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MarcelP said:
Geez, thanks. And Yes, as a matter of fact. Download my program here and train the F2LE part. These are the ones I selected for the hard cases. Also learning Viktors expert F2L (here). I work a lot on these and that might cause my F2L be my best part.
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thanks! I downloaded it but I don't see any options to train only the F2L part. Am I missing something? Also, is it updated with your most recent f2l algs?
 
MarcelP said:
LOL, Ninja-ed. Nice to hear people are using my trainer and actually taking advantage of it. :) Wow..
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Oh yeah. I keep practice f2l part but I changed most of algs for mine and left only few I found better.:) I wait now for a progress time.

Artic said:
thanks! I downloaded it but I don't see any options to train only the F2L part. Am I missing something? Also, is it updated with your most recent f2l algs?
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In "file" you can change what part you train, and in options/magange settings what algs do you want - in default they are all. If you wanna setup your own algs you need to edit txt files for example f2l.txt etc.
 
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MarcelP said:
I agree, Mark your gap is really small. You should treasure that. It means you are very very stable. I can go from a 14 seconds solve to a 34 second solve.
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Yeah my sessions will typically be 18-26 with the vast majority in the 20-24 range. Stdev of my last 1000 solves is 1.96.

BTW, feels like I'm at a serious plateau. I'm not sure how I will improve from here. I know what I should improve but it doesn't feel like I could.
 
mark49152 said:
BTW, feels like I'm at a serious plateau. I'm not sure how I will improve from here. I know what I should improve but it doesn't feel like I could.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. But I think the main thing is just enjoy cubing. I have been at 26 secs for more than half a year. Last few months I have been improving a bit without changing any big things. I think for most of us, it just takes time to get faster.
 
MarcelP said:
Yeah, I know what you mean. But I think the main thing is just enjoy cubing. I have been at 26 secs for more than half a year. Last few months I have been improving a bit without changing any big things. I think for most of us, it just takes time to get faster.
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Yeah I need a mission though, otherwise I get bored just solving over and over. Having had a moan this morning about lack of progress, I promptly went and smashed my F2L pairs PB. Ao50=9.66, my first sub-10, down from 10.05. Next target: sub-5 cross+1.
 
Rocky0701 said:
Wow, nice! That 9.99 is a win. I will do an ao100 sometime tomorrow and see whay i get. Right now i am working on full OLL, 36 left! :)
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Dedicated F2L practice was what kick-started my good run of progress this year, dropping from 32 to 22 average in 6 months. So now that my improvement has tapered off, I'm back to blitzing F2L for a while, in the hope of finding that sub-20 breakthrough. In the last week I've done over 1000 pairs solves and there's no way my F2L would ever receive that kind of intense, concentrated practice by doing full solves. Targeted practice ftw!
 
mark49152 said:
Dedicated F2L practice was what kick-started my good run of progress this year, dropping from 32 to 22 average in 6 months. So now that my improvement has tapered off, I'm back to blitzing F2L for a while, in the hope of finding that sub-20 breakthrough. In the last week I've done over 1000 pairs solves and there's no way my F2L would ever receive that kind of intense, concentrated practice by doing full solves. Targeted practice ftw!
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Awesome job, i will see what i get tomorrow. I am around .5 seconds away from you. Hopefully OLL will bump me up to sub 22.
 
So, thanks for the recommendation Marcel. I did get the AoLong yesterday, and I've been working pretty hard with it. I did an Ao100, and then today, I tweaked it. I took out most of the lube and loosened it up a bunch, so it's still scratchy, but hardly bumpy at all. It did pop a couple of times, so that tells you how loose I have my tensions. (I know sneaklyfox always says it's impossibly to pop a WeiLong/AoLong, but it can happen if the tensions are loose enough). I guess even though I'm not that fast, I like my cube to be very fast and very dry. I broke my PB Ao100 by nearly a second, and I'm now sub 25. :)
 
