"NEW" Race to Sub-30!

A thing that helped me was that since I would never look ahead my brother told me to solve with a metronome in the background. Basically I do cross as fast as i can (normal) and during F2L I go slow. During each beep I must do a turn, and you can set this to however slow you need to assure that you actually turn. It forces you to practice lookahead and it helped me a lot. I really recommend it

http://www.metronomeonline.com/

And finish PLL, you can stick to 2look OLL for a while.

that's what i did to practice F2L and it has really helped alot (still a little slow at it though)
 
OH Average: 32.26

32.56, 25.80, (37.73), 31.34, 34.10, 32.24, 36.11, 31.28, 35.55, 30.24, 33.39, (25.60)

I had two yummy times in there.
 
Round 29
Average: 28.13
1. 23.98
2. 30.60
3. 31.79
4. 28.03
5. 28.26
6. 29.56
7. 24.52
8. 33.12
9. 24.01
10. 22.88
11. 31.78
12. 28.75


The was a pretty good round overall :)
 
Brian, I am moving over to a new account (changing my name) and I was wondering if you could count my 25.23 average for round 25 as the first for my new account?
My new account is pi.cubed

Thanks.
 
round 29
AVG: 36.88

1: 38.21
2: 32.20
3: 36.06
4: (30.92)
5: 34.18
6: 38.38
7: 38.83
8: 42.03
9: (42.70)
10: 33.64
11: 37.45
12: 37.83
 
Round 29
Average: 46.05


42.33
42.82
53.02
47.40
51.73
56.27
39.01
49.21
37.28
31.84
51.25
44.64
 
Round 29

Avg. 10: 29.91
10 of 12: 29.91

00:34.07
00:32.08
00:26.76
00:30.25
00:29.72
00:27.39
00:25.27
00:29.73
00:32.26
00:31.64
00:26.32
00:32.94


not that good, but sub 30 :) I need to work on F2L and get a more consistent average..
 
Round 29

Average: 28.98


12: 00:30.35
11: 00:31.32
10: 00:27.52
9: 00:34.41
8: 00:24.95
7: 00:24.35
6: 00:30.26
5: (00:22.25)
4: (00:36.76)
3: 00:28.75
2: 00:30.28
1: 00:27.63

36.76 was fail, 22.25 was 4 move cross. Also, I did the maths twice but you can double check if you are unsure. Otherwise I'm pretty happy with this result.
 
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Round Twenty-Nine
Average: 44.61
1. 38.29
2. 36.62
3. 40.25
4. 35.34
5. 42.96
6. 56.09
7. 44.41
8. 42.47
9. 46.63
10. 49.41
11. 49.01
12. 61:81

I recorded this but there's no point in posting it because I can see that I am just clumsy. I used my brand new Sheng En FII (EDIT)! The yellow and orange stickers are too similar, in my opinion, so I put new orange stickers on there. It feels more fragile than my other cubes and caps fall off every so often but other than that I like it so far!

At this point I finished learning all the PLLs so that's exciting. I am going to start focusing more on the cross and F2L

Brian, I am moving over to a new account (changing my name) and I was wondering if you could count my 25.23 average for round 25 as the first for my new account?
My new account is pi.cubed

Thanks.

No problem

Slow Solves
Sun: iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Mon: iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Tue: iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Wed: iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Thu: iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Fri: iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (cut my fingernails too short!!! Started using new V2)
Sat: i (then day off!)

Avg12s
Mon: 45.80
Tue: 43.09, 43.54
Wed: 43:44, 46.73, 43.86
Thu: 48.54
Fri: 44.21, 46.34, 49.89
Sun: 47.11, 46.07, 45.37, 44.61 (Using new V2)

Sunday Avg50: 46.67
43.58, 47.74, 1:20.05, 48.46, 1:01.71, 40.51, 48.29, 38.92, 44.65, 37.95, 51.96, 45.33, DNF(38.91), 50.35, 52.40, 39.61, 40.56, 47.48, 45.24, 42.57, 43.55, 37.90, 52.32, 46.66, 32.04, 38.84, 1:15.37, 46.72, 1:14.53, 49.68, 36.64, 39.80, 50.58, 37.20, 38.94, 40.76, 38.29, 36.62, 40.25, 35.34, 42.96, 56.09, 44.41, 42.47, 46.63, 49.41, 49.01, 1:01.81, 37.30, 42.62

stats: (hide)
number of times: 49/50
best time: 32.04
worst time: 1:20.05

current avg5: 47.01 (σ = 3.11)
best avg5: 38.14 (σ = 0.72)

current avg12: 45.11 (σ = 5.09)
best avg12: 40.11 (σ = 3.71)

session avg: 46.67 (σ = 9.86)
session mean: 46.37
 
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screwing OH for now until i finish learning algs. doing cfop OH no fun

joining as CN (for fun)
average: 29.67

30.67, 31.64, 31.79, 32.58, 30.88, 18.24, 34.67, 30.98, 31.61, 19.19[lol green cross :p], 29.55, 27.78

the 18 was yellow cross (somewhat easy to adapt from my normal white cross)

19.19 was green cross..i seem to have most difficulty orange/red...hmm
 
screwing OH for now until i finish learning algs. doing cfop OH no fun

joining as CN (for fun)
average: 29.67

30.67, 31.64, 31.79, 32.58, 30.88, 18.24, 34.67, 30.98, 31.61, 19.19[lol green cross :p], 29.55, 27.78

the 18 was yellow cross (somewhat easy to adapt from my normal white cross)

19.19 was green cross..i seem to have most difficulty orange/red...hmm

ignore that. i decided on sticking to pure green cross (going to extend to blue cross eventually when i get that down..but yeah)

i'm already at 22 seconds green cross average. please ignore the above post
 
I used my brand new Sheng En FII (EDIT)! The yellow and orange stickers are too similar, in my opinion, so I put new orange stickers on there. It feels more fragile than my other cubes and caps fall off every so often but other than that I like it so far!

Brian -- I've got a Sheng En F2 as well, and I like it quite a bit (I don't have a lot of other cubes, just a Haiyan's Memory Cube [only had it for a week] and a Ghosthand II) but, I had the same problem. The caps would pop off here and there. Seeing that I only really need to take the caps off the center cubies, I decided that when they would pop off I'd super glue them back into place. I used super glue with the precision tip. However, if you decide to go that route -- I recommend putting just one drop, and do it inside the cubie, not on the cap. Cause some will want to squeeze out. It's not a big deal if that happens, just use an exacto and then wet sand it. Now that I've done that (and re-stickered it, cause the stickers were terrible), my F2 is my main cube over the Ghosthand (however the haiyan's is quickly becoming my fav).
 
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