Recent content by 40yearstosolve

Bit of an old thread, thought I'd see if anyone is around?

I am back! I've had a two year break from cubing. What I find odd is I seem to return to it in July each time, not realised until now, weird. Anyway, as before I am grateful for cubing and the help you guys gave me. And just as before returning after a break is a strange experience of the mental...

Hi everyone, not sure if any of you remember me, but I was here a lot when recovering from being poorly last year. Normal life resumed that meant the cube didn't see any action for what must be nearly a year. My eldest picked a cube up again yesterday and we all started back up again. Tell you...

Ye just to get those official entries is awesome well done again.

Me too, and it’s well documented here that it comes from you Tom! Both age and approach. <insert clapping emoji> :-)

That’s great advice, I can imagine being very panicked so will focus us all on finish rather than ‘win’ :) What were your completion times?

Thank you pglewis that is a great idea to film myself for my eyes only, I’ll do that. I just posted re my new record of 1:31, we are only our holidays soon so I have been preparing for this for a while (as you know) and armed with F2L and my now familiarity and ease with it my goal is to...

Amazing Tom congratulations this is amazing w00000000t :-) Totally inspired me now. My son and I both have created WCA accounts in readiness! Imagine my surprise when a friends older son babysat for us at the weekend and he also speed cubes! It was a great coming together of minds. The three...

Also, what do you mean that you will move onto the “work part”? I’ve done no strategies (or algs like I said) or fingers movements. I’m just crunching the cube repeatedly.

Excellent, good luck in the comp. In F2L I don’t use any algs. Should I be doing?

F2L update... after two weeks (probably more judging by my last post on the subject) of shoehorning intuitive F2L into my solve and moving from the beginners method, I am now down from a stupid initial 15 minutes solve (lolz etc) then to 5 minutes and now just completed my first sub-2 minute. My...

Mine just arrived today. Moyu GTS 3M stickerless (my preference). Got it from the following site at half the listed price on a pre-order (bought two)... https://www.speedcube.com.au/collections/magnetic-cubes/products/2018-moyu-weilong-gts-3m-3x3x3-magnetic-speed-cube?variant=12310365208657 My...

Haha superb. It’s crazy that you solved it on your own back in the day. I think that sets you apart from people like me that use tutorials. There’s nothing wrong in that of course, but to have the stamina, patience and sheer pigheadedness to solve it in a time when you had to do it alone is...

As always pglewis your critiques are always learning/motivationally focused bravo :) As I end this day leaving my cubes downstairs I think I needed that pick-me-up. More @Old Tom-style chilling, @JanW-style practicality and @pglewis-style zen and I am on course for totally horizontal cubing...

Ha consider my mind blown :) Thanks Jan so much for that detailed feedback, amazing cheers. And a realisation that the cube is 3 dimensional :-D (ie: the cross I can move white in orientation to the cube, or move the white in orientation to the edges. And also F2L I can move the U layer...