Imsoosm's Progression Thread - learning eg1

[Imsoosm]

Hooray, another sub-40 FMC average in this week's comp.
Mo3 = 39.33

Spoiler: 37

Scramble: R' U' F U2 F' U' F' R2 F2 L F U2 F2 R2 L2 F' U2 F R2 B' L' B U2 R' U' F

Solution:
F' D' F2 U' // 2x2x2
L' D B D' F L2 F' B2 R B2 R2 B' R2 B' R' D L2 // F2L-1
U' L U L' D' U B' U' // Fourth pair
L B2 L' B2 L' D L D' // 1LLL (Discovered this alg by myself a few months ago while trying out sets of moves, I believe @gsingh uses this alg for this OLL as well)

Final Solution: F' D' F2 U' L' D B D' F L2 F' B2 R B2 R2 B' R2 B' R' D L2 U' L U L' D' U B' U' L B2 L' B2 L' D L D'

Spoiler: 41

Scramble: R' U' F R D2 F2 D2 F U' B U' R' U2 D2 R2 F' D2 R2 D2 L F2 R' U' F

Solution:
B D2 U F U R // 2x2x2
B' U B U' B L' B' // 2x2x3
D' L D' L2 D2 // Third pair + Insert cross edge
F L F' // Fourth pair
U D' R' B' R D B' L B L' // OLL
U F2 U' B' U F2 U' B U' L' // PLL

Final Solution: B D2 U F U R B' U B U' B L' B' D' L D' L2 D2 F L F' U D' R' B' R D B' L B L' U F2 U' B' U F2 U' B U' L'

Spoiler: 40

Scramble: R' U' F L2 F2 D F2 D2 F2 L2 U2 L2 B L2 F2 D B L' R2 D' F' L' U R' U' F

Solution:
D' R' L F L B2 U2 // Cross
L D L2 D' L // First pair
F D2 F2 D' F // Second pair
B' D2 B // Third pair
R F' R' F // Fourth pair
B' D' L' D L B // OLL
F2 D R L' F2 R' L D F2 D // PLL

Final Solution: D' R' L F L B2 U2 L D L2 D' L F D2 F2 D' F B' D2 B R F' R' F B' D' L' D L B F2 D R L' F2 R' L D F2 D

Pretty happy about this average, not my PB, but still really nice.

 

[bulkocuber]

I have 6.9kView attachment 19770

8.08 ao5 and 19.49 ao5000

 

[Eli Apperson]

I have 6.9kView attachment 19770

How do you have such a good ao5 and ao12 but your ao100 is much slower?

 

[Luke Solves Cubes]

8.08 ao5 and 19.49 ao5000

I have been using this session since I was sub 30, which was a long time ago

How do you have such a good ao5 and ao12 but your ao100 is much slower?

It was a very lucky ao5 and the rest of the solves in the ao12 were good lookahead and easy LL cases.

 

[IsThatA4x4]

I have 6.9kView attachment 19770

I have 12.1k

 

[gsingh]

i only have 2.5k, would have had 8k if my "friend" hadnt reset my session

 

[Imsoosm]

Pog ao5

Generated By csTimer on 2022-06-30
avg of 5: 9.348

Time List:
1. 10.328 R2 D2 L2 U F2 U L2 B2 D2 B2 L' F2 R' D U2 B' U2 L2 R B'
2. (11.504) D R2 D' L2 B2 D' B L F2 D' F2 D R2 U' D2 L2 F2 L2 B2 D2
3. (8.641) F2 D2 F U D R U2 B' D L2 B2 U2 F2 U2 R2 U2 B2 R F2 L D2
4. 8.933 F U2 L2 F2 D2 R2 B U2 B R2 B D' R' F2 D L D L' U2 B'
5. 8.782 U' R2 B2 U2 D' L' F L2 U2 L' U2 B2 L' B2 L' U2 R2 D' L2

I think the 8.782 is my first sub-10 that's not on white cross, I did it on orange.
I think the thing with different color crosses is that I somtimes forget which color cross I'm doing, but if I remember the cross color, F2L flows much faster.

