CornerCutter
Veteran
Yes I'm in the process right now. Do you have to worry about which way the magnets go in or can you just put them in?
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mafergut
Legend
You better make sure that polarity is identical in all corners and also identical in all edges (and opposite to corners). But this is easier done than said, in this case
You just need to follow one of the tutorials by DMCubing.
newtonbase
Premium Member
I've answered in the magnets thread but what @mafergut says is correct.
Lid
Veteran
Just back from my first comp in 16 months, mixed results as usual ...
2x2: failed on last 2 solves, would have been PB otherwise, now it became my 2nd best avg
3x3: 2nd best comp avg in 1st round, half fail (tired) in the 2nd, but still 4th best comp avg
4x4: PB avg with 0.17, 1:08.10, still no sub1 single
5x5: got to make my first avg since 2011, so huge improvment, 1:52.75 single (best result of the day for me) & 2:07.92 avg
OH: total fail, too tired
Skewb: no practice still "OK, PB single & 2nd best comp avg
Pyraminx: no practice, still PB avg with 1.41, sub10! 9.86, must have been the new magnetic MoYu
FMC: just a CFOP solve @50
Skipping 2nd day ...
Next comp for me is just in 7 weeks.
2x2: failed on last 2 solves, would have been PB otherwise, now it became my 2nd best avg
3x3: 2nd best comp avg in 1st round, half fail (tired) in the 2nd, but still 4th best comp avg
4x4: PB avg with 0.17, 1:08.10, still no sub1 single
5x5: got to make my first avg since 2011, so huge improvment, 1:52.75 single (best result of the day for me) & 2:07.92 avg
OH: total fail, too tired
Skewb: no practice still "OK, PB single & 2nd best comp avg
Pyraminx: no practice, still PB avg with 1.41, sub10! 9.86, must have been the new magnetic MoYu
FMC: just a CFOP solve @50
Skipping 2nd day ...
Next comp for me is just in 7 weeks.
Logiqx
Veteran
Congrats on the good results, commiserations on events affected by tiredness.
Are you going to worlds BTW?
pipkiksass
Veteran
Yeah, sorry dude, you PMd me and I didn't get round to your follow up message. What @newtonbase doesn't know about magnetising cubes isn't worth knowing! There's little I can add to DMcubing's YT tutorials, but my posts in this thread do point out a few pitfalls to avoid.
I'd make a "making a Valk M for dummies" tutorial, but honestly I don't think I'd be adding enough to make it worthwhile, and also I don't have a spare cube!!
In other news, dismantled my DIY M last night, as I was getting spring noise on the yellow face only. Oh my, what a difference it makes being my LL face, the black metal dust type debris around the spring was causing the noise, and all the non-yellow faces were absolutely fine.
Reasons to be CN #2!?
Quote:".... I was getting spring noise on the yellow face only.... what a difference it makes being my LL face, the black metal dust type debris around the spring was causing the noise, and all the non-yellow faces were absolutely fine."
I noticed some uneven wear on my cube, with a first-face / last-face difference. So when I restickered it, I swapped over the first and last layer colours (and obviously another opposite pair too), I didn't notice any obvious difference, but I guess that's good, as it means I caught it in time.
I noticed some uneven wear on my cube, with a first-face / last-face difference. So when I restickered it, I swapped over the first and last layer colours (and obviously another opposite pair too), I didn't notice any obvious difference, but I guess that's good, as it means I caught it in time.
pglewis
Veteran
The jury is still out on committing to a switch to ZZ, the usual suspects for the pros and cons. Still doing a lot of EO practice but splitting my time with CFOP solves. The really enticing side:
In the interim it has been a good balance: CFOP when i want to go "fast" (it's relative), ZZ when I wanna have fun. I sometimes find myself starting to plan a cross and immediately decide "to heck with this", and start looking at EO instead.
- I love, love, love pre-oriented rotationless F2L. I'm not really faster with it than normal right off the bat but I feel confident I could easily be. My poor innate lookahead skills are not aided by rotations; every one runs the risk of making me re-visualize the state, mentally. Pared down cases and much better lookahead for me makes it much more enjoyable.
- The last layer, quite simply, kicks a significant quantity of butt with no last slot twiddling needed for serious benefits. OLL skips galore and even more fun to be had with COLL.
- EO+CFOP is not ZZ, I need to tackle block-building to get the full benefits. EO gives my poor lookahead a boost then it is immediately gut-punched by DR/DL. I don't know if I could ever embrace looking for pieces there and I still resort to solving a cross in my infancy.
- The fact that I could put the extra effort needed for EOLine into working on X-Cross, if I'm going to look deeper during inspection. All the other benefits are nice and all but X-Cross can get a heck of a head-start.
In the interim it has been a good balance: CFOP when i want to go "fast" (it's relative), ZZ when I wanna have fun. I sometimes find myself starting to plan a cross and immediately decide "to heck with this", and start looking at EO instead.
My suggestion, if you want to learn block building... Don't EOCross, just make a "block" 2x1x1 of the D layer on the U face. Then put it into place, and do this repeatedly.
