Ed Milliband, leader of the UK Labour party (for non uk readers: the major UK political party who arent in power at the moment, but are the "other" one of the big two, think Republican/Democrat) can/did cube...
Edges and Corners come out the normal way, the core has a couple of tabs on it which allow you to take it apart to get at the springs, and then if you unscrew the centres you can change them.
My first set of videos from the contest are up on my youtube channel: thespeedpicker
Theres more to follow from my friends phone, but the majority are up, including Breandans 5x5 NR (not a great vid mind), and lots of solves from Thom Barlow, Rob Yau, Breandan Vallance, Daniel Sheppard etc etc...
From the UK newspaper online, the Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/video-1074604/Rubiks-Cube-champ-Matthew-Sheerin-recently-did-puzzle-15-84secs.html
i cant seem to read anything more than the first line of the article, am I missing a really obvious "read more" button or...
The problem with videos is the mucking around trying to nail exactly what the guy did. Bear in mind what is second nature to the expert may take the beginner many passes to thoroughly absorb. Take Breandans OLL video: to be certain of every single subtlety, you have to watch it repeatedly...
I have spent the last year writing a guide to fingertricking and OLL, in which I devised my own notation system, which proceeds vertically. Here for example is
Sune:
[Picture of case goes here]
(R U R' U) R U2’ R'
[Description of alg in words goes here]
Initial Grip: F RIU (grip the cube...
Well when things are for sale, usually if the sale does not take place the OP would bump themselves or alter the price or whatever. 4 weeks is a long time for something to be for sale is all im saying.
Put your splits into the spreadsheet in the thread linked in my sig, that should tell you which area is your biggest problem (although Im betting its f2l), and then if you read the thread there is just about every bit of sensible advice out there collected in one place.
How about simply this. Figure out your individual PLL times. Practice the worst until reduced by 10%. Repeat.
Also, consider timing PLLs with various AUF combinations before and after. If you cant execute a U2 after the PLL without an awkward regrip, your time for that combo will stall, and...
Immortalchaos - you mention getting it right half the time at your peak. Remember that we are aiming to be able to look ahead with perfect accuracy in any situation. Does it not make more sense therefore to work on trying to achieve 100% accuracy rather than working at a 50% level? If you can...