Garf's Progression Thread - Beating Hard Levels in GD (Hardest is Bloodbath)

[Garf]

wrm v10 20 mag ballcore uv spring version came in
it's good

 

[Garf]

Okay I’m really liking this cube. It’s giving me confidence I’ve never really felt in any other puzzle. I think this is the one.☝

 

[Garf]

An ao100 I did on skewb
Generated By csTimer on 2024-12-29
avg of 100: 6.675

Time List:
6.880, 6.399, 7.063, 7.631, 7.499, 6.316, 5.462, 5.661, 7.745, 8.532, 5.913, 8.945, 8.832, 5.261, 5.413, 6.379, 8.529, 5.626, 7.899, 9.097, 6.547, 8.784, 5.744, 7.229, 5.829, (10.147), 6.445, 6.077, 7.015, 5.495, (9.865), 6.595, 6.744, 6.896, 6.347, 6.080, 6.927, 6.882, 6.128, (9.632), 8.731, 5.210, 7.196, (11.685), 5.312, 5.296, 7.329, 6.313, 6.064, 6.025, 7.680, 8.564, 7.396, 7.980, 5.777, 7.594, 9.280, 9.148, 3.907, 4.777, 5.878, 6.778, 6.929, 4.796, (10.148), 5.797, 6.144, 6.826, 6.564, 7.348, 8.079, (3.690), 4.095, 7.349, (3.426), 6.145, 7.364, 5.057, 4.963, (3.608), 4.576, 5.979, 7.110, 4.757, 6.945, 5.464, (3.210), 5.978, 6.095, 6.213, 7.531, 7.649, 8.049, 7.064, (3.762), 7.264, 4.061, 9.014, 7.379, 7.116

I don’t know what happened but I a 4.6 ao5 in this average but no complaints

 

[Garf]

Mains and Goals for Spokane Winter 2025:
For 3x3:
Main: Moyu Weilong V10 20 mag ballcore/Custom black UV coated GAN 11 m pro as backup
Goal: Sub-9.5 average, sub 8 single

For 2x2:
Main: GAN 251 M pro/ Moyu Weipo WRS as backup
Goal: sub- 4 average, sub 2.9 single

For 4x4:
Main: Vincube standard/MGC as backup
Goal: sub 38 average, sub 34 single

For 5x5:
Main: GAN 562 UV coated/ X Man Hong as backup
Goal: Sub 1:10 average, sub-1 single

For One Handed
Main: Moyu RS3M v5 ball core UV/ Dayan Tengyun v1 as backup
Goal: Sub-20 average, sub-18 single

For Clock:
Main: Qiyi v1 black and white/ shengshou magnetic clock as backup
Goal: sub-9.5 average, sub 7.9 single

For Pyra:
Main: GAN pyra standard, GAN pyra standard as backup Goal (I have two for some reason lol)
Goal: sub 8 average, sub 3.44 single (have to do this for a bet)

For Skewb:
Main: GAN standard, Moyu RS maglev as backup
Goal: sub-7 average, sub-5 single

For Squan:
Main: MGC square-1, I don’t have a backup cuz I lent my Volt V2 to someone else.
Goal: Sub-20 average, sub 15 single

In other words, double PR every event. If I manage to do this, @Caiden Lee will have to practice 4 and 5 up to to sub-40 4x4 and sub-1:30 5x5. I tried talking him into 6x6 and 7x7 but he noped out lol. If he wins 3x3 and 2x2 he gets to coach me to low 9 on 3x3. Not that I’m complaining about the free coaching but I would much rather see him do small big cubes lol.

Some other goals is just to have fun and relax ya know. Chill with friends, grab some tacobell, get stuff on the secret menu (jk there is no secret menu… as far as I’m aware) and meet new people. Some other people I know will be at this comp is @SpeedCubeLegend17 and @Tabe.

