Filipe Teixeira
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I'm back to business | Plot twist: I stopped from january 2021 to june 2021, but as my Giiker i3S arrived, I'm practicing more
// 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
Graph of my times from august 2010 to november 2011
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Algs I use at the moment:
OLLs
PLLs
Other algsets
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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
Graph of my times from august 2010 to november 2011
======================
Algs I use at the moment:
OLLs
PLLs
Other algsets
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// Spreadsheet of my recent progress//
// My Weekly Competition Profile //
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