[Member Intro] Hi all from Indonesia!

As what the title says, i'm from indonesia.

Im currently work as a software engineer on an ecommerce company for several years (yes, i'm a little bit old for speedcubing on average).

I started cubing when i was 12-13 yo, using unknown rubik's brand as "the only cube i had"".....
Gladly, i achieve PB 30 seconds with it.

Then i stopped playing it...... until after recent couple of years

And able to shed some of the PB, using better cubes (than the last time)
I'm quite interested in big cube methods that requires more intuitiveness like OBLBL, Lewis, Meyer


3x3x3:
avg -> 23 seconds
worst -> 30 seconds (when i forgot the CMLL, or got very bad FB)
best -> 15 seconds (lucky case, able to memorize until SB on inspection, simple insert on second block, simple CMLL case)

7x7x7:
avg -> 7:35 (using pseudo-center freeslice meyer method)
worst -> 8:40 ish (cannot look for edges...., mistaken FB colors during edge freeslice mathing)
best -> 7:02 (less pausing, i think)

welcome!

Welcome

Welcome to the forum

Yo welcome!

Thank you for the greetings, all

Hi again, from future me

3 (or 4?) years i have not cubing again, finally have free time to go on my cubing journey again.

After 1 month of catching up, i think my bigger cube avg and PB have improved a lot.

7x7x7: 6:50 avg, 6:03 PB
6x6x6: 4:33 avg, 4:23 PB
5x5x5: 2:52 avg, 2:30 PB
4x4x4: 1:28 avg, 1:20 PB
3x3x3: 22 avg, 16 PB

After experimenting with OBLBL, Lewis method, preudo-center to freeslicing on big cube, i find a conclusion that those method is slower due to egronomics, harder lookahead. Making L6E/parity skipping not worth it. Plus, turns out, i can get much more efficient using reduction method



Note for anyone wondering, this is the reason i have huge avg and PB to my big cube solving times:
- able to quickly figure out edge orientation during freeslice
- able to track new pieces while solving edge/center
- know certain pattern when solving centers, having more efficient center insertion
- solving centers without strict order to capitalize good center pairing

For 3x3:
- i know more ways to insert/solve second block of roux method
- able to 90% solve F2B less than 10 moves, know other steps to solve F2B other than creating 1x2x2 block first
- memorizing certain pattern to build UL-UR edge faster


I'll try to update my progress 4 years later, see how it changed.


And yes, i have expanded my cubing arsenal

welcome(again)

Hey im from indonesia too! Keep it up!

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