 

[baseballjello67]

You didn't get an 8.872, you got 8.782

 

[Imsoosm]

I'm finished learning NISS, and I know how it works now. So right now should I use blockbuilding + NISS, or CFOP + NISS? Because I went back through the scrambles of this week's FMC scrambles and found that blockbuilding + NISS + LSLL isn't even as good as my old solutions using just freeFOP + LSLL.

 

[baseballjello67]

I think blockbuilding would be a touch better because w/CFOP, you can get some bad cases both on the inverse scramble and the real scramble

 

[Imsoosm]

I think blockbuilding would be a touch better because w/CFOP, you can get some bad cases both on the inverse scramble and the real scramble

Ah well, I'll try out FMC with NISS without insertions next week. I'm having trouble with the commutators for when a corner is facing up, I do a triple sexy + D and U and then triple sexy again and it takes too many moves. J perm talks too fast in his commutator video ;-;

 

[Imsoosm]

I'm starting to learn 3BLD, I already know the algs and parity alg now. I'm pretty good with corners already, and I've been doing some corner practicing before I go to sleep every night (do a skeleton with 7-8 corners not in place). I'm having some problems with edges though. I sometimes can't remember the setup moves when there are 3-4 of them...

 

[Imsoosm]

I'm going to grind some Hungarian Supernova tomorrow, still averaging around 1:55. Going to badminton practice tomorrow morning so I could practice in the afternoon. Also going to actually make an effort to memorize the 4LLL algs, haven't really touched Hungarian Supernova for a while now.

(@TheCubingCuber347 as you said, it's not too late to change the name back!)

 

[Timona]

I'm going to grind some Megaminx tomorrow, still averaging around 1:55. Going to badminton practice tomorrow morning so I could practice in the afternoon. Also going to actually make an effort to memorize the 4LLL algs, haven't really touched megaminx for a while now.

(@TheCubingCuber347 as you said, it's not too late to change the name back!)

Corrected your mistakes!

 

[Imsoosm]

30 move FMC PeeBee from Speedsolving July Champs scramble (thanks gsingh for such a good scramble)

Scramble: R' U' F R B' F2 U' B2 L2 D U' L2 R2 U R2 B2 U L' B R' B2 U F2 U' R' U' F

Solution:
B' L U2 R D2 // 222 (5/5)
B R D B' D' // 223 (5/10)
(U' B' R' B) // F2L-1 (4/14)
F R' F2 U F U' // Fourth pair (6/20)
D' R D R2 U' D' R D R' U // ZBLL (10/30)

Full solution: B' L U2 R D2 B R D B' D' F R' F2 U F U' D' R D R2 U' D' R D R' U B' R B U

Sub-30 single soon???

 

[IsThatA4x4]

How does pseudo blocks work in NISS???
I'm doing some practice FMC solves, and decided to try out pseudo blockbuilding, but when I build a pseudo block on normal scramble, when I switch to inverse scramble it becomes a normal block but I have to do U2. Is that how it's supposed to be, doing the U2 and continuing? Or is there some exception for pseudo blockbuilding that I don't know of?

That's how it's meant to be done

Spoiler: a useless idea

You can, alternatively, for no reward other than a challenge, not NISS and just go with it but I don't know why you would do that considering conjugated LL is hard to recognise without rNISS...

 

[Imsoosm]

Also guys, I'll be on vacation and I'm leaving tomorrow (MAYBE). So I might not be on here at all until next Tuesday. If I do get the chance, I'll come online with my phone.

 

[IsThatA4x4]

I'm fairly confident I can recognize the case in 1 hour because I use OLL + PLL

Please don't actually do that though, NISS is too useful to just not use if you're gonna use pseudo blocks
Because if you build a pseudo 2x2x3 off by F and then right block off by R, it's going to be hard to recog trust me
(I tried once to do ZBLL conjugated by F R' and it was too hard for me)

 

[Imsoosm]

I’m finally back. I woke up 7 am yesterday morning, took a three hour long flight starting on 11:20, then stopped at Lanzhou for a transfer. And then for some random reason our plane got delayed and the time was not set, so I waited for 9 whole hours. I boarded the plane at 11:30 pm and arrived at my hotel 2 am. I’m really tired rn

(the 11:30 pm plane flight was really cool though there were a lot of stars in the sky)

 

[Imsoosm]

Back from my trip
here are some photos