Kids Accomplishment Thread

[Cubenovice]

Birgit just got her
First, unsupported, full solve!!!!!!!!!!!

4:44.77

Scramble: D' F L2 R' D2 U2 B' D L B2 D' B' F' L R D2 R' D U' R2 D L' R' B F

I was SO exited when she was about to start her U perms.

Now practicing a bit more, she would like to do " one hundred solves more" tonight. Will try to shoot a video.

 

[Feryll]

It's a sanity issue.

more like a COOLNESS issue

Are you dissin' Guimond?

 

[jiggy]

Congratulations, Cubenovice! Future world record holder? =D

 

[Rpotts]

I support this thread.
I wonder how long it will be til we get another, "Ima 9 yearz oLd nd mah best is 1:05!!!one"

 

[Cubenovice]

@ Rpotts: yep, those kids crack me up...

Birgits first video solve, filmed later on the evening:

Notice how she uses her "funny voice" when cubing and forgets to use the inspection time

A very good solve since she had to do all steps and even had two free up the last two 2nd layer edges which where in a wrong position.
She hesitated a little bit on those edges but quickly realised to put a random edge in.

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

ah hem, I dont have kids and am bitter today

 

[Cubenovice]

Birgits new PB (non lucky): 4:20.11

Flower
Cross
Corners
2nd layer edges
EO 2 Edges
CP 2 swapped corners
CO 2 Sune's
EP 1 U perm

Post editing with new PB's (rather then making a new post everyday):
07 27 2010: 2 min 50s full step
07 28 2010: 3 min 21s video
07 28 2010: 3 min 05s video

 

[Cubenovice]

New accomplishments:

- Full color neutral solves, times do not seem to be affected too much.
- Both U - perms mastered, same alg just using the other hand
- CP # of repetitions shortened by learning an additional AUF position

under construction:
- anti sune
- faster CO by eliminating AUF and cube rotation in case with 4 wrong corners

 

[Mike Hughey]

I realized I probably have something decent to post here.

Rebecca (9 years old now) is signed up to try 3x3x3 BLD at Nationals. I'm not sure if she'll be ready for it, but I think she's going to try. She definitely still does not have a successful BLD solve yet, but a couple of times now I've "guided" her through a solve, memorizing it along with her and then letting her know when she's about to make a mistake. She made about 3 mistakes that I corrected the last time she tried. Her only problem is that she's still too slow - it took her about 7 minutes to do that last solve attempt, and it still takes her 7 or 8 minutes to memorize. We'll see if she can get fast enough by next weekend - I hope she can manage it.

She wants to be the youngest BLD solver in official competition - if no one breaks Justin's record before her, she has until the end of the year to make it.

She uses the simplest possible version of Pochmann to solve - T perm for edges and Y perm for corners. She still hasn't learned J perm - she still often confuses T and Y perms, and an extra perm would just be harder for her.

 

[joey]

That's awesome.

I hope she gets it soon

 

[iChanZer0]

I realized I probably have something decent to post here.

Rebecca (9 years old now) is signed up to try 3x3x3 BLD at Nationals. I'm not sure if she'll be ready for it, but I think she's going to try. She definitely still does not have a successful BLD solve yet, but a couple of times now I've "guided" her through a solve, memorizing it along with her and then letting her know when she's about to make a mistake. She made about 3 mistakes that I corrected the last time she tried. Her only problem is that she's still too slow - it took her about 7 minutes to do that last solve attempt, and it still takes her 7 or 8 minutes to memorize. We'll see if she can get fast enough by next weekend - I hope she can manage it.

She wants to be the youngest BLD solver in official competition - if no one breaks Justin's record before her, she has until the end of the year to make it.

She uses the simplest possible version of Pochmann to solve - T perm for edges and Y perm for corners. She still hasn't learned J perm - she still often confuses T and Y perms, and an extra perm would just be harder for her.

thats awesome i don't even have the patience to learn how to do bld i understand the basic concept of old pochmann but i can't get the hang of it.

 

[Cubenovice]

Good luck!
Let us know how it goes.

 

[Cubenovice]

Average: 2:48.55
2:37.81 L' R2 B2 R2 D2 U' B R U2 L' U2 L R2 F2 D2 B2 F' L D B2 F D2 U2 L' R
2:56.66 D' U' B' F2 R B F' D' L F D F' D' B F D2 U' B2 F L2 F2 D' F2 L2 D2
2:51.17 B' F L' B2 R2 U2 F L' R' B2 F2 D2 B F' R F2 D2 F2 R' D F R2 B' U' L

PB non lucky

 

[jiggy]

=O

She's starting to pick up the pace! Do you think you'll leave her with beginner's for a while or try to teach her something new?

Do you think she could handle intuitive F2L? (If not now, how about in a few weeks?)

I'm so proud...by proxy...

 

[Cubenovice]

we'll stick by LBL for now...

Add-ons to LBL:
- anti-sune learned this evening, same sequence but using lefthand
I have found she picks up mirrors very well (also 2nd layer edges, U-perm)
- learning to recognize and use (accidentally) connected CE pairs while solving 1st layer corners (using end of the 2nd layer edge alg)
- eliminate daisy
- proper execution of RUR' AND L'U'L without regrips or double layer turns
- 7 OLL algs for CO
then when time gets close to 1 minute perhaps F2L
or Roux, Petrus, ZZ, CF, whatever she fancies ;-)

6 aug: 2:15.17
7 aug: 1:45-ish (timed by looking at clock )
10 aug: Pb 1:47.97
11 aug: first av 5 weekly comp 32 = 2:22.20
(3:35.00), 2:25.06, 2:10.55, 2:30.98, (2:03.55)
12 aug: Pb 1:35.35 av 5 (1:35.35), 2:13.28, 1:52.30, 2:21.80, (2:43.83) = 2:09.13
18 aug: weekly comp 33 = 2:14.82
2:20.86, 2:03.78, 2:19.83, (4:10.34), (2:01.72)
25 aug: weekly comp 34 = 2:03.01
2:02.38, (2:53.02), 2:06.98, 1:59.66, (1:46.39)

 

[Cubenovice]

Birgit competed in the German Nationals today:
2:17.03, (1:41.41), (3:00.15), 2:09.84, 2:08.25 = 2:11.71

Messed up a Sune in the 3min solve but did a great job in staying focussed and rebuilding all the way from the messed up botom layer corner.

Epic last solve: lots of people watching, two camera men from national TV and a big applause!!!

Video sometime later this week.

And she didn't even use the daisy altough I told her it was OK to do so!

 

[Mike Hughey]

Rebecca got her first successful 3x3x3 BLD solve today!!!! Just 4 days after her tenth birthday. I'm so proud of her. She's been practicing by doing 3 attempts per day this week, hoping to get a couple of successful solves before Dayton this weekend. Our house is full of distractions, so she has trouble doing a full attempt all at once; apparently she had to stop memorizing while our youngest daughter did some kind of "show" for them, and then she picked back up and finish memorizing. Then she pulled on the blindfold and solved it. So we don't know how long it took, but she said it was probably at least 20 minutes because of the distractions. The good news is that a competition will seem totally distraction-free compared to our house! It was her second attempt today. She is very happy!

 

[cmhardw]

Rebecca got her first successful 3x3x3 BLD solve today!!!!

That's so awesome! Congratulations Rebecca!

 

[Cubenovice]

Congratulations!
I wish her good luck for the competition!

 

[jiggy]

That's amazing! Congratulations Mike and congratulations Rebecca!