Eriol's training log

[Eriol]

Most of my 5x5 solves now land around 3:30 or so. Got ao100 down to sub 3:40 already yesterday and now it's at 3:39.37.

On the other hand practicing big cubes have made my 3x3 solving slip a bit. I have problems remembering algs sometimes. Most recently F-perm was completely gone from my mind. But then later on it showed up in a solve and just closed my eyes and did it as quickly as possible, which worked much better than pausing to remember.

 

[Eriol]

Reached 70 Megaminx solve today and got a new single PB with 4:08.96. Also improved on my best ao5 to 5:01.55. Pretty solid, but not fast, on last layer now and I'm also getting better at finding pieces and forming pairs. I really should try to get a a better grip and finger tricks on the Megaminx though. I tend to use the table quite a lot during solves.

 

[Eriol]

Watched PSL Las Vegas while doing quite a lot of 4x4 solves this morning. Was solving really well and finally I got that lucky solve with no parity and PLL-skip resulting in a new single PB at 1:18.68. Also lowered ao12 and ao100 somewhat to 1:36.43 and 1:44.82 respectively.

 

[Eriol]

Did another online competition at cubik.fi today. Today's program was 3x3, 2x2 and Pyraminx, but work-related stuff in the evening made it impossible for me to take part in all of them and I choose to prioritize 3x3. For the first round I was arriving really late, when I got into the site it was like 11 seconds remaining before the start. But despite not having any warm-up it went pretty good in the first round. Average of 28.76 with 24.93 as my best solve. For the final I was a bit more prepared and started really well the three first solves, with the second being a really nice 21.71. But then it went downhill from there with two terrible solves at the end (36 and 35 seconds). Still got another sub-30 average though, which makes me quite confident that I should be able to do sub-30 in a real competition too.

 

[Eriol]

Got my first ever sub-4 om Megaminx today with a 3:56.99. I have also reached 80 total solves and improved my best ao5 to 4:31.20 and ao12 to 4:52.00.

It's a lot more fun to practice a new event once you have stopped doing stupid mistakes in every solve, but still feel like you're getting better all the time.

 

[Eriol]

Have been practicing more 3x3 in the last few days and finally it feels like I have improved at this event as well. Got ao100 down to 27.82, which is almost a second better than it was a week ago.

 

[Eriol]

Was just gonna do some relaxed 3x3 solving while cooking food today but accidently got a new ao5 PB with 21.60. The solves were like 21, 29, 22, 20 and 20. Didn't have a single skip in the average, just easy crosses, easy F2L and good solving.