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Schmidt said:
I got third in clock in my first comp (few competitors, many DNF's) check my wca (so many orange numbers ;) )
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Yeah lot's of orange there ;) I also noticed that in two years time (difference between first and second competition) you did not get much better results. Only few seconds in everything. :)

Just pulling your leg of course..
 
I don't even know what video you're talking about :p

It isn't really hard at all, just try. Another good thing is to try and make the competition area feel a lot like your home cubing environment. Like you could have a bottle of water or your mobile or a few other cubes on the table next to the mat while doing official solves. It helps, I've tried.

Also, while warming up before doing your solves, you could warm up on the competition table with the mat and all (if the people there let you).

There are many other ways as well.
 
mark49152 said:
More PBs crushed today. Ao100 = 24.95; Ao50 = 24.35; Ao12 = 23.34; Ao5 = 21.48; Single = 17.22 (double sune, Z-perm).
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Oh crap... You have past me. :) The whole fast TPS training thing has set me back a few secs. I was truely averaging 23 secs with one Ao100 sub 23. Today I am happy with a sub 26 Ao100. I need go go back to slow tps training. Congrats Mark. That is really awesome!
 
MarcelP said:
Oh crap... You have past me. :) The whole fast TPS training thing has set me back a few secs. I was truely averaging 23 secs with one Ao100 sub 23. Today I am happy with a sub 26 Ao100. I need go go back to slow tps training. Congrats Mark. That is really awesome!
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Thanks. You'll get that back easily enough. BTW, I don't buy the fast TPS training thing, it goes against all the other advice out there.

I'm surprised at my recent progress but I think it's down to lookahead practice. I've done loads of it over the last 3 months, and over the last month have been really trying to focus on that in my full solves, not just during F2L but for transitions too. Result is over 4 seconds dropped from Ao50 in the last month, which is more than I dropped in the 6 months before that. Lookahead ftw!
 
Personally, I find solving the best way to practice for whatever reason.
Just wondering, what are your guys' standard deviation? I have a friend a bit slower and his worst time in a big average was 23.82, while mine tends to be around 30.
My standard dev is around 2.7. I feel really inconsistent.
 
mark49152 said:
Thanks. You'll get that back easily enough. BTW, I don't buy the fast TPS training thing, it goes against all the other advice out there.

I'm surprised at my recent progress but I think it's down to lookahead practice. I've done loads of it over the last 3 months, and over the last month have been really trying to focus on that in my full solves, not just during F2L but for transitions too. Result is over 4 seconds dropped from Ao50 in the last month, which is more than I dropped in the 6 months before that. Lookahead ftw!
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I never said it would work for everybody. It happened to work for me.
 
Slowly getting my Mojo back.. a slow solved Ao5 sub 20 ;)

22. 20.07 U' L2 U F2 U2 B2 D B2 F2 U F2 R' F' U' R2 L2 U2 R' F D2 U'
23. 17.58 U R2 F2 R2 D' F2 U B2 U' R2 D2 R B D2 L2 D2 R U2 B R' D
24. 18.94 U' B2 L2 F2 U' R2 D2 B2 R2 L2 U2 B' U' R B2 U' F R' U' R2 L U
25. 20.88 D B2 D' F2 R2 B2 D' R2 U' R2 D' B D2 L' D2 L D' U' F R2 L' U2
26. lost my cool...
[video=youtube_share;naPCRziEaTU]http://youtu.be/naPCRziEaTU[/video]
 
MarcelP said:
Slowly getting my Mojo back.. a slow solved Ao5 sub 20 ;)

22. 20.07 U' L2 U F2 U2 B2 D B2 F2 U F2 R' F' U' R2 L2 U2 R' F D2 U'
23. 17.58 U R2 F2 R2 D' F2 U B2 U' R2 D2 R B D2 L2 D2 R U2 B R' D
24. 18.94 U' B2 L2 F2 U' R2 D2 B2 R2 L2 U2 B' U' R B2 U' F R' U' R2 L U
25. 20.88 D B2 D' F2 R2 B2 D' R2 U' R2 D' B D2 L' D2 L D' U' F R2 L' U2
26. lost my cool...
[video=youtube_share;naPCRziEaTU]http://youtu.be/naPCRziEaTU[/video]
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Nice one Marcel... What happened to 26? :D
 
First of all... whaaaat is that music? Second, nice solves and I especially liked the light chuckles at the end of the sub-20s. I'm wondering what alg you use for that G-perm that came up twice?

Re: TPS spamming... my problem is too much casual solving which is why I've been kinda stuck at 16 for about a year now. I'm getting faster times more often now but in the end I'm still about where I was. Speaking of being stuck, I finally FINALLY broke my Ao5 PB yesterday by 0.05. It wasn't much, but I haven't broken any PBs for months so it was still something.
 
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mark49152 said:
Nice one Marcel... What happened to 26? :D
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I lost my cool. Had a 32 something..

sneaklyfox said:
First of all... whaaaat is that music? Second, nice solves and I especially liked the light chuckles at the end of the sub-20s. I'm wondering what alg you use for that G-perm that came up twice?

Re: TPS spamming... my problem is too much casual solving which is why I've been kinda stuck at 16 for about a year now. I'm getting faster times more often now but in the end I'm still about where I was. Speaking of being stuck, I finally FINALLY broke my Ao5 PB yesterday by 0.05. It wasn't much, but I haven't broken any PBs for months so it was still something.
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The music is Stromae. French.. I just love French music. (Big fan of Lara Fabian, Garoux etc).

The G-perm is with headlights on the left and bar on the right:

R U R' (y') R2 u' R U' R' U R' u R2 (http://alg.cubing.net/?puzzle=3x3x3&stage=PLL&type=alg&view=playback&alg=%28y2%29%20R%20U%20R%27%20%28y%27%29%20R2%20u%27%20R%20U%27%20R%27%20U%20R%27%20u%20R2)

I would not mind being stuck at 16 secs.. ;) I highly doubt I will ever get there.. I think you will break that barrier soon.
 
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mark49152 said:
Well you made those fast ones look easy. I was watching thinking, is that it? Where were all the turns? So cool. For me a 20 second solve feels like a frantic blur.
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LOL.. Frantic blur.. I know what you mean. But really.. like your progress of the last few weeks is only because of better look ahead. if you know constantly what to do in a solve and have good cases for F2L ( I mean you know the good solution to hard cases) than slow turning is no problem getting sub 20 times. If only I could do that constantly :)

EDIT: My black Weilong V2 came today. It's awesome.. Did 50 solves and it is so smooth and controllable.
 
I completely agree - my lookahead is finally starting to work for me, and suddenly what used to be a blur becomes clearer. I'd had 13/14 second solves before, but they were all either bordering on losing control and being 30s, or very lucky. In the last week or so, I've had more sub 16/15/14s than ever, but the solves haven't FELT fast. Sure, I still have to nail OLL/PLL to get 17 or lower, but more often than not when I stop the timer and it says 16.xx I'm surprised!

Might be because I've recently also turned timer updating off! ;-)
 
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