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[mark49152]

I'm not using three cycles, at least as I understand them. That would be like an A-perm or a U-perm, right?

No, I mean we got the same number of cycles of the same lengths in our memos. I didn't check your letters so it doesn't mean the memo is correct, but if I had found two 4-cycles and a 3-cycle I'd have said your memo was wrong regardless of the lettering.

I suggest switching to Speffz. There's really no advantage to a non-standard scheme. Some people like to not have Q or X or other harder letters, but you can always use Speffz and just swap out one or two you don't like, and it will still be way easier to share with others.

 

[h2f]

There's really no advantage to a non-standard scheme.

Unless you are non-English speaker. Yeah, speffz is good and logic and its worth to keep it.

I was busy in last 2 weeks but I've kept practicing. Dropped my 3x3 timest to 19.09 ao1000. I like solving with Valk 3 and there came a time to buy the one for me. It'll be black one.

 

[Logiqx]

Good start to the day!

Empty carriage + full TPS lead to 2 second improvements across the board - Ao5, Ao12 and overall session.

Title: 3x3x3 OH
# of solving: 24
Std Dev: 1.988
Best of all: 21.790
Worst of all: 34.695
Best Avg of 5: 25.250
Best Avg of 12: 26.502
Average of all: 27.369
---- Generated by KingEn Timer v3.3

Solving times: 27.553 28.327 28.094 31.352 27.755 29.760 26.397 28.612 25.191 25.273 26.861 24.110 25.288 26.975 29.530 21.790 29.771 26.788 28.849 34.695 26.269 23.283 26.462 29.618

 

[JohnnyReggae]

@pglewis, @Selkie, @mafergut ... I can definitely say that the Thunderclap springs in the Yuxin Blue transforms the cube into the best 4x4 for me. Out of the box the cube is rubbish, but with the TC springs it's absolutely amazing. It is now my main over the MeiYue and Mini Aosu. I've done a lot of solves over the last 3 or so weeks of having the cube and have not had a single pop ... not one. I can't get through 2 or 3 solves with my mini Aosu without a pop. The MeiYu pops around every 10 solves or so. If you have a TC and a Yuxin Blue ... swap the springs.

 

[mark49152]

Unless you are non-English speaker.

But even then, it would make sense to use a standardised scheme for whatever your language is, if there's a community to share with. Is there a standardised scheme for Polish speakers? I would guess there is for Russian where even the alphabet is different...

 

[mafergut]

@pglewis, @Selkie, @mafergut ... I can definitely say that the Thunderclap springs in the Yuxin Blue transforms the cube into the best 4x4 for me. Out of the box the cube is rubbish, but with the TC springs it's absolutely amazing. It is now my main over the MeiYue and Mini Aosu. I've done a lot of solves over the last 3 or so weeks of having the cube and have not had a single pop ... not one. I can't get through 2 or 3 solves with my mini Aosu without a pop. The MeiYu pops around every 10 solves or so. If you have a TC and a Yuxin Blue ... swap the springs.

Ok then, I will make this my Christmas project. Just a curiosity. Did you put the Yuxin Blue springs back on the TC? What did they make of it?

 

[JohnnyReggae]

Ok then, I will make this my Christmas project. Just a curiosity. Did you put the Yuxin Blue springs back on the TC? What did they make of it?

I did put the Yuxin springs into the TC, and to be honest it's not that great. The original springs are better, but then again I've never really been a fan on the TC and my TC is only used for some BLD practice which at the moment is not happening ... too many other things to focus on.

TheCubicle does sell the TC springs on their own, however I am not sure if they have stock ATM

Edit: It appears they do have stock ... https://thecubicle.us/qiyi-thunderclap-spring-p-7156.html

 

[h2f]

But even then, it would make sense to use a standardised scheme for whatever your language is, if there's a community to share with.

It's up what are you used to. In Polish for example there's no many words with q, x, or y you could use. I know few polish blinders using English words but for me for example it's not natural. I dont know if there's a popular scheme in Polish. I havent met it. I think it's due to fact that Maskow in his tutorials doesnt give any scheme. On the Polish forum - when existed - there wasnt any scheme too. On the other hand - Grzsiek Jałocha does but I dont know if it's popular.

 

[One Wheel]

CG looks right to me. You are finishing off your cycle with G. It's only the buffer piece that shouldn't be solved.
If you can switch your lettering scheme then I would recommend it for situations like this. It's very useful to be able to compare memos. Hopefully it wouldn't be too confusing to make the change at this stage .

I'll work on learning Speffz. I just went back and checked my memo again, and this time when I execute it sighed it seems the problem lies entirely with my parity fix. I think I should be doing U' Ra U instead of U2 Rb U2.

Thanks for your help! I think I might get this yet!

 

[mark49152]

it seems the problem lies entirely with my parity fix. I think I should be doing U' Ra U instead of U2 Rb U2

I've not done OP edges much, but if you execute an odd number of corners first with Y perm, you will leave the UB and UL edges swapped. So you must swap those back while also swapping the two corners that will be swapped by your T perm, UBR and UFR. So that is definitely Ra perm.

