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Logiqx said:
Guildford competition is getting closer.

Tonight was my final commuter session with consistent times in both events.

I'm looking forward to catching up with you guys!

OH
Title: 3x3x3 OH
Scrambler: 3x3x3 Simple
Session: 8
# of solving: 27
# of penalty: 0
# of DNF: 0
Std Dev: 2.021
Best of all: 23.458
Worst of all: 34.993
Average of all: 30.013
Best Avg of 5: 28.243
Best Avg of 12: 28.883
Best Avg of 25: 29.794

Solving times: 31.621 32.727 25.562 31.124 29.476 29.568 26.543 31.366 28.203 26.958 30.688 33.302 29.979 27.593 30.086 30.305 27.118 23.458 30.471 31.609 29.882 34.993 29.095 30.653 31.337 32.756 32.317

3x3 - 100% sub-20
Title: 3x3x3 Cube
Scrambler: 3x3x3 Simple
Session: 49
# of solving: 30
# of penalty: 0
# of DNF: 0
Std Dev: 1.163
Best of all: 13.624
Worst of all: 19.998
Average of all: 17.141
Best Avg of 5: 16.352
Best Avg of 12: 16.426
Best Avg of 25: 16.990

Solving times: 16.614 16.992 16.618 17.591 15.052 18.676 18.067 18.381 19.231 13.624 15.638 16.694 16.725 16.783 19.764 17.034 16.338 15.084 17.202 15.718 17.051 19.113 16.137 16.148 17.901 19.998 19.930 16.220 17.818 16.142
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I'm looking forward to it too. It'll be good to meet up with you guys again.

I have PBs covered as I'm in 2 new events and it'll take 3 DNFs to stop me getting another PB in 3BLD. Unfortunately I've not done a timed 3x3 solve since July and I've had no time to clean or lube my cubes but there's a nice big break on Saturday afternoon where I can prep for Sunday.
 
Toy delivery day!

Thunderclap V1: Okay, now I don't know what my main actually is lol. My main Thunderclap is the Cubicle premium version. The pictures of the Thunderclap V2 didn't look like the same design as mine, so I ordered the V1. This is not it... however, I still really like it a lot right outta the box. Pretty much the same first-turn impressions as the reviews: super fast, maybe too much, noisy/clacky. So one more cube I like for variety, but now I still need a backup main.

G4: Very dry, scratchy, and loud-ish straight from the box. I was warned they're on the loud side and that's no issue. I'm sure to break it in learning to solve (haven't even looked into 4x4 methods yet) and I won't touch tensions or lube until then.

DaYan 2x2: A little stiff with spring noise out of the box but I really like the solid feel.

KungFu YueHun: Smooth and fast on first turns. Not as smooth feeling as my premium WeiPo but it hasn't been lubed at all yet.

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Got hold of a decent stickerless cube yesterday a GuoGuan YueXiao ... 2nd hand, but well looked after. Feels and turns similar to my black stickered YueXiao. Struggling a little with the recognition when solving and the green and yellow are quite close ITO shades so in dull light it is quite hard to make out which is which.

I have had a few good times considering the recognition struggle, but it I'll be sticking with a black stickered cube as my main for now. I would like to try some other stickerless cubes that have different colours with some high contrast to see if they are any better, although I'm not keen on spending a lot of cash on that at the moment.
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mafergut said:
I'm finding my Valk3 stickerless quite nice. I just did like 20 timed solves with it and no good times as I was not warmed up but... yeah, I still think it could be my new main...
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I got mine yesterddy and I'm delighted - this is best cube I ever got - so fast, light and controlable. I've heard about lockups but in my turning style it happedn only in the beginning. More over - I had lockups during Gperm when I did on Thunderclap, but on Valk3 they are so smooth and easy. I've found only one problem - it's hard for me to get used to stickers shades - my lookahead is worse. First ao100 - 20.39.
 
On my way to Guildford now. See some of you there tomorrow!

I've been almost exclusively practising square-one for the past few months, hoping to get an average. It's touch and go, as my global average is now around 38 seconds, and the soft-cut is 45 seconds...

I'm going to be interested to see what effect not practising has had on the other events... I guess it won't be good... :-)
 
I find it quite strange how certain algs will come up more often during solves. Today I've done an ao100 and I would say that almost every 6th or 7th solve needed the Gb perm to finish, probably a bit of an exageration but it certainly felt like it :) . Yesterday it was the Rb perm. The problem I find that the more often a certain alg comes up the more poorly I end up doing that alg.
 
JohnnyReggae said:
I find it quite strange how certain algs will come up more often during solves. Today I've done an ao100 and I would say that almost every 6th or 7th solve needed the Gb perm to finish, probably a bit of an exageration but it certainly felt like it :) . Yesterday it was the Rb perm. The problem I find that the more often a certain alg comes up the more poorly I end up doing that alg.
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Goggle the birthday paradox. :)

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JohnnyReggae said:
:-) A lot of maths that I don't understand :-) But I get the basis of it and probability theory ...
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Basically, think of your solves as the people and the PLLs as the birthdays.

The odds of having a bunch of identical PLLs in a session is much higher than you'd expect through intuition.

In an average of 5 there is a probability of over 45% that two of the PLLS will be the same. In an average of 12 it is over 99%.

Counterintuitive but true!

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Logiqx said:
Basically, think of your solves as the people and the PLLs as the birthdays.

The odds of having a bunch of identical PLLs in a session is much higher than you'd expect through intuition.

In an average of 5 there is a probability of over 45% that two of the PLLS will be the same. In an average of 12 it is over 99%.

Counterintuitive but true!

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I've had an N-perm in every 3x3 average I've recorded in comp.

EDIT: Or at least that's the way I remember it.
 
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Logiqx said:
In an average of 5 there is a probability of over 45% that two of the PLLS will be the same. In an average of 12 it is over 99%.
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I'm aware of the phenomenon but didn't realise it was quite so high as 99%. That's surprising.

I am about 1/3 of the way to Guildford. What on earth am I doing driving so far just to twiddle some plastic toys.
 
mark49152 said:
I'm aware of the phenomenon but didn't realise it was quite so high as 99%. That's surprising.

I am about 1/3 of the way to Guildford. What on earth am I doing driving so far just to twiddle some plastic toys.
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