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     What was your first method?

     Corners first. Back in 1981. Put the first 4 corners in intuitively, then figured out a few algorithms to move and twist corners, then once I had all of them in place, used a couple of 3-edge-cycle algorithms (that weren't commutators - all variants on R U R U R U R' U' R' U' R2 - I found them...

     • Mike Hughey
     • Post #13
     • Friday at 7:21 AM
     • Forum: General Speedcubing Discussion
  2. 

     Weekly Competition 2023-04

     Results for week 4: Congratulations to Luke Garrett, DGCubes, and BradenTheMagician! 2x2x2(219) 1. 1.04 Charles Jerome 2. 1.15 Caíque crispim 3. 1.22 BrianJ 3x3x3(288) 1. 5.11 iLikeCheese 2. 5.87 Luke Garrett 3. 6.54 theviru 4x4x4(150) 1. 28.14 Luke Garrett 2. 28.98 Hargun02 3. 29.92...

     • Mike Hughey
     • Post #3
     • Tuesday at 12:54 AM
     • Forum: Forum Competitions
  3. 

     Weekly Competition 2023-03

     325 competitors this week! The winner for this week is number 259! That means our winner this week is hotufos! Congratulations!!

     • Mike Hughey
     • Post #3
     • Tuesday at 12:53 AM
     • Forum: Forum Competitions
  4. 

     Weekly Competition 2023-05

     These weekly competitions are sponsored by TheCubicle - check them out for all your speedcubing needs. Each week, a random competitor will be drawn and given a $15 giftcard to TheCubicle (winner's prize must be claimed within 30 days). For the weekly competition, we are now accepting results...

     • Mike Hughey
     • Thread
     • Tuesday at 12:50 AM
     • Replies: 0
     • Forum: Forum Competitions
  5. 

     Should WCA allow the pushing of Clonk Pins during inspection?

     I don't buy this. If they are part of the state of the puzzle, then they should be placed in the solved state in order to consider the puzzle solved. Meaning there should be a proper definition of what the solved state of the pins is (like tips in pyraminx), and if they're not in the proper...

     • Mike Hughey
     • Post #34
     • Monday at 9:51 PM
     • Forum: WCA Regulations
  6. 

     Check out my (scrambled)collection (and share yours)

     Really beautiful photos, unirox13. The puzzles are beautifully displayed. I especially love seeing all the jumbled puzzles scrambled.

     • Mike Hughey
     • Post #20
     • Jan 27, 2023
     • Forum: General Speedcubing Discussion
  7. 

     regulation 4b3e is dumb

     A delegate who doesn't use a properly generated scramble would be removed from their delegate position, and any solves that were affected by it would be disqualified and made unofficial. What this rule DOES do, though, is to allow for the extremely unlikely event that the official TNoodle...

     • Mike Hughey
     • Post #3
     • Jan 25, 2023
     • Forum: WCA Regulations
  8. 

     Weekly Competition 2023-03

     Results for week 3: Congratulations to Luke Garrett, DGCubes, and BradenTheMagician! 2x2x2(218) 1. 1.25 Charles Jerome 2. 1.31 Luke Garrett 3. 1.53 NongQuocDuy 3x3x3(282) 1. 5.74 Luke Garrett 2. 6.99 Ryan Pilat 3. 7.10 Legomanz 4x4x4(138) 1. 29.02 Luke Garrett 2. 31.04 Parist P 3...

     • Mike Hughey
     • Post #2
     • Jan 24, 2023
     • Forum: Forum Competitions
  9. 

     Weekly Competition 2023-02

     336 competitors this week! The winner for this week is number 26! That means our winner this week is Jude_Stradtner! Congratulations!!

     • Mike Hughey
     • Post #5
     • Jan 24, 2023
     • Forum: Forum Competitions
  10. 

      Weekly Competition 2023-04

      These weekly competitions are sponsored by TheCubicle - check them out for all your speedcubing needs. Each week, a random competitor will be drawn and given a $15 giftcard to TheCubicle (winner's prize must be claimed within 30 days). For the weekly competition, we are now accepting results...

      • Mike Hughey
      • Thread
      • Jan 24, 2023
      • Replies: 2
      • Forum: Forum Competitions
  11. 

      How many people around the world can solve the Rubik’s cube blindfolded

      Thanks - that makes sense. For those who aren't sure, this is the page he's talking about: https://statistics.worldcubeassociation.org/sum-of-ranks

      • Mike Hughey
      • Post #8
      • Jan 23, 2023
      • Forum: Blindsolving Discussion
  12. 

      How many people around the world can solve the Rubik’s cube blindfolded

      It is really hard to guess this number, but here is a statistic that might be useful: It appears that there are less than 10,000 people who have solved a cube blindfolded in an official WCA competition. I'm not sure of the exact number because I don't have a recent WCA database dump downloaded...

      • Mike Hughey
      • Post #3
      • Jan 23, 2023
      • Forum: Blindsolving Discussion
  13. 

      Why have there been no WR's lately?

      2 new WRs so far this week.

      • Mike Hughey
      • Post #45
      • Jan 22, 2023
      • Forum: General Speedcubing Discussion
  14. 

      [WR] Elijah Brown 0.75 pyraminx single

      I can't believe the WR single had 3 unsolved tips!

      • Mike Hughey
      • Post #12
      • Jan 22, 2023
      • Forum: General Speedcubing Discussion
  15. 

      how long did it take for you to get sub 20 on 3x3?

      I guess it depends on what you mean by serious. I've tried pretty seriously a bunch of times. And I've done probably well over 10,000 solves since becoming sub-30. But admittedly I haven't been as serious as many people, because I have been more interested in some (most) of the other WCA events...

      • Mike Hughey
      • Post #32
      • Jan 21, 2023
      • Forum: General Speedcubing Discussion
  16. 

      All about famous cubers thread

      Obviously the answer here is because Stanley is not interested enough in 5BLD. :-) Because one 5BLD is certainly easier than 2 4BLDs. And no one but Stanley has come close to being good enough to do it yet.

      • Mike Hughey
      • Post #25
      • Jan 21, 2023
      • Forum: General Speedcubing Discussion
  17. 

      The FMC thread

      This is how I do it too. This works great as long as you're not trying to write out muscle-memory algorithms. But it makes muscle-memory algorithms pretty ugly to do. And it's really frustrating when you use a different orientation to solve (my blind orientation, in my case), and then...

      • Mike Hughey
      • Post #5,308
      • Jan 21, 2023
      • Forum: General Speedcubing Discussion
  18. 

      how long did it take for you to get sub 20 on 3x3?

      If you mean globally, I'm still working on it. First learned to solve the cube in 1981, so that's 42 years so far? :-) Or if you count from when I first learned CFOP, that would be 2007, so 15 years. I have several sub-20 averages in WCA competitions, but globally I'd say I average around 22...

      • Mike Hughey
      • Post #21
      • Jan 20, 2023
      • Forum: General Speedcubing Discussion
  19. 

      Advertise your over the top excessive cubes here (not real)

      Introducing the Ling Ling cube: dilates time so that you can practice 40 hours a day. Certified by Tony Snyder and TwoSetViolin.

      • Mike Hughey
      • Post #25
      • Jan 20, 2023
      • Forum: General Speedcubing Discussion
  20. 

      A poll about PLLs

      A perm is my favorite because BLD BH. Covers so many optimal corners cases.

      • Mike Hughey
      • Post #46
      • Jan 18, 2023
      • Forum: General Speedcubing Discussion