newtonbase
Premium Member
4 comps and nearly a year for me. Fear of DNFs does not help.
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David Zemdegs
Premium Member
Another competition this weekend and my first doing the 2x2!
Bemis
Regular
Woo hoo! Enjoy and best of luck!
newtonbase
Premium Member
15:23 4BLD DNF today. Missed one word in recall. Maybe tomorrow.
newtonbase
Premium Member
My 7 Yuxin Little Magics arrived today but I've ordered stickerless by accident. May have to set up a stall at Manchester.
h2f
Premium Member
SpartanSailor
Veteran
Who doesn't have a "fear" of DNF? I mean... no one enters a comp aspiring to get a DNF!
pglewis
Veteran
For me I think it's a combination of this and tracing... tracing alone taxes my thinking bits, so trying to quickly assign images at the same time can sometimes overwhelm my brain into neutral. Practice was definitely leading to fast progress for me, so like you I just need to find a trigger to get me practicing again. My current 3x3 focus is the other culprit edging out 3bld practice.
This was my ill-advised strategy
. I didn't have a success for a few days leading up to comp nor any during practice before the event, so I think I was luckily just due to get one. I'm very susceptible to comp-amnesia and don't respond well to the adrenaline and nerves so I try to prep myself well for a week or two leading up to comp. My local coffee shop is good for this with light music playing, conversations, activity, people walking around. I think the distraction practice helps me vs. doing all my practice from the quiet conditions at my desk. Tracing and memo improves quickly with practice. It's so new, slow, and tedious at the very beginning but a few weeks of sighted practice will probably melt minutes off your memo. Most of the fast guys preach if "you're too accurate it means you're not pushing memo out of your comfort zone enough". I was averaging 6-7 mins when I left off, but had some near misses in 5 min range and shocked myself with a low 4 on one where everything just came together. I've at least had glimpses at how fast you can shed memo time at this stage.
You're getting rather speedy, here's hoping I can keep chasing you that far!
What do you think of them? I personally think they're going to be like licorice... the feel is unique and I suspect people will either love them or hate them. Magnets do a good job for the stability as usual and the price is sure right. It's never going to usurp my GTS2-Ms but I do really like the magnetized stickerless.
newtonbase
Premium Member
I do like them but I prefer stickered cubes for blind as they offer better grip. Also I already have 3 stickered ones that are magnetised and I'd prefer them to match. I've placed an order for 10 replacements. I've enough magnets for 8 of them, maybe more if I mix and match. Let's hope that my MBLD skills are good enough to put them to use by June.
I was dort of joking about a stall but I also have half a dozen boxed Thunderclaps. I'm sure they would all go quickly at cost price.
Selkie
Premium Member
@pglewis - Great to see a filmed solve from you. I have to say you have great technique. Minimal rotations, some good F2L cases and a smooth turning style for your times. I have been told often before to not just practice but practice what is good about your solves. You are a great example of this. Over 40's need to watch out soon mate. Look forward to seeing more of your solves in the future ... Keep filming, there is no better self critique!
@SpartanSailor - Good to hear your have dabbled in MegaMinx. It is a really interesting puzzle and one that you can make good progression on with practice and really helps F2L on 3x3. I wasn't that bothered until we had a race to sub 4 minute on this thread !
@Ander - The more mature cubers owe Marcel so much thanks for this thread. I believe he is concentrating on his martial arts of late and looks 20 years younger, unlike me!
@h2f - Happy BLD Anniversary buddy. Wow, how far you have come since then.
@Logiqx - Two in a week! Try not to overthink it, you are close and it will come. Must catch up for a beer in the next month mate, been too long. Oh and some great OH PLLs on your site, using 3 of them now
@JanW - Great improvement on your ao12, huge improvement.
@David Zemdegs - Great branching out in different events, I like to think of myself as an all rounder (exc BLD). Take up feet, will be a first in the family
@newtonbase - DNF or not that solve is surely half the time of the others, correct me if I am wrong?
@SpartanSailor - Good to hear your have dabbled in MegaMinx. It is a really interesting puzzle and one that you can make good progression on with practice and really helps F2L on 3x3. I wasn't that bothered until we had a race to sub 4 minute on this thread !
@Ander - The more mature cubers owe Marcel so much thanks for this thread. I believe he is concentrating on his martial arts of late and looks 20 years younger, unlike me!
@h2f - Happy BLD Anniversary buddy. Wow, how far you have come since then.
@Logiqx - Two in a week! Try not to overthink it, you are close and it will come. Must catch up for a beer in the next month mate, been too long. Oh and some great OH PLLs on your site, using 3 of them now
@JanW - Great improvement on your ao12, huge improvement.
@David Zemdegs - Great branching out in different events, I like to think of myself as an all rounder (exc BLD). Take up feet, will be a first in the family
@newtonbase - DNF or not that solve is surely half the time of the others, correct me if I am wrong?
openseas
Veteran
@Jason Green / I do timed BLD even though I practice alg/comms but not rushing at all. The only reason is that hitting space key is easier than clicking next scramble by mouse
JanW
Veteran
Sure you can! Just keep practicing.
That was quite an outlier Ao12 for me though. I expect it to hold for quite a while.Birthday next month, then I still have to wait 3 years until I qualify for the 40+ rankings... Maybe my goal should be to eventually enter the rankings at sub-15.
Need to get myself to some competitions before that.
newtonbase
Premium Member
I've had one close to that time but mostly a good few mins slower. Unfortunately I've run out of practice sessions this week after a failure this lunch so will have to wait until next week to get it.
mitja
Regular
I made my first 4bld attempt in the morning. DNF 10:33, it was easy memo but one mistake at centers memo, I started new cycle break at the wrong piece. One wings execution mistake. Alltogether it felt quite OK. I was doing slow memo and a fast execution . Almost 8 minutes for memo. But I feel I could do it soon, so will do my second attempt tonight.
newtonbase
Premium Member
Far quicker than I can do. Good luck tonight.
mitja
Regular
Well, i think i went to quick, so i will try much slower execution.
h2f
Premium Member
mitja
Regular
It was not 2:30 more around 3 minutes. the memo was someware below 8, i wasn't that precise at reading. It was very easy centres , almost half of them where solved, that's why it was so fast and only 6 letters corners. When i practised sighted, I needed at least 3:30 for normal execution, so i must have read the memo time wrong, but anyway, need to do it slower now.
h2f
Premium Member
Anyway, your memo was really fast as first attempt. Whats your 3bld avgerage and pb?
mitja
Regular
My fastest time with 3BLD was 3:30 and my oficial is froma year ago i think 5:59. I do not time myself a lot, it is more for fun. I started timing my blind again now with 4BLD rehearsing. More that i think about my 4BLD attempt today, more I think my cstimer didn't time well on ipad, maybe with screen going off in between. I don't think my execution or memo could be that fast yet. I will try again and record myself.
