Goals over the summer?

[masterofthebass]

It's what Tim Sun and Mitchell came up with. Erik actually came up with the idea, but Tim found algs for it. It's basically the CLS step of MGLS, but optimized for 2x2. Tim has a 3.72 avg100 w/ it, and it's pretty darn fast

 

[pjk]

A bit off subject, but why do people keep referring to this years US competition as the "US Open"? For the record, US Nationals and the US Open alternate each year...last year was the US Open, this year is US Nationals.

Actually, that's not true. This year it's the "US Nationals and Open":
http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?i=USOpen2008
And if you notice, the link actually shortens it to just "USOpen2008". It's more logical to call it the US Open than the US Nationals, since after all it is an Open.

Thanks Mike for the correction, I didn't notice that this entire time. I don't understand why it is called US Nationals and Open though. Do competitions have to explicitly put Open in their titles now to be considered "open"? US Nationals 2 years ago worked out fine, and so have all the other competitions that are Open that don't have Open in their names.

Sorry to get off subject, perhaps we should start this discussion elsewhere (or maybe I missed it elsewhere).

 

[Lucas Garron]

A bit off subject, but why do people keep referring to this years US competition as the "US Open"? For the record, US Nationals and the US Open alternate each year...last year was the US Open, this year is US Nationals.

Actually, that's not true. This year it's the "US Nationals and Open":
http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/c.php?i=USOpen2008
And if you notice, the link actually shortens it to just "USOpen2008". It's more logical to call it the US Open than the US Nationals, since after all it is an Open.

Thanks Mike for the correction, I didn't notice that this entire time. I don't understand why it is called US Nationals and Open though. Do competitions have to explicitly put Open in their titles now to be considered "open"? US Nationals 2 years ago worked out fine, and so have all the other competitions that are Open that don't have Open in their names.

Sorry to get off subject, perhaps we should start this discussion elsewhere (or maybe I missed it elsewhere).

It's probably my fault. I told Tyson that I found it slightly "tactless" to call it "US Open" and give out a Budapest prize to only the fastest USA cuber (not that I was against that -but if it's Open, it should be open to everyone with no discrimination among competitors based on anything but their cubing skill). "Open and Nationals" makes it explicit.

 

[hdskull]

It's what Tim Sun and Mitchell came up with. Erik actually came up with the idea, but Tim found algs for it. It's basically the CLS step of MGLS, but optimized for 2x2. Tim has a 3.72 avg100 w/ it, and it's pretty darn fast

Care to share?

My goals:

Keep on cubing.

Learn ALL OLLs (those 10 or 12 stupid OLLs)
2x2: sub 6
3x3: sub 14
3x3 OH: sub 23
3x3 BLD: sub 2
4x4: sub 1:20
5x5: get one ?
Learn all OLLs... can't repeat this more... I had those 10 or 12 left since November 07...

 

[Raffael]

For me the goals for this summer are:

1. 2x2: sub10 avg
2. 3x3: sub25 avg
3. 4x4: sub1:40 avg
4. 5x5: sub4 mins avg
5. figure out magic by myself
6. get a master magic and figure that out by myself
7. get a megaminx
8. get a pyraminx
9. get some v-cubes
10. learn bld 3x3
11. learn multi-bld
12. spend a lot of money on additional 3x3's
13. find a job that will provide me with enough money for all the puzzles I want to buy

 

[philkt731]

It's what Tim Sun and Mitchell came up with. Erik actually came up with the idea, but Tim found algs for it. It's basically the CLS step of MGLS, but optimized for 2x2. Tim has a 3.72 avg100 w/ it, and it's pretty darn fast

hmm sounds like it would be good to learn, especially since it includes all of one of the OFOTA cases that I know. Where can I find the algs?
With that and my good look ahead for Guimond and OFOTA case 2 nearly finished, I could maybe get the NAR record...

 

[Gunnar]

Hi guys!

As the number of cubers grows one of my goals are to keep or improve my rank in all evens I focus on.