 

[Garf]

Fto acquired, figuring out how to solve it

 

[Garf]

I know it’s a Rex cube but I need to figure out how to wrap my head around the shape mod lol

 

[gsingh]

You beat my 5x5 average, I might have to practice again…

 

[gsingh]

6.05 official 3x3 single

 

[AJT17]

Second best Anthony by single! First is Anthony Brooks 5.44, and it beats Anthony Lafourcade's 6.45. Moving up from 16th to 2nd, it must have been a crazy good scramble! As well as his 9.11 PR ao5 bringing him up from 12th to 5th, bumping me down to 6th! Congrats on the impressive results overall with this comp!

 

[Garf]

6.05 official 3x3 single

You beat my 5x5 average, I might have to practice again…

Yeah GAN is goated. Was hoping for sub 1 but crazy good times already.

Second best Anthony by single! First is Anthony Brooks 5.44, and it beats Anthony Lafourcade's 6.45. Moving up from 16th to 2nd, it must have been a crazy good scramble! As well as his 9.11 PR ao5 bringing him up from 12th to 5th, bumping me down to 6th! Congrats on the impressive results overall with this comp!

Yoo that’s crazy thanks for those stats!

 

[Garf]

Triple Podium goes crazy as well.

 

[AJT17]

Yeah GAN is goated. Was hoping for sub 1 but crazy good times already.

Yoo that’s crazy thanks for those stats!

You're welcome, you made some pretty good improvements!
I saw that your PB sheet had a 3x3 single of 6.27, was that current and is the 6.05 overall PB? Also what was the solution like?

 

[Garf]

You're welcome, you made some pretty good improvements!
I saw that your PB sheet had a 3x3 single of 6.27, was that current and is the 6.05 overall PB? Also what was the solution like?

I have a 5.81 PB single, so it wasn’t PB. Might have been I I had a better solution but idk. I need to relink my PB sheet since I had it copied and been using the duplicate lol.
As for the solve, it went down like this:
X cross on yellow
2 okay pairs with the last one being a pseudo pair
Sune into PLL skip an AUF

 

[Garf]

FINALLY a pb with my vin lol
26.991 L' U2 B2 L' U2 F2 L' F2 U2 R U2 L' F D F' U L' B' D' F' Fw2 Rw2 U L' Fw2 R2 B2 D' R' F2 R2 Fw' L U2 R L' Uw2 F Rw' Uw' Fw2 R' B D' @2025-01-08 13:57:44

 

[Garf]

omg omg omg it's been a while since I broke my 5x5 pb single
56.860 U' Lw' B2 Uw' U' R Fw F B2 D2 Lw Uw Fw2 Dw2 Uw U' Rw2 Fw2 Bw' U2 Uw2 L' Rw' Bw F2 D2 B R' Dw2 F Fw2 L' B2 Dw Uw L2 Fw B' Uw2 Lw2 L' Dw2 D2 B2 R2 Rw' Fw F' Rw Lw' Uw' R' Dw' Bw2 F' L' B2 L F' Uw2 @2025-01-08 21:31:28

 

[Garf]

Alright I have a new aspiration in life: I want to beat jperm in every event he has competed in officially. Not his PBS cuz I'm not that good but ya know.
Here is his profile with markings I made:

Red is I'm nowhere beating, yellow is I'm .5 away from beating, and green is I've beaten him in this event.
And here's my profile:

Btw I don't care about globals, I just want to beat him in those events officially. Be sub-dylan officially.
So ig I have to learn 4 bld + 5bld and multibld now. and compete in FMC.

 

[Garf]

26:32 speedrun I did last night.

I'll also be posting my fail pb speedrun.

 

[Garf]

My pb fail of 20:xx:

 

[Garf]

Got a 24:41 run, which is a Cam PB run for me. I'm getting better at speedrunning lol.
That sub-20 will not be far for me soon.

 

[Puzzle Maniac]

Nice goal of beating J Perm in every event! But I don't think you could possibly beat him in Skewb. He is too good.