Bought a square-1 after Christmas and learn a "Beginners Method" then haven't touched it since. Picked it up tonight and relearn some of the algs I forgot and broke my PB single after 3 solves by over 30 seconds.
Old PB: 2:07.15
New PB: 1:34.16
Kind of neat I guess.
 
More Megaminx
1:44.90 single
2:05.07 avg5
2:07.88 avg12
2:09.66 avg25
2.13.64 avg50

Also 7.97 3x3 Solve Xcross + Pll Skip (6 move P no AUF)
 
WOAAAAAAAAA Out of nowhere PB single 3x3x3. 11.435 Single (Old PB: 15.39)

Scramble: L2 B' F' L2 D2 B' D2 U2 B' L2 R' U B' L2 B2 L F' U' F' U'

Blue cross, see 2 F2L pairs inspection(Can tell one is safe and first U' to preserve the other. Pretty big deal because I still have trouble tracking pieces from inspection and can't for the life of me do X-crosses unless by mistake. Pretty awesome I was aware of 2 F2L pairs during inspection even if they were super easy to see).

y2 x' (inspection)
F' R U' R2 (cross)
U y' R' U R (F2L #1)
U2 L U' L' (F2L #2)
U2 L' U2 L y' R' U2 R (F2L #3)
U y L' U2 L(F2L #4)
U2 R U R' U' B' R' F R F' B (OLL)
U (AUF)

Bolded U gave me that PLL skip
For F2L #4
U' F R' F' R would have left me with
R U R' U R d' R U' R' F'
T perm
or
U2 y' R' U R would have left me with
U2 R' U' F U R U' R' F' R
R Perm

Sorry for the over analysis but that beats my old PB single by 3.96 seconds. Still so crazy to me. Damn...


EDIT: !!!!!! An hour ago my PB was 15.xx then killed that PB above; just got another sub-15. 14.571 seconds OLL #33 H perm.
 
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I've been using ctimer for ages now and I'm happy enough with that.
BTW I probably sound extremely stupid but what is random state scrambler? Is it just scrambling it randomly by yourself?
Sorry if that post sounded rude/demanding, I just realised it could be. I should read my posts before posting stuff.
Ctimer has a random state scrambler, Options -> Use 3x3x3 random-state scrambler [ ]
A random state scrambler generates a random cube state and give you a scramble that gets to it. Every possible scramble has an equal probability. The scrambles you use are 25 random moves, and that isn't as good.
 
WOAAAAAAAAA Out of nowhere PB single 3x3x3. 11.435 Single (Old PB: 15.39)

Ok that is just amazing. sub-12?! And you're color neutral? I just realized that this race to sub-20 is very futile for me. haha. I tried the scramble, also doing a blue cross and got a 25. lol. But I have never done a cross on anything other than white or yellow.

But regardless of my rambling. Very nice job.
 
I've been using ctimer for ages now and I'm happy enough with that.

use a random state scrambler.

instead of 25 random moves, the scrambler will generate a random position then solve it and give you the inverse solution as the scramble. with 25 random moves some states are more likely than others but with random state everything is equally likely
 
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