Older cubers discussions

[MarcelP]

Okay, I am really improving after a 6 months plateau.. I did an Ao100 and broke some records:

Spoiler

Mean: 25.67
Average: 25.63
Best time: 17.02
Median: 25.03
Worst time: 37.53
Standard deviation: 3.76

Best average of 5: 21.82
45-49 - 21.91 22.35 (24.77) (19.73) 21.20

Best average of 12: 22.99
62-73 - 19.81 19.85 24.02 23.67 23.57 (17.02) 25.03 23.17 23.14 23.20 24.39 (29.87)

Some of the good solves from this session:

Spoiler

21.31 D2 B2 U L2 U F2 R2 B2 L2 U F2 L D F2 D' F' L D' U' B U R'
21.96 L2 D2 F2 U' R2 U' F2 D R2 B2 U' F R F2 D2 R U2 F L' U L2 U2
29.52 D F2 L2 U' L2 U R2 U2 R2 L2 U' F' D L' F' U R B2 L' D2 B'
21.91 R2 B2 D U2 F2 R2 D F2 U' R2 D F' D L2 U2 F R2 D U' R U'
22.35 L2 F2 R2 D2 F2 U' F2 L2 D B2 R' B F2 U' B2 D' B D' F U'
24.77 F2 L2 B2 L2 D R2 U2 F2 R2 F2 D' L F R2 D R2 D2 L2 F2 R2 B D'
19.73 U2 B2 R2 D L2 D2 R2 F2 D' F2 R2 B' D' B R' D2 L' D R' U'

[video=youtube_share;IXumMqKLMmI]http://youtu.be/IXumMqKLMmI[/video]

 

[mark49152]

Nice one Marcel - what do you think led to your improvement? Any particular practice regime?

 

[sneaklyfox]

Nice!

 

[Lchu613]

Hey Marcel, just how much faster would a Weilong be than a Fangshi at similar tensions (cutting-wise)?

 

[MarcelP]

Hey Marcel, just how much faster would a Weilong be than a Fangshi at similar tensions (cutting-wise)?

Well, I try to do as many Ao5's to get the competition feeling. With the Weilong I get many sub 25's. With the ShuangRen I hardly get sub 26.. And with my best Zhanchi I am stuck around 26-29 secs..

Nice one Marcel - what do you think led to your improvement? Any particular practice regime?

I think it is the better cube.. Also I might have a slight better lookahead

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Wow nice Marcel! I wonder what that Weilong feels like alright (no I am not buying one, I am going to try yours at Amstelveen lol)

 

[MarcelP]

Wow nice Marcel! I wonder what that Weilong feels like alright (no I am not buying one, I am going to try yours at Amstelveen lol)

And the Gan III is sent out today You will see that one to (if I like it a bit).. LOL, you are missing out on the fun cubes now.. The ShuangRen II (in original color) seems like a must have cube too..

 

[mark49152]

I've been doing lots of swapping between cubes recently, and I find that my smoothest solves are on...... the ShuangRen! Second place to ZC55. So I guess it's all down to personal taste or style, plus tensions and lube, plus screw alignment. I lock and fumble more with WeiLong.

Edit: good news that GanIII is shipping, I shall place my order now!

 

[YddEd]

Remember to tell us if it's 20% cooler/10x better than the MoYu Huanying or not.

 

[MarcelP]

Remember to tell us if it's 20% cooler/10x better than the MoYu Huanying or not.

Yeah, I will make a short video as usual, just so you can have a taste of it

Second place to ZC55.

I use the Zhanci 55 mm for OH. Much better than the 54.7 mm ShuangRen. But that might because I totally suck at OH and have a very incorrect turn style.

Edit: good news that GanIII is shipping, I shall place my order now!

Yeah. I am curious about this one..

 

[Kattenvriendin]

And the Gan III is sent out today You will see that one to (if I like it a bit).. LOL, you are missing out on the fun cubes now.. The ShuangRen II (in original color) seems like a must have cube too..

Missing out? Like heck Got me the L and X cube here and creating an evil twins.. now those are all FUN cubes!

Oh that Gan lol best ever, yeah right. Eerst zien dan geloven zei blinde Maupie

 

[MarcelP]

Missing out? Like heck Got me the L and X cube here and creating an evil twins.. now those are all FUN cubes!

