Logiqx
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Nice work. Today had enough wind to keep me from cubing.
I guess we're racing to sub-20 Ao5.
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Nice work. Today had enough wind to keep me from cubing.
I guess we're racing to sub-20 Ao5.
SpartanSailor
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Haven’t been practicing much 3BLD lately, but did get 5 practice solves in today. 2/5 success. The first two were success followed by a complete corner memo dump (DNF) and then a twisted corner and I dropped the cube mid-alg during corners... No way that was going to turn out well. All in all, 40% success rate today is good by me. Times were slower than I would prefer, but fine for today. Lots of room to improve my memo and still plenty of time to improve my execution—especially the M2 edges. I still have to think about setups during execution which is much slower for now. The upside, speed will come with practice in execution.
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Wow, Mark, impressive! 20 still seems very far away for me.
SpartanSailor
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@mark49152 that is seriously impressive.
Logiqx
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@mark49152 - I'm not sure why you have a downvote on YT but congrats on the attempt!
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A downvote?!? That is really bizarre. I would think the only person who could possibly downvote it would be me (since I want to try to top Mark at official over-40 multiBLD, and this video shows how unlikely that is).
And I wasn't the one who downvoted it. No really. Honest! You've gotta believe me...
pglewis
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Building on my times yesterday, I've just pulled off a 20.88 Ao5 and 22.56 Ao12.
Lack of wind is proving bad for my windsurfing training but good for OH practice!
Sub-20 full step solves are becoming more common and a sub-20 Ao5 seems like a possibility for the future.
Over to you.
I'm really due again soon but I'm still fighting consistency issues / mistakes. Landed a 17.9 full step yesterday, followed up with a :32 with 6 F2L pairs and the wrong OLL
. It's still going the right direction overall. Haters gonna hate.
moralsh
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That downvote is probably because of that moving coffee mug 
Serious stuff Mark.
Also Jae, Nice official multi (I really need to go back to Multi some day).
I had my 3rd Comp in 3 months (again with no practice
) and last one before Euros. Some unexpected problems prevented me from going both days, but the day I went was pretty productive.
I had 8/10 parities (5 OLL), a pop, and a stackmat DNF in a horrible 4x4 average (1:2x). The usual meh results at categories I only do on comps (2x2, pyra and skewb) a bad 2:05 on 3BLD and then a totally unexpected 31.5 OH average with a 19.18 single (PLL skip).
Then, on 3x3, I had a +2 which prevented me the pure sub 20 avg I still don't have and a very, very nice single 13.09 PLL skip.
It's funny how I can be 2.5 years without breaking a 15.31 single and then the 14.81 only lasts one comp.
One month left for Euros, I really hope those of you who can come here like what we are doing there we're a bit stressed but really hope everything turns out ok
Serious stuff Mark.Also Jae, Nice official multi (I really need to go back to Multi some day).
I had my 3rd Comp in 3 months (again with no practice
) and last one before Euros. Some unexpected problems prevented me from going both days, but the day I went was pretty productive.I had 8/10 parities (5 OLL), a pop, and a stackmat DNF in a horrible 4x4 average (1:2x). The usual meh results at categories I only do on comps (2x2, pyra and skewb) a bad 2:05 on 3BLD and then a totally unexpected 31.5 OH average with a 19.18 single (PLL skip).
Then, on 3x3, I had a +2 which prevented me the pure sub 20 avg I still don't have and a very, very nice single 13.09 PLL skip.
It's funny how I can be 2.5 years without breaking a 15.31 single and then the 14.81 only lasts one comp.
One month left for Euros, I really hope those of you who can come here like what we are doing there
we're a bit stressed but really hope everything turns out ok
mark49152
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Raul @moralsh, nice single! And yeah I am very much looking forward to Euros. It will be great
I have a question about MBLD: will there be a cut-off for the 2nd or 3rd attempts like there was at Worlds? For travel reasons, I might have to DNS my 1st attempt.
I have a question about MBLD: will there be a cut-off for the 2nd or 3rd attempts like there was at Worlds? For travel reasons, I might have to DNS my 1st attempt.
Must be for those DNF cubes
h2f
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@mark49152, yes Mark it's very impressive. How do you practice mbld?
mark49152
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Recently I've been doing lots of small timed attempts (2 cubes) to push my memo pace. It's easier to push it and to measure it, on small attempts. When I go back to bigger attempts, the faster pace feels more comfortable.
newtonbase
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I've been thinking about the benefits of smaller attempts myself recently. Once you have your rooms organised and know the best way to do your reviews I don't really see a benefit of doing a lot of big attempts. Once a week seems plenty.
I was going to do a full attempt at lunch today but a trouser malfunction left me very short of time so I tried a fast 4 cube attempt. Got zero. A quick memo and one review isn't enough.
moralsh
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No cut-off, you can do 2nd and 3rd even if you DNS the first one. If it's tight but you might arrive on time maybe you can send your cubes via another UK cuber and let him/her give us the cubes on your behalf.
mark49152
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Yep I agree. At least, that's my current approach. Small attempts are easier to fit in to a busy schedule too.
That's good, thanks.
openseas
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Thanks @h2f & @Jason Green
@Jason Green / Are you coming to 6/30 competition? The venue is really close to your home.
Since you're upping the game, Mike...
Wow, great job!
Jason Green
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It's on my calendar so I'm hoping to be there!
h2f
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Intresting and inspiring. Thanks. I've noticed that when I have a lot of details in my room/loci the memo is much easier to do and to recall.
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mark49152
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Yes, clear visualisation is key. For the first 3 months of the year I practised mostly 3BLD and I think it damaged my memo for big BLD and MBLD. The reason is that to get faster at 3BLD my memo became more sentence-based with less clear and detailed visualisation, to save time. At first it was hard to push MBLD memo without the same habit, and my accuracy was poor. I have had to re-learn how to memo faster while keeping clear visualisation.
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I agree that better visualization helps me very much, and if my memory isn't very visual, I tend to do a lot worse. But I also know that Mark Boyanowski (current multiBLD WR holder) says his memorization is primarily sentence-based. He tried to visualize but says his mind doesn't work that way. He talked to Marcin about it, who said he also tends to memorize primarily sentence-based. So perhaps it's not so important to have clear visualization to be at the very top of multiBLD, considering the current official top 2 in the world claim they don't really do it?
