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    1. Mastermind2368

      Cubing at school

      Back in high school I'd occasionally cube but not often. I'd always mention it though in my hobbies, and because the journalism classes were desperate for anything, I'd get interviews semi often. Then people would take things I've said out of context. One time I mentioned that I formerly was top...
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      [WR] Stanley Chapel 51.96 Single 4BLD

      Seeing Cale in second, almost 3 minutes behind Stanley is absolutely insane. I remember when Cale was THE person who did big bld, and of course Stanley has been dominating for years but still, he's so insanely fast.
    3. Mastermind2368

      How much do your parents agree on cubing?

      As a tween and teen, they saw it as an equivalent to chess or sports. They were supportive with me doing it and they drove me to comps that were sometimes a few states away. At the time, I was honestly rather ungrateful and was upset at not being able to go to comps like Worlds 2017, but overall...
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      stickered or stickerless?

      As a colorblind cuber, I find the shades of stickerless cubes are difficult to tell apart as they tend to be lighter shades. Even if some stickered cubes have difficult shades for me, I can at least change them out. Although maybe there's better shades on currently stickerless cubes, I wouldn't...
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      2x2 Scramble with solved face

      Having a solved face is better than having nothing, but having even like a 7 move layer with LL skip is much better of course.
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      Progression thread + QOTD

      Realizing that I had gotten to a point where I "knew" so many cubers on facebook groups and such, but only had like one actual friend. And realizing that I know more about cubing theory than I'll ever use, yet being slower than some people who've been cubing for <1-2 yrs.
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      Verifying non-bluetooth cubes at Competition cube collection

      I'm not saying that this couldn't happen, but is there any reason to believe that it is actively happening? I feel like it would be relatively easy to detect suspicious behavior from solvers exploiting this. If the WCA preemptively accounted for every possibile exploit, we'd probably be locked...
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      The 3x3 method that no one is talking about: High Effort, High Potential

      My main concern with a method like this is the sheer alg count and recognition. While 600+ algs isn't impossible, it's far out of reach for the average cuber. And unless there's something I'm missing, L5C and L7E sound like an incredible pain to recognize, especially if you were implementing...
    9. Mastermind2368

      It's tougher than I thought.

      For those of you who are getting upset at this, you do NOT want to look up the Cubeologist vs Thunderclap situation. At least this is a durability test.
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      [Member Intro] Hello! Now that I am a member of this forum, am I a professional speedcuber?

      Welcome to the forums! Props to you for going out and learning Roux. Even for most people who switch to other methods eventually, it normally happens a bit down the line. If you're having fun learning CMLL algs compared to doing 2-look, then keep learning them, but at your speed there are faster...
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      [WB] 2.08 3x3 Single by Ruihang Xu (Gan 12 UI)

      I wonder how the dynamic is within the class that Ruihang is in. Like, do all the other kids ask for autographs and pictures and such? Or do they just treat him as an equal? And how about his relationship with the people who teach these classes? Do they tell him, "Hey nice sub 4, but you...
    12. Mastermind2368

      My youtube channel

      You could potentially make videos about your progression (don't over do them though) and talk about weirdly specific things that have been hurdles for you. For example, if you broke the sub 20 second barrier, you could mention something like "I was easily able to cut time down by learning to...
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      i've got practice block for last layer and im kind of worried,

      If you're not enjoying it/having motivation to do it, then don't. Cubing is meant to be fun, not something you should force yourself to do. As @unirox13 mentioned, you could try other aspects of cubing if you still enjoy doing the cross/f2l, or you could move onto something else entirely. If...
    14. Mastermind2368

      How long

      I would recommend breaking algorithms up into shorter bits and pairing them together. For example, the tperm is difficult to memorize if you just remember "R U R’ U’ R' F R2 U' R' U' R U R' F' " but you could break it down into something like " (R U R’ U’) (R' F R2 U') (R' U' R U) R' F' " Then...
    15. Mastermind2368

      WRC Votes to Remove Vietnam Results

      This is very interesting, where can I keep up to date/find more information about this? Is the situation still ongoing, or has it been mostly resolved by now?
    16. Mastermind2368

      Tetravex game and records

      I've been messing around with a web version, and I'm enjoying it so far. After a few attempts, my best is only 42 seconds, but I plan on messing around with it for a bit. I'm just winging it for now, but once I develop my own method/technique, I'll probably look up to see how others go about...
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      Important Speedcubers

      Here's a few that I've not seen anyone mention yet, but are/were super influential Ron van Bruchem and Tyson Mao (Founders of the WCA) Chris Hardwick (Known for his BLD accomplishments) Chris Tran (Early ZBLL user, Magnets, Cubicle Labs, ZZ-CT and probably more) David Singmaster ("Notes On The...
    18. Mastermind2368

      Easy / Lucky / Funny / Hard / Weird scrambles thread

      Was doing corners only scrambles on CS timer and I got this: L2 R' D2 B2 F2 L2 R2 U2 B2 F2 R' If I calculated correct, the chances of getting a scramble like this roughly has the odds of 1/153090 (3674160/24, total amount of combinations divided by amount of sides times orientations per side)
    19. Mastermind2368

      Change 3x3 method to ZZ?

      If you do ever plan on switching, there's not gonna be some day when you wake up and orienting edges is suddenly easy. It definitely is a barrier to entry, but imo it's best to just rip off the band-aid if you think you'll eventually switch.
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      Request for volunteers to participate in a speedcubing experiment

      Whoops, I misread that originally and I totally agree that there is some bias to be found from grouping solves together. I decided to do another ao24 with alternating, and it seems like my previous average helped me to combat the lighting better. Here are my new results, but there's no pressure...
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