Washington DC Winter 2011

[EricReese]

Well its hard to get motivation to practice when its always like 58 degrees in my house so my hands are always cold. It takes me at least half an hour of cubing with a winter jacket on to get my hands warmed up at least, and its a pain

I am gonna practice more. My brother does so slow turning and shows me like 17-18 second solves easy. I jelly..

 

[RyanReese09]

Well its hard to get motivation to practice when its always like 58 degrees in my house so my hands are always cold. It takes me at least half an hour of cubing with a winter jacket on to get my hands warmed up at least, and its a pain

I am gonna practice more. My brother does so slow turning and shows me like 17-18 second solves easy. I jelly..

That's only to motivate you to slow turn and improve your lookahead. If I were to go fast during LL it's be easily 16 or 15, which is slightly slower then what I average

 

[teller]

Ugh, let me know a few days beforehand what you're averaging so I know whether to be worried .

We're close...I average about 19 right now...

 

[RyanReese09]

We're close...I average about 19 right now...

I really average 15, so not really close, but up on the podium, we are close. I never practice starting without cube in my hand and it's so awkward to pick it up in the beginning of the solve, that's my main pitfall, that and nerves. We'll see how I do.

 

[teller]

I really average 15, so not really close, but up on the podium, we are close. I never practice starting without cube in my hand and it's so awkward to pick it up in the beginning of the solve, that's my main pitfall, that and nerves. We'll see how I do.

Hmm...we shall see then!

 

[FatBoyXPC]

Ryan: Why would you practice like that? That seems rather silly. I honestly don't see picking up the cube making you 4+ seconds slower (and dropping the cube / stopping w/your hands probably takes the same amount of time to hit space bar since you still have to reach over to hit space bar; either way you could drop cube + press space to simulate the stackmat).

 

[EricReese]

He just somehow finds a way to fail horribly in comp. Whether its having 2 pops in a row to make himself have a counting 45 or him having the 1/100 solves in which he gets 20 second solves, he just finds a way to fail horribly in comp. He needs a better cube imo. He doesn't really have a good cube. Bad F2, 2 horribly gummy/tight guhongs, REALLY tight lingyun...and a dead haiyan.

He just bought an elite a bit ago...

 

[FatBoyXPC]

The tight cubes can be fixed. Gummy GuHong can be fixed (lube). How old is the FII? Mine is from May and it's still a great cube. I think his cubes just need some work done to them

 

[RyanReese09]

My FII just needs lube/caps in

Picking up the cube and not fumbling with it to start cross definately cost me a good bit of time. though.

And dunno, it's just tthe way I've always practiced :3.

 

[bigbee99]

Hey, if possible, can anyone going through NYC give me and my brother a ride to the comp? I can drive around 30 minutes to the pick-up spot.

 

[Evan Liu]

How many people are getting to round 2 of 3x3x3?

We don't know for sure yet. Somewhere between 20-30. It won't be ~16 like fatboyxpc had said, that's probably too few.

Also, we can resume our restringing discussion here.

 

[RyanReese09]

Yeah, so how about restringing it to cover the 2 dollars? It's such a pain having my MM broken :-/

I shouldn't worry about getting to 2nd round then, even if I do have an lolfail average.

Edit-Read accomplishment thread, no idea if it's the same idea as stringing magic. I'll find out if the strings are usable.

 

[EricReese]

Sweet I might make it to second round for the first time!

 

[Evan Liu]

Yeah, so how about restringing it to cover the 2 dollars? It's such a pain having my MM broken :-/

I shouldn't worry about getting to 2nd round then, even if I do have an lolfail average.

Edit-Read accomplishment thread, no idea if it's the same idea as stringing magic. I'll find out if the strings are usable.

Also, how much of it do you need restrung?
Is it
(1) completely de-strung
(2) has strings missing in places
or (3) has some strings tangled?

 

[RyanReese09]

Also, how much of it do you need restrung?
Is it
(1) completely de-strung
(2) has strings missing in places
or (3) has some strings tangled?

As of 4 minutes ago, is now completely destrung

 

[Evan Liu]

As of 4 minutes ago, is now completely destrung

Ok, I should be able to do it. How many strings do you have? We need 24. I'll provide a reasonable amount of extras.
Also, perhaps I could do it little by little rather than all at once, since I don't have too much free time. I could start on it before the competition if you come in early.

 

[RyanReese09]

20 working 4 strings are detached (in the sense of, it's not a circle)

I don't know whether it's usable or not but there are definately 20 working ones in my posession, the other 4 are as I described.

I plan on getting there early, depending on how early do you think you could do it in one sitting or is that not feasible?

 

[Evan Liu]

20 working 4 strings are detached (in the sense of, it's not a circle)

I don't know whether it's usable or not but there are definately 20 working ones in my posession, the other 4 are as I described.

I plan on getting there early, depending on how early do you think you could do it in one sitting or is that not feasible?

I don't really know how much time it would take. I've only done it that one time that I mentioned, and I don't remember how long that took. A Magic restringing takes ~15 minutes for me, so maybe this would take ~30 minutes? If it does take just that much time, I think I could do it in one sitting.
However, if someone more capable (and more importantly, with more time) than me offers, I think they should do it instead. I'll do it if no one else offers.

 

[RyanReese09]

I don't really know how much time it would take. I've only done it that one time that I mentioned, and I don't remember how long that took. A Magic restringing takes ~15 minutes for me, so maybe this would take ~30 minutes? If it does take just that much time, I think I could do it in one sitting.
However, if someone more capable (and more importantly, with more time) than me offers, I think they should do it instead. I'll do it if no one else offers.

Gotcha

Anyone else want to restring my master magic ?

 

[collinbxyz]

I am planning on trading lots of cubes if anyone's interested.

I have the haiyan memory, lubed with cubesmith half bright stickers.

I have ghost hand II lubed, modded with cubesmith half bright stickers.

I have F-II with caps that stay on, with half bright cubesmith stickers.

I have C4U interchangeable tile cube (with extra tile logos).

I have the QJ 4x4 nice speed, but locks up sometimes.

I have the Maru 2x2 with silicone spray, so it is very fast.

I have the New Type A-I.

I have a hybrid of maru 3x3 pieces with C4U screws and springs + core.

If you are not sure, you can try the cubes at the competition. You can give me any offers. Thanks.