Oh that Gan lol best ever, yeah right. Eerst zien dan geloven zei blinde Maupie

I just watched a video of the Gan III. Looks pretty decent

 

[Schmidt]

As this has turned into the most popular off-topic topic, I might aswell write this here:
A month or so ago I thought I was adicted to cubes. I'm not so sure anymore. Some days I don't even solve a cube, let alone time some solves. I'm not even envious of all the new cubes Marcel is buying.
So when the results of round 30 of race to sub 25 thread is written, it will be closed, handed over or non-maintained. The same goes for my 4219.5 marathon.
I will probably still compete in the weekly competion, but I can already see my times are getting worse (for 3x3x3 at least).
@MarcelP: It won't be long now before you can beat me in a B.O.T.A. ao50

 

[MarcelP]

As this has turned into the most popular off-topic topic, I might aswell write this here:
A month or so ago I thought I was adicted to cubes. I'm not so sure anymore. Some days I don't even solve a cube, let alone time some solves. I'm not even envious of all the new cubes Marcel is buying.
So when the results of round 30 of race to sub 25 thread is written, it will be closed, handed over or non-maintained. The same goes for my 4219.5 marathon.
I will probably still compete in the weekly competion, but I can already see my times are getting worse (for 3x3x3 at least).
@MarcelP: It won't be long now before you can beat me in a B.O.T.A. ao50

I hope that time for me that I will not be addicted to cube will not come any time soon. In fact, I love it more every day. I am already exploring options about attending international competitons. Exept my wife is not to keen on that I am glad you do a few more rounds so I might graduate in the sub 25 race. And my guess is that aft you get bored with the computer game will bget back to being 100 % addicted.. LOL now that in fact I am getting closer to your times, it will be no fun if you get slower.

 

[pipkiksass]

As this has turned into the most popular off-topic topic, I might aswell write this here:
A month or so ago I thought I was adicted to cubes. I'm not so sure anymore. Some days I don't even solve a cube, let alone time some solves. I'm not even envious of all the new cubes Marcel is buying.
So when the results of round 30 of race to sub 25 thread is written, it will be closed, handed over or non-maintained. The same goes for my 4219.5 marathon.
I will probably still compete in the weekly competion, but I can already see my times are getting worse (for 3x3x3 at least).
@MarcelP: It won't be long now before you can beat me in a B.O.T.A. ao50

Thanks for doing the race to 25 Schmidt, it really helped me because I was so far off being sub-20 when I scraped through the race to 30.

It's a shame to hear you're hanging up your cube. I'm in the same boat as Marcel, I love it more every day. I had a cube years ago, and solved it using a beginner's method. I never really timed myself, just used to solve over and over for hours at a time. I remember counting moves, and trying to get a sub-100 turn solve (STM), which almost never happened.

When I discovered speedcubing, in December last year, I was instantly hooked. I don't know if there's been a day since when I haven't picked up a cube at all. I'm pretty sure there has only been one, if any. Unlike video games, and pretty much every other hobby I've ever entertained, for some reason cubing just never seems to get old for me. I think if you place too much emphasis on progress, it could get frustrating, but I'm in no rush to get faster.

I'm fortunate that recently I've had a bit of progress and have moved from about a 24 average to about 22 - those elusive sub-20 solves are becoming more regular, but still rare! I think if I can improve then anyone can. I don't practice anywhere near as 'well' as I should, I just solve solve solve.

Don't worry about your times Schmidt - they are probably getting worse because you're worried about them getting worse. Maybe handing over the 25 thread will take some pressure off you, and allow you to enjoy cubing again. IMHO, progress only happens when you're enjoying it. I stressed about being stuck at 28 seconds for ages, and it took me longer to get from 28 to sub-25 than it has for me to get from just sub-25 to 21/22. This is purely because I felt like I HAD to progress from 28 seconds, now any improvement is just a cool thing that happens.

I hope you recover your cube-mojo anyhow. Thanks again for running the race to 25.

Pip

P.S. - I just posted this on the accomplishment thread, but it's my favourite cubing accomplishment yet - 19.05 with a mis-inserted F2L pair! No idea how fast it would have been without the mis-insert, but I managed to fix it and still stop the timer under 20 seconds. I was so happy you'd have thought I'd just beaten the world record!!!

