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Kattenvriendin said:
I am trying to watch the vid but it threw errors.. for those who get the errors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIryGrY73dc


Mind.. for what it is worth.. Amstelveen is going to be yours.. OWN it hehe
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Thanks, I fixed the video. I did it on my iPad and that does not seem to go well ;) Yes, Amstelveen is where I really hope on normal times!

moralsh said:
You'll have a couple of chances to do better in October, and so will I as our spanish championship is about the same date.

I'd really love to go to one of the dutch comps :)
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If you come to Amstelveen, you will have most of the cool events on one day! It will be very nice to meet you!
 
MarcelP said:
I want to see them all! If I would choose what to see first.. The slow sub 20 would be awesome.. ;)
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Well, since I asked in Marcel's thread, I'm honouring his request first. Sorry if it's a bit faster than you'd like... I was trying to go slow...
Pyraminx keyhole method tutorial is next on the list. I already did some filming for it.


Cube: Dayan Guhong v1
Average: 16.85
17.56, (19.57), 16.32, (15.61), 16.66

Trying to be smooth during F2L and a fair bit slower than normal during LL. It was a little faster than I was planning for this video. This is probably a good speed for me to practice at though... I still have pauses.

The sighing before the 3rd solve was because I thought someone was going to talk to me but then it didn't happen. I had tried this several times already and each time either my battery died or the memory card ran out of space or I went a little too slowly or something else and I was close to giving up.
 
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This is great, thanks Sneakly! Scrambles and reconstructions would be good too. When I see these slow solves, I have mixed feelings - I'm both encouraged at how achievable it looks, and despondent that it doesn't look any faster than I turn now yet somehow my clock runs faster than yours :) I know I have pauses, but surely not 20s of them!
 
mark49152 said:
This is great, thanks Sneakly! Scrambles and reconstructions would be good too. When I see these slow solves, I have mixed feelings - I'm both encouraged at how achievable it looks, and despondent that it doesn't look any faster than I turn now yet somehow my clock runs faster than yours :) I know I have pauses, but surely not 20s of them!
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It's f2l efficiency dude. Her f2l is probably twice as short as your or something.
 
Please keep making videos Sneakly! That was great, your F2L looks very efficient, and I love how smooth your turning is. I would love reconstructions too, if anyone is willing to do them.

A bit off topic, how do you like the Guhong v1? I have one, and really didn't like it at first, but it's really starting to grow on me. It's become my go-to cube when I want to play around with Roux.
 
mark49152 said:
This is great, thanks Sneakly! Scrambles and reconstructions would be good too. When I see these slow solves, I have mixed feelings - I'm both encouraged at how achievable it looks, and despondent that it doesn't look any faster than I turn now yet somehow my clock runs faster than yours :) I know I have pauses, but surely not 20s of them!
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Unfortunately I accidentally lost the scrambles. If you can see the scrambles at the top of my screen and compare with the video you might be able to reconstruct the scramble. I think pauses can easily take up more time than you think. If one move doesn't flow right into the next one, it could be 0.1s say (hypothetically) and a 60-move solve means 6 seconds lost just from not having the smoothest turning.

jayefbe said:
Please keep making videos Sneakly! That was great, your F2L looks very efficient, and I love how smooth your turning is. I would love reconstructions too, if anyone is willing to do them.

A bit off topic, how do you like the Guhong v1? I have one, and really didn't like it at first, but it's really starting to grow on me. It's become my go-to cube when I want to play around with Roux.
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Thanks for all the encouragement! It makes me feel good about making more videos. I hope the pyraminx tutorial will be ok when I get around to editing it (currently I have to reinstall the movie maker program before I can do that stuff.) I don't think I'm very good when it comes to talking.

Guhong v1 was the first real speedcube I got. I liked it a lot except I wondered about the pieces jiggling around and making noise but it doesn't bother me now. I am using a 55mm Zhanchi as my main (I don't have a full sized one) which I used in my comp but I always like to take out my Guhong and play with it again. I think that maybe I like smoother cubes after all and always wondering whether I should get a Guhong v2 because I've heard so much good stuff about it. The only think I don't like as much is it doesn't cut corners as well as the Zhanchi and has a slightly more blocky feeling, but the smoothness feels great!

MarcelP said:
Thanks Melody. That was awesome. How can a 16 seconds average be slow.. LOL Your turning (and look ahead) is perfect. I really hope to get there at one point. I would love to see the scrambles and reconstructs since I think you do F2L much more efficient than me.
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My turning is ok I think but my look ahead is nowhere near perfect, even at the slower speed I was trying for. I'm not a good reconstructor plus I don't have much time right now. I think it would take me an hour just to reconstruct one solve. But maybe if I feel really *bored* I will try.

YddEd said:
Are you colour neutral? I think that I saw the green cross was pretty good :P
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I tried the CN thing but decided in the end that I would rather not. But I am dual W/Y neutral. In this video however I think I did all white crosses.

mark49152 said:
If her F2L averages 15 moves then tips please :) Seriously, my brain's good at efficiency, it just does it really slowly. I know it's my brain's fault coz my fingers are nowhere near maxed out.
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LOL... no way my F2L is 15 moves. I'm not that efficient and I still do too much cube rotation. It's probably mostly just look ahead.
@mark49152, do you have a video of you solving?
 
Ok, want to start something.

First, I am also very interested in a video of Mark. So this is what I propose: Let's start a race here called, 'cool like Sneaklyfox'. The goal, make a video with an Ao5. 'We' don't care about the times you have, all you have to do, is turn as slow as you can and get the best times with that. The video of Melody made me realise that I have stopped looking ahead completely. I have improved my TPS (appearantly) so I have slightly better averages than 5 months ago. But 5 months ago I had a very good at looking ahead. I tried a few sloves with slow turning, and to my great surprise I had great times. So today I am going to try to make a video with slow turning that has an average of at least sub 27-28 seconds. Jay!
 