DeeDubb said:
So, thanks for the recommendation Marcel. I did get the AoLong yesterday, and I've been working pretty hard with it. I did an Ao100, and then today, I tweaked it. I took out most of the lube and loosened it up a bunch, so it's still scratchy, but hardly bumpy at all. It did pop a couple of times, so that tells you how loose I have my tensions. (I know sneaklyfox always says it's impossibly to pop a WeiLong/AoLong, but it can happen if the tensions are loose enough). I guess even though I'm not that fast, I like my cube to be very fast and very dry. I broke my PB Ao100 by nearly a second, and I'm now sub 25. :)
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Congrats! Feliks also said he had a few pops. I have AolOng pretty tight. Else it is too fast. So I have never had a pop. But still I think Weilongs are harder to pop. It is easy to take a piece out on the AoLong where on a tight Weilong that is much harder.
 
DeeDubb said:
So, thanks for the recommendation Marcel. I did get the AoLong yesterday, and I've been working pretty hard with it. I did an Ao100, and then today, I tweaked it. I took out most of the lube and loosened it up a bunch, so it's still scratchy, but hardly bumpy at all. It did pop a couple of times, so that tells you how loose I have my tensions. (I know sneaklyfox always says it's impossibly to pop a WeiLong/AoLong, but it can happen if the tensions are loose enough). I guess even though I'm not that fast, I like my cube to be very fast and very dry. I broke my PB Ao100 by nearly a second, and I'm now sub 25. :)
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You LOOSENED it? Holy crap, you must like loose tensions, mine was way too loose out of the box, I had to tighten it quite a bit. I had literally the exact same ao100 PB as you like a week and a half ago, you are improving a lot quicker than I am though, so you will probably be like sub 23 in about a week.
 
Rocky0701 said:
You LOOSENED it? Holy crap, you must like loose tensions, mine was way too loose out of the box, I had to tighten it quite a bit. I had literally the exact same ao100 PB as you like a week and a half ago, you are improving a lot quicker than I am though, so you will probably be like sub 23 in about a week.
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Actually, I'm not really sure how it was out of the box. I didn't play a lot with it before I took it apart and lubed the core. When I put it back together, it might have been too tight. Mine is very loose though now, probably much looser than out of the box. I really do like loose tensions, I'm not sure why. I think the cube is stable enough to handle pretty loose tensions, and I don't do a lot of wild moves that cause pops.

As for my Ao100... well, it looks like you are about 2 seconds ahead of me, so I don't think I'll be catching you any time soon. I think we've both been improving at a similar pace, with you just a bit ahead of me. I think you graduated sub-30 a couple weeks before me, and you'll probably finish sub-25 a bit before me. We'll see how it goes to sub-20, but I think you'll beat me.

It's so crazy. My original goal was just to always solve it in under a minute, and now I almost always solve it in under 30 seconds. I never thought I would sniff sub-20. It's great to be heading there though.
 
DeeDubb said:
Actually, I'm not really sure how it was out of the box. I didn't play a lot with it before I took it apart and lubed the core. When I put it back together, it might have been too tight. Mine is very loose though now, probably much looser than out of the box. I really do like loose tensions, I'm not sure why. I think the cube is stable enough to handle pretty loose tensions, and I don't do a lot of wild moves that cause pops.

As for my Ao100... well, it looks like you are about 2 seconds ahead of me, so I don't think I'll be catching you any time soon. I think we've both been improving at a similar pace, with you just a bit ahead of me. I think you graduated sub-30 a couple weeks before me, and you'll probably finish sub-25 a bit before me. We'll see how it goes to sub-20, but I think you'll beat me.

It's so crazy. My original goal was just to always solve it in under a minute, and now I almost always solve it in under 30 seconds. I never thought I would sniff sub-20. It's great to be heading there though.
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I never thought i woukd be sub 30 either, sub 1 minute yes, and sub 45 maybe, but never here. The race to sub 25 thread is making me mad haha, I have been sub 25 for like 2 weeks now, but I keep messing up a solve or two during it, plus i don't ever do it warmed up because I'm like second faster when I am warmed up. You have only been cubing about half of the time that i have been, so i disagree, i definitely think you're improving faster.
 
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