| CubeReds progression | Road to sub 15 3x3 against CFOP INC | Journey to sub 1 4x4|

[CubeRed]

Trouble awaits... Panic mode is on!!
Looks like the rod of the corner piece wedged out the smaller inner piece.

 

[CubeRed]

Oh my gosh I just got a PB single!!
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Sub 10!!! Let's gooooo!!!! Woooo!
That was out of nowhere. I also got a last layer skip for the first time! My prior PB was 11.54 so beats it by a whole second and a half!! I never thought I would come this far in cubing... This is such a wonderful moment. From 5 minutes to sub 10... Thanks for coming along with me in this journey, speedsolving community. I will never forget you.

Edit: I can't remember what I did so no reconstruction. Pity.

 

[IsThatA4x4]

That’s some insane luck! Congrats on sub-10

 

[CubeRed]

That’s some insane luck! Congrats on sub-10

Yup. One in a million... Literally!!

 

[CubeRed]

Cleaned my cube in preparation for the online competition!! Feels good and smooth as new!

 

[CubeRed]

If your wondering about the 4x4, it poped in the end and I had to assemble the whole wing piece region and a few centers. It wasn't explosive but a few inner pieces came out. I like 3d puzzles so it wasn't much of a problem putting it back.

 

[Garf]

Hey, you want some help in 4x4? I feel like I can give you some good advice.

 

[CubeRed]

Hey, you want some help in 4x4? I feel like I can give you some good advice.

Uhm, sure. Why not?

 

[CubeRed]

My session average is finally sub 18. Improvement!

 

[CubeRed]

I'm actually thinking about putting off learning OLL for a bit. I know I have to do it and I willingly would learn it, just at the moment I'm lacking a bit of motivation. I am just enjoying regular solving and watching my times drop, millisecond by millisecond. I will learn OLL after I reach sub 17. I expect my improvement will plateau by then and OLL will help that.

 

[DuckubingCuber347]

OLL is honestly such an boring alg set. CLL,EP,LS,EO sets are more interesting imo.

 

[kubesolver]

I reach sub 17. I expect my improvement will plateau by then and OLL will help that.

Yeah. That's a good point. Learning full oll at any point will be an instant 0.5s+ improvement and for motivational reasons you might defer it until you feel like haven't set a new pb ao100 in too long.
I have learned full oll quite early (before sub 20) because I felt frustrated with doing fruruf every second solve.

 

[CubeRed]

Some solid improvement.

 

[CubeRed]

I think I'm getting the hang of slow solves. I am constantly getting 12~15 range of solves and average is dropping quickly. I might have to start predicting first pair in inspection but that can come after OLL.

 

[CubeRed]

Update: Participated in an online competition hosted by @Ultimatecuber0814, and I came 3rd!! Wasn't expecting to come that high even though it was my goal. Very happy.

 

[CubeRed]

New PB for a new session!
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Very nice F2L flow. Even had some 3 movers, but the LL was sick. Fat sune into PLL skip, no AUF. I think I can reconstruct this...

EDIT: Nope. Can someone reconstruct LSLL for me? I'll reconstruct the rest soon.

 

[CubeRed]

Just got a superflip scramble WTF

L' D B' L2 B F2 L2 D2 U2 F' R2 U2 F2 L B F2 R U' L B'

 

[Melvintnh327]

Just got a superflip scramble WTF

L' D B' L2 B F2 L2 D2 U2 F' R2 U2 F2 L B F2 R U' L B'

wait that is possible?

 

[CubeRed]

wait that is possible?

I think it happened once on the weekly competition.

 

[Ultimatecuber0814]

New PB for a new session!
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Very nice F2L flow. Even had some 3 movers, but the LL was sick. Fat sure into PLL skip, no AUF. I think I can reconstruct this...

EDIT: Nope. Can someone reconstruct LSLL for me? I'll reconstruct the rest soon.

Wat. How did you get this using cfop? I am a cfop user but I'm far away from this record. WOW. You're amazing man