I know I have to do this every so often, when I get too attached to pairs instead of blocks. Just to remind my mind "Hey, blocks exist!" Ideally, you should be ~50/50 block vs. pair when making the 2x2x1.
Tracking DL/DR is something you should do. They are part of the 2x2x1 on each side, no matter what. At that point it is a matter of finding which edge + corner you want to make everything up, out of. But... tracking them is something I'm working on myself
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AlphaSheep
Veteran
The easiest solution is to do M' E' M E and then swap the centre caps around every few weeks.
newtonbase
Premium Member
Genius.
mafergut
Legend
Nice! But it doesn't work with stickerless cubes, sadly.
By the way, I'm not sure I'm getting what the problem is that @pipkiksass was suffering. Increased wear on yellow center because of LL always on yellow? If that's the case I have another solution... to become full CN
JohnnyReggae
Veteran
With this talk of trying different methods and having tried ZZ already I thought I'd give Roux a go. I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would, mostly because I'm not a fan of M moves because I find them clumsy and slow and always require regrips. It is also fairly intuitive with L6E EO, LU and RU placement, and permuting the M layer. I've been using 2-look on the upper corners as I don't need to learn anything new there.
As a method it is a nice change from CFOP and the initial block building gives you even more freedom than ZZ, although I'm not taking full advantage of that as I usually place my left and right bottom edges first so that I don't need to think about them again.
I have had a few skips, if you can call them that, in that after finishing L6E EO I'm left with a CFOP PLL to finish off
As a method it is a nice change from CFOP and the initial block building gives you even more freedom than ZZ, although I'm not taking full advantage of that as I usually place my left and right bottom edges first so that I don't need to think about them again.
I have had a few skips, if you can call them that, in that after finishing L6E EO I'm left with a CFOP PLL to finish off
pipkiksass
Veteran
Yeah I'm stickerless... sigh!Nice! But it doesn't work with stickerless cubes, sadly.
By the way, I'm not sure I'm getting what the problem is that @pipkiksass was suffering. Increased wear on yellow center because of LL always on yellow? If that's the case I have another solution... to become full CN
I said in my original post, reasons to become CN...!
Might give it a go, but TBH I think it'll take several thousand years for me to wear out the screws in my valk through pure solving alone, and I also have a white and another stickerless as backups, so could always just do a spring swap.
#toolazytobeCN
And I'm all honesty I very rarely find a cross I can't fully plan these days. Might put a little effort into white/yellow CN, just for those absolute bastard crosses that come up occasionally.
After I lubed and cleaned my Valk M I also had my first sub-11 lucky solve, and first sub-12 NL. Getting closer to that random fluked sub-10 single!!
h2f
Premium Member
I did a try of 6bld (3rd time ever). Of course it was DNF. Memo was around 1 hour. I know now what type of comms should I practice: +/- obliques of course. I found it very hard for me to imagine how shall I do both types. Time was 1:24.
mafergut
Legend
I had to order a Weilong GTS2 because:
- They make them stickerless (the original GTS had caps)
- I was looking for a new 3x3 (Valk3 and Yan3 are nice but a bit catchy, so maybe a GTS2 is good? Less is more).
- People are saying great things of it, mainly that it is what the original wasn't (I'm not particularly fond of the GTS).
I also had to order a Shengshoug Pearl Mega with it because:
- I love the Aurora and this looks like an improvement. Better grip and corner cutting... same stability? (I hope).
Ah, tomorrow I will show you a picture of a little birthday present my wife bought me (she doesn't know I know but I won't get it until tomorrow because... that's my birth day of course). A couple hints at what it is: it's green and if my wife's name was Eve it would make a lot more sense
EDIT: And the N35 magnets did not arrive on time for my Easter project of magnetising the Yan3 and maybe another cube (Valk3? MF3RS? original GTS?).
- They make them stickerless (the original GTS had caps)
- I was looking for a new 3x3 (Valk3 and Yan3 are nice but a bit catchy, so maybe a GTS2 is good? Less is more
).- People are saying great things of it, mainly that it is what the original wasn't (I'm not particularly fond of the GTS).
I also had to order a Shengshoug Pearl Mega with it because:
- I love the Aurora and this looks like an improvement. Better grip and corner cutting... same stability? (I hope).
Ah, tomorrow I will show you a picture of a little birthday present my wife bought me (she doesn't know I know but I won't get it until tomorrow because... that's my birth day of course). A couple hints at what it is: it's green and if my wife's name was Eve it would make a lot more sense
EDIT: And the N35 magnets did not arrive on time for my Easter project of magnetising the Yan3 and maybe another cube (Valk3? MF3RS? original GTS?).
h2f
Premium Member
@h2f: Obliques are easy but it's very difficult not to make mistakes
Yeah. I have mixed between + and - obliques and failed. My memo was only 59 words and 4 letter pairs. I hope to make a next attempt for a week.
mark49152
Premium Member
I have a comp with 5BLD next weekend and am on a 14-long DNF streak. Not good when I only get time for 1-2 attempts per day.
newtonbase
Premium Member
The longer a streak goes on the closer it gets to ending!
