Jorian Meeuse's progression thread (Kinch WR230 ER70 NR4)

[Jorian Meeuse]

To give myself some more motivation I thought it would be a good idea to try a progression thread. I have been stuck at 9 seconds for months now on 3x3, and I'm sure I can improve that.
These are the goals I want to achieve before 2023:
1. sub 5 3x3 single, sub 7 ao5, sub 8 global
2. sub 20 global 3BLD
3. 30 points on MBLD
4. sub 2 4BLD global
5. sub 5 5BLD global

These goals are very optimistic, and it's unlikely I will reach all of them, but I will certainly try.

 

[Eli Apperson]

To give myself some more motivation I thought it would be a good idea to try a progression thread. I have been stuck at 9 seconds for months now on 3x3, and I'm sure I can improve that.
These are the goals I want to achieve before 2023:
1. sub 5 3x3 single, sub 7 ao5, sub 8 global
2. sub 20 global 3BLD
3. 30 points on MBLD
4. sub 2 4BLD global
5. sub 5 5BLD global

These goals are very optimistic, and it's unlikely I will reach all of them, but I will certainly try.

What do you currently average for the blind events?

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

What do you currently average for the blind events?

on 3BLD about 25 seconds i'd say, 4BLD sub 3 but that varies wildly, and on 5BLD i think i have only 5 successes because I never do that, my fastest close DNF is 6:45.xy DNF by 3 x-centers. I will try MBLD about half an hour from now so I'll post the result here when I'm done.

Ok I'm done with the attempt, 19/21 in 53:21.55 [29:38.02]. Previous pb was 18/19 in 55 minutes so it is a pb because of the faster time but I'm not super happy about this. Both DNF's were just two edge flips, i don't yet know what the mistake was. There were four cubes that I took ages to recall, I think I wasted 8 minutes on that... Next time I might try 23 cubes and hope for some better results.

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

I don't know if you can call this a true sub-5 fail but I will call it that anyway. Scramble:
B2 R2 U2 L2 D2 U L2 B2 D B2 U R B D' B F2 U' L2 F' D2
yellow top red front:
R B D R' U R' F y' U2 R' U' R' // xx-cross-ish planned in inspection
U y' R' U' R2 U R' // this is where it becomes a fail because i knew the solve was super great so I locked up a lot and the next pair took like a whole second
y R U2 R' // what can I say
And here I knew the 1LLL (U M U M' U2 M U M' U') but hey, on good solves you don't notice that type of things.
So I did OLL an PLL. At least I cancelled into the PLL (U Rw U R' U' M U2 R' U' R2 U' R' U R' U R U) which got me a 6.86


Btw, I'm really getting bad at 3x3, with lots of sup-10 solves. I think this is because I don't practise as much now that I have a lot of work to do for school...

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

I have not been able to find much time for cubing lately but I will try to get back to 3 MBLD attempts per week again as much as possible. I have also just continued learning 2GLL (the first set of ZBLL I will learn) and I only need some H, S and AS cases and I will be done with that.

For all cases I can easily recognise them, except for the S and AS cases. Does anyone know a good way of recognising those?

 

[abunickabhi]

To give myself some more motivation I thought it would be a good idea to try a progression thread. I have been stuck at 9 seconds for months now on 3x3, and I'm sure I can improve that.
These are the goals I want to achieve before 2023:
1. sub 5 3x3 single, sub 7 ao5, sub 8 global
2. sub 20 global 3BLD
3. 30 points on MBLD
4. sub 2 4BLD global
5. sub 5 5BLD global

These goals are very optimistic, and it's unlikely I will reach all of them, but I will certainly try.

Wow that's some ambitious BLD goals. Good luck with it!

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

It is quite clear that I am out of multi practise now. I didn't want to do 23 cubes after 10 days of not doing MBLD so I did 21 and only solved 15 of them. I am quite satisfied with the time it took, only 50 minutes so next time, i promise, will be 23 cubes.
I'll put the DNF causes here once I know them:
Did a LF+RD edge flip as a setup to UF UB and messed up undoing the setup. Idk why I don't yet know all those algs, and idk why I didn't do F B setup
Traced UFR-RDF-UBR instead of UFR-UBR-RDF (so PB instead of BP)
I did FW O as FW W for no reason whatsoever (though I recalled FW O)
Didn’t recall the last part of corner memo (RV K) and guessed it was RV so it was off by K parity
Traced to B instead of M resulting in a double edge flip. This happened to two cubes. I will reconstruct one here:
R2 B' L2 U L2 D' L2 R2 F2 L2 U R2 D B' R F L' R' F U2 F Fw Uw'
OA DH MW (the M because of weak swap) TJ (start new cycle) KL TB XG
the TB part is where it goes wrong. I start a cycle at T which put RU in the BR position, but then, because i think 'oh, apparently I have parity, I should add a B now', it all goes wrong.

This mistake happened twice in this attempt, but I never saw it before so i need to keep it in mind now.

Also my concentration during this attempt was zero because I had just been listening to appassionata, beethoven and the music was still in my head...

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

I might be going to a competition soon which has 3 rounds of 2x2 so for the time being I will focus on 2x2 (alongside MBLD). The game plan is to first review CLL as I forgot half of it, then I will learn EG-1. I will also learn AUF prediction and if possible I will learn EG-2.
Starting now.
Edit: 55 minutes later, I revised CLL and did an ao100 CLL drill session of 1.15 (granted, no AUF'ing) If 55 minutes seems a bit fast, remember I learnt CLL like 3 times before this so the algs were all super familiar. I will now start EG-1.

