1x1 wr holder's Progression thread | sleepy college guy

Which goal should I try to complete first?

  • Sub 2 minutes on 5x5

    Votes: 19 65.5%
  • sub 2 minutes on megaminx

    Votes: 11 37.9%
  • Bonus Challenge: sub 16 ao5 on the 3d printed magnetic 3x3

    Votes: 7 24.1%

  • Total voters
    29
  • Poll closed .
whoa...
good morning to you guys too.
All families have problems, right?

okay, back on topic:
Back on topic
@1x1 wr holder! how's 5x5 coming along?
am taking a break from it. am yet to get a low 2 single and am stuck in the mid-2's. plan to focus on it more after I burn out on 3x3.
@1x1 wr holder! how come you dont change your pfp?
guys, there's no need meh or ? him.
I keep this pfp because 1. pjk gave it to me, right? 2. It is a symbol of resistance to the SFR. 3. I don't know why, but I like this line with a little squiggle on top.
 
Today is Pyraminx practice day. I'm competing in it at the comp I'm going to so I need to make sure I still remember my lbl algs. I probably average sub 15 💀, so hopefully I can get that down a little. other news is that the qiyi ms isn't too hot lol. I mean what company takes the liberty to not glue in any of the magnets?
fr... I did the whole MS puzzle combo deal when they first came out
... but I don't do triangle ...
so I gave the pyraminx to my girl
... and within a week some of the magnets had come loose inside... then there was a drop and some pieces popped and also came apart ... and magnets went flying ...
ya gotta love consistency
... but I don't do triangle ...
 
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Okay, I'm off school and have been practicing pyra a bit, and I remember all my algs still. hard part is finger tricking and holding the puzzle, but I'm getting a lot of sub 10 solves. It's not too hard to look-ahead. I dnf a lot tho. I always lose track of the pieces and I spend like 10 sec finding it lol. my best solve so far is a 7
 
hey, this is kinda fun lol. Ima start keeping track of my times in my pb folder. okay, my pb is the best solve of this session so far which is a 6.78.
You have a WCA account now, right?
You can use CubePB to track your PBs( idk about previous ones though, I guess you could cycle back through your old ones in CSTimer )
 
pb 4x4 ao5 lets go!

Generated By csTimer on 2024-03-04
avg of 5: 56.31

Time List:
1. 53.48 B2 R' B U2 R2 U2 D2 F' R2 F2 D2 R' D F U' D2 R L' Uw2 Fw2 U' D R U Uw2 R2 Fw2 R' D B2 R' Fw' L U2 F2 R2 Rw Uw' Fw U2 L' B Rw2 Fw
2. 56.27 D2 F2 B2 L U2 L2 D2 R2 F2 R' B2 U L' B' D' F' B' D' L F Rw2 B Uw2 Fw2 R Rw2 F' Rw2 Fw2 R L Uw' R' B' Uw2 R' Fw' D' Fw' R2 B' Fw Rw
3. (1:00.44) B' D2 B U2 B' R2 F2 U2 L2 U2 R2 D' B2 U R' D' F U2 B2 U Rw2 U L U2 B2 Uw2 L' Rw2 D' Uw2 Fw2 D' L' Fw' L B2 U B2 Fw2 U2 Uw R2 L2 Fw'
4. 59.19 F2 L F' D2 R U' F' L' U B2 L D2 B2 L2 B2 L U2 L B2 R Uw2 Fw2 L U L Rw2 D' F2 L2 Uw2 R2 U2 Rw2 Fw' Uw2 B' Fw L Fw' L Rw' Uw F2 L' Uw2
5. (51.71) L2 F R' B2 U2 F2 B2 R' L2 B2 R F2 R' U' F' L' B U R' F Fw2 D Rw2 Uw2 F Uw2 B L2 D' L2 D2 L' U' Rw B' D' L Fw' Rw Uw2 R2 D' Rw D
 
So uh, quick life update...don't worry, it's nothing personal or weird.
It's a schedule change, and actually it's pretty cool ngl.

So, I've sorta gone full time college. Meaning I don't take anymore normal HS classes. I just take college classes, and because of something called dual-enrollment, I get credit for HS and college. The best part is that I've made a foolproof schedule so that.......

I get Mondays off lol.
 
So uh, quick life update...don't worry, it's nothing personal or weird.
It's a schedule change, and actually it's pretty cool ngl.

So, I've sorta gone full time college. Meaning I don't take anymore normal HS classes. I just take college classes, and because of something called dual-enrollment, I get credit for HS and college. The best part is that I've made a foolproof schedule so that.......

I get Mondays off lol.
NERRRRDDDDD!!!!jkjk(maybe)

Anyway that's really cool, have fun with those Mondays off.
 
okay guys, I came up with my own method (99% sure it's original, I flipped through the wiki) and right now, I'm averaging 30 seconds on it. it's not a fullstep method; it's just for f2l.

Here's how it works (excuse not too very good explanatory methodology)

First of all, there is some lookahead involved, but not much really and it's only hard because it is different.

Okay, the first step is to make a line in the e slice (the following colors are specific to this scram) using the red, blue, and orange centers and by connecting them with red/blue and orange/blue edges. this step is simple and only took two moves i think.

the next step is to make 3/4's of the cross on the side that doesn't have the line made. in this case, I made it with blue/white, red/white, and orange/white edges.

next is to insert the white/red/blue and white/orange/blue corners into the right spots in the white layer.

insert with D2 forming a 2x3 block.

that was the hard part, but notice how there are zero rotations and the lookahead isn't that bad. then make the final 2 f2l pairs and just do oll and pll.

Why I think I'm not an idiot:
This solve ended being 54 moves long which is average. I should also note that I solemnly swear that this was a random scram I took and I did not down solve it or fmc it whatsoever. I just went "bla bla bla this is what I'd do and whatever," and yeah, it averaged out to a normal cfop solve. Someone mentioned to me that this is a lesser efficient x-cross, and if that is true, then guess what? I just taught myself to make an x-cross every single solve without rotations. the only rotations in this solve are the two in the beginning which are lookover and one during the my last two pairs because I didn't know that advanced case. Feel free to rip me up in the replies and tell how many people I copied and ripped off lol and how stupid my solution is.

 Twizzle link 
 Setup 
F2 R2 F2 U2 R2 F2 D' R2 U F2 B D2 R B' D2 B2 U2 F' D'
 Moves 
x2 y L2 B2 R2 L R' F R B L' D U L F' L' U' R' U R D2 R U R' D2 U' R U2 R' U' R U R' D2 U' R2 U R' U' r' U' R U r R' U2 R U2 R' y L' U2 L U L' U2 L
 
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