Road to NR250 (skewb) and NR500 (4x4/5x5/OH/Mega/Pyra)

[That0newe1rdo]

Bit of an odd title for a progression thread, but ill explain it.
You see, almost 2 years ago, on September 3rd 2023, i started cubing.
Now I watched alot, and I mean ALOT of cubing videos before I started cubing, so I was aware of all the events.
I really liked the idea of a mini guilford, so I decided that one of my main cubing goals was to get sub 7:30 at it.
My current best attempt is 10:00 plus, but i assume it was about 10 to 11 minutes.

To get good at a mini guilford, you have to be good at 10 different events.
But i havent really practiced most events in a mini guilford.

And theres also 1 other event i want to practice (3BLD)

So thats 11 events i want to do (2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, OH, Skewb, Pyra, 3BLD, Squan, Clock, Mega).

So i had this idea :

What if i spent one month of the year practicing only 1 event ?
(The 12th " event " is Mini Guilford btw)

And heck, what perfect timing, a good time to start is right around the corner (Next Wednesday is 2 year cubing anniversary thing, like i said earlier).

I do have a road to maining APB progression thread, so I will be practicing APB on 3x3 throughout this.

I will be trying to document my progress on yt, so you can check that out if you want, most likely with 2 videos on the 3rd n 4th of each month, 1 of which will introduce the next event, my goal, etc, and the other will look at my progress in that event during the month.

Is this a good idea ?

 

[bldcuber314]

Maybe, but it might get boring practicing 1 event for a month, I prefer to just do whatever event I feel like doing whenever

 

[That0newe1rdo]

Maybe, but it might get boring practicing 1 event for a month, I prefer to just do whatever event I feel like doing whenever

Yeah, thats really the only problem for me.

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

Yeah, thats really the only problem for me.

You could do solves in any event during one event's month, but you just heavily focus on core skills of that event even if you practice it equally to the other events that month. Practicing other events during a month would also mean you wouldn't rust as much

 

[That0newe1rdo]

You could do solves in any event during one event's month, but you just heavily focus on core skills of that event even if you practice it equally to the other events that month. Practicing other events during a month would also mean you wouldn't rust as much

Yeah, ill probably do that.
Just cause obv i love some events, and if i strictly only did 1 event monthly, then rip times in my favourite/best events.
But just like, etc, in month 1 i might focus on clock, so ill only learn stuff for clock, and consistently practice clock, but id still do other events, just not as much and without learning anything new to prevent overloading my head.

 

[That0newe1rdo]

Update :

My room is currently being renovated, and is not expected to be finished until Tuesday (Sep 2nd) so the video basically declaring this thing may not be up until the 4th or 5th - but ill try posting it as soon as i finish with it.

 

[That0newe1rdo]

My dumb ahh recently realised that i started "cubing" on september 1st and not the 3rd like i thought for months.

So yeah im starting it tommorow but on yt their prolly wont be a vid till the weekend at most.

 

[That0newe1rdo]

Oh yeah forgot to do a poll to see what event i should main for september.

 

[That0newe1rdo]

Bumping - no voters yet and since i will be in my newly renovated room tonight i might get the vid out on tuesday night.

 

[That0newe1rdo]

Poll closes soon !
The one for october will have more time to vote, about a month.
Thanks to the 3 people that have currently voted, but so far i will have to spin one of those wheel things as its a 3 way tie between 3x3, pyra and skewb.

 

[That0newe1rdo]

Poll closed, since it was a tie i spun a wheel, and obviously the world is biased so it picked 3x3.
Poll for october starts now !

Edit : not now, but when i get back from school hopefully a mod has kindly deleted poll for me.

 

[That0newe1rdo]

Thanks to whichever mod deleted the previous poll !

The poll for october starts now.

 

[That0newe1rdo]

Here are my 3x3 goals for September !

Also sorry for double post.

Current averages :
With CFOP : Sub 20
With APB : Sub 27

Goal :
Stop maining CFOP and switch to APB.
Sub 22.5 with APB.

This goal is a little bit hard, 4.5 second drop in average, BUT i just returned to APB and so I have alot I can improve in APB.

My plan :

Fix Last Slot algs - should shave off 0.5 seconds as my bad alg cases happen alot.

Decrease turn speed for lookahead, and increase speed over time.

Fix EOpair pair creation. This is very bad. - Should save at LEAST 1 second.

Better DFDB - mines not the worst but yk even if it saves 0.001 idc that makes me faster.

Improve FB - look at how to make more efficient solutions, and try to 1 look FB as much as possible, to decrease pauses.

Thats all, ill update on September 7th (a week from when i started)

 

[That0newe1rdo]

Yeah its september 7th i think.

Not had time to do vid lmao i promise ill do it this week

Im sub 25 with apb for sure.
Thats nice.
Last slot going well.
I have ao5s that are sub CFOP average.
Um yeah

this is so broad.
Um yeah.
So like ill update in a week ?

 

[That0newe1rdo]

Only 2 voters

Also yayaya i have a sub 25 avg of 250 so im definitely sub 25 now

 

[That0newe1rdo]

My dumbahh decided to film the voiceover b4 the solves in the background themself

 

[That0newe1rdo]

I got sick in the big 25

Pros :
- likely to be off school on Monday
- wont get set homework if im off school

Cons :
- being sick makes life so much harder to type or do anything
- i cant cube as much so might not be able to reach September goal (Sub 22.5 w/APB)
- I have to do homework over the weekend which is already hard and annoying enough without being sick (normally my weekend homework takes 2 hours so its gonna take so much longer this time).
- havent been able to finish video thing and im alr like 19 days late

Another annoying thing is that next month im prolly gonna have to do OH

Please vote for a event that isnt OH as i am in no condition to solve a 3x3 OH right now. Unless your like @THE_V01DL0RD and like to see me suffer (btw ill do that plank mini guilford as soon as i can but likely not till October)

Edit - yay clonk is winning ! Thanks

 

[That0newe1rdo]

im still sick but im fine with OH now cause i can actually turn now !

dont think ima get sub 22.5, my goal for 3x3 september, but im happy with how far ive made it so far

 

[That0newe1rdo]

I beat my goal for September !
So far, ive actually beat it by at least 0.5 seconds, and if i use my ao250, 1.2 seconds.

So yay !
Maybe i can get sub 21 by October ?

 

[That0newe1rdo]

I beat my goal for September !
So far, ive actually beat it by at least 0.5 seconds, and if i use my ao250, 1.2 seconds.

So yay !
Maybe i can get sub 21 by October ?

Well, ive started using my ao250 instead of ao500 to show my approximate avg, so using that im sub 21 !
If i want to use my ao500, then im still. Close, averaging about 21.5