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Psyph3r said:
I think in order for me to keep going after 50 I will need to spend a lot of time studying F2L solves and learning full PLL. But I am happy to wait until I get there to start doing that.
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nah. While those will help you really just need to practice. Learn a few PLL's that ocure often or are easy. I just finished full PLL. You can get sub 20 with 4LL.
 
biscuit said:
nah. While those will help you really just need to practice. Learn a few PLL's that ocure often or are easy. I just finished full PLL. You can get sub 20 with 4LL.
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I guess I should have been more clear. I am currently only 2OLL and am not yet 2PLL. My 2OLL is pretty slow on a few of the cases and they aren't yet finger tricky for me so I need to put in practice time on them.

Make no mistake. I am fully aware that practice is the main ingredient here but the better the practice is the more efficient the learning process and that is what full PLL and F2L study are for.
 
Ohh well than prioritize 2PLL... Like before you practice any more. But no studying full PLL is not going to help with your practice. I like to separate my practice into two category. First is practice (Yeah practice is a kind of practice if that makes sense) Practice is sitting down and doing a bunch of solves or drilling your f2l or drilling your algs etc. The second is learning. This is learning new algs (full PLL) and techniques. (for the most part more algs) At your point the practice part of practice is more valuable. That's not to say the learning part is not valuable just not as important. (Although definitely learn 2PLL immediately) That is just how I see it though
 
I was planning on taking a break for a little while and just drilling home 2OLL until I can get it without ever having to think about it. Muscle memory if you will. then as soon as I get to that point going straight into 2PLL which shouldnt take more than a day to memorize all of the algs but probably a week to get comfortable with using them.
 
Work on 2PLL first. In my opinion (although many would disagree) for 4LL using them is the best way. They are one of the few things that will increase your time right away. Using them in practice is the best way to get your recognition for them better (in my opinion)
 
biscuit said:
nah. While those will help you really just need to practice. Learn a few PLL's that ocure often or are easy. I just finished full PLL. You can get sub 20 with 4LL.
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Yup, I average ~ 19.5 with 4LLL.

Psyph3r said:
I was planning on taking a break for a little while and just drilling home 2OLL until I can get it without ever having to think about it. Muscle memory if you will. then as soon as I get to that point going straight into 2PLL which shouldnt take more than a day to memorize all of the algs but probably a week to get comfortable with using them.
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That's good idea, also I wouldn't recommend full PLL until you either get stuck and aren't progressing at all, or until you are like sub 40 because it takes at least a week to learn, but only gives you like a 2-3 second advantage depending on yoir TPS during execution.
 
I think my next goal is 2PLL in order to get to full 4LLL. That will give me all the tools I need to push down to 30 seconds. Then it becomes drilling all the cases into my head, getting recognition better, learning better finger tricks and techniques, and time.

Additionally, I am trying to acquire some non cube puzzles for my collection. Would you guys recommend the pyra and mega? If so which ones should I pick up?

thanks!
 
Psyph3r said:
I think my next goal is 2PLL in order to get to full 4LLL. That will give me all the tools I need to push down to 30 seconds. Then it becomes drilling all the cases into my head, getting recognition better, learning better finger tricks and techniques, and time.

Additionally, I am trying to acquire some non cube puzzles for my collection. Would you guys recommend the pyra and mega? If so which ones should I pick up?

thanks!
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Pyra- Moyu, Mega- Dayan with ridges
 
biscuit said:
I really like the 4x4. It's kinda similar to the 3x3 but not really. You should try it out

But yeah rockey is right about teh brands
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I currently have in my collection:
2x2:
Rubik's
Dayan Zanchi Stickerless

3x3:
Dayan Zanchi Stickerless
Fangshi ShuangRen V2
Gans III 57mm
Moyu Aolong V2
Rubik's Speed Cube

4x4:
Moyu Aosu

5x5:
Moyu Huachuang

7x7:
Vcube7

Pyra:
Moyu Black

Mega:
Dayan with ridges
 
Yea you should get it at the comp I think. That was the plan anyway.

Also where can I go to find edge parity algorithms and notation for big cubes? I found some algs but I have no idea what they are referencing with all their crazy notation haha.

Most recent 50.

Generated By csTimer on 2015-3-5
solves/total: 50/50

single
best: 39.31
worst: 1:09.35

mean of 3
current: 54.85 (σ = 3.20)
best: 44.87 (σ = 8.01)

avg of 5
current: 54.14 (σ = 2.05)
best: 47.73 (σ = 6.41)

avg of 12
current: 53.39 (σ = 2.93)
best: 49.40 (σ = 5.99)

avg of 50
current: 53.38 (σ = 5.33)
best: 53.38 (σ = 5.33)

Average: 53.38 (σ = 5.33)
Mean: 53.45
 
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I got some new PB's today. Did a quick ao12 and got following PBs.

single: 36.89
ao5: 40.75
ao12: 44.06

Always nice to break all of your personal records in 12 solves haha.
 
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