Filipe Teixeira
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I'm back to business
// Spreadsheet of my recent progress//
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TL;DR - I started speedcubing in 2010, stopped near 2012 and just casually solved until now. Now more than 10 years later I'll try to get over my plateau
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Current stats:
My first sub20 average of 12 was in june 4, 2011
My first sub15 average of 5 was in november 4, 2011
My first sub15 average of 12 was in november 13, 2011
My best recent average of 100 was 16.48 in february 16, 2019
PB 3x3 OH: 28.09
(Other PBs in my signature.)
Graph of my times from august 2010 to november 2011
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PBs with other methods:
PETRUS: 16.09+ (Should be sub15, that's so sad)
ROUX: 20.47
ZZ: 15.71
ZZ avg5: 19.13
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My goals:
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Schedule:
Average of 50 every day starting from december 24, 2020
I'll post average result in this thread and make comments and publish my sessions to youtube so I can get feedback from the community and improve.
Missions (What | When)
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Algs I use at the moment:
OLLs
PLLs
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// Spreadsheet of my recent progress//
// My Weekly Competition Profile //
// Spreadsheet of my recent progress//
// My Weekly Competition Profile //
I had my first contact with the cube when our family were visiting friends when I was a child. They got a dollar cube and I was completely fascinated by the cube, but couldn't go far. My sister managed to make a side, she was older than me.
Then in 2009 I watched "Pursuit of happiness" with Will Smith, where he would get a job by solving the rubik's cube on a car. I was practicing juggling at the time so I thought a new hobby would be cool. I bought a dollar cube in the market and decided to learn by my own.
I would make some moves and try to reverse them. I don't need to say that doing this a few times made the cube completely scrambled. Then I search the internet for help ahaha.
I was extremely confused by the instructions, and finally I found the rubik's official instructions so I managed to solve.
But even then I found the instructions hard to follow, so I searched for additional information. I learned about 2 look OLL, with I interepreted at time with "to look OLL" or something like "moves to make the cube look like oriented (?)". I would discover what 2 look OLL mean a few weeks later.
Then I printed 2 look oll algs and all the 21 PLLs and written down the algs to solve the middle layer. I would think that a person should be extremelly smart to learn all the 21 PLLs.
I could now solve the cube with the help of the cheat sheet. But my cube broke and I stopped cubing, but at the time I would watch cubing videos, mainly yu nakajima, erik, and badmephisto.
Some months later I bought a new dollar cube. I found that a new stiff cube was better to turn. Then I learned sune, Uperm and Aperm. I found that that was everything I needed to solve without looking at the the cheat sheet... One day I decided to record my time. aprox. 6 minutes... Then I timed again and again. I managed to diminish my time to 1:25 with a dollar cube in the next days, then I bought a cube4you from china. My times kept going down.
In the first year that I started seriously speedcubing (from august 2010 to august 2011) I got to sub20! What seemed impossible became true. I reached my goal.
From late 2011 to the beginning of 2012 I would do averages of 100 almost everyday, some days even 2 averages of 100. But I got a job so sadly I would stop practicing regularly.
Now 10+ years later... I decided to get back to practicing!
Then in 2009 I watched "Pursuit of happiness" with Will Smith, where he would get a job by solving the rubik's cube on a car. I was practicing juggling at the time so I thought a new hobby would be cool. I bought a dollar cube in the market and decided to learn by my own.
I would make some moves and try to reverse them. I don't need to say that doing this a few times made the cube completely scrambled. Then I search the internet for help ahaha.
I was extremely confused by the instructions, and finally I found the rubik's official instructions so I managed to solve.
But even then I found the instructions hard to follow, so I searched for additional information. I learned about 2 look OLL, with I interepreted at time with "to look OLL" or something like "moves to make the cube look like oriented (?)". I would discover what 2 look OLL mean a few weeks later.
Then I printed 2 look oll algs and all the 21 PLLs and written down the algs to solve the middle layer. I would think that a person should be extremelly smart to learn all the 21 PLLs.
I could now solve the cube with the help of the cheat sheet. But my cube broke and I stopped cubing, but at the time I would watch cubing videos, mainly yu nakajima, erik, and badmephisto.
Some months later I bought a new dollar cube. I found that a new stiff cube was better to turn. Then I learned sune, Uperm and Aperm. I found that that was everything I needed to solve without looking at the the cheat sheet... One day I decided to record my time. aprox. 6 minutes... Then I timed again and again. I managed to diminish my time to 1:25 with a dollar cube in the next days, then I bought a cube4you from china. My times kept going down.
In the first year that I started seriously speedcubing (from august 2010 to august 2011) I got to sub20! What seemed impossible became true. I reached my goal.
From late 2011 to the beginning of 2012 I would do averages of 100 almost everyday, some days even 2 averages of 100. But I got a job so sadly I would stop practicing regularly.
Now 10+ years later... I decided to get back to practicing!
TL;DR - I started speedcubing in 2010, stopped near 2012 and just casually solved until now. Now more than 10 years later I'll try to get over my plateau
======================
Current stats:
My first sub20 average of 12 was in june 4, 2011
My first sub15 average of 5 was in november 4, 2011
My first sub15 average of 12 was in november 13, 2011
My best recent average of 100 was 16.48 in february 16, 2019
PB 3x3 OH: 28.09
(Other PBs in my signature.)
Graph of my times from august 2010 to november 2011
======================
PBs with other methods:
PETRUS: 16.09+ (Should be sub15, that's so sad)
ROUX: 20.47
ZZ: 15.71
ZZ avg5: 19.13
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My goals:
Code:
- Get faster with 3x3:
- Sub15 average of 100
- Revisit my olls and plls, then learn new sets of algs.
- Better lookahead with F2L and better Pll recognition
- Get a sub10 on camera
- Practice PLL and OLL attacks to improve TPS
- OH: Sub 30 average would be interesting. But maybe I can get faster
- Practice other methods: Get faster with Roux, ZZ and Petrus, sub20 averages of 5 or 12
- Drop 2x2 times: Learn CLL for 2x2, then learn EG
- Get faster with Megaminx, 4x4 and Skewb
Schedule:
Average of 50 every day starting from december 24, 2020
I'll post average result in this thread and make comments and publish my sessions to youtube so I can get feedback from the community and improve.
Missions (What | When)
Code:
( 0% ) Revisit OLL - when my better cube arrive in january
( 0% ) Revisit PLL - when my better cube arrive in january
( 0% ) Average of 100 f2l - ??/??/??
[ More to come ... ]
Algs I use at the moment:
OLLs
PLLs
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// Spreadsheet of my recent progress//
// My Weekly Competition Profile //
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