Time goals:

3x3: sub-13
4x4: sub-60
5x5: sub-120
OH: sub-20

 

[TobiasDaneels]

Incompetition:

1. sub 5 2x2 average
2. sub 15 3x3 average
3. sub 80 4x4 average
4. sub 150 5x5 average
5. multiple bld 3 cubes
6. sub 30 OH 3x3


In practice I don't really have goals since they don't can't for anything.

 

[masterofthebass]

Sikan and Phil,

The method is on Tim's website, http://esk.staticcling.org/speedcubing (which seems to be down right now )

 

[apoplectic]

master all 21 3LLL PLLs

get sub 40 on 3x3x3

get sub 5min on 4x4x4

get and learn 5x5x5

and If I do all this learn roux.

 

[dChan]

Eh, I don't have that many goals really, except for getting faster at everything.

- Sub-15 second 3x3x3 average
- Sub-25 second 3x3x3 OH average
- Sub-2 minute 3x3x3 BLD average
- Sub-8 second 2x2x2 average
- Faster COLL recognition

And maybe get faster with solving my big cubes(I need to practice them more - I guess the same goes for the 2x2x2).

 

[Kickflip1993]

sub 15 avg on 3x3
learn BLD 3x3
sub 30 OH avg
sub 1:40 4x4 avg

 

[cubekid57]

Mines would be
sub 20, sub 19 3x3 avg. before us open
3x3 one handed sub 35 average
4x4 sub 2:30 avg.
5x5 sub 4 min avg.?
2x2 sub 15 avg.
also, I want to learn all oll and some f2l algs.
My current average is 20.xx
Learn bld method.

 

[immortalcube]

not too ambitious, but my goals for the summer are:

-get sub-30 avg with 3x3x3 (currently at ~45 sec avg)
-get a DIY cube (finally!!!)
-average 5 min or less in 3x3x3 BLD
-learn the 7[?] OLL algs for Petrus OR learn the 30-ish algs for last C/E pair and orienting LL corners at the same time
-get OH sub-min
-become color neutral
-learn the basics of 2x2x2, 4x4x4, and 5x5x5 with cube sims, just in case I encounter/buy one in real life

 

[fanwuq]

immortalcube:
look at my goals. Mine are so much more ambitious. Yours should be easily achievable for you. I'll be glad if I just reached one of my goals. Right now, I'm hoping it'll be sub-30 average OH. 15 or so second drop in 3 months seems pretty difficult... Must start practicing more. I can do it if I don't work towards my other goals.

 

[immortalcube]

yeah, but I'm a total noob . For example, my goal of sub-5 min BLDs: I can barely do BLD now, (although, to be fair, I only started learning....last night?, lol). I still haven't done a complete solve yet, but I know all the necessary algs, and how to do it, it's just a matter of 'stop thinking about it and DO IT!'. But how long have you been doing BLD?, what's your avg?, and your goal is sub 4 min! Frankly I really don't have enough experience to know what is or is not achievable in 3 months, albeit 3 months of almost nonstop cubing. (sorry this was so off topic!)

 

[fanwuq]

I've been doing it for maybe 2 months? I understood the idea the first day. Took like 3 weeks to get my first successful solve. I got less than 30 full solves in total. Best was a DNF about 6 min. Best success is about 10 min. I had only 2 or 3 successful full solves. I'm practicing solving corners or edges only. I get about 75% accuracy in 1:30 to 4:00 for corners and about 85% accuracy in 3-5 min for edges recently. Once I get to sub-60s average 90% corners only and sub-2min 90% edges only, I'm going to start doing full solves again.

 

[immortalcube]

I've been practicing doing only corners or edges too. I can do all corners permuted and oriented in ~3 min. I got the jist of this method of BLD really fast, but I'm struggling with the last step, EO and EP at the same time. I keep either putting the edges in wrongly oriented or forgetting my setup moves

 

[HelloiamChow]

It's about damn time I get my BLD average under 2 minutes.

 

[jackolanternsoup]

OH average sub-50 that's about it.. haha