My Cubing Journey

[ProStar]

Are you using Yau or Yau5? Or a different method maybe like hoya or something?

Redux

 

[NevEr_QeyX]

Ladies and Gentlemen, today is an important day in my ZZ carrier. I just got my first LL skip. At LS, I did R U2 R' to skip OLL and then for a PLL skip; call it an unpure LL skip all you want, it counts. It was in OH, got a 12.34, less than 2 seconds off of my 3x3 PB and beating my previous OH PB by 2 seconds. Did a weird EOCross but it preserved a pair. Second pair was bad, last two were average. Then an LL skip

U2 F2 L2 B R2 F' U2 F R2 F' L2 D' F2 R B F L2 D' R U F2

Wow that's a coincidence! one of my older OH Pbs was also a LL skip and also a mid 12.

Redux

Interesting... why aren't you color neutral? it is very easy unlike 4 and 6.

 

[ProStar]

Interesting... why aren't you color neutral? it is very easy unlike 4 and 6.

Because I'm stupid?

 

[NevEr_QeyX]

Because I'm stupid?

Thanks for telling the truth

It's just a prank bro

 

[brododragon]

Ok I've officially switched to ZZ for 3x3. Although I want to do like 50 solves with CFOP to get my session up to 1k solves lol

You've completed your journey to the dark side.

sue ZZ-a.

Hey, it doesn't have a lot of money. Don't be so heartless.

Not globally sub-4, but I'd say I average high 3

Yeah, I'm not sub-50, I just average high 49s.

 

[ProStar]

Yeah, I'm not sub-50, I just average high 49s.

Average: Take your times and average them out
Global Average: What you consistently average.

If I average 19 seconds but still get 20s commonly then I'm not globally sub-20, even though I average 19

 

[brododragon]

Average: Take your times and average them out
Global Average: What you consistently average.

If I average 19 seconds but still get 20s commonly then I'm not globally sub-20, even though I average 19

Really? I thought it was just what you would get on an average solve (J Perm's definition).

 

[ProStar]

Really? I thought it was just what you would get on an average solve (J Perm's definition).

Nah, that'd be your normal average, since if you take all your times and take the average the result should be an average solve

 

[brododragon]

Nah, that'd be your normal average, since if you take all your times and take the average the result should be an average solve

Are your challenging J Perm???

 

[1cubealot]

I was advised by @Micah Morrison to learn EG-1 first, becuase you are more likely to get an adjacent swap on the D layer than a solved D layer.

I think cll first

 

[ProStar]

How fast should my EOCross be OH for a 22 average? I feel like it's taking longer than it should

 

[PapaSmurf]

Don't do EOCross for OH, do EOLine and block building. Also, like 4 seconds for EOLine? I dunno really.

 

[Deleted member 51471]

Don't do EOCross for OH, do EOLine and block building. Also, like 4 seconds for EOLine? I dunno really.

Yeah, you should do ZZ with EOLine and a z rotation.
1. EOLine
2. RB
3. z
4. RB
5. LL

 

[ProStar]

I've switched to M2 for BLD, I've found myself really enjoying BLD over the past couple days. Just did my first full attempt with M2/OP and halfway through memo I did the wrong special case but didn't realize until like 2 pairs later. It was really slow anyway, my memo didn't go that great(not because I switched, just because that happens lol). Will probably do a couple more attempts later

 

[ProStar]

Done with PLL(that took long enough). I guess I'll start learning ZBLL next, anything I need to know before jumping in?

 

[brododragon]

Done with PLL(that took long enough). I guess I'll start learning ZBLL next, anything I need to know before jumping in?

Should you learn COLL to ease you into recognition and make everything a bit easier?

 

[ProStar]

Should you learn COLL to ease you into recognition and make everything a bit easier?

I already know COLL recognition(whenever I start an alg set, I usually look through the cases and learn at least the basics of how to recognize them, which I did with CLL), and personally I'd just like to start on a ZBLL set and learn the best COLL algs along the way

 

[Owen Morrison]

I already know COLL recognition(whenever I start an alg set, I usually look through the cases and learn at least the basics of how to recognize them, which I did with CLL), and personally I'd just like to start on a ZBLL set and learn the best COLL algs along the way

I really think that you should learn the COLL's first. It will make it easier to learn to recognize the other cases later. There is no reason not to. Although I personally have not learned full ZBLL and I only know around half of COLL, so I would ask someone who has learned ZBLL their opinion.

 

[NevEr_QeyX]

Done with PLL(that took long enough). I guess I'll start learning ZBLL next, anything I need to know before jumping in?

@ProStar Do you know full OLL?

 

[brododragon]

@ProStar Do you know full OLL?

Because everyone uses full OLL for ZZ.