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Nice case, Mark, you need to get a stackmat timer in there, too. Mike has one in his DeLuxe model Size 16 shoebox, I noticed.

And Good Luck to you all at Guildford.
 
Good luck to all of you already at the tournament or going to. I wish you plenty of PBs guys!
I finally had time to try the Weilong GTS this weekend and, well, it's very nice. Probably even a bit better than the Yuexiao but I find it a bit more unstable so I can't control it as well. The other problem is that I have already tried the Valk3 and, oh man, I love that cube. It retains a perfect square shape, it's stable, smooth... probably the best cube I've ever had.
Right now I'm still undecided so I'll have to do an Ao100 with each and see which one gives me the best times. I just wish I could be a bit faster than my last Ao100s but, for now, the little practise I've been able to get on cross-to-F2L transition is not giving any tangible fruits... other than the realization that most of the time I was not really planning the whole cross but just the 4 edges, leaving center alignment for during the solve, which block my lookahead into 1st F2L pair. It's going to be hard to get rid of that bad habit.

Also I'll have to review my Goals as September has ended and, sadly I did not achieve all of them. Problem here is that until end of November I'm gonna be terribly busy with work so you'll be seen me very little around here and I will be practising very little also. So, I'm going to be very conservative with my goals for end of the year.
 
Ready for my 2 to 5 relay.

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Logiqx said:
4x4 - 1:30 soft-cut

Solve 1 - 1:39.21... good solve until I messed up the PLL parity, went back to F2L and then had to do the parity all over again!

Solve 2 - I spent 10 seconds looking for one of the edges and only just made the cut!

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Nice job! 1:29 is pretty much best case for my 4x4 right now, unfortunately my next comp has a 1:20 soft cut. :)
 
mafergut said:
the Valk3 and, oh man, I love that cube. It retains a perfect square shape, it's stable, smooth... probably the best cube I've ever had.
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That's my opinion too. It's the best cube I've ever had. I've kept solving since yesterday and I've finished with sub-19 ao100 when I used to stickerless colors. I've also beaten my pb ao5 by a almost 1 second from 16.59 to 15.65. It's a part of pb ao12 (17.43). Luckily I got it on cam:


Now I have a dilemma - I gave my Valk3 to my son and I have to buy a new one. Black or stickerless? Unluckily I'll do it next month (my budget for cubes is done this month).
 
SenorJuan said:
Nice case, Mark, you need to get a stackmat timer in there, too. Mike has one in his DeLuxe model Size 16 shoebox, I noticed.
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Mike's shoe box is very impressive. I spotted my timer next to the case as I was making holes but it was too late to make space.

My main target at Guildford was a sub 3 PB in 3BLD. I got DNF, 2:48.13 and 2:52.64 so left with a smile on my face. Also got a 2:03 in my last practice solve before the round which is a 25s PB.
 
h2f said:
That's my opinion too. It's the best cube I've ever had. I've kept solving since yesterday and I've finished with sub-19 ao100 when I used to stickerless colors. I've also beaten my pb ao5 by a almost 1 second from 16.59 to 15.65. It's a part of pb ao12 (17.43). Luckily I got it on cam:


Now I have a dilemma - I gave my Valk3 to my son and I have to buy a new one. Black or stickerless? Unluckily I'll do it next month (my budget for cubes is done this month).
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Awesome! What OLL did you do at 53 secs?
 
MarcelP said:
I had a great day at the Dutch Nationals. Became 3rd in the 40 plus category :) I had my second sub 20 average ever.. And took 5 secs of my Pyraminx average. Fist solve was 12 but it was a plus 2 (not really but I did not want to argue with my 10 year old judge.. LOL)

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Nice, very nice! Congrats sub20 and pb in pyraminx.

newtonbase said:
Mike's shoe box is very impressive. I spotted my timer next to the case as I was making holes but it was too late to make space.

My main target at Guildford was a sub 3 PB in 3BLD. I got DNF, 2:48.13 and 2:52.64 so left with a smile on my face. Also got a 2:03 in my last practice solve before the round which is a 25s PB.
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Nice and congrats!

@MarcelP - it was PLL 52. I do it: R' U' R U' R' U y' R' U R B.
 
Summary of day 1:

- 2x2 solves were poor but they allowed me to get me used to the competition environment
- Pyraminx was decent until the last solve when my muscle memory failed me. I tried the last alg 4 times!
- 4x4 was comical. I only qualified for an average by 0.004 seconds! PB single - 01:15.89
- 6x6 was unexpected. I was aiming for sub-8 and beat my home PB by 18 seconds! PB single - 06:29.50

It was great to catch up with everyone and I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

2x2x2 - 7.21, 9.05+, 6.71, 6.71, DNF - 7.66 average
Pyraminx - 10.58, 7.82, 9.71, 8.70, 15.79 - 9.66 average
4x4x4 - 01:39.21, 01:29.99, 01:21.98, 01:27.66, 01:15.89 - 01:26.5 average
6x6x6 - 06:29.50
 
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@Marcel good job! but please, please, stop the timer faster, you can shave .2 or .3 there ;)
@Logiqx @mark49152 @newtonbase good luck tomorrow!

I've been quite busy lately and don't plan to have any time son after a couple of weeks after Spanish nationals (next week). Expecting PBs on mega and 4BLD and 5BLD if I don't DNF, let's see how that turns out.

@muchacho @mafergut : quite a lot of comps in Spain this fall, any chance you can make it to any?

Everybody else congrats on the PBs I must have missed in the last month, I'll try to get back to posting soon.
 
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