SpartanSailor
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Wow! After August... I’m going to begin really trying to learn 4BLD. I suspect I’ll have a decently long DNF streak before attaining an official success.
@openseas what is the longest DNF streak for 4BLD attempts prior to a first success (official)?
It's 36 for 4 BLD.
I'm top 4 5BLD DNF streak and top 5 in the most consecutive 3BLD mo3 DNF streak, btw
https://jonatanklosko.github.io/wca...D4II8GfKel4u_HbrnJa8uCwb1oQNQQNyKDHET_vCArTGA
I dont know why Im not there. I got 14 DNFs in 5bld.
You need at least one success to be listed there it’s The most DNF streak before the first success.
Is that attempts or number of comps?
I remember you mentioning you were among the longest 5BLD DNF streaks before your first success.
3bld is beyond what I could call "rusty" at this point, it's been so long I'll have to relearn some of my M2 algs. I do want to get it back in shape though, I'd like to get to at least one comp before the year is done and blind is the only thing besides 3x3 I'm interested in as far as official solves right now.
as executed, toooo many rotations, but...
z2 // inspection
D' L R B' R2 //cross
y' U' R U' R' L U' L' //1st
y' U' R U R' U' R U R' //2nd
y2 L' U L //3rd
U' R U' R' U2 y L' U' L //4th
R U2 R' U' R U' R' U2 //OLL, PLL skip, AUF
@alg.cubing.net
Well done and a good reminder for me to practice back-Sune more, I don't use it speedsolves. What was your previous single and what are you averaging these days?
I think my times are just a bit faster than yours so here’s mine, maybe you can aim for something like this?
PB 12.4
Ao5 15.8 (not really, I was using unlimited inspection to look for first pair, it’s 16.1 really)
Ao12 16.6 (usually more like 17.5 but I was in the zone)
Ao100 18.8
I don’t think I care much for my luckiest single or my average of 100. I like to focus on beating my average of 5 and average of 12 when I’m in the zone.
Sometimes I feel like I can almost reach out and touch sub 15 and then other times it feels like my progress has been almost nothing in the last year or two.
I’m still convinced that maximising lookahead during inspection is key to progress and I will now start each session with 20 unlimited inspection solves. I feel like this was helping when I tried it today but then my brain started hurting.
You're up 4 or 5 seconds on me, which at this stage is definitely at another level. My current low :18 Ao5 is an outlier and it's still rare for me to get a sub :20 Ao5. I can get effortless feeling full-step :18s now but I still haven't fully assimilated a few things, leading to 2 or 3 small mistakes per solve typically and a bell-curve around :23. My primary short term milestone is a sub 20 Ao12, I have all the tools to do it with just a smidge more consistency.
The ".6 guideline" from a 23 average says a sub :14 single is in my future with the perfect storm so I just shrug that off to statistics and hope the timer is running when it comes. [0.6 * 19 = 11.4, so looks like you're due for that sub 12].
I'm close to being in the same boat, where the best gains are in deeper inspection. I was doing 4 and 5 move cross exercises with unlimited inspection and two things were clear: 1) it can improve my averages significantly if I can predict just an edge and its orientation and 2) it's going to be somewhat of a long-game before it really clicks well enough to do it in 10-12 seconds. I need to keep at it for that very reason though and it felt like there were some immediate benefits, if only a little better first pair lookahead. I haven't done that or cross+1 drills since then, though.
Currently I'm spending 10 mins or so a day trying cross through F2L with a metronome set at 60bpm. One move per second is very easy for me to keep up with but it immediately exposes cases I recognize slowly or when I'm letting my lookahead lapse. Ironing out the hiccups it exposes should lead to a lot more sub 20s for me.
And then there's last slot/last layer drills, which I'm sure wouldn't harm me one bit right now...
4. The .6 thing is interesting. I feel like my last year’s cubing has only made my worst solves better and hence made me more consistent but hardly improved my best solves. When I used to compare cubers Ao5 with their PB in the rankings, I notice any cuber with a Ao5 of 12 secs or more really struggled to post a sub10 single in competition. It seems like the standard deviation of their solve times became much smaller by this point so to have a realistic chance of a sub 10 in competition you needed to be averaging sub 12. But it’s a long time since I looked, maybe I am misremembering.
Just curious. Is there a facebook group for the followers of this thread?
I have started an insta account to track myself, wondering who is also doing the same.
Noice. Thanks youYes, it's here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1604105099735401/
Thanks! Previous single was 12.10 about month ago. Best avgs now are 17.03/18.30/18.84/19.49. But stability is quit poor. I cannot even say that I'm confidently sub20 solver, still huge amount of solves are over20. BTW, last PB solve OLL was regular anti-sune not back-sune.Well done and a good reminder for me to practice back-Sune more, I don't use it speedsolves. What was your previous single and what are you averaging these days?
[...] BTW, last PB solve OLL was regular anti-sune not back-sune.