 

[sneaklyfox]

As this has turned into the most popular off-topic topic, I might aswell write this here:
A month or so ago I thought I was adicted to cubes. I'm not so sure anymore. Some days I don't even solve a cube, let alone time some solves. I'm not even envious of all the new cubes Marcel is buying.
So when the results of round 30 of race to sub 25 thread is written, it will be closed, handed over or non-maintained. The same goes for my 4219.5 marathon.
I will probably still compete in the weekly competion, but I can already see my times are getting worse (for 3x3x3 at least).
@MarcelP: It won't be long now before you can beat me in a B.O.T.A. ao50

Yes, as pipkiksass said... thanks very much, Schmidt! I've really benefited from the threads you've maintained like the sub-25 thread and the 4219.5 marathon which I've used to help motivate me in my practice for several events already! I will be sad that you won't be maintaining those anymore and wonder if anyone is going to take over. I've thought about taking over the sub-25 thread but think I'm a little too busy for that. Maybe after you lose your cubing addiction, you'll come back to it eventually. It's like Maskow trying to quit cubing and then not long after he comes back full speed breaking WRs with multi-blind haha. And... well... if you don't come back to loving cubes like you did before, that's ok too. There are plenty of more important things in life. Do whatever you enjoy. Personally, I know I am not as obsessive/crazy about cubes as I was when I first discovered speedcubing and found my times dropping so quickly from my outdated beginner's method with a Rubik's brand... those days are behind me now. I reached my first goal (sub-30) and second goal (sub-20), and have a pretty decent official ranking which is plenty for someone at my stage of life. Now I'm just happy if I see a little progress even if it's very slow. I still love cubes though and enjoy it everyday.

 

[MarcelP]

Don' t worry guys.. He is just so let down by the fact that I am sneaking up on his times (beat him in weekly nr 30. 3X3X3) LOL!. He will find his mojo again..

 

[Lchu613]

Cubing mojo. I like that.

 

[ThomasJE]

Haha...

Anyway, nice going Marcell! I did the same scrambles as in your recent Weilong video; here is a comparison between me and you:

[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
[TR]
[TD][TABLE="width: 64"]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24, width: 64"]Solve[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]3[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]4[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]6[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]7[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]TOTAL[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 64"]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24, width: 64"]MarcellP[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]21.31[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]21.96[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]29.52[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]21.91[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]22.35[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]24.77[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]19.73[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]161.55[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 68"]
[TR]
[TD]ThomasJE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]25.34[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]22.86[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]23.64[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]19.95[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]17.67[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]19.53[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]27.94[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]156.93[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 64"]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24, width: 64"]Fastest:[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]MarcellP[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]MarcellP[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]ThomasJE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]ThomasJE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]ThomasJE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]ThomasJE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]MarcellP[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]ThomasJE[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 64"]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24, width: 64"]Diff.[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 4.03[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 0.90[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 5.88[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 1.96[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 4.68[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 5.24[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 8.21[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 4.62[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

So less than 5 seconds over 7 solves between the two of us. It's scary to think that less than a year ago I was twice as fast.

 

[MarcelP]

Haha...

Anyway, nice going Marcell! I did the same scrambles as in your recent Weilong video; here is a comparison between me and you:

[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
[TR]
[TD][TABLE="width: 64"]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24, width: 64"]Solve[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]3[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]4[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]6[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]7[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]TOTAL[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 64"]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24, width: 64"]MarcellP[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]21.31[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]21.96[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]29.52[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]21.91[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]22.35[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]24.77[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]19.73[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]161.55[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 68"]
[TR]
[TD]ThomasJE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]25.34[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]22.86[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]23.64[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]19.95[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]17.67[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]19.53[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]27.94[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]156.93[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 64"]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24, width: 64"]Fastest:[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]MarcellP[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]MarcellP[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]ThomasJE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]ThomasJE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]ThomasJE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]ThomasJE[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]MarcellP[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"]ThomasJE[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[TD][TABLE="width: 64"]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24, width: 64"]Diff.[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 4.03[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 0.90[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 5.88[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 1.96[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 4.68[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 5.24[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 8.21[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl24"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: xl25"] 4.62[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

So less than 5 seconds over 7 solves between the two of us. It's scary to think that less than a year ago I was twice as fast.

LOL.. that's nice! Ha ha, do you remember reconstructing solves of mine when I was averaging over 45 seconds.. I am about 20 seconds faster now