Thorsten
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Hi guys,
i just joined the forum and wanted to introduce myself.
My name is (as you might have seen) Thorsten and I'm a german student at Hanover University (Political Science).
I lived the first 20 years of my live in a very small town at the german/dutch border, so im fluent not only in german and english, but also capable of dutch and at the moment learning russian.
I just finished my bachelors degree and now starting a master here in Hanover.
My activities besides cubing are very very different. I often play Videogames (Xbox 360) but also like Geocaching and being outside. I used to play theatre from my 5th year of live till i finished school (in german it is "Abitur" i really do not know the englisch term for it, but its like finishing high school in the U.S.).
I'm very interested in probability (the math thing). And really like to read books about mathematic problems but also moral and ethic discussions.
I started Cubing in November 2010. A friend showed me how to solve the first 2 Layers and though he stopped cubing after a while, I'm still cubing and having fun.
Never been to a competition, because of a lack of time.
The method i use to solve the Cube is CFOP, an my best Avg. of 5 is 21,89 (done today) my PB is 19,15. But I usually average about 25-27 seconds at the moment.
As I told i started cubing nearly a year ago, but never managed to cube very much (I think averaging about 28 seconds is not very fast after one year).
I usually did like 10 or 20 solves a day and had weeks where i did not manage to solve a cube at all.
After i finished my bachelor thesis a month ago (the master is starting at the end of october) i found myself in a situation in wich i had nothing to do and decided to cube more and finish full OLL (i know all OLL algorithms but are not able to recognize the last 8). In this month I put my Average from 33 seconds to 28 seconds, which I think, is really nice.
My main cube is a Lubix Fusion (which i got a week ago, before that it was a "normal" Guhong).
I got serveral Dayan type cubes and have all from 2x2 up to 7x7, adding a Megaminx, and some other weird cubes.
For the people who only looking for numbers, here they are:
Cube, PB, Best Average of 5, Mean
2x2; 5,59s; 8,82s; ~10s (not practicing much)
3x3; 19,15s; 21,89s; ~28s
4x4; 2:22,74s; 2:37,40s
5x5; 3:40,24s; 4:25,52s
6x6; got mine like 5 days ago, never did an average, but probably really bad
7x7; 9:40,09s; 12:02,03s
As you see, I'm concentrating on 3x3, as the rest of my times are not really good.
I want to finish my OLL (as I said) and being comfortable with all of my algs before practicing the big cubes more.
So yeah, thats me, if you have any further questions about me, feel free to ask!
So far
Thorsten
i just joined the forum and wanted to introduce myself.
My name is (as you might have seen) Thorsten and I'm a german student at Hanover University (Political Science).
I lived the first 20 years of my live in a very small town at the german/dutch border, so im fluent not only in german and english, but also capable of dutch and at the moment learning russian.
I just finished my bachelors degree and now starting a master here in Hanover.
My activities besides cubing are very very different. I often play Videogames (Xbox 360) but also like Geocaching and being outside. I used to play theatre from my 5th year of live till i finished school (in german it is "Abitur" i really do not know the englisch term for it, but its like finishing high school in the U.S.).
I'm very interested in probability (the math thing). And really like to read books about mathematic problems but also moral and ethic discussions.
I started Cubing in November 2010. A friend showed me how to solve the first 2 Layers and though he stopped cubing after a while, I'm still cubing and having fun.
Never been to a competition, because of a lack of time.
The method i use to solve the Cube is CFOP, an my best Avg. of 5 is 21,89 (done today) my PB is 19,15. But I usually average about 25-27 seconds at the moment.
As I told i started cubing nearly a year ago, but never managed to cube very much (I think averaging about 28 seconds is not very fast after one year).
I usually did like 10 or 20 solves a day and had weeks where i did not manage to solve a cube at all.
After i finished my bachelor thesis a month ago (the master is starting at the end of october) i found myself in a situation in wich i had nothing to do and decided to cube more and finish full OLL (i know all OLL algorithms but are not able to recognize the last 8). In this month I put my Average from 33 seconds to 28 seconds, which I think, is really nice.
My main cube is a Lubix Fusion (which i got a week ago, before that it was a "normal" Guhong).
I got serveral Dayan type cubes and have all from 2x2 up to 7x7, adding a Megaminx, and some other weird cubes.
For the people who only looking for numbers, here they are:
Cube, PB, Best Average of 5, Mean
2x2; 5,59s; 8,82s; ~10s (not practicing much)
3x3; 19,15s; 21,89s; ~28s
4x4; 2:22,74s; 2:37,40s
5x5; 3:40,24s; 4:25,52s
6x6; got mine like 5 days ago, never did an average, but probably really bad
7x7; 9:40,09s; 12:02,03s
As you see, I'm concentrating on 3x3, as the rest of my times are not really good.
I want to finish my OLL (as I said) and being comfortable with all of my algs before practicing the big cubes more.
So yeah, thats me, if you have any further questions about me, feel free to ask!
So far
Thorsten
