Older cubers discussions

[SpartanSailor]

I had a recent good run as well. I really feel like I've made a "jump", but nothing that actually translates. I feel more consistent at slightly faster times and hope that translates to an improved PB single and Ao5 for my 3x3 this next weekend, Feb 11. I sometimes feel like my 3x3 improves when I do a lot of 4x4 practice. Kind of weird, but hopefully both of those go well next weekend.

 

[h2f]

Kind of weird, but hopefully both of those go well next weekend.

Doing big cubes helps in 3x3 progress.

 

[pglewis]

I had a recent good run as well. I really feel like I've made a "jump", but nothing that actually translates. I feel more consistent at slightly faster times and hope that translates to an improved PB single and Ao5 for my 3x3 this next weekend, Feb 11. I sometimes feel like my 3x3 improves when I do a lot of 4x4 practice. Kind of weird, but hopefully both of those go well next weekend.

I'm basically just coming back around from regressing to learn full OLL. Before that trip I was averaging around :28 overall and have been waiting for OLL to come together before bothering to track any sessions longer than about a dozen. Beating that old Ao50 means my solves with 1-look OLL are now faster than my 2-look was and I even tanked the end of that session with like 5 of the last 10 solves over :30. I doubt I'll hit a comp before Great Lakes in May, so 3x3 should be very safe PBs for me if I keep my wits, all my nerves will be tied up in blind anyway.

3x3 definitely seems so dinky and simple after playing with a bigger cube for a couple hours. I swear a couple days of 3bld practice magically makes my sighted solves faster and more consistent too. Good luck at comp next weekend!

 

[Jason Green]

Doing big cubes helps in 3x3 progress.

Most people seem to think so but it never works for me. I always take some time to get back to normal if I've been doing other stuff a while.

And congrats @newtonbase that's awesome!

 

[newtonbase]

A question for the 5BLDers here. Swapping the entire UB and UL tredges in memo when there's an odd number of corners avoids OP and midge parity algs. This seems like a no brainer. Is there any reason not to do it?

 

[Mike Hughey]

A question for the 5BLDers here. Swapping the entire UB and UL tredges in memo when there's an odd number of corners avoids OP and midge parity algs. This seems like a no brainer. Is there any reason not to do it?

Um, because I'm braindead and never thought of doing it? How embarrassing. I need to try that.

 

[mark49152]

A question for the 5BLDers here. Swapping the entire UB and UL tredges in memo when there's an odd number of corners avoids OP and midge parity algs. This seems like a no brainer. Is there any reason not to do it?

Only that it's a little more complicated and the thinking time during memo can outweigh the execution savings. It's only the midge parity and associated wing swap you avoid. You still have to do the final OP corner, and wing parity is independent.

I'm trying to switch to this at the moment, starting with 3BLD. I'm practising tracing only, until that's within 1 second of what it was before.

 

[newtonbase]

Only that it's a little more complicated and the thinking time during memo can outweigh the execution savings. It's only the midge parity and associated wing swap you avoid. You still have to do the final OP corner, and wing parity is independent.

I'm trying to switch to this at the moment, starting with 3BLD. I'm practising tracing only, until that's within 1 second of what it was before.

I do it already for 3BLD so it should be pretty automatic. I'll give it a try

 

[newtonbase]

My phone's predictive keyboard isn't working properly on this site. It's fine everywhere else. Anyone else having this issue? I'm sure this happened once before. The thread for reporting such things is closed and we have a couple of super moderators here hence the post. @mark49152 @Mike Hughey
eg The quicq brbro fox jumps ovov the lazy dog.

 

[mark49152]

I do it already for 3BLD so it should be pretty automatic. I'll give it a try

Are you doing it for 4BLD?

My phone's predictive keyboard isn't working properly on this site. It's fine everywhere else. Anyone else having this issue? I'm sure this happened once before. The thread for reporting such things is closed and we have a couple of super moderators here hence the post. @mark49152 @Mike Hughey
eg The quicq brbro fox jumps ovov the lazy dog.

What phone model? Mine has similar problems but I hadn't noticed that it's specific to this site.

 

[newtonbase]

Are you doing it for 4BLD?

No. I was keeping it as simple as possible until i got a success but I'll switch now.

What phone model? Mine has similar problems but I hadn't noticed that it's specific to this site.

I have a Wileyfox Swift 2 Plus using the SwiftKey keyboard..

 

[JanW]

Crazy session today. First this happened:

avg of 5: 15.54

15.28 (PLL Skip), 14.81 (PLL Skip), (18.09) , (13.67) (PLL Skip), 16.53

The chance of getting at least three PLL skips in an Ao5 is roughly 1/38000!! This Ao5 improved my PB about .9 seconds and I thought it would hold for quite a while. It didn't. Later in same session I got a 15.42 Ao5 without any skips! By the end of the session I had broken all my PB averages Ao5-Ao100.

New PBs (old in parenthesis):
Ao5: 15.42 (16.40)
Ao12: 16.84 (16.93)
Ao50: 18.06 (18.57)
Ao100: 18.38 (18.92)

And here's my favorite cross from this session:

F' U' B2 F2 R2 D' U2 B2 D' F2 U' L2 R D F' L D2 U2 F2 D2 B'

x2 // inspection
F M' x y' M2 // cross

 

[newtonbase]

Got my new MBLD cubes. I ordered the right ones this time.

 

[muchacho]

OH PB single again, now 16.903 (from 16.944), first block was not that great (there was an easy 7 moves block) but then all went good.

Spoiler

10701 03-feb-2018 16:09:03 00:16.903 L2 U' R2 F2 D' L2 U B2 L2 D U F' R B2 U R2 D2 B2 F2 R2 F'
y'
Uw' U2 Lw U Lw' U M U M' Lw' U' Lw' z2
U L2 U2 Lw' U' Lw L U' L'
U' F R U R' U' F'
M U' M' U2 M U M U' M2 U
38 STM
2.25 TPS

 

[mitja]

My phone's predictive keyboard isn't working properly on this site. It's fine everywhere else. Anyone else having this issue? I'm sure this happened once before. The thread for reporting such things is closed and we have a couple of super moderators here hence the post. @mark49152 @Mike Hughey
eg The quicq brbro fox jumps ovov the lazy dog.

I didn't notice that, but what I see is a search problem. For a month it reports unauthorized access, so it is definitely something wrong on this site, at least different then before.

 

[mark49152]

Got my new MBLD cubes. I ordered the right ones this time.
View attachment 8866

What are those?

 

[newtonbase]

What are those?

Yuxin Little Magic in black. They are cheap and fast. The stickers are rubbish but that just makes the grip better when they get ragged.

 

[mark49152]

Yuxin Little Magic in black. They are cheap and fast. The stickers are rubbish but that just makes the grip better when they get ragged.

Bear in mind they are pretty strict about stickers at comps these days. I'm still on Thunderclaps. They feel a bit old school but I don't want to replace 30 of them.

 

[One Wheel]

See if I can jinx myself so I don't get any more PBs for a while: My previous best 7x7 solve was 6:53.67. That's not the scramble. I got 7:43.16 with that one.

 

[newtonbase]

Bear in mind they are pretty strict about stickers at comps these days. I'm still on Thunderclaps. They feel a bit old school but I don't want to replace 30 of them.

They are a bit rough but they are intact and i will have plenty of spares once i get magnets in them.
Stick with the Thunderclaps until they slow you down. I have a couple of unused spares you can have if 30 isn't enough!