Getting sub-20 by Chattahoochee

[masterofthebass]

Pedro, that would be called a squire. Do you mind posting the easy scramble?

 

[Lofty]

R2 D2 U2 F L2 R' D U' L2 R B F' L2 R' U2 B F' L' B2 D2 F' U L D2 U2
I have done it twice more slow, both of those times I got the same LL but it is a different not near as good LL as in my actual solve.

 

[Dene]

I think I'd be the squire, seeing as I'm still post40 . I'm catching up though!!

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Yea i need to practice on my stackmat... I don't use it because I am here CCT doesn't work with Vista and I am too lazy to type in every time when i do averages of 100.
btw:13.56 non-lucky single. COLL + U PLL!

lol CCT works fine on Vista. Not... like... I use Vista or anything. :|

 

[Lofty]

Hooking the stackmat to the computer works with Vista? I thought I heard it didn't.

 

[alexc]

Go Lofty! You can do it! Btw, 13 is crazy!!!! I actually just got my first sub 30 OH a couple days ago. It was a 26.92 free pll. I want to average mid 30's for Princeton, that's my goal.

 

[hdskull]

I got a 17.94 PLL skip and 19.05 non-lucky yesterday, pretty happy with that, lol. I hate R/E perms with OH, takes me forever. How long does it take you sub 25 OH-ers?

 

[Dene]

Hey so Lofty what is your website? I want to bookmark it so I can steal your uber OH-ness!

 

[Lofty]

hdskull: I'll tell you how long it takes when my hand doesn't hurt. I suppose overestimated how strong my hand was when i did 75 solves after rock climbing.
Dene: loftycuber.webs.com is a complete webpage but i have started making one on loftycuber.110mb.com. it has all the algs (and algs from different angles) and maybe better stuff on turning but has no pictures yet.

 

[Dene]

Wow, your site is really good, I think I can find much use for it .

EDIT: Completely off topic, on your YouTube account you mention your taste in music, do you like any Christian Death Metal as well? Or is that too heavy? I myself have taken to Underoath's earlier music. I would also strongly recommend Flyleaf!

 

[Lofty]

Well I have never come across music that is too heavy for my taste. I do like old UO (HATE the new UO) I mainly don't listen to Christian Metal for lack of having any of it and lack of knowledge about it.
Somewhat on topic: I hope you do find good use for it, thats why I made it lol. If you have any questions or think anything needs adding let me know. I'll add it on 110mb after i get around to finishing it (which may be a long time)

 

[Rama]

Christian Death Metal

I think this is some sort of an ''oxymoron''.
Christ: source of life.
Death: kinda says it all.

Hdskull: From my experience with bad PLL's or any other cases is just to keep turning and nag afterwards.

 

[Lofty]

How do you turn an E perm Rama? I just realized I cannot sub 4 an E. I just timed an R at .5 but E not less than 4 once...
Also what do you call Underoath's first album where they are screaming and all heavy but the words are about Christ and the last track is the gospel message?

 

[Dene]

Not sure which one you mean, but of course Wikipedia will have the answer you want. I haven't listened to them much, mainly just Heart of Stone.

Mr. Rama, quoted from wikipedia: "Death metal is an extreme heavy metal subgenre. It is typically characterized by the use of heavily-distorted guitars, harsh vocals that are low-pitched and/or growled, morbid lyrics, fast-paced rhythms and melodies, and unconventional song structures."

Black metal is actually the one that cannot co-incide with Christianity: "Black metal is generally held to embrace anti-Christian sentiment, misanthropy, nihilism, Paganism, and/or Satanism, and in rare cases, nationalism."

Of course, most Christian Death Metal bands don't have that edge that normal Death Metal bands have.
Melodic Death Metal owns them anyway .

On topic: I hardly think you can complain Lofty, I just did several, average probably 9.5 seconds, best 8.71.

EDIT: 8.61. I'm getting better at this!
8.06
7.84
7.71, I'm loving this, I should have done it ages ago!
7.19
7.03, so close to sub 7!!

Booyah, 6.72! Time for sub 6! (tomorrow, all the other perms!)

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

I do E's in 13sec, but I'm not a OH cuber.

 

[sam]

Just went to a death metal/black metal concert yesterday. Rotting christ, Immolation and Averse Sefira. Did some cubing.
For OH, E is about 13 seconds as well... My OH average is 40.xx...I should practise this alg...

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

I am quite excited to be able to go to my first competition now I just need to get sub 20 by then. Any advice on how to cut 2 seconds off my time?
My plans are:
do at least an average of 50 everyday
time all my LL algs to make sure they are all equally fast and I have the finger tricks planned out.
work on Harris Chan like lookahead for sub 10 f2l.
Top 10 for OH would be awesome but thats my current at home average... I know I still have loads of room for improvement so top 10 is my goal.

sub-10 f2l = sub-16 averages.
try maybe sub-13/14 f2l :]

 

[Lofty]

sub-10 f2l is not 16 averages... maybe my LL is slow but I get 9 second f2l's all the time and already average 13 or so now for f2l... tho 9 s f2l normally means like a 17.xx solve...

 

[Dene]

I just thought of an idea. I'm not sure if anybody does this, but how about scrambling OH as well as solving? This would build up endurance, and be good practise on awkward turns and stuff. Scrambling a cube fast is definitely a useful tool for Two-Handed, so why not for OH as well?

 

[Rama]

How do you turn an E perm Rama? I just realized I cannot sub 4 an E. I just timed an R at .5 but E not less than 4 once...

I really need to find a good angle to film it, because showing my E perm is easier then writing it down.
I have to buy another tape, because I have no new tape for my camera, tough I allready have the how to make a OH-cube video.