Older cubers discussions

[Old Tom]

2/5 again tonite with my 3BLD practice... but that 2:38 with just the missed edge was super encouraging.

THAT SAID...I really need to get a plan together and start slowing figuring out how to improve my 3x3 times. By force of will, I was able to make some modest gains at the beginning of the year, but that only highlights how much room for improvement I really have. I feel like I’ve been working on lookahead for a decent few months and still not much gain there. I guess, I need to buckle down and learn some more efficient algs for the f2l cases I recognise more often. I’ll have to take note of the case, but there are a few that feel like 100 moves... I just have to believe I could save an entire second simply by optimising that one case alone! (Don’t bother asking the case, I’m not really certain of the corner edge relative configuration—but it’s always when they’re touching, rather than split up).

How did you enter this post as a "New"? It's what I was just asking.

 

[cubeshepherd]

A teller at my bank has had a scrambled 7x7 sitting on her desk for months now. I went in on Monday and she was gone but the cube was there. I couldn’t help myself. I hope she’s not mad...

That is pretty funny and it reminds me of something that I did 2 years back when I was in Germany, and what happened was, I was at a Toy store, and on a rack there was a 2x2, 3x3 and 5x5 Rubik's brand cubes but they were all scrambled, so being a good cuber, I could not just leave them scrambled on the rack so I decided to solve them...Well, I do not think that I was supposed to do that because after I solved them and put them back down, I got a glare from the employee that was there Oops
Then after a few minutes later I decided walk back by the cubes and the employee was talking to another employee about how I solved them (not being very quite about it mind you) and then the other employee put out a sign on the rack saying not to touch the cubes and scrambled them again.

At least I now know that, that toy store does not like cubers...or at least cubers solving there cubes that are out. Not sure why they did not like it, but at least the cubes got solved once in there lifetime.

Sorry about the length of the story, but after seeing yours I remembered mine and thought it would be fun to share.

 

[pglewis]

How did you enter this post as a "New"? It's what I was just asking.

Near the bottom right of any page is a blue "Post Reply" button that will create a new, fresh reply from whatever you've typed into the box at the bottom. At least on the desktop browser, may be different for small screen devices or Tapatalk.

 

[Old Tom]

Near the bottom right of any page is a blue "Post Reply" button that will create a new, fresh reply from whatever you've typed into the box at the bottom. At least on the desktop browser, may be different for small screen devices or Tapatalk.

Ok, trying that now. See the "Post Reply" button, have used it before, but don't think it will create a stand-alone post with a red "New" at top right. Here goes...

 

[Old Tom]

Oh, it did, a red "New". But the post I am replying to still shows in grey. Perhaps I have to manually delete that part? Doing that now.

(Sorry for all this newbie stuff, but I plan to hang around.)

 

[Old Tom]

Just found the even easier way. Done.

 

[SpartanSailor]

@pglewis I dont feel like I’m pushing my memo as hard as I was leading into my last comp. the switch to M2 edges has just dropped my time seemingly immediately.

I’m gettin more confident with my edges and memo. Once I get relative consistency at 70% or so, I’ll begin pushing my memo again. I want my execution to be very solid and not thinking about the setup moves before I go for more speed.

That 2:38 was an easy memo (and a DNF) and just went super well. Sort of like my 15.71 random 3x3 solve! Lucky anomaly!! I’ll be thrilled with a sub-5 success at the Maryland 2018 event on the 30th.

 

[SpartanSailor]

Just found the even easier way. Done.

You figure it out? If you hit “reply” to an actual post or comment, it added the grey section as a quote. Sort of helpful if you are replying to a particular comment and it was a few comments back.

At the bottom there is a large text input area that will post a new “fresh” comment if you just type directly into that and hit “post reply”.

Looks like you figured it out, but I can’t tell if you had to delete out the quoted comments (the grey section).

 

[mark49152]

How did you enter this post as a "New"? It's what I was just asking.

The red "new" appears on posts that are being displayed to you for the first time. Each post you make will be flagged "new" to everybody else the first time they see it. You don't have to do anything special to make that happen.

 

[newtonbase]

Y’all.... I’m so bummed. This would have been a PB by a SERIOUS measure.

Well done. With the practice you are doing you'll be getting successes like that pretty soon.

 

[40yearstosolve]

I now describe myself as a two and a half minute solver!! Thanks everyone for the encouragement and advice. Practise, dropping the daisy and this forums positivity I put down to dropping my time from 5 minutes. Thank you

Also, I managed to get my 9 year old into it - he can now solve in 5 minutes with help remembering only the last two algos, the rest he does himself. It won’t be long before he does his full first solve on his own. He can beat me to solve he white square already!

As someone born in the 70s and grew up with the Rubik’s Cube -obviously never solving it- I feel tremendous pride for my son enjoying solving and progressing so well. Anyone else done this?

