Yeah, that was a joke. I noticed the one 30 secs inspection and laughed out loud.
Where did you buy it? I am pretty sure I do not own enough 3X3's too
Here http://www.championscubestore.com/ Look for Senhuan which is the Moyu sub brand. They've called the cube the Mar in error which makes it impossible to search for.Where did you buy it? I am pretty sure I do not own enough 3X3's too
Yeah, that was a joke. I noticed the one 30 secs inspection and laughed out loud.
Where did you buy it? I am pretty sure I do not own enough 3X3's too
https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/threads/video-expert-f2l-russian-by-viktor-danilov.43416/
There were some really interesting discussions a few years back about what was important for good F2L and Rowan Kinneavy (@Escher) posted some great stuff. I can't find it now, but the gist of his and other posts was that lookahead goes hand in hand with things like selecting the right pairs to minimise rotations, preserving and predicting pairs, filling back slots first to keep more pieces visible, etc. It influenced me to see F2L as more of a holistic thing, rather than four separate steps... but your mileage may vary.
Yes, great stuff, thanks! This forum is great for asking questions and having discussions, but if you go back and search older stuff it really is a goldmine of speedcubing advice. These threads are great examples of that.
This was just a normal practice session with even a few none Y/W crosses.
@mafergut Nice! I had almost no time this week to practice. And today I did one Ao12 which I have on film. I can see I am finally improving after a two year plateau because I never had a sub 17.50 Ao12 on film before
Very nice solves in there and even full color neutral. That Fangyuan looks like a Yuexiao that does not have corner-center catches. I might get one myself if the Valk is not what I expect. @newtonbase, please tell us how that Mars 3x3 performs, it's another good candidate to replace my Yuexiao. You will be wondering what happened with my Sulong, well, I still like it a lot but in the long run, the lack of reverse makes me want to come back to newer cubes.
Good to hear you're making progress. With F2L it's easier because there's a finite set of cases and most of it goes into muscle memory. Cross isn't like that. Every solution is different, muscle memory plays a much smaller part and it really feels like a different skill to do cross blind. I find F2L easy but still struggle with cross - I can do it, but mentally I have to focus on recall and even visualisation of the pieces, which means it's harder not to just look in a sighted solve. I agree with @newtonbase that it's the best cross training, but it takes a lot of work to make it pay off.
Welcome! Check my signature to see the performance of some over-40s in competition.Nearly 600 pages of old people? An old nub here, I'll be 49 in January and just went to my first comp this month.
I'm a first gen cuber, probably got my first cube around '82, old skool Rubik's brand of course. No internet in those days but I picked up a book at some point and could solve LBL probably somewhere in the 3 to 5 min range. The most recent new wave of interest kept bringing me into contact with cubes. I could remember about 90% but couldn't finish the last layer and that happened enough times that I finally hit the 'net in late winter to figure out how to solve again. Learned the beginners' LL, did that about twice before I decided it was ridiculous, and then I fell into the speedsolving rabbit hole.
I bombed at my first comp. I knew comp jitters might be a factor my first time out but I really underestimated how much it might throw me off. My concentration was clearly off that morning in practice and once the timer started I nearly went full brain-wipe despite plenty of practice at home with cstimer. I'm unfazed though, the entire comp experience was fantastic. Everyone was incredibly helpful, friendly, and encouraging. I didn't even manage an average for 3x3 or 2x2, but at least I have official single solves for both in the books and my PRs will be crushed my next time out. Now that I know my concentration is susceptible I'll practice with sirens going and someone actively heckling me before my next comp. When warmed up at home on 3x3 I'm currently around mid 40s for ao5, best single :34 and change. 2x2 average generally 12-14 seconds with a 5.52 best single but the first time I ever touched a 2x2 was 2 weeks before the comp.
My mission: I'm another sub-20 3x3 seeker now. I use CFOP, 2 look OLL and I know full PLL with the exception of Nb at this point. Not in need of much help short of pounding out F2L thousands more times. I haven't done much archaeology in this thread yet so I'm not sure who the active old folks are but I figure there are a few active speedsolvers around that are older than I. Anyone pulled up any interesting WCA stats on age?
I finally got round to trying this on obliques and it works for me. Maybe we're talking about different algs. Assuming buffer is Ubr, my alg for Dbl is
For those who have not read it. This thread on practice by Rowan is awesome and required reading