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sneaklyfox said:
LOL... no way my F2L is 15 moves. I'm not that efficient and I still do too much cube rotation. It's probably mostly just look ahead.
@mark49152, do you have a video of you solving?
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My joke got a bit lost :). Kong said your F2L probably had half the moves of mine. I counted mine over 25 solves recently and average about 30 moves although in a real solve I guess I don't always make the most efficient choices, so more like 32-33. Anyway, efficiency isn't my problem. Not sure what optimal is, but 30's not bad.

MarcelP said:
Ok, want to start something. First, I am also very interested in a video of Mark. So this is what I propose: Let's start a race here called, 'cool like Sneaklyfox'. The goal, make a video with an Ao5. 'We' don't care about the times you have, all you have to do, is turn as slow as you can and get the best times with that. The video of Melody made me realise that I have stopped looking ahead completely. I have improved my TPS (appearantly) so I have slightly better averages than 5 months ago. But 5 months ago I had a very good at looking ahead. I tried a few sloves with slow turning, and to my great surprise I had great times. So today I am going to try to make a video with slow turning that has an average of at least sub 27-28 seconds. Jay!
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I'm up for that, although I've never posted a video so will have to work that out. I'm still focusing all my practice on getting F2L (pairs only) under 15s consistently. It's been 3 weeks and I have only got worse, although lookahead is starting to feel a bit easier. It's actually pretty hard work and lack of progress is denting my morale a bit - if it's this hard for me to get F2L times commensurate with a 30s solve, where is my limit? :(
 
mark49152 said:
It's actually pretty hard work and lack of progress is denting my morale a bit - if it's this hard for me to get F2L times commensurate with a 30s solve, where is my limit? :(
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Well, Mark the one good thing about cubing is that without any effort, just by doing solves every day, your brain will get to find pairs quicker. I bet that in 6 months from now you will have no problems what so ever being sub 30. Of course dedicated training on other stuff like cross, LL or even F2L helps a lot too ;)
 
Here is my first try, and first solves of today..

Rubik's cube
7-jun-2013 10:31:10 - 10:34:57

Mean: 26.32
Average: 26.03
Best time: 22.71
Median: 25.03
Worst time: 30.79
Standard deviation: 2.85

Best average of 5: 26.03
1-5 - (30.79) 28.22 24.84 (22.71) 25.03

1. 30.79 R2 L2 U2 B2 D' F2 U' R2 B2 R2 D F R' U' B2 R D' U B2 R2 F' D2
2. 28.22 R2 L2 D' R2 B2 F2 D' U2 R2 F2 U' B D R F2 U' L2 U2 L F' U2
3. 24.84 D' L2 B2 D' B2 U R2 U2 R2 U2 R' U' B D F L F' U2 B2 R2 U'
4. 22.71 F2 D2 F2 D2 F2 R2 U' F2 U R2 U2 L' D F R' D2 F' R' L2 F2 L'
5. 25.03 U R2 L2 D L2 D' F2 U' B2 U' L B' U' B2 R' U B L F' D2

[video=youtube_share;KawiLKRa7F4]http://youtu.be/KawiLKRa7F4[/video]
 
MarcelP said:
Ok, want to start something.

First, I am also very interested in a video of Mark. So this is what I propose: Let's start a race here called, 'cool like Sneaklyfox'. The goal, make a video with an Ao5. 'We' don't care about the times you have, all you have to do, is turn as slow as you can and get the best times with that. The video of Melody made me realise that I have stopped looking ahead completely. I have improved my TPS (appearantly) so I have slightly better averages than 5 months ago. But 5 months ago I had a very good at looking ahead. I tried a few sloves with slow turning, and to my great surprise I had great times. So today I am going to try to make a video with slow turning that has an average of at least sub 27-28 seconds. Jay!
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Good Idea! but I think it would be good to all use the same scrambles. Since you've already recorded your video, I propose that all use your scrambles:

1. R2 L2 U2 B2 D' F2 U' R2 B2 R2 D F R' U' B2 R D' U B2 R2 F' D2
2. R2 L2 D' R2 B2 F2 D' U2 R2 F2 U' B D R F2 U' L2 U2 L F' U2
3. D' L2 B2 D' B2 U R2 U2 R2 U2 R' U' B D F L F' U2 B2 R2 U'
4. F2 D2 F2 D2 F2 R2 U' F2 U R2 U2 L' D F R' D2 F' R' L2 F2 L'
5. U R2 L2 D L2 D' F2 U' B2 U' L B' U' B2 R' U B L F' D2
 
sneaklyfox said:
Guhong v1 was the first real speedcube I got. I liked it a lot except I wondered about the pieces jiggling around and making noise but it doesn't bother me now. I am using a 55mm Zhanchi as my main (I don't have a full sized one) which I used in my comp but I always like to take out my Guhong and play with it again. I think that maybe I like smoother cubes after all and always wondering whether I should get a Guhong v2 because I've heard so much good stuff about it. The only think I don't like as much is it doesn't cut corners as well as the Zhanchi and has a slightly more blocky feeling, but the smoothness feels great!
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I think you are spot on. Guhong V2 is more blocky compared to a Zhanchi. I think you should try a 57 mm Zhanchi first ;)


Kattenvriendin said:
I'll try that when the mail has come.. two mail companies coming over today.. gah.

I want to bet they come right in the midst of my solves hahahah.
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What are you expecting? Cubes? ;)
 
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