Recent content by RonM

I'd use paper towel and wipe some of it away. The nice thing about the UM is that you can just unscrew one GES and remove an entire layer as a whole, wipe it down and put it back. I typically only clear off one layer if I over lube, figuring the remaining lube will redistribute itself more...

I relate to that bit about feeling/looking stupid doing the finger thing, I think that's part of the reason why I was in such a hurry to get EOLine down; the only cube I have that I can actually place my fingers on awkwardly placed edges is my Gans UM, with my Valk 3 the cube destabilizes and...

I chose Ao50 because I'm slow and an Ao100 takes me all day so my Ao100 tends to look like a bunch of Ao12s combined throughout the day, but I can typically find enough time to sit and do an Ao50 when my wife is home. My favorite stat to track though is my standard deviation. As a new speed...

See, I was wondering about that. I'm guessing you learned to track the pairs and such with your LL algs?

Sorry for the late reply fellows, I guess I forgot to "Post Reply". Thank you all very much for the advice, I've been really giving my EO+Line a lot of attention and have, more or less, relaxed a lot on the inspection times and have been practicing EO Detection from different angles. Before I...

@AlphaSheep Thank you for the insightful reply. It's really encouraging to hear about your initial struggles. Last night I was messing around on csTimer and my solves were horrible and even worse than when I first started practicing with a timer (+6 seconds average, making for +16 seconds total...

So! I've been very, very casually learning the COLLs but only implement them in slow solves for now (I'm still working on fast PLL recognition and execution). I've mostly been focusing on trying to plan EOLine within the 15s inspection window... How do you guys do it, seriously? So far I can do...

F2L can be learned entirely intuitively. Take my advice with a grain of salt because I'm a newbie, but I think most people learn F2L intuitively, gain some level of proficiency with it, and then learn algs to solve particularly long F2L cases with algs. Also, turn that frown upside down; your...

I've been doing much the same, but I was just hoping there was more standardized names for them. I refer to them as "[Direction]y block"... such as "Lefty Block", "Fronty Block". I do say them out loud though, I figured out with PLL having the auditory mental trigger sometimes helps recall a...

Well I think I've mostly memorized COLL-T, finally; just need to find a COLL trainer/scrambler to drill recognition and the algs. Any recommendations? Also, did you guys find the COLLs harder to memorize than PLLs too? Not necessarily the algs, but which alg goes with which case? I find it...

@AlphaSheep I've got the PLLs down now and have started looking at/learning about COLL. Out of curiosity, why did you recommend them in the order you did? I see there are only 4 COLL-H cases; I don't run into H very often but it seems like it'd be easy to get them out the way? Still, I've...

Violin and Piano often go great together is what I meant, my apologies for the confusion. Actually, learning the piano is how I learned music theory. Out of curiosity, what's your favorite piano piece?

I'm a novice (sub 2-year) violinist. We should jam. CLASSICALLY. lol

@Wristlor I took your advice about just improvising some EOs and found it to be pretty helpful. It takes me only a little longer to solve EO (if I count bad edges first) than it does if I plan it all during inspection and I only made a small handful of mistakes that didn't become noticeable...

@pglewis As of last night I'm finally at a point where, given an unlimited inspection time, I am averaging sub 60 with ZZ! It seems a lot of my gains are in consistency though, with my standard deviation dropping from 40s to 5-10s over the last week. While I have no hope of doing inspection in...