Bingus's progression thread: cubing in the works

Comp recap:
First round of 3x3 went pretty well, I got 13.32 PR2 average. Nothing insane though.
Clock then went pretty well, I got double PR
Skewb first round could have been better. My first solve was tied PR single, but I also counted an 8. The rest of the solves were fine.
5x5 was alright, I got a 2:06 which is pretty good. However, the cutoff was 1:50, and I knew going in that I wasn't going to make it. My other solve had a huge pop.
OH round 1 was pretty good. I counted a 26, which could have been better, but PR2 average and a pretty good single.
3x3 second round I did terribly. I had pretty good BPA, but my last solve was a 16, and counting.
Then skewb second round. This one was much better, 6.46 average.
OH finals is where things really took a turn for the worse. I had one good solve(18.69 PR) but the rest was garbage. I knew this was going to happen, at almost every comp I get super tired towards the end and throw all my rounds. Still happy for PR tho.
Skewb finals I also threw. 7.82 average.

Overall, this was a fairly alright comp. I had a good time.
 

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Comp on Saturday, competing in 3x3, 5x5, skewb and square 1.
Goals:
3x3: sub 14 average, sub 12 single
5x5: Sub 2 single, sub 2:10 average
skewb: Sub 6.5 average, sub 5.5 single
Square 1: idek man
I still am not cubing much, just some 3x3 on the weekends. I've been de-rusting the past week and hopefully this comp will be ok.

Thanks for reading, Bingus out.
 
Comp recap:
3x3 first round went okay. Nothing crazy
Skewb also went okay. One of the scramblers had really sweaty hands, and my cube was really hard to grip. That affected me solving a lot, but u still got a good single.
5x5 went pretty well. I got PR single and PR2 average.
Square 1 went about like I was expecting, which means bad. Haven’t practiced squan in ages tho, so it wasn’t entirely unexpected.
3x3 round 2 was meh. I got a nice single. But I counted a 15 because I +2ed.
 

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Comp recap:
3x3 first round went okay. Nothing crazy
Skewb also went okay. One of the scramblers had really sweaty hands, and my cube was really hard to grip. That affected me solving a lot, but u still got a good single.
5x5 went pretty well. I got PR single and PR2 average.
Square 1 went about like I was expecting, which means bad. Haven’t practiced squan in ages tho, so it wasn’t entirely unexpected.
3x3 round 2 was meh. I got a nice single. But I counted a 15 because I +2ed.
wait couldn’t you request an extra for skewb
 
Generated By csTimer on 2026-07-22
avg of 5: 12.15

Time List:
11.96, (9.96), 13.13, (13.93), 11.35

good average with the first sub 10 I've gotten in a while. Feeling good for comp this weekend, I recently got a new 3x3(V9), 5x5(Aochuang) and 6x6(Meilong).
V9 is pretty good, still maining the HuDong, but it's probably my backup. Aochuang is amazing 5x5 global instantly dropped like 10 seconds. I haven't practiced 6x6 in a while, so the Meilong remains largely unused.
I think sub 14 3x3 ao5 is a reasonable goal for this comp, as well as sub 4 2x2 ao5. 5x5 will go well, and OH and Mega will go how they go.

Thanks for reading, Bingus out.
 
Megaminx arc begins immediately, I haven't practiced in months and somehow got overall PB's by miles.

Other than that, the comp went extremely well. 3x3 r1 was mediocre, but r2 I absolutely slammed down a PR average, 12.58.
2x2 r1 was pretty good, r2 was pretty bad.
5x5 I knocked out some nasty solves, including overall PB, 1:37.
OH was were I really cooked on the cucumber, r1 had PR single, r2 had double PR.
I had an astonishing 8 PR's this comp. Unfortunately I was unable to compete in 3x3 finals because I was at the SPAM museum.

This comp was amazing, I had a good time.
Thanks for reading, Bingus out.
 

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Generated By csTimer on 2026-08-09
avg of 5: 10.53

Time List:
(10.02), 10.89, (14.20), 10.03, 10.67

First PB ao5 in a while, and I also got a 9.43 today.
I don't know when my next comp is going to be, the two upcoming ones in my area are conflicting days for me.
I've also been practicing big cubes and megaminx, I plan to learn some 4ll for mega but that will be difficult, as I have a busy few weeks ahead of me.
Averaging ~53 on 4x4, ~ 1:45 on 5x5, ~3:45 on 6x6, and ~2:00 on mega. (see below)
Generated By csTimer on 2026-08-09
avg of 12: 1:57.36

Time List:
1:54.52, 1:52.05, 2:02.82, 1:58.42, 2:00.36, (2:07.29), 2:00.76, 1:48.02, 1:57.50, 2:04.03, (1:47.15), 1:55.10

Also thinking about getting back into blindsolving, started trying it about a year ago and gave up. I relearned most of it, done some sighted solves, but no real attempts yet.
Thanks for reading, Bingus out.
 
I've been doing pretty well, cubing on occasion along with marching band and cross country.
My new goal for 3x3 is to get a sub-10 with all 6 of my usable 3x3's. These include: Fanxin HuDong, GAN 15, Weilong V9, RS3M 2020, RS3M V5, and Tornado V3. I've already accomplished this on the Hudong and GAN 15, but I enjoy practicing on all of these cubes. I'm still maining the HuDong, and it's still my favorite-feeling cube. Although it feels awesome to dig a musty old RS3M out of the drawer, clean and lube it, and turn it into a viable speedcube.
I've also been practicing FTO, I learned Bensisco, I think I average around 1:20. Sub 1 global seems like an achievable goal.

Thanks for reading, Bingus out.
 
PB 3x3 single after almost a year lfgggg
7.92 U F D U F2 U' R2 D' F2 L2 B2 U R2 U B L' D U R B D'
I don't know exactly what I did but I got a fatsune into PLL skip

I also got an 8.88 single earlier
[

B2 R2 D2 B R2 F U2 F2 R2 U2 F' U' F L' D L U R' F D2 F'
8.88 PB4 single
Start with Blue top, white front
D R U R2 x’ U’ R’ L2 xcross (7/7)
U L’ U2 L 2nd pair(4/11)
y U’ R’ U R 3rd pair(4/15)
R U’ R’ y L’ U L U2 L’ U’ L 4th pair(10/25)
U R U2 R’ U’ R U’ R’ OLL(8/33)
U2 R U R’ F’ R U R’ U’ R’ F R2 U’ R’ PLL(14/47)
U2 AUF(1/48)]

I also got a 3:07 6x6 single with DP which is pretty cool, and a 15.88 OH single a few days ago.
@Kivvi I'm coming for you
 
3x3 pb ao12,
Generated by csTimer on 2026-10-25
avg of 12: 11.61

Time List:
11.82, (13.82), 9.78, 10.90, 12.54, 13.00, 11.30, 13.03, 10.04, 12.59, (9.66), 11.09

Practiced some 5x5 as well,
Generated by csTimer on 2026-10-25
avg of 12: 1:31.54

Time List:
1:32.49, 1:39.57, (1:41.69), 1:39.72, (1:24.50), 1:27.82, 1:29.31, 1:28.65, 1:27.00, 1:25.07, 1:40.48, 1:25.28
 
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