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

Update:
Last week, I have not been cubing at all as I had a trip to Rome. I have therefore not learnt anything new, but I have just beaten my 2x2 PB single with a 0.68 (R' U' R' U R' F2 U' F2 R'). Solution should be quite obvious.

Spoiler

y2 z' R2 U' R' U'

For now, I'll just revise all algs I had learnt and learn the rest of EG-1.

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

No updates in a while, sorry not sorry
Update about the competition:
MBLD NR: 24/25 56:58, also WR for best first single
2x2: 1.87 single, 2.42 average, could have had an easy sub 1.5 on the first attempt first round but i dropped the cube... Got the 2.42 ao5 in the second round, it would have won the finals lol.
Made 6x6 cutoff so i have a mean now
And some other uninteresting stuff (pyra mega squan)

I don't think I will be updating this thread anymore unless something ultra-interesting happens. I don't see the point of it anymore.

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

Okay let's look at the goals I had for this year. Yeah no I didn't achieve any...
I could have easily achieved some of these goals if I actually practiced, but I just didn't practice so guess whose fault it is
Next year I am planning to practice a lot, and I'm confident that I can achieve the goals I had for this year, if not more, in 2023. (Wow is it really almost 2023?? Just how quickly does time fly exactly?)

Here are the goals for next year as I put them in the thread for 2023 cubing resolutions, with one goal added to them (italic):

2x2: get NR2 average, i.e. sub 1.55 (not NR because that is 1.18 by Antonie)
3x3: get a sub 4 single, because I made a bet back in 2021 that I would have one before 2024. (I don't even have a sub 5 yet, help!!!)
4x4+: none
Skewb, pyra, squan: get a semi-decent official average, nothing special
Buy a clock and become sub 10
Megaminx: sub 1
3BLD: sub 20 global, sub 15 single
4BLD: sub 2 global
5BLD: sub 4:30 global, if I'm lucky ER mean but that's hard
MBLD: 45 points, try to do 3 attempts per week
Get a 2-7 BLD relay success
Get a 9BLD success
Learn the rest of ZBLL, which is probably like 90%

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

Just got my 5th sub-6 out of nowhere (I've barely practiced in the last few weeks), and funnily enough it's my 2nd sub-6 that is not sub 5.5:

5.68: R2 B2 R' F2 R' F2 R' D2 R U2 B2 L B D' R' U2 L2 B' L' B2 D2
y // inspection
R D R D' y' U R' U' R // cross+1 minus an edge
Rw U' Rw' U2 R U R' U' R U R' // last cross edge and second pair
U L U' L2 U' L // finish F2L
U' R' F R2 B' R2 F' R2 B R' U2 // LL

36 / 5.68 = 6.34 TPS

I can feel the sub 5 coming!

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

wut I just got another sub 6, 5.91, full step

 

[Duncan Kimmett]

sheeeeesh

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

I just finished learning full floating for corners! Some algs definitely still require some practice, and especially the cases that don't include top layer pieces are very difficult to remember and recall on the fly, so I'll be postponing edge floating until I am fully comfortable with all corner algs.

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

Update:
I'm now fully focussing on 3BLD, because I will finally get another shot at NR on march 11th. Single NR is currently 21.83, mean is 22.90. I can beat both relatively easily (though the mean is quite a lot harder than the single), but since I'll only have 3 attempts it's gonna be tricky. In my current session it has been like 160 solves since I DNF'ed 3 times in a row, so I'll probably get at least one success in competition, and I'm really hoping to get three.
I also decided to keep up with 3x3 again today, and on my second solve I got this:
5.70 R' L2 D R U' B U' F' R' U L2 F2 R2 F2 U R2 U2 F2 L2 U'
U' R B D2 R2 y U2 L' U L y U2 R U R2 U' R L' U2 L y' R' U' R U2 R U2 R' U R B U' B' R'
31 moves -> 5.44 TPS (trash)
This was a very casual solve and I was more focussed on Gothamchess than on the cube. I'll consider this another sub 5 fail.

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

- My 3x3 pb is 5.23
- I just got a 5.38 3x3 single
- That 5.38 is PB4
How on earth are these statements all true???

Also I don't have MBLD NR anymore, Olivier Vos got 24/25 as well, but 3 minutes faster than me. He also got an 18.81 3BLD NR single, which will be super tough to beat. I'm still gonna try though.

 

[SkewbIsTheBestEvent]

- My 3x3 pb is 5.23
- I just got a 5.38 3x3 single
- That 5.38 is PB4
How on earth are these statements all true???

Also I don't have MBLD NR anymore, Olivier Vos got 24/25 as well, but 3 minutes faster than me. He also got an 18.81 3BLD NR single, which will be super tough to beat. I'm still gonna try though.

Just get 4 edges and 3 corners solved in comp it is easy

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

Just get 4 edges and 3 corners solved in comp it is easy

I just got 18.04 on a scramble with only 1 solved edge and 1 solved corner lol (it didn't have cycle breaks or twists, so only 8 algs, which is about as lucky as it realistically gets).
It is kinda sad that I will only have one 3BLD round in the comp, and probably in the coming months...

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Just get 4 edges and 3 corners solved in comp it is easy

yeah cmon is all up to you