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Yuxuibbs said:
I'm in 10th. Thing is calc is a college class so you can't really take half of it. Calculus is a year long class. I don't want to be a junior stuck in a junior class for math (nerdy, i know) so I already decided to test out of algebra 2. It's just the precalculus that I'm worried about because if I don't finish it I can't do calculus.
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oh ok
but then why are u asking?
if u dont wanna do precalc in 11th grade then u hafta do it now right?
but then u wont finish english...
ok u know what i think its ur decision really
and my advice really should not be taken seriously
cuz its ur choice which classes u wanna finish in high school and which u wanna leave for college (or just skip altogether)
so ya
sorry that im not much help at all :(
 
CheesePuffs said:
I need a cube as a important prop in my film thing. I'm gonna put cube smith chrome stickers on it. What would you recommend It needs to look cool. I was thinking guhong white, guhong v2 white, or guhong yellow. I don't wanna get another zhanchi.
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Almost all dayan cubes look cool. They have big holes between pieces, good for corner cutting, got a very wavy or weird design compared to rubiks brand and some like a lunhui or guhong v2 have torpedos. They are look visually appealing, almost no difference except for the "non-visible" mechanism.
 
ThomasJE said:
CFOP/Fridrich with X-Cross.
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You mean CFOP.

theZcuber said:
11 is the most # of moves needed to solve it.

However, I don't want to use 11, as it wouldn't provide good quality scrambles (IMO). I know that skewb uses 15 (normally), and it also has god's number at 11, which is why I chose 15. I just wanted to see what people thought though
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Just use a random-state scrambler... it's not a big deal for 2x2...
 
Did anyone else notice that Petrus sort of died? Like when Waffle made his Rouxtorials and the whole Roux explosion started, so many fast Roux solvers started coming out. IDK it seems like nobody really uses it anymore. I'm worried to see my precious favorite method phased out of speedsolving! =P
 
JLarsen said:
Did anyone else notice that Petrus sort of died? Like when Waffle made his Rouxtorials and the whole Roux explosion started, so many fast Roux solvers started coming out. IDK it seems like nobody really uses it anymore. I'm worried to see my precious favorite method phased out of speedsolving! =P
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I use petrus for fun. Its really helped my blocks.
So maybe you should make your own 'PetrusTorial' and make Petrus famous again!
 
Hi guys

Can you recommend a good ZZ-method tutorial? I've only looked at one so far (the one from Esperantanaso) and I'm a little bit confused. Aside from 2 OLL algs I have Full Fridrich and I am thinking about switching methods.

grz ct
 
PandaCuber said:
I use petrus for fun. Its really helped my blocks.
So maybe you should make your own 'PetrusTorial' and make Petrus famous again!
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That's just it though. I feel like nobody is really interested in the method anymore. Hardly anyone at all watched my bad edges tutorial but similar videos 3 years ago have like 20k views.
 
JLarsen said:
Did anyone else notice that Petrus sort of died? Like when Waffle made his Rouxtorials and the whole Roux explosion started, so many fast Roux solvers started coming out. IDK it seems like nobody really uses it anymore. I'm worried to see my precious favorite method phased out of speedsolving! =P
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Unfortunately that's in fact the case. I used Petrus for a period of time but for me personally Roux is nicer. My alg execution is just terrible.

However if there's others (like you) who want to take Petrus further then I may consider getting somewhat fast with it, or even make a Petrus website.
The thing is, to motivate people to use the method they need to see fast people using it. Or some kind of impressive solve style. What I found very cool was Gilles Roux's turning style...

So yah, if there's enough (another) person other than me who wants to take Petrus far, we can do it.
 
Yuxuibbs said:
I'm in 10th. Thing is calc is a college class so you can't really take half of it. Calculus is a year long class. I don't want to be a junior stuck in a junior class for math (nerdy, i know) so I already decided to test out of algebra 2. It's just the precalculus that I'm worried about because if I don't finish it I can't do calculus.
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if you cant fit all those courses, go to summer school?
 
5BLD said:
Unfortunately that's in fact the case. I used Petrus for a period of time but for me personally Roux is nicer. My alg execution is just terrible.

However if there's others (like you) who want to take Petrus further then I may consider getting somewhat fast with it, or even make a Petrus website.
The thing is, to motivate people to use the method they need to see fast people using it. Or some kind of impressive solve style. What I found very cool was Gilles Roux's turning style...

So yah, if there's enough (another) person other than me who wants to take Petrus far, we can do it.
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That's the thing though I've come to believe that it really isn't as fast as Roux or Fridrich. I put in about 2 years of daily practice - usually 50+ solves every single day, and progress came so. incredibly. slow. It was just so frustrating. At about 23 ish seconds I got realllly into getting fast with Petrus, and I kept logs of all my solves so I could really pinpoint my progress. It took months to break sub 20, and then months after that to get to 17, and then months for 16, 15, and then it pretty much stopped. I was so discouraged looking at my logs that I actually had to stop tracking my progress. It stayed at 15 for maybe half a year. That's when I quit cubing. ErikJ was solving for like 5 years when I was at that point, and he's only like 13/14 averages. And he was obsessed with being the world's fastest Petrus solver.

I'm sure it's possible for Petrus to be "as fast" as Roux or Fridrich, but it overwhelmingly seems to me that it takes far more effort and time to get the same speed with the other 2 methods. Even now, I'm hesitant to say this because so many fast people (that have never been fast with Petrus) so firmly argued back in the day when these kind of debates were going on that Petrus could be as fast as the others. It was commonplace for people to be like "Petrus is slow" and unanimously everyone would deny it. I don't see that anymore. I wanted to make a thread about this but again, those same people are incredibly particular about what merits a new thread/discussion and what doesn't. I'd really like to hear their thoughts today....

Edit: I think this merits a thread. If anyone disagrees, I'm sure I'll see it there.

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I have a problem.
When I practice at home I get nervous.
When I went to a comp I had a faster than average solve.
Reverse psycology?
Because I know I have the potential to get 16 second solves.
 
jonlin said:
I have a problem.
When I practice at home I get nervous.
When I went to a comp I had a faster than average solve.
Reverse psycology?
Because I know I have the potential to get 16 second solves.
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What it sounds like to me, is that at competitions your adrenaline is running, making you faster than you usually are at home, when you are nice and calm and such.
Maybe try to listen to some fast-paced songs while you cube or something? :p
 
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