pglewis
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Today's diary entry concerns sighted bld execution practice. You know how if you repeat a word over and over it no longer seems like a word any more? It's like that, only with Y-Perm 
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pipkiksass
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So on Sunday night I was unfortunately rushed to hospital, and bad news is I'm still there... but good news is my wife just visited, and brought me some cubes!!! [emoji41][emoji41][emoji41]
Sadly there's no wifi, and mobile data is patchy at best, so looks like I'll be annoying the other patients with cubing for a while. Slow turning may be in order!!
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Sadly there's no wifi, and mobile data is patchy at best, so looks like I'll be annoying the other patients with cubing for a while. Slow turning may be in order!!
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cmhardw
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Oh no! I hope you get better soon! Cubing certainly has healing properties, so that should help
Hope you feel better soon man.
As far as cubes and noise: Most hospitals have TVs... those things are loud. Cubes are pretty quiet, and I don't think anyone will begrudge you using your brain. It is so hard to stay sane in a hospital. My goal when I'm there (ugh) is never to turn on the TV.
pipkiksass
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Thanks very much.Hope you feel better soon man.
As far as cubes and noise: Most hospitals have TVs... those things are loud. Cubes are pretty quiet, and I don't think anyone will begrudge you using your brain. It is so hard to stay sane in a hospital. My goal when I'm there (ugh) is never to turn on the TV.
Nobody has TVs on, most of the people on my ward are very sick and elderly, hopefully they won't begrudge me my sanity!!
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I could see that being a major downer. Enjoy the cubes... if they clack too much, I suspect the staff will help you. They understand the great fight to keep yourself together in those beds. It is bad enough that I've telecommuted from the hospital before
. (And before I took up cubing... now a days, I'd work on my BLD, or some other form of cubing thing, if my mind could take it.)
h2f
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Best wishes in your recovery.
Logiqx
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Get well soon. Glad you've got some cubes now!
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mark49152
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Hope you get well and out of there soon @pipkiksass ...
mafergut
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newtonbase
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Sorry to hear you're not well @pipkiksass.
@phreaker's suggestion of 3BLD is ideal if you need to be quiet. You can practice tracing and memo with just a few turns now and then.
@phreaker's suggestion of 3BLD is ideal if you need to be quiet. You can practice tracing and memo with just a few turns now and then.
kbrune
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@pipkiksass
Wish you a speedy recovery! I spent a week in a hospital back in my teens. Wish I had been introduced the cube then!
@Jason Green
I do get stressed with cubing. Pushing myself and imposing too many expectations on progress. But the joy I get out of cubing overwhelms the pressure I out on myself. Interesting thought though. Stress management is on my radar so I'll keep that in mind.
I've barely practiced in the last week and headaches have been increasing in frequency. I've got an appointment to have my eyes checked in 2 days.
Wish you a speedy recovery! I spent a week in a hospital back in my teens. Wish I had been introduced the cube then!
@Jason Green
I do get stressed with cubing. Pushing myself and imposing too many expectations on progress. But the joy I get out of cubing overwhelms the pressure I out on myself. Interesting thought though. Stress management is on my radar so I'll keep that in mind.
I've barely practiced in the last week and headaches have been increasing in frequency. I've got an appointment to have my eyes checked in 2 days.
pipkiksass
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Thanks for the good wishes all. Ironically, I'm in the best shape I've been in in over a year - had a spot of cancer, but that cleared right up, been in remission for 2 months, but now I catch a cold and end up in hospital!!!
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pglewis
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Glad to see you're in good spirits, @pipkiksass, here's to a speedy recovery!
Jason Green
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Hope you get well soon! I was in the hospital with an arm infection last January and barely touched a cube I just slept.
I started learning a couple of OH PLLs tonight. Going to try and get the Z and E perms down tonight. Will see if I use then enough to not forget!
h2f
Premium Member
I've learnt plenty of PLLs to OH. For OLLs I use the ones from TH but some of them are hard to do, so I do it 2look. And some need to be mirrored. Anyway - new algs help a lot getting faster.
JohnnyReggae
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I hope you have a speedy recovery. Enjoy the cubing while dealing with the mundane of lying in bed in hospital
JanW
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Get well soon @pipkiksass!
I haven't posted much lately. Not much to report. Progress has stagnated again this year when I've had less time to solve. Only 650 solves so far this year, mean is a lousy 24.39. I learned a lot of OLLs at once end of last year, now I keep mixing them up when I don't get enough solves in to keep them fresh in memory. I know a bit over 40 OLLs now. Maybe 5-6 to go, then I'd know all but the dot cases. I really should get to work on those and then just drill drill drill.
A couple of weeks before Christmas I placed two orders with cubezz on consecutive days, which shipped on consecutive days from China. The first package arrived 4 weeks ago, the second finally arrived today. Seems like quite big variance on shipping times! Anyway, now I finally have the Valk 3!! First impression... not very impressed. I need to play around with tensions a bit to see if I can make it any better. Out of the box it doesn't fit my turning style at all. It is super tight, that's probably the reason.
One good thing came out of the Valk already, though. While playing around with it I came across the nice F2L alg F' R U R' U' R' F R. I looked up to see if this alg is in algdb (the inverse is) and seeing the F2L page I realized how inefficient my current F2L algs are. This case, for example, I still solve with the beginners method, which involves a cube rotation and all. Once I'm done with OLL, I should have a look through all the different F2L cases to find where I can improve.
I haven't posted much lately. Not much to report. Progress has stagnated again this year when I've had less time to solve. Only 650 solves so far this year, mean is a lousy 24.39. I learned a lot of OLLs at once end of last year, now I keep mixing them up when I don't get enough solves in to keep them fresh in memory. I know a bit over 40 OLLs now. Maybe 5-6 to go, then I'd know all but the dot cases. I really should get to work on those and then just drill drill drill.
A couple of weeks before Christmas I placed two orders with cubezz on consecutive days, which shipped on consecutive days from China. The first package arrived 4 weeks ago, the second finally arrived today. Seems like quite big variance on shipping times! Anyway, now I finally have the Valk 3!! First impression... not very impressed. I need to play around with tensions a bit to see if I can make it any better. Out of the box it doesn't fit my turning style at all. It is super tight, that's probably the reason.
One good thing came out of the Valk already, though. While playing around with it I came across the nice F2L alg F' R U R' U' R' F R. I looked up to see if this alg is in algdb (the inverse is) and seeing the F2L page I realized how inefficient my current F2L algs are. This case, for example, I still solve with the beginners method, which involves a cube rotation and all. Once I'm done with OLL, I should have a look through all the different F2L cases to find where I can improve.
Bemis
Regular
Hello, all. 37 y/o cuber here. Started about 2 weeks ago. I didn't run a timer until I could solve it without looking at an alg list and was running ao5 around 2:34 and was just starting F2L at that time. I'm now solid with all my 2 Look OLL and I'm starting to get down to ao5 around 1:14. Pfew! I still have a long ways to go, but I'm having a blast!
Logiqx
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Welcome to the thread. We all started in the same place and you'll plenty of friendly support from the regulars. Happy cubing!
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