Whatever AUF you need to set up your Ra perm depends on which alg you use. The headlights will be on the left so you'll need to AUF those to the correct starting position, but you'll also need to know if your alg does net turns of the U face so that you get the right AUF afterwards too.

 

[Selkie]

@Logiqx - Thats some insane OH improvement Mick

@JohnnyReggae - Thanks for the recommendation Brent. I see Marty's store has stickerless Yuxin Blue's in stock and I have it on reliable advice that he has the 6x6 WuHua's on order. I feel an order coming on soon

Square-1, Megaminx and Clock are the puzzles of choice today and only 4 days of training left including today before UKC!

Square-1 - Had to relearn (remind myself) of 3 algs as I have not solved this really since Exeter Open. I feel I should make average cut which is lower at 50s but I will need some easy cubeshapes to threaten my comp PB average of ~38s. Would need a miracle to move up 40+ rankings.

Megaminx - You will recall I did megaminx only for a few weeks and got down to sub 2:10 which I felt was a good level given usual UK average cut of 2:30 but the cut is 2:15 for UKC which is a little close for comfort. However seem to be averaging ~2:06 so I will just have to hope that I don't get horrible last layers on solves 1 or 2. I dont have an official average so any average at all will be comp PB

Clock - Not solved much clock and this is scheduled for practice a bit later today.

 

[Shaky Hands]

@Selkie, have you experimented at all with Rob Yau's Clock method? (https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/threads/new-rubiks-clock-method.44466/)

@newtonbase, was mentioning this at the Guildford comp.

 

[muchacho]

@Selkie, I'm learning Square-1, how do you do cubeshape? I do it by grouping 8 edges on top, and it takes me more than 30 seconds. How much time that step takes you?

Good luck Selkie and the rest competing at UKC!

 

[Selkie]

@Shaky Hands - I have to confess I hadn't. I still use Pochmann method but having a quick look I love the idea of only turning top dials. Will take a closer look post UKC, perhaps a switch of method is in order

Did 20 minutes of clock and seem to be sub 15 so that would be very welcome in comp.

Well my practicing schedule went out the window and decided to do some 4x4 after some clock. Got a PB Ao5 on film. Was actually quite pleased with this average as not only was it PB but it had 3 OLL parities and 3 PLL parities (1:OLL/PLL, 2:OLL/-, 3:-/-, 4:OLL/PLL, 5: -/PLL) which is above average. Always felt needed to get lucky with parities to get sub 1. Apologies for the video flood last couple of days

Average of 5: 58.08
1. 1:00.66 u' B D' F U2 r2 L U D f2 D2 B R' L D2 F f R' B' f' F' R U r' D f2 u' U' B2 f2 r2 L B2 R' U2 r U' r2 L' R2
2. 57.80 R f F U L' R r' F R2 B R2 B2 F r2 F' D2 U2 L2 D' r' U' B2 r' D2 u L2 F u r f' F' L U2 R L' f F' D F' r2
3. (53.28) r f U' L R' U R B' D2 U r' F2 D' F2 r' F r' U2 L2 f2 R r f' B r u L D' F' f' u B2 r2 L f' U r f' u' L'
4. (1:08.81) D2 u' L r2 U R f' B r D' R B2 R U u2 r2 F2 u2 r f2 U2 F L' B2 D' u F' D2 u f R2 B' U2 r D2 u' L2 F f D
5. 55.77 F' r2 B' f2 R' F2 u B2 L' u' f2 r2 L F2 R r' F2 B2 R2 U R' U F2 u B2 L F' u' B' R' f2 r' U L' F' D' r2 B' r F2

 

[Selkie]

@muchacho - I initially learned from this guide http://www.kungfoomanchu.com/guides/andy-klise-square-1.pdf though in reality my cubeshape is intuitive, usually trying to pair up edges until I get to a case I know and then as you do getting all 8 edges together. This is highly unoptimised and consequently it can take me up to 15 seconds on bad cases. I always said I wanted to learn all the cases, perhaps a project for over Christmas!

 

[CLL Smooth]

@Selkie, I'm learning Square-1, how do you do cubeshape? I do it by grouping 8 edges on top, and it takes me more than 30 seconds. How much time that step takes you?

Good luck Selkie and the rest competing at UKC!

This video helped me back when I was learning sq-1. Particularly the stuff about scallop-kite, which starts around 5:30.

 

[muchacho]

Thanks, I guess I'm not enough committed to Square-1 yet, that video has more information than what I can digest for now.

 

[CLL Smooth]

Thanks, I guess I'm not enough committed to Square-1 yet, that video has more information than what I can digest for now.

Just watch the stuff about scallop-kite that starts sometime after 5 minutes.

 

[mark49152]

@Selkie, nice average. You won the race to sub-1 . My 4x4 average has not improved for months. My rolling ao1000 has only dropped from 1:12 to 1:09 in 3000+ solves. 1000 solves for each 1s of improvement is hard work!

 

[Selkie]

@mark49152 - Thanks Mark but with nerves added to the equation it is going to take some good solves the weekend to beat your excellent comp PB average sir. Like to think I am sub 1:05 now but home and comp and completely different beasts to me.

@CLL Smooth - Nice link, I think I am going to watch a few times and try and learn some more optimal cases.