Filipe's Progression Thread - practicing 4x4 and 5x5

[Deleted member 36445]

Nice work far! Also, I like that you set goals for yourself, that's always the way to go. I was wondering: How do you go about memorizing new algorithms? I know that I personally struggle with it, so I'm stuck at 2-look oll and pll. And you seem to have a bit more experience than me lol. Any advice?

Tysm!

Well, I would say that learning algs is not easy for anyone.
But this is what I do:
I go to speedcubedb and they list various algs for each case. I think that this is VERY important. Avoid those lists that have a single algorithm, because you may not adapt to it and you will have a hard time learning. (For the megaminx alg sheet that I found there is just one alg for each case but for 3x3 and 2x2 you will find lots of algs for the same case on speedcubedb)
Then I apply the first alg and if I don't like it I try to learn the next one and so on. For example, for cll some algs were pretty bad but I picked the ones I could do fast and comfortably.
Then I opened the trainer at speedcubedb and put only the 3 cll cases I was learning, and removed the image that shows the case, then I recognized the case and applied the alg. I couldn't remember at first so I had to look the alg a few times. But at the end of the session I got the 3 down.
I try to somehow create "stories" or associations, for example, this case

this is the alg:
R' F R F' R U' R' U' R U' R'
I could do the alg very fast but I was not connecting recognition to alg execution, so I created an association
R' F R F' R U' R' U' R U' R'
You see that the first trigger is sledge hammer? And notice how there is a formed "pair" at the right on the top layer. So I noticed that I just had to insert that block and do the rest of the algorithm. When I understood this I could see the alg and imediately draw my attention to the block, so I knew what to do.
The cool thing is that I can also do the mirror of this alg by knowing this

And for the 3x3 oh pll that I learned I just repeated it a lots of times =P, I kept making mistakes but after a lot of tries I got muscle memory for it
So yeah, I would say, do the alg looking at the alg sheet a ton of times and then try to make without looking? lol
You could set a schedule to learn X algs in a period, I think that is the best way, and it will get easier with time
Good luck!

(Ik this is your progression thread and dont want to get too off topic)

No problem dudeeeee
feel free to ask!

 

[SpedCube]

Thanks very helpful, I'll take a look at that speedcubedb thing and try that today!

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Thanks very helpful, I'll take a look at that speedcubedb thing and try that today!

let me know how it turnt out!

 

[Deleted member 36445]

funni time on 3x3 oh :3

 

[Deleted member 36445]

heyy guys

I had a very delicious meal

Now I will have an assignment for 30min to 1h and then I will learn some algs and maybe do some events for weekly competition =D

next week I will take 1 week vacation so I will have more time to do some personal tasks and cube!! /o/

 

[Deleted member 36445]

ok so I just did all my events on weekly comp.

spoiler alert: I got 3x3 overall oh pb avg5!!
my last pb was set on 5/6/19, almost 4 years ago, and I cut 4,74 seconds.

not happy with 2x2, 4x4, pyra and skoob
3x3 oh was superb, best avg5 of my life, but LL was super easy. the LL of the 4 fastest solves of the average were sune to U perm! that was super lucky, it was crazy!
3x3 was ok, 2 sub15, but I want to have a sub15 avg again
also I got no oll parities on 4x4. I think I was lucky today but really inconsistent on 4x4 ;_; at least sub2, right?

now I'm going to learn algs and go to sleep
I have 4 algs to learn and 1 and a half hour before going to bed. so cya l8r

 

[arbivara]

skoob

Skoob is a kinda funny way of spelling it. It's also a Brazilian books/reading social media, one of my favorite sites.

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Skoob is a kinda funny way of spelling it. It's also a Brazilian books/reading social media, one of my favorite sites.

oh yeah I used that site in the past!

skoob, squan, clonk, rubix cub, rubix triangle, very good puzzles

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Skoob is a kinda funny way of spelling it. It's also a Brazilian books/reading social media, one of my favorite sites.

também sou brazuka cara rsrs

 

[arbivara]

também sou brazuka cara rsrs

eu sei mas isso não implica automaticamente em conhecer o Skoob

 

[Deleted member 36445]

eu sei mas isso não implica automaticamente em conhecer o Skoob

ata. só achei que tu não tinha notado :3

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Ok so I finished the pi cll set for 2x2, and learned the other u perm for pll (that I already knew)
and that's it for today. tomorrow I'll start 2x2 cll h set and learn 1 more oh pll and one alg for mega

I'll try to check the algs that I already know and take off the list, and try to learn a bunch of easy ones, because some are just silly to learn

good night every one!

