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newtonbase said:
Also. Seems I've entered FMC. Having never tried it and only once ever looked at a solution (that I didn't understand) has anyone got any tips?
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If it's first time - just do CFOP. Scramble in your orientation so you dont have to rotate the cube and try to solve it without rotations. You can use B moves etc. If it's hard to you, you can rotate it. Your solution can be long (over 60 I suppose) but safe.

My question - good resource for megaminx algs. I figure out few OLLs and Aperm. I need Ua and Ub.
 
Got my newest cubepackage on Monday :) Have been playing around with the kilominx a bit and my best a12 so far is 55.14
47.11, 49.34, 53.90, 51.08, 54.09, (1:06.12), 1:05.37, 53.51, 1:04.85, 55.64, 56.53, (45.48)
The 45.48 is also the fastest single. Sub25 (avg) should be possible for the fast cubers I guess?

CO
2 corners
F R U R' U' F'
F U R U' R' F'
R U2' R' U2' R U' R'
x' R U R' D R U' R' D'

3 corners
Sune x4

4 corners
F (R U R' U') (R U R' U') F'
F (U R U' R') (U R U' R') F'
Double Sune
Double Anti Sune
Pi
inverse Pi

5 corners
R U (R' U2 R U2') R' U R U2' R'
L' U' (L U2' L' U2) L U' L' U2 L

CP
(R2' U2 R2 U) (R2' U2 R2)
(R2' U2' R2 U') (R2' U R2 U') (R2' U2' R2)
(R U2 R' U' R U' R') U' (R' U2 R U2 R' U R)
 
newtonbase said:
Also. Seems I've entered FMC. Having never tried it and only once ever looked at a solution (that I didn't understand) has anyone got any tips?
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As h2f said, use your normal method, but try different things along the way. You could get a complete solution and then go back and see if you can find a shorter one, perhaps starting from scratch or maybe just trying a different final pair insertion. I did my first FMC attempt this way and the hardest bit was transcribing my muscle memory algorithms.
 
bubbagrub said:
As h2f said, use your normal method, but try different things along the way. You could get a complete solution and then go back and see if you can find a shorter one, perhaps starting from scratch or maybe just trying a different final pair insertion. I did my first FMC attempt this way and the hardest bit was transcribing my muscle memory algorithms.
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I've never tried it yet. You can't touch the official cube but can with with another one, correct? I'm assuming you know the scramble.
 
You can bring 3 cubes and use them all. You are given a scramble, not a scrambled cube. Check regulations for further info: https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/regulations/#article-E-fewest-moves

Edit: Like h2f already said. :)

If you use CFOP and are used to solving in one direction, I'd suggest you try scrambling in all different directions. In one hour you should have time to go through them all to see where you find the shortest solution.
 
Good luck in the competition @newtonbase!

3bld accuracy is improving. I got my first Ao5! (3:10), 3:26, 4:03, (DNF 4:21), 3:41. Ao5: 3:42.

As you can see, I got careful after 2 successful solves and slowed down quite a bit to get my Ao5. Memo for the 5 solves was 1:14, 1:15, 2:19, 2:21, 2:10. Took a lot of time to review on the last 3 solves. Still, I managed to do the most stupid mistake ever on the DNF solve. I did everything with cube in the wrong direction and ended up solving it around the wrong centers...
 
"Seems I've entered FMC....has anyone got any tips?"
Scramble 6 times with all the 6 colours on top, choose which seems to give the shortest cross, and use that colour orientation when you re-scramble every time.
Put a lot of effort into the final slot (or two slots) to manipulate the last layer. You know BLD algs like 3-corner cycles? They may be useful.
Give yourself plenty of time to actually write down the complete solution, miss out one cube rotation, the solve's a fail.
 
Good Luck, Mark (@newtonbase ). I always read such circumstances as a good sign before competition.

@JanW, nice and congrats. I got ao5 or mo3 in last few weeks very seldom since I've switched to 3style all is down. But in this week I can see a very small progess - my accuracy has grown to 40% and I got some nice 1:xx solves. The slowest solves are around 1:40.
 
Thank @h2f!

I did 5 attempts at solving as fast as possible after that Ao5. Only 2/5 successes, but both of them improved on my best times for this year. 2:48 (1:19 memo) and 2:33 (1:04 memo). None of those were exceptionally easy scrambles. With a good scramble, I should be ready to break my pb from last fall. I've switched phones since and don't have any records from those days, but I think my pb was 2:11.
 
Jason Green said:
I've been doing a few OH solves since I signed up for it at next months comp. @MarcelP, I just had my first sub 1 minute, another lucky 59. :)
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I have given up OH. Did it at a few comps, but I just do not like it enough to practice it. I do not have time enough for all side events ;)
 
MarcelP said:
I have given up OH. Did it at a few comps, but I just do not like it enough to practice it. I do not have time enough for all side events ;)
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Yeah, my problem, but in my case I enjoy it, as well as many other side events but it's absolutely impossible to practice all of them enough to improve or even stay flat at some level. So, OH has been suffering from almost no practice other than the weekly comp scrambles, which keeps me at over 40 average and without time to learn 1L OLL, etc. Pyra stays at some basic keyhole with no time to learn Nutella, WO, 1-flip, L4E... Same with skewb, Sarah's beginners with no time to learn intermediate or practice at all. SQ-1 I even forgot the very basic method I had learned. Well, you get the idea. I'm even stuck at 3x3 again and, tbh, I'm not improving that much any more at bigger cubes or Mega. Oh, not to mention that I completely abandoned BLD and I have forgotten M2 algs.
 
mafergut said:
Yeah, my problem, but in my case I enjoy it, as well as many other side events but it's absolutely impossible to practice all of them enough to improve or even stay flat at some level. So, OH has been suffering from almost no practice other than the weekly comp scrambles, which keeps me at over 40 average and without time to learn 1L OLL, etc. Pyra stays at some basic keyhole with no time to learn Nutella, WO, 1-flip, L4E... Same with skewb, Sarah's beginners with no time to learn intermediate or practice at all. SQ-1 I even forgot the very basic method I had learned. Well, you get the idea. I'm even stuck at 3x3 again and, tbh, I'm not improving that much any more at bigger cubes or Mega. Oh, not to mention that I completely abandoned BLD and I have forgotten M2 algs.
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Seems to be a standard issue with us older folk of trying to find time within life to cube, never mind learning new things. I constantly try to learning something new, but find I have to continuously relearn stuff that I don't practice much. I've forgotten how to do SQ-1 so mine remains scrambled. I suppose I could sit with a guide for 10 minutes and solve it so that at least it is in a solved state like the rest of my cubes :-)
 
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