 

[Old Tom]

I now describe myself as a two and a half minute solver!! Thanks everyone for the encouragement and advice. Practise, dropping the daisy and this forums positivity I put down to dropping my time from 5 minutes. Thank you

Also, I managed to get my 9 year old into it - he can now solve in 5 minutes with help remembering only the last two algos, the rest he does himself. It won’t be long before he does his full first solve on his own. He can beat me to solve he white square already!

As someone born in the 70s and grew up with the Rubik’s Cube -obviously never solving it- I feel tremendous pride for my son enjoying solving and progressing so well. Anyone else done this?

Hey, great! Keep on keeping on. Work on F2L, intuitive. More fun if you know what you are doing!

 

[Mike Hughey]

I now describe myself as a two and a half minute solver!! Thanks everyone for the encouragement and advice. Practise, dropping the daisy and this forums positivity I put down to dropping my time from 5 minutes. Thank you

Awesome progress! Good to hear!

Also, I managed to get my 9 year old into it - he can now solve in 5 minutes with help remembering only the last two algos, the rest he does himself. It won’t be long before he does his full first solve on his own. He can beat me to solve he white square already!

As someone born in the 70s and grew up with the Rubik’s Cube -obviously never solving it- I feel tremendous pride for my son enjoying solving and progressing so well. Anyone else done this?

Many people here already know I dragged my whole family into it about 10 years ago. My oldest two daughters were 8 and 7 when they first competed in an official Rubik's Cube competition with me. They've competed in 39 official competitions so far, and have a nice "record" of having competed at all the same competitions together. And they were both official judges at the 2013 world championships, since they had developed such a reliable reputation as good judges. They're mostly grown up now and don't go to competitions much, but they still occasionally cube.

It's been great fun sharing this hobby as a family!

 

[SpartanSailor]

3BLD parity question....

During practice today, which I don’t feel like went terribly well... I had an odd target set up. But forgot and rolled right from edges (M2) into corners (OP). I forgot the parity alg—D’ L2 D M2 D’ L2 D—but when I opened my eyes to a DNF, I remembered. It was pretty obvious... so I did the parity alg and it solved the cube.

Using M2/OP, will it always work out that doing the parity at the very end will solve the cube, or was that just a lucky happenstance? Meaning, could that just be done at the end rather than between edges and corners?

 

[openseas]

I now describe myself as a two and a half minute solver!! Thanks everyone for the encouragement and advice. Practise, dropping the daisy and this forums positivity I put down to dropping my time from 5 minutes. Thank you

Also, I managed to get my 9 year old into it - he can now solve in 5 minutes with help remembering only the last two algos, the rest he does himself. It won’t be long before he does his full first solve on his own. He can beat me to solve he white square already!

As someone born in the 70s and grew up with the Rubik’s Cube -obviously never solving it- I feel tremendous pride for my son enjoying solving and progressing so well. Anyone else done this?

Great progress!!!

And yes, my son and my self, both of us are into cubing quite "seriously" - we travel all the time together to compete in many different places! This cubing is our "boy-thing"

 

[openseas]

3BLD parity question....

During practice today, which I don’t feel like went terribly well... I had an odd target set up. But forgot and rolled right from edges (M2) into corners (OP). I forgot the parity alg—D L2 D’ M2 D L2 D’—but when I opened my eyes to a DNF, I remembered. It was pretty obvious... so I did the parity alg and it solved the cube.

Using M2/OP, will it always work out that doing the parity at the very end will solve the cube, or was that just a lucky happenstance? Meaning, could that just be done at the end rather than between edges and corners?

You can do parity alg either way for 3BLD - after finishing edges or after finishing the whole thing.

For big BLDs, it depends on whether your alg is center safe or not. Wing parity - I always do right after wing algs but corner parity, I do at the end of the solves.

 

[SpartanSailor]

You can do parity alg either way for 3BLD - after finishing edges or after finishing the whole thing.

For big BLDs, it depends on whether your alg is center safe or not. Wing parity - I always do right after wing algs but corner parity, I do at the end of the solves.

Thanks! Good to know...

 

[openseas]

For big BLDs, it depends on whether your alg is center safe or not. Wing parity - I always do right after wing algs but corner parity, I do at the end of the solves.

Just to be precise, let me try again:

Wing parity - always after finishing wings
4BLD: Corner parity - after the corner
5BLD: midge/corner parity (just like M2) - after finishing midges, then do corner-wing parity thing after the whole solve.

 

[h2f]

For big BLDs, it depends on whether your alg is center safe or not.

Just curious - is there center safe parity? I was sure there's not but I'm not sure.

 

[xyzzy]

Just curious - is there center safe parity? I was sure there's not but I'm not sure.

Depends on what type of parity.

Corner parity: no.
Midge parity: no.
Wing parity: yes for 444, no for 555 and up.
OLL parity: yes. (Even cubes only, not really relevant to bigbld.)
PLL parity: yes. (Even cubes only, not really relevant to bigbld.)