Andrew's Progression Thread

[AndrewT99]

BLD Progression Update

Current Averages:
3BLD: ~40 seconds
4BLD: ~4 minutes
5BLD: ~11 minutes

MBLD PB: 13 points (13/13 in 45:57.89 unofficially)

Having finally finished my letter pairs, my memo has taken a significant step forward in terms of speed. My memo also feels sharper and converting from letter pairs to words is a lot more automated than it was before when I had to come up with words on the spot. While there's still time to be cut down, mainly from getting used to the memo process through practice, I'm comfortably able to 3-pass 5BLD now, which has allowed me to cut down my average 5BLD solve time to around 11-12 minutes. The main plan for practice going forward is to do more solves to get even more familiar with the memo process, which should cause my times to get faster. I also intend to practice 1-passing for 3BLD until I can do it semi-consistently. The next goals, timewise, are to reach sub-10 for 5BLD, sub-4 for 4BLD and (consistently) sub-40 for 3BLD.

Current plan:
1. Sighted and blind practice
2. Optimize my memo system for MBLD
3. Learn LTCT
4. Learn more floating sets (I currently only know UF, UB and UFR)

 

[AndrewT99]

Mains and Goals for Singapore Championship 2024

2x2:
Main: GAN251M Pro
Goal: Sub-3 average, try to get to finals, if not at least 2nd round

Clock:
Main: Picube ChuanShi S
Goal: Sub-8 (maybe even sub-7) average, try to get to finals

Square-1:
Main: Derpy's MGC Square-1 (MagLev)
Goal: Sub-11 average, national podium

3BLD:
Main: HuaMeng YS3M MagLev BC
Goal: Sub-40 single, national podium

4BLD:
Main: MoYu AoSu GTS 2M
Goal: Sub-4min single, get a mean, national podium

5BLD:
Main: Valk5M
Goal: Sub-10min single, get a mean, national podium

MBLD:
Mains: Various
Goal: PR, national podium

 

[AndrewT99]

Performance Summary of Singapore Championship 2024

Goals (met/not met):
2x2 - met, made finals, came 4th nationally
Clock - not met, DNFed the first round
Square-1 - met, national 2nd place
3BLD - met, national 3rd place
4BLD - met, national 2nd place, overall 2nd place (only Singaporeans had successes lol, SG sweep)
5BLD - not met, triple DNFed
MBLD - not met, 12/17 was only enough for national 4th place, but 50:38 is my fastest ever solve time for 17 cubes

 

[AndrewT99]

Upcoming Comps

I have 5 comps coming up within the next 2 months and a bit, 4 of which have squan and 3 of which have clock. This is a good chance for me to get some results in (especially for clock) and hopefully break some PRs. Wish me luck!

Edit: Make that 6 comps in 3 months, just added another BLD comp

 

[AndrewT99]

Update After 5 Comps

This past weekend I finished my 5th comp in the last month and a half, all of which had squan and 4 of which had clock, and I am pleased to say that I managed to capitalise on the opportunities presented to me to get some good results. Overall, I managed to secure a total of 2 Golds, 1 Silver and 2 Bronzes across these 5 comps for both clock and squan, as well as lower my squan PR average from 10.99 to 9.66 and my clock PR average from 8.51 to 5.42, which also happens to allow me to qualify for Worlds 2025 Phase 1 for these events. All in all, a good outcome from the side event comp spam that I decided to do.

Next up, 3 PBQ comps in the next 3 months, hope to get some good BLD results.

 

[AndrewT99]

Post-PBQ Comps Update

After 3 PBQ comps within 3 months, I have come out with some good results but also some meh results. Let's start with the positives, i.e. my PRs:

3BLD single: 23.92 (NR2, AsR54, WR192 currently)
3BLD mean: 32.96 (NR2, AsR56, WR204 currently)
MBLD: 20/21 in 58:00 (NR2, AsR35, WR155 currently)

As you can see, I have made good progress in both 3BLD and MBLD in terms of official results. On the other hand, 4BLD and 5BLD didn't yield any good results so my PRs remain the same as they have been. Moving forward, I probably want to grind more 4BLD and 5BLD before the next PBQ comp which is in about a month's time. I feel I am well capable of breaking my PRs, just that I need to not mess up in comp, so hopefully that goes better. Also for 5BLD, I need a sub-10 min single in order to qualify for Worlds 2025, so that would be the main target. Wish me luck!