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h2f said:
OH or feet, maybe? Sorry to hear about your shoulder.

I liked OH when I got a pinky move which was horrible for me.
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What's a pinky move?

sk8erman41 said:
Oh man that is a real bummer! Maybe you will learn to like OH. I am very fearful of this happening to me, I don't know what I would do if I wasn't able to cube!
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You would go on a rage and blow up a gas station or something. That's probably what I would do anyway :P

MarcelP said:
yep, just printed out my OH algs. I hate OH though..
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I bet it will kinda help your 2H though.
 
mark49152 said:
I carried on and did 300 pairs-only solves. Average 9.99 :). Bao100=9.72, bao50=9.50, bao12=9.03.
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Well Mark, before I crashed my shoulder yesterday I did 100 F2L pairs (in PPT). I was sub 10 for most of the part, but then I lost my cool (or interrest) and ended up 10.24. My best Ao12 was 9.39. Had a few 7's in a row. Dedicated F2L training is really good. Kuddos on your progress. I think your F2L is better than mine now. In fact, are all your parts faster than mine now? It is just a matter of days before you throw an Ao100 sub 20 I think ;)

DeeDubb said:
Wow! That's no good. Did you get tossed awkwardly?
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Yeah, I landed after flewing a few meters with my full weight (I am over 240 Lbs) on my shoulder. I heard a dry 'knack' sound and got dizzy from pain. I did not sleep this night. I have an appointment to check it out in a few hours. OH cubing is picking up again.. LOL
 
MarcelP said:
Well Mark, before I crashed my shoulder yesterday I did 100 F2L pairs (in PPT). I was sub 10 for most of the part, but then I lost my cool (or interrest) and ended up 10.24. My best Ao12 was 9.39. Had a few 7's in a row. Dedicated F2L training is really good. Kuddos on your progress. I think your F2L is better than mine now. In fact, are all your parts faster than mine now? It is just a matter of days before you throw an Ao100 sub 20 I think ;)
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No, you're still a couple of seconds ahead of me and a little faster on each step. Maybe my PLL is a tiny bit faster. And I can't keep up with your rate of practice :)

Yesterday I got carried away and did over 500 pairs, average 10.07. I was disappointed not to improve during the day, but at least it was consistent and a little faster than a few days ago when I was averaging ~10.3-4. Lots more 8-9s when lookahead works, plus lots of 10-11s when it doesn't. Today my hands are stiff :D

Good luck with your shoulder.
 
Sorry to hear you broke your shoulder. :(

I learned OH because I didn't want to stop cubing when I was nursing my baby. The pinky move was really hard at first but after practicing a lot it becomes easy. It was also easier at first to use a smaller cube but now I can use a normal sized cube ok too. My first OH solves took me like 2 minutes...

Oh yeah, I practiced a lot of
RUR'U' (x6)
RU'RU (x5)
RU'R'U' (x5)
 
mark49152 said:
Good luck with your shoulder.
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Well it's not broken. It seems that some mussles have torn. Any ways, I am heavily sedated with painkillers and I can cube now. In fact I just did Ao50

F2L pairs:

Mean: 9.33
Average: 9.34
Best time: 7.20
Median: 9.34
Worst time: 11.40
Standard deviation: 0.95

Since that is quite faster than yours I suspect I am not doing it right. I filmed a few. Do you also do it like this (with inspecting and all):

(I know I do not need to solve OLL and PLL between scrambles, but I do that all the time out of habit)

23. 9.23 R2 D2 F2 R2 D R2 L2 D R2 D2 F D2 B U R B2 D' U F' L D'
24. 8.98 D' F2 U' R2 B2 U' R2 U2 F2 L2 B2 L F' U2 F L' D L2 D L U'
25. 9.79 R2 L2 D2 R2 L2 D F2 R2 D2 U' F' D2 B U R' D2 F2 D' B R U'
26. 8.90 R2 B2 F2 L2 D' F2 L2 D R2 B' U B' R' B D' B' F2 U R

[video=youtube_share;W98mmriX81o]http://youtu.be/W98mmriX81o[/video]

sneaklyfox said:
I learned OH because I didn't want to stop cubing when I was nursing my baby. The pinky move was really hard at first but after practicing a lot it becomes easy. It was also easier at first to use a smaller cube but now I can use a normal sized cube ok too. My first OH solves took me like 2 minutes...

Oh yeah, I practiced a lot of
RUR'U' (x6)
RU'RU (x5)
RU'R'U' (x5)
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I remember you telling about doing OH and not waiste time nursing LOL.. You are hard core :) I will try these triggers you wrote down here for a while. I suck at OH. :)
 
MarcelP said:
Well it's not broken. It seems that some mussles have torn.
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That's good news... or at least, less bad news.

MarcelP said:
Since that is quite faster than yours I suspect I am not doing it right. I filmed a few. Do you also do it like this (with inspecting and all):
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You're faster because you're faster :D. I use my phone as a timer and it gives F2L scrambles (KingEn timer). If there's a pair already solved I'll rescramble. I don't time inspection but rarely take more than a few seconds. I sometimes rotate first but never AUF. I start and stop the timer with one hand on the cube. If I completely wreck a solve, like putting a pair in wrong or wrecking the cross, I'll just abandon it and delete the time. If I get interrupted, like a phone call, I allow myself a couple of warm-up solves to get my flow back.
 
Over the last few days I've been on dedicated F2L practice, doing about 1800 pairs solves and 300 blind crosses. Today I did my first timed full solves for 5 days, and instantly smashed almost a second off my ao12 PB - 19.59, my first sub-20 ao12! And first sub-19 ao5 too! Unfortunately I got nervous and the rest of the session went downhill, but despite mostly 23-24s towards the end, I still scraped a new ao50 PB too, of 21.64.

Sub-20 is definitely in sight now - if I had not got nervous I think I would have been really close today, at least 20.xx.
 
mark49152 said:
Over the last few days I've been on dedicated F2L practice, doing about 1800 pairs solves and 300 blind crosses. Today I did my first timed full solves for 5 days, and instantly smashed almost a second off my ao12 PB - 19.59, my first sub-20 ao12! And first sub-19 ao5 too! Unfortunately I got nervous and the rest of the session went downhill, but despite mostly 23-24s towards the end, I still scraped a new ao50 PB too, of 21.64.

Sub-20 is definitely in sight now - if I had not got nervous I think I would have been really close today, at least 20.xx.
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Awesome, Mark! I'm so lazy compared to you guys. I ought to do real practice but most of the time I'm still mindlessly solving, sometimes forcing myself not to look at the pieces that are being solved.
 
sneaklyfox said:
Awesome, Mark! I'm so lazy compared to you guys. I ought to do real practice but most of the time I'm still mindlessly solving, sometimes forcing myself not to look at the pieces that are being solved.
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Lazy? I'm in awe that you find time to cube at all, with 5 young kids! :)

I did another ao100 late at night and regressed to 22.51. Tried a few pairs only solves and was getting 11-12 compared to 9.5 before. Lookahead has gone. So it's back to F2L practice until I can make it stick.
 
Nice PB Mark! At least now you have a normal gap between Ao100 and Ao12..lol I am on a small family vacation. So no practise. I can relate to gwtting a PB and then it all goes downhill from there. It is all a matter of focus and lookahead. And these are the first two things that go away.
 
MarcelP said:
At least now you have a normal gap between Ao100 and Ao12
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I wonder if it's my approach of developing technique through targeted practice that makes me a consistent solver. Looking back over my solve history, there's rarely more than 1-2 secs between ao12 and ao50 (more when I was slower, of course). That session yesterday had the biggest gap since April.
 
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