 

[SpeakCuba]

Ok so I finished the pi cll set for 2x2, and learned the other u perm for pll (that I already knew)
and that's it for today. tomorrow I'll start 2x2 cll h set and learn 1 more oh pll and one alg for mega

I'll try to check the algs that I already know and take off the list, and try to learn a bunch of easy ones, because some are just silly to learn

good night every one!

Great! CLL is really fun to learn, in my opinion.

 

[Deleted member 36445]

I was watching some old videos and found out that I could've had a sub10 on camera back in 2011 but failed

I had a really bad lockup on f2l and paused to recognize oll and then couldn't auf fast for pll skip

top 10 anime saddest moments

(at least the avg12 was pb sub15)

I really hope I can get lucky and film a sub10 soon

 

[Deleted member 36445]

ok so I was checking some statistics on my browser and I found out that I spent a lot of my time on this site in the last 2 months

active​	​
01:14:06​	jan23​
02:24:19​	fev23​
23:35:48​	mar23​
14:56:01​	apr23​
42:10:14​	total​

This month I already spent half than last month time active on the forum and is day 4 of the month

I have 232 posts in the last 7 days

If I had spent 42 hours since the beginning of the year just cubing I could be so better now.
it would be the equivalent to 30min each day since day 1 of the year

Is hard for me but I'll try to reduce the time I enter the forum and only access it ocasionally to check notifications and post progression updates, and to participate on competition

 

[Deleted member 36445]

I did some casual 3x3 solves today, I won't be learning any algs because it's pretty late now and I won't be able to learn anything
So tomorrow I'll try to study some easy cases that I probably know for pll and cll and review my schedule to manage to learn everything till the end of the month

good night all!

 

[Deleted member 36445]

ok so yesterday I didn't learn any algs, so to compensate this I will learn more algs today.

this are the algs I'm trying to memorize

some I already knew, and the others are easy to learn
I'm going to drill them now

after a little drilling I will try to learn a few easy mega and 3x3 oh pll algs

 

[Deleted member 36445]

small update

I did some solves using cll, using two look last layer for cases I don't know yet

and I was surprised by how many sub5 solves I had! I got 11 sub5, I think I never had so many in the same session, and this short

I had fast solves for the ones I knew cll and even for some that ended with sune/antisune + jperm

I hate on ortega when I get a hard to recognize or execute pbl, and with cll the ergonomics and recognition are so much better in general, also 2 looks and not 3

if you use ortega, give a chance to cll and you will be much faster! I think there is no reason to stick to an OO worse method

I am pretty sure I will have at least a sub5 avg12 until de end of the month

I'll start recording my averages as soon as I get at least half of the cases down

Spoiler: solves sorted

2.22
2.71
3.18
3.44
3.58
3.9
4.58
4.75
4.78
4.95
4.96
5.71
5.75
5.76
6.01
6.3
6.64
7.12
7.23
7.64
7.84
7.98
8.03
8.56
8.74
9.07
9.25
9.31
12.35
12.87
13.83
15.14
19.41
DNF(8.98)

Spoiler: Session average: 7.31

1. 4.96
2. 8.03
3. 4.78
4. 4.75
5. 7.12
6. 13.83
7. 6.30
8. 4.95
9. 3.18
10. 9.31
11. 12.87
12. 7.64
13. 3.90
14. 5.71
15. 9.07
16. 7.98
17. 6.64
18. (19.41)
19. 4.58
20. 3.58
21. 7.84
22. (DNF(8.98))
23. 7.23
24. 3.44
25. 15.14
26. 8.56
27. (2.22)
28. 5.75
29. 9.25
30. 8.74
31. (2.71)
32. 5.76
33. 6.01
34. 12.35

 

[Deleted member 36445]

I think the only reason would be: YOU ABSOLUTELY HATE LEARNING ALGS
lol

but it is worth it, learning algs can be fun

 

[SpeakCuba]

I think the only reason would be: YOU ABSOLUTELY HATE LEARNING ALGS
lol

but it is worth it, learning algs can be fun

I personally love learning algs. I have fun learning then cause I know of the benefits they’ll bring me.