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Will the submission windows be updated to be from Monday 12 AM to Sunday 11:59 PM considering week 2 scrambles were posted a day late?

At your skill level in FMC rotations don't really matter, the only downside is you might be more likely to write a rotation incorrectly resulting in a DNF. Generally speaking though avoiding rotations is better. Using rotations you could lose track of the orientation of the cube which could...

Officially FMC is usually done as a mo3, but can be done as a bo1 or bo2, most FMCers don't like bo1 or bo2 as it doesn't allow them to get a mean, which is more valued than single results. You have some paper, pens, 3 cubes, and a scramble sheet with 1 hour to find the shortest solution and...

Yes! There are quite a few fast queer cubers, I don't want to just list people I know are queer without permission. However because gender is public you can see people who's gender is set to 'other' ranked by kinch here...

FMC: F' U R' F2 R // CO (blue/green) (5/5) R2 U2 F' R2 F2 // FINISH (5-1/9) -- oops this is just the inverse of the scramble lol (U' R U R) // CO (white yellow) (4/4) (U2 F2 U' F2 R2 U2) // FINISH (6/10) -- a bit worse, but at least it isn't just the inverse of the scramble something I would...

Rotations are allowed, I suggest you plug your solution into alg.cubing.net to see exactly what is going wrong, another possible issue could be that you are using capital XYZ instead of lowercase xyz

This is pretty interesting, I was surprised how close the ideal it gave was to my actual times in most events! My 3x3 average: 8.46 2x2, ideal (1.78) matches exactly with my actual 2x2 average 6x6 ideal was 2:00.51 and my actual is 2:00.62 OH ideal was 15.06, actual is 15.38 Square-1 ideal was...

I think overall it’s probably FMC. It’s a less practiced event, so people aren’t likely to have a good PB at home, and there is also a chance of getting a really lucky official solve. Personally my current FMC PR (20) is tied PB, and my previous PR (21) was untied PB when I got it.

This reminds me of this competition a while back that was pretty fun! https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/competition-to-celebrate-new-ao5-world-record-500-usd-prize-pool.75721/#post-1337960 tried this scramble out and was able to get down to 2.191 (solution in description)

so L6E? not sure the exact algorithm count, but I think it's in the ballpark of 1920 (23040/12, aka total number of l6e permutations/number of puzzle orientations) that number might be off, but considering L5E has a bit less than 200 algs, L6E is gonna big significantly higher than 96. also...

Oh wow this is only like 30 mins from my house, (although I’m in college rn so it’s more like 2 hrs away).

This is pretty much how I along with every top 4x4 solvers does l2c. It isn’t necessarily memorizing algs as all the cases are super intuitive, but rather over time you start recognizing the case and then just solving it without having to think.

Fair enough, I would have chosen you if I had the chance lol.

Day 4: 4x4 downsolved to 19.77

Downsolved it, my first attempt was a bit over 8 seconds. I know full EG, so I found a decently efficient solution that used mostly LU moves (because I had to use my right hand, and <L,U> gen is good for right hand OH), took my a while to get used to it, but I was able to get it down to sub 5.