Sub1Hour's Quest for a White Jacket | Officially Good at Sq-1 Now

Sub1Hour said:
Well, I'm back. Technically I have been back for 2 weeks but I haven't cubed much since cause school got in the way and I also wasn't feeling it. My team got eliminated back at the end of October, so now I've had a lot more time in my schedule. I've rekindled my love for 5x5 after a brief stint with clock, and now I've regressed to 1:30. I want to get a lot faster, hopefully, I can get back to where I was before my football season (around 1:22) quickly. I've done a little over 30 solves this week and I already went from 1:45 to 1:30, so I think I could get back to where I was pretty quickly.

*EDIT* Directly after posting this I got a 1:23 Ao5

On a side note, what games have you guys been playing recently. I got into rocket league seriously for the first time and I really enjoy it. I've only been playing ranked (solos because I've already wanted to break my controller over teammates multiple times in unranked) for a week and it's pretty fun.
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dont play games anymore, but i used to play minecraft, roblox (i regret playing roblox) and nfs games.
 
Well, my 6x6 seems to be close to where it was previously. I'm getting times close to 2:40, and I used to be just over 2:30 so that's pretty good. I'm also finally going to pick up an MGC 7x7. However, I am trying to decide whether to get the Celeritas or Mystic version of it. I'm leaning toward the Celeritas setup since it was extremely good for the Valk 5, and I also prefer the feeling of it. However, maybe the plastic on the MGC might favor one or the other. I'm not getting an angstrom or pro shop one though, since those tend to work better on smaller order puzzles that don't need as much speed to be good.
 
Sub1Hour said:
Well, I'm back. Technically I have been back for 2 weeks but I haven't cubed much since cause school got in the way and I also wasn't feeling it. My team got eliminated back at the end of October, so now I've had a lot more time in my schedule. I've rekindled my love for 5x5 after a brief stint with clock, and now I've regressed to 1:30. I want to get a lot faster, hopefully, I can get back to where I was before my football season (around 1:22) quickly. I've done a little over 30 solves this week and I already went from 1:45 to 1:30, so I think I could get back to where I was pretty quickly.

*EDIT* Directly after posting this I got a 1:23 Ao5

On a side note, what games have you guys been playing recently. I got into rocket league seriously for the first time and I really enjoy it. I've only been playing ranked (solos because I've already wanted to break my controller over teammates multiple times in unranked) for a week and it's pretty fun.
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I'm super late but welcome back! I've been playing Mario 35 recently. It's a super cool game, too bad it's going away in March.
 
I have no idea which thread I should post this in but I figured I might as well post it on my own.
I JUST FOUND MY FIRST CUBE EVER!
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I got this cube back when I was only 5. I can't believe how good the condition It's in after all these years. I solved it directly after taking the picture, It's a crap Rubik's brand with a bunch of spring noise (not sure how or why) but it made me feel kind of emotional. I never would have guessed at 5 years old that cubing would change my life the way it did. 5 year old me did a pretty good job at trying to make the blue side. You cant see it in this picture, but the green side had 6 stickers solved on it too.

I've got a question though, what pattern should I display it in?
 
Sub1Hour said:
I have no idea which thread I should post this in but I figured I might as well post it on my own.
I JUST FOUND MY FIRST CUBE EVER!
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I got this cube back when I was only 5. I can't believe how good the condition It's in after all these years. I solved it directly after taking the picture, It's a crap Rubik's brand with a bunch of spring noise (not sure how or why) but it made me feel kind of emotional. I never would have guessed at 5 years old that cubing would change my life the way it did. 5 year old me did a pretty good job at trying to make the blue side. You cant see it in this picture, but the green side had 6 stickers solved on it too.

I've got a question though, what pattern should I display it in?
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Just a nice superflip
 
Sub1Hour said:
I was just gonna make this a profile post, but now profile posts are gone for some reason. But I am happy to say that I’m coming back in just a couple days. School is wrapping up and I’ve only got a few finals left, so I’ll be back to cubing and back on the forums!
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On the bright side, I noticed this a lot faster than I would have as if this was a profile post.
But still, #bringbackprofileposts
 
Sub1Hour said:
I was just gonna make this a profile post, but now profile posts are gone for some reason. But I am happy to say that I’m coming back in just a couple days. School is wrapping up and I’ve only got a few finals left, so I’ll be back to cubing and back on the forums!
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Nice. Welcome back and good luck with your progress
 
PetrusQuber said:
On the bright side, I noticed this a lot faster than I would have as if this was a profile post.
But still, #bringbackprofileposts
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Didn't realise they were gone! Why did they get rid of them?
EDIT: This might be the wrong place to talk about this correct me if that is the case
 
I just attended my second comp since March 2020, Utah Fall 2021. I got a 9 flat single (somehow) on squan so now I guess that I am officially good. My rankings for single and average are around 300 now globally so I am very happy with that. I also got to meet my inspiration for buying my first square-1, Daniel Karnaukh, that was pretty sweet.

As of right now I am focusing on square-1 and 5x5 for Western Champs 2021, since I didn't qualify for any other events that I am good at. I also got a couple new cubes today. A dayan mega, an FTO, the MGC Elite 2x2, and the 2021 versions of the WRm and RS3. School is toning down a bit so I can finally do some real practice for the first time since august. CSP is going alright, I can trace for all of the star shapes now and know the algs for all but like 2 cases, but I still take like 30 seconds to trace.

I'll be fully back into cubing by Thanksgiving Week, maybe earlier. So yeah, that's nice.

By the way, how many of you guys are registered for an upcoming competition / are going to an upcoming competition? Just curious since many comps are coming back in the US and worldwide
 
Sub1Hour said:
By the way, how many of you guys are registered for an upcoming competition / are going to an upcoming competition? Just curious since many comps are coming back in the US and worldwide
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I was going to go to to western champs, but it was too close to another trip.
So probably as soon as something shows up anywhere near me I will go.
 
I've been lurking quite a bit on the forums for the better part of the last year-ish but I finally have an excuse to post in this thread again because I finally got a sub-10 square-1 average at nats.
Honestly, it feels like I might be finished with my square-1 arc, but who knows, I might push it even further
 
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