.

@moralsh: sub-20 3x3 average and 5BLD success are super-impressive! Nice job!
 
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