Recent content by Zagros

Pretty obviously to me the difference is the available material. Becoming fast in 2010 was extremely "DIY". Just something like say, a better way to solve an F2L pair, was not easy to simply find on the internet. You don't really have to wonder "how to I get faster" now, there is more media than...

I finished the first seven days of my 30 day 3x3 challenge. I have got so much improvement already! Very happy, because I was stuck on 3x3 for so long. I have these new records: ao5 = 10.27 [9.49, (9.47), (12.82), 10.19, 11.14], ao12 = 11.39, ao25 = 11.77, ao50 = 11.81, ao100 = 12.03, ao200 =...

I have created my 30-day 3x3 bootcamp. I will practice every day and see how much I can improve. At the end, I think I will make a YouTube video with details about my strategy and how I'm practicing. Anyway, each day I am doing an average of 50, with a competition simulation for the last five...

I am busy because of my job and can't practice as long as I want to. And I don't always want to get up early on a Saturday morning to drive for hours. So, I skipped the first competition. Then before the second one, I was able to practice for the week leading up to it. Here is my results from...

My next comp in 11 days. I got the qiyi clock for xmas, finally free of rubik's brand. This is the one case where I can resoundingly say that I had a hardware issue, not a skill issue. Literally two seconds dropped instantly. I've only done 120 solves with it and I have 5.79 single, 6.71 mo3...

I don't think a break is helpful or necessary. Just relax a little bit. An hour of focus is not remotely too much.

I don't really know anything about CSP, but: a layer always has an even amount of edges. But it can have even or odd corners. I believe turning U or D changes parity depending on if corners are odd or even. The same should be true with slices, a slice with 2 corners and 8 edges should not change...

Short update to say I registered for NAC! Already asked off work, I will be booking a flight which is exciting cuz I've only flown once years ago as a kid with my family, this will be my first time solo. Only in for 9 events (registered for 10 but I'm not near the multibld cutoff of top 20) but...

I'm all registered for two comps on Jan 13 and Feb 3. Both actually in my state for once! (Or for twice I guess). I'll go over my goals for both in order. However, I will probably update my goals for the Febraury comp after the January one. Comp 1: KCKC 4 Big and Awkward 2024 (Jan 13) Events...

I support Skewb minimum movecount goes to 5. Seven has always seemed totally ridiculous.

Results are up on WCA. I'm top 3k 7x7 single and mean, top 2k 3bld single, top 1000 3bld mean, 4bld single, and multi, and top 500 5bld single (WR 422). 5bld and multi are both top 100 in USA, so I'm on the rankings page now. Only nine solves at this comp, total 9 comps and 305 solves. PR streak...

Another successful comp! So much to share about this. First each event results then overall. 7x7: 4:18.90 mean / 4:01.71 single Overall pb single. Not surprised, big event. I knew this would happen. It's still cool tho. The mean is sadly not quite overall pb because my first solve was super...

This is probably my final pre-comp post. It's been a minute, and it's been really hectic. I'm doing great on 3BLD, I finally got a sub-1! My new PB is 57.00. I also have tonnnnns of 1:0X solves and have a good shot to get one officially I think. My 4BLD best is 8:02, and I have a sub-9 mean. I...

I actually got 9/9 on the attempt I mentioned in the last post. Time was 45:12 (33:25/11:47). It wasn't quite as fast as I would like, although I think part of that was not being warmed up as I hadn't done any smaller attempts earlier that day. My evidence for this is that my memo time for the...

Time for a progress update on the events I have been practicing. 7x7: Before practicing for this comp, I had maybe fifty 7x7 solves ever, and only a few sub-5. Now I have over 50 in my practice session, and my average is well under five minutes. My best so far is 4:21, I have several sub-4:30...