"NEW" Race to Sub-30!

[dbuck84]

Round 152: Speed

AVG: 39.73

Times:
39.23
34.32
36.03
45.58
30.24
45.87
39.70
34.14
36.64
45.29
42.48
43.87

 

[kunparekh18]

Round 152

24.59 23.59 23.38 26.18 29.42 25.58 23.75 (17.73) (32.59) 31.45 22.90 28.56 = 25.94

Ah, lookahead seems to be making a difference. Would have possibly been a sub-24 avg if not for solves 5, 9, 10, and 12. All of those were either lockups or PLL messups. I need to improve my sucky last layer Pretty good average for me

 

[pipkiksass]

25.94

Ah, lookahead seems to be making a difference.

Very nice, was the 17.73 full-step or skip? Need to work on my look ahead, really suffers when I'm not concentrating on it. Hope you don't mind me asking, but as you've picked it up pretty quick, how do you personally 'practice' lookahead, just slow solves?

 

[kunparekh18]

Very nice, was the 17.73 full-step or skip? Need to work on my look ahead, really suffers when I'm not concentrating on it. Hope you don't mind me asking, but as you've picked it up pretty quick, how do you personally 'practice' lookahead, just slow solves?

Full step

Yeah, slow solves. I try tracking the pieces of the next F2L pair while solving one. Guessing pieces also helps. For example you're solving the front right F2L pair, which is the blue-red-white pair. The back 2 slots are filled. You see the green yellow edge piece in the edge slot of the front left F2L slot. The blue red edge is at UB (orientation doesn't matter). A quick scan of the last layer shows you the blue yellow edge, the red yellow edge and 2 unknown pieces. Your brain should immediately tell you that the edge you want to fill the front right f2l pair is either one of the unknown pieces. You can confirm with a quick AUF. I hope you get me

 

[jayefbe]

152 - speed

average - 27.80
27.98, 26.10, (35.76), 26.98, 28.83, 32.50, 25.31, (25.00), 30.47, 27.73, 25.39, 26.74

Pretty good time for me, especially since I didn't practice a lot today. Usually it takes a while before I feel at my best.

 

[pipkiksass]

I hope you get me

Yeah I get you, I can do it on slow solves, but struggle or forget when I'm speed solving. When I'm going slow I use all 4 slots and process of elimination to find missing edges, when I speed up I mostly use front slots and only what I can see. Which is slower. D'oh!

 

[kunparekh18]

Yeah I get you, I can do it on slow solves, but struggle or forget when I'm speed solving. When I'm going slow I use all 4 slots and process of elimination to find missing edges, when I speed up I mostly use front slots and only what I can see. Which is slower. D'oh!

There is but one solution: Practice

Also, nice to see you, JF1zl3 and jayefbe get sub-30 avgs this week. All the four of us are gonna graduate the same time (next week).

 

[pipkiksass]

Yeah, hopefully - is everyone intending to join the Race to sub-20 after?

I need more slow practice, just keep knocking out Ao50s, all timed. Did one on my lunchbreak at work today and was absolutely flying - 26.77 Ao50 (PB), best Ao5 24.23, best Ao15 25.36 (PB). Lookahead was working a little, but still needs a load of practice. Best single 18.70 (PLL skip) - still no sub-20 full-steps :-(!

In other news - my first Cubicle order just arrived with a white DIY Zhanchi, cubicle full-brights (fluro red, not pink), lube and a 50mm mini for OH. SO excited, physically cannot wait to get home tonight and lube/assemble/sticker my new cube. I'm under no illusions that it'll make me faster having a better cube, in fact I'm expecting to slow down a bit because it's my first white cube (hopefully this will help my lookahead a bit?!) just had to share my excitement. I am literally like a kid at Christmas!!!!

 

[Gordon]

Round 152
Speed

Average of 12: 33.094
Individual times: 29.449, 37.451, 32.880, 36.446, (42.402), 31.548, 30.816, (27.315), 34.683, 27.418, 29.345, 40.906

Still no improvement...

 

[JF1zl3]

Very nice, was the 17.73 full-step or skip? Need to work on my look ahead, really suffers when I'm not concentrating on it. Hope you don't mind me asking, but as you've picked it up pretty quick, how do you personally 'practice' lookahead, just slow solves?

I was wondering the same thing. Besides 3 Algs I use for OELL (they preserve the COLL so I can think about that while performing OELL), I have like 0 look ahead. Especially during F2L. I have tried and tried to make my eyes follow pieces, but I will screw up the current pair if I try.

 

[cxinlee]

I was wondering the same thing. Besides 3 Algs I use for OELL (they preserve the COLL so I can think about that while performing OELL), I have like 0 look ahead. Especially during F2L. I have tried and tried to make my eyes follow pieces, but I will screw up the current pair if I try.

After some practice you will learn to solve the current pair without thinking and you will be able to focus on tracking the other pairs.

 

[JF1zl3]

After some practice you will learn to solve the current pair without thinking and you will be able to focus on tracking the other pairs.

How much practice though? I have been doing F2L for at least a month and a half now, and I still have trouble with look ahead and automatic pair insertion. Although earlier when I set my new best ao12 I had some pretty boss look ahead skills lol. But it was only temporary.

 

[kunparekh18]

How much practice though? I have been doing F2L for at least a month and a half now, and I still have trouble with look ahead and automatic pair insertion. Although earlier when I set my new best ao12 I had some pretty boss look ahead skills lol. But it was only temporary.

That depends on the cuber. I have been using F2L for about 2.5 months and still I cannot lookahead properly. I believe it depends on the quality of practice, not its quantity.

To get faster LL can always be improved though, get better algs I can share mine if you want me to. I can sub-2.5 all PLLs except some, but I think you are faster in that category

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[JF1zl3]

According to this excel sheet from the systematic CFOP Improvement thread, I am not too good at PLL lol. ESPECIALLY N-Perms. I hate N-Perms. Although I wasn't doing to good on this particular day. I will probably retry it again soon.

Spoiler: PLL Results

I would LOVE to see some new algorithms that others have tested and approve of, if you want to post yours. That would be great.

 

[kunparekh18]

Is Na the one with the block on right? If so,

R U R' U (Jb perm without the last AUF) U2 R U' R'

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[JF1zl3]

I'm not sure what your mean by on the right, there are 4 1x1x2 blocks in the N-perms.
This is Na:

Edit:
Yup, your alg is for Na. Man that is so much better than what I have been using! ([L U' R] U2 [L' U R'])*2

 

[kunparekh18]

I'm not sure what your mean by on the right, there are 4 1x1x2 blocks in the N-perms.
This is Na:

Yep, thats the case the alg is for. What I meant was, in the Na perm, look at the R, L, F and B faces. The 1x1x2 block will always be on the right.

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[JF1zl3]

Oh I see, it is always on the right. That is neat lol.

 

[kunparekh18]

Same for Nb, it is always on the left. But I think all these pists shouldnt be posted in a competition thread, can someone move them to the appropriate thread please?

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[TP]

Na: (z) (U R' D R2 U' R D')2

Nb: (z) (D' R U' R2' D R' U)2

These are pretty nice when you get the finger trick going. I learned them on Youtube, can´t remember from who though.