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Yop guys! Thanks for the welcome ! I average FreeFOPly around 18/20. And my PBS are 11.92 (PLL skip), 12.09 (fullstep), avg5 : 16.36. My LL is really a piece of s#$@%t as I average my F2L sub10. That can be understood when you know that I just started to learn my PLL 3.5 years after my first solve... Took me three days tho, two months ago... Hahaha.

I really don't want to learn OLLs or ZBLL so I'll give a try on full OLS (see you in ten years...). Except 3x3, I'm on, 3BLD and MBLD and a bit of the others.

About the hardware my mains have been : Rubik's brand (2012 version), overmodded Rubik's brand, Zanchi, FangShi ShuangRen, AoLong v2, TangLong for a month, Gan356s v2 and Gan356 Air yellow core. I really like this one. First days I was disgusted to have bought it because of the locks but after 200+ solves it was like BINGO!!! I really don't like the Weilong GTS and I'm waiting for the Valk. As I'm not a big fan of the Thunderclaps, I am not sure if I'll like it. We'll see.

Now that you know my cube life, let's talk O' timers!
 
Nice to see new oldies! :)

I think Im gonna start to search new main. I gave a serious try for Thunderclap v2 but after a month I gave up and back to thnuderclap v1. And my times are back. I'll stay with new Thunderclap only in 3bld. I think about Valk or Weilong GTS. Any comparison? Marcel?
 
mickael said:
Yop guys! Thanks for the welcome ! I average FreeFOPly around 18/20. And my PBS are 11.92 (PLL skip), 12.09 (fullstep), avg5 : 16.36. My LL is really a piece of s#$@%t as I average my F2L sub10. That can be understood when you know that I just started to learn my PLL 3.5 years after my first solve... Took me three days tho, two months ago... Hahaha.

I really don't want to learn OLLs or ZBLL so I'll give a try on full OLS (see you in ten years...). Except 3x3, I'm on, 3BLD and MBLD and a bit of the others.

About the hardware my mains have been : Rubik's brand (2012 version), overmodded Rubik's brand, Zanchi, FangShi ShuangRen, AoLong v2, TangLong for a month, Gan356s v2 and Gan356 Air yellow core. I really like this one. First days I was disgusted to have bought it because of the locks but after 200+ solves it was like BINGO!!! I really don't like the Weilong GTS and I'm waiting for the Valk. As I'm not a big fan of the Thunderclaps, I am not sure if I'll like it. We'll see.

Now that you know my cube life, let's talk O' timers!
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There is a healthy interest in blind on this thread. What are your times and what methods do you use?

I bought a skewb and a pyraminx from Marty as birthday gifts for my nephew and ended up with a stickerless Valk too. Beer made me do it.
 
h2f said:
Nice to see new oldies! :)

I think Im gonna start to search new main. I gave a serious try for Thunderclap v2 but after a month I gave up and back to thnuderclap v1. And my times are back. I'll stay with new Thunderclap only in 3bld. I think about Valk or Weilong GTS. Any comparison? Marcel?
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I have all three, and like the Valk. The GTS is nice, but likes to lock the middle layer in a sandwich between the outer layers on last layer sometimes, which really killed my times. Didn't happen all the time, but enough to tick me off.
 
h2f said:
Nice to see new oldies! :)

I think Im gonna start to search new main. I gave a serious try for Thunderclap v2 but after a month I gave up and back to thnuderclap v1. And my times are back. I'll stay with new Thunderclap only in 3bld. I think about Valk or Weilong GTS. Any comparison? Marcel?
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I have tried so many good cubes but I still keep going back to the Thunderclap V1. I do prefer the Weilong GTS but lost a bit of it and haven't got around to getting a replacement.
 
newtonbase said:
I have tried so many good cubes but I still keep going back to the Thunderclap V1.
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I like it so much I bought 22 of the things :). Seriously. I bought a few for multi, and liked it so much I bought a stack more to tide me over until I'm world class, just in case they stop making them now the v2 is out.
 
Welcome to all new oldies! :)
mickael said:
I really don't want to learn OLLs
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I also learned PLL about 2 months ago and have been looking a bit into OLL lately. My impression is that it is totally worth it. Many of the algs are short, very easy to learn and fast to execute. In fact, with 2-look OLL you would quite often use the first step to set up a case that requires a lot more moves than the OLL would have required with 1 look.

I learned 6 cases today, the I and C shapes, or whatever you would call them. I kind of like all of those algs already. The main issue with OLL will probably be to learn to connect the case with the alg fast enough. There is quite a lot of them and many algs are very similar.

@mark49152 I also considered getting a bunch of Thunderclaps for MBld, but the center caps made me decide not to. I find it so annoying to set up and adjust those things and couldn't stand the thought of having to set up a whole bunch of them.
 
newtonbase said:
I have tried so many good cubes but I still keep going back to the Thunderclap V1. I do prefer the Weilong GTS but lost a bit of it and haven't got around to getting a replacement.
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mark49152 said:
I like it so much I bought 22 of the things :). Seriously. I bought a few for multi, and liked it so much I bought a stack more to tide me over until I'm world class, just in case they stop making them now the v2 is out.
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Ho! Ho! For me the only problem are stickers - I really like fluo and always replace stickers on new cubes. I've made exception for Th v2 but I'll check if they are not a source of problem. I checked GTS during comp but I need more time to see if it fits my style.
 
JanW said:
@mark49152 I also considered getting a bunch of Thunderclaps for MBld, but the center caps made me decide not to. I find it so annoying to set up and adjust those things and couldn't stand the thought of having to set up a whole bunch of them.
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Not heard hat before. I didn't have a problem with them. Caps come off easily with a screwdriver, I tighten them a turn, stick a bit of 10k around the screw and some 50k on the pieces, and Bob's your uncle.

newtonbase said:
You'll need at least 42 for MBLD.!
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If I ever reach the point of doing 22 I will reward myself with 20 of the newest and best cubes around. By that time they will probably be carbon fibre with servo-assisted corner cutting and self-lubricated with nanoparticles.
 
newtonbase said:
There is a healthy interest in blind on this thread. What are your times and what methods do you use?
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I use M2/OP for traditional BLD and MBLD (letter pair for all). I always start my memo with corners in order to take parity in charge while memorising my edges. Never had one since and I don't need to think about it while solving. I'm around 2 minutes.
 
mickael said:
I use M2/OP for traditional BLD and MBLD (letter pair for all). I always start my memo with corners in order to take parity in charge while memorising my edges. Never had one since and I don't need to think about it while solving. I'm around 2 minutes.
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I've started from it. Now 3style. Memo - edges first next corners=letter pairs/audio pairs. Parity with some algs - same move count like yours.

What about big blindes? How many cubes in mbld?
 
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