Older cubers discussions

[Logiqx]

Haha, thanks! I'm glad if I can be of help, so it's not only me leeching off the infinite wisdom of all the wiser oldies in this thread. I sometimes do M' in the cross, but only if I have 2 opposite white edges opposite to each other and can position them with the M' as first move. I don't think my brain is ready to handle M' moves later in the cross sequence yet.

For the second pair, I found another, possibly even better way while playing around with the cube last week. That would be U F (sexy) F' U R U' R'. Or use sledgehammer for insertion to replace last 4 moves, that might even be more finger trick friendly. It's more moves, but could be faster. I think it's better if the pair already is positioned towards front left, not quite sure if it's worth it with the U move at the start.

Your first two pairs are what I'd do in a speedsolve.

The third pair I'd do U2 L U' L' U2 L U' L'.

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[mark49152]

My greatest achievement at Guildford:-

 

[Jason Green]

My greatest achievement at Guildford:-

Awesome maybe I'll try the table more. I still haven't broke 1:00.

@JanW that was a really great cross, I've never done one like that, although I need to remember M when I have opposites that both need to go down.

 

[newtonbase]

My greatest achievement at Guildford:-

That's excellent. Have you watched the Roux guys doing LSE OH? They make an art form out of table abuse.

 

[pipkiksass]

Actually most of the people who use it claim they beat all their PB's. I had some nice averages but still prefer the ShengShou FangYuan. Welcome back btw

Thanks Marcel, and good to be back. Maybe I have an excuse now to buy more cubes... Actually who needs excuses to buy more cubes?

Good to be back in The Pub anyway. Mine's a tomato juice, sadly, as I can't drink!


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[muchacho]

That's excellent. Have you watched the Roux guys doing LSE OH? They make an art form out of table abuse.

I average 2 seconds more than that... with 2H. I've timed myself with OH for the first time, Ao12: 8.980

edit: ok, I did some more and I'm averaging around 7.5 seconds, that's better.

 

[mark49152]

Have you watched the Roux guys doing LSE OH? They make an art form out of table abuse.

Yes that's what inspired my U perm

 

[mafergut]

I don't even know how you @mark49152 were able to solve the cube OH without any prior practice. OLL and PLL alg amnesia was a big issue for me when starting to practice OH and I had to relearn most my algs.

 

[mark49152]

I don't even know how you @mark49152 were able to solve the cube OH without any prior practice. OLL and PLL alg amnesia was a big issue for me when starting to practice OH and I had to relearn most my algs.

I used beginners method for LL, so no need for muscle memory. EO is easy. For CO, I re-learned how to arrange the corners to use sunes only. For CP I used comms from BLD. For EP, U perm is easy.

 

[One Wheel]

My greatest achievement at Guildford:-

You use the table as much as I'd like to use the floor with feet! I think I have an OH single that's a better time than that, but it was an OLL skip. I think I've gone under 1:00 OH once or twice without a skip, but not often.

 

[mafergut]

I used beginners method for LL, so no need for muscle memory. EO is easy. For CO, I re-learned how to arrange the corners to use sunes only. For CP I used comms from BLD. For EP, U perm is easy.

And even in those conditions and without practice you got a 46sec solve... I'm impressed! I average around 44 seconds (with 2L OLL) and I've practiced a decent amount of time.

 

[mark49152]

And even in those conditions and without practice you got a 46sec solve... I'm impressed! I average around 44 seconds (with 2L OLL) and I've practiced a decent amount of time.

Cheers Without the table abuse I doubt I would have even completed a solve. That 46 second solve was quite easy. CP skip and only one sune for CO.

I'm tempted to give feet a try. Never thought I would ever say that

 

[One Wheel]

I'm tempted to give feet a try. Never thought I would ever say that

You should. In my experience it's incredibly frustrating when you start out with 10-minute solves because of botched OLLs and PLLs, but once you can do it it's really fun, and easy to get relatively good rankings because very few people actually try.

 

[MarcelP]

.. because very few people actually try.

Yeah, not many freaks

 

[muchacho]

I would try feet, but I guess doing M moves is not very fast. Maybe I'll try once I'm at least more efficient... and not before I can do all the other wca events, yeah, I'll also do clock if a good one is released.

 

[One Wheel]

Yeah, not many freaks

Yeah, although in fairness those of us on this thread are adults who spend hundreds of dollars (or pounds, or . . .) And hundreds of hours on what is fundamentally a child's toy. Freak isn't much of a stretch already.

 

[muchacho]

This solve was fast (14.496) and looked easy to reconstruct (and I thought I had missed something during LSE, which I did), so I've done that:

29169 07-oct-2016 15:34:18 00:14.496 L2 B2 R2 U' R2 D' B2 U' F2 R2 D2 F R B' R2 B' D' U B' R2 L'

x' y'
M' Uw U' B U' M U M' F'
U' M' U Rw2 R U R' M' U2 Rw' U' Rw U2 Rw U Rw'
U' F R U R' U' R U R' U' F'
M' U M' U M' M' U2 M U2 M2 U M' U2 M'

52 STM
3.59 tps

https://alg.cubing.net/?setup=L2_B2_R2_U-_R2_D-_B2_U-_F2_R2_D2_F_R_B-_R2_B-_D-_U_B-_R2_L-&alg=x-_y- M-_Uw_U-_B_U-_M_U_M-_F- U-_M-_U_Rw2_R_U_R-_M-_U2_Rw-_U-_Rw_U2_Rw_U_Rw- U-_F_R_U_R-_U-_R_U_R-_U-_F- M-_U_M-_U_M-_M-_U2_M_U2_M2_U_M-_U2_M-

 

[mafergut]

First Ao50 in a long, long time, trying to decide if I'll change main to the Qiyi Valk. Got 19.43, a full second off my PB . I get very nice solves with this cube but I also fumble others because of unintended turning of some layer or other. It's so light to turn! So not sure yet that I can get good consistency on it. Also I'm a bit in bad shape lately so I'm not going to blame the cube for something that's entirely my fault. Trying to focus on cross-to-F2L transition following @MarcelP's advice

Best solve was a 13.91 full step, on this scramble:
L' B2 F2 D2 L B2 F2 R F2 L2 D' F' D2 L D2 F U2 F U' F'

 

[Logiqx]

I would try feet, but I guess doing M moves is not very fast. Maybe I'll try once I'm at least more efficient... and not before I can do all the other wca events, yeah, I'll also do clock if a good one is released.

Alex Lau uses Roux for feet. He does E turns with one foot on top of the cube and the other foot doing the slice move.

 

[muchacho]

Ah, that should work.