gsingh's Road to 3x3 World Champion/NAR Average // Road to 2025 Worlds Finals in 3x3 and 4x4 // U ZBLL 71/72 // WEEK 9 // 2x2 is a main event???

[gsingh]

UPDATED 9/20/2024
Hi, I'm gsingh. I'm a speedcuber from Northern California who learned how to solve a cube in 2019. I have been speedcubing since January 2021. My main events are 3x3 and 4x4, and I also do 5x5 sometimes. I'm currently also grinding 2x2, and it has become a main event now. (I used to also practice 6/7/OH, but I don't anymore). I average around 7.1 seconds on 3x3. My goal is to become world champion in 3x3 and 4x4.

My averages and methods for all of the WCA events that I know how to do:
2x2: 2.8, CLL (learning EG1)
3x3: 7.1, CFOP
4x4: 32, Yau
5x5: 1:07, Yau
6x6: 2:35, Yau
7x7: 4:30, Yau
OH: 18, CFOP
Clock: 9, Flip
Pyraminx: 8, V First/Intuitive L4E
Skewb: 12, Sarah's Beginner
Megaminx: 1:50, Freestyle
Square-1: 45, Vandenbergh

Notable results:
5.72 Official Fullstep 3x3 PR Single in May 2024
7.37 Official 3x3 PR Average in June 2024
33.01 Official 4x4 Average in June 2024
27.72 Official 4x4 Single in September 2024
Official 5x5 Sub 1
Getting an official 5 mover in 2x2 and choking
6x6 overall PB's at 3 comps in a row.
7x7 overall PB's in comp

My PB sheet is linked here
My WCA ID is linked here

 

[Luke Solves Cubes]

I am excited to see your improvement!

 

[NigelTheCuber]

So, new progression thread, this time with zero cheating

What is your 3x3 pb single?

 

[gsingh]

What is your 3x3 pb single?

if you count the one from jperms scramble, 3.97
if not, 4.85, here is the scramble D B2 R2 F' L U B2 D' L F D2 F' R2 B U2 F R2 F' B' U2

 

[NigelTheCuber]

if you count the one from jperms scramble, 3.97
if not, 4.85, here is the scramble D B2 R2 F' L U B2 D' L F D2 F' R2 B U2 F R2 F' B' U2

fast mine's 12.28

 

[Luke Solves Cubes]

Mine is 8.78 with a ll skip

 

[gsingh]

Mine is 8.78 with a ll skip

the 4.85 had an oll skip with an x cross

 

[cuberswoop]

why do you need a new progression thread

 

[NigelTheCuber]

Mine is 8.78 with a ll skip

WAIT WHAT

 

[gsingh]

why do you need a new progression thread

the old one is full of fake 5x5 solves and like 4 pages of arguments on whether they are fake or not(just in case someone doesnt know, they were)

 

[Luke Solves Cubes]

WAIT WHAT

7 move Xcross with an efficient F2L and then my last slot was a sledge into an last layer skip

 

[NigelTheCuber]

7 move Xcross with an efficient F2L and then my last slot was a sledge into an last layer skip

no way that is so lucky

 

[gsingh]

7 move Xcross with an efficient F2L and then my last slot was a sledge into an last layer skip

scramble?

 

[Luke Solves Cubes]

let me check

scramble?

D' L2 D' L F R F' R2 D R2 B R2 L2 D2 F' D2 F' U2 L2 D2
I don't remember the solution, but I promise I am not cheating.

 

[gsingh]

let me check

D' L2 D' L F R F' R2 D R2 B R2 L2 D2 F' D2 F' U2 L2 D2
I don't remember the solution, but I promise I am not cheating.

what color cross?

 

[Luke Solves Cubes]

white

 

[NigelTheCuber]

fast mine's 12.28

actually i have a 12.24 +2

 

[Stock_Fish109]

So, new progression thread, this time with zero cheating

*evil cackling ensues*

 

[Garf]

Alright Guys,

I'm very sorry for faking my 5x5 times.
I am sub 9 on 3x3, I can prove that if you guys want me to, no excuses this time.
I average 1:10 on 5x5.
I think the reason i started faking 5x5 is when I got a very good solve in the weekly comp, a 1:02 or something like that, i kept on feeling that i could have been a sub-1 if i hadn't gotten a bad Pll. So I edited the solve to be a 59, and made the average a 1:05.
I felt really bad about it, and i didn't plan on doing it again. I was going to delete it, but then people noticed. I felt that everyone would hate me if I said it was fake.( They would have a good reason, but still, no one wants to be hated.) So I kept on going, and every time I faked a solve I felt bad and wanted to admit faking solves but was too scared to do so. Every time I put this off it made me feel even worse.
So I'm sorry, I know i don't deserve it but I hope you guys forgive me.
I am especially sorry to people who believed my times and defended me, like @Timona and @TheEpicCuber .
Also @Imsoosm the reason the dates make it look like there is a huge time gap between each solve it because the solves have been imported from speedcubestats, a timer I used for a while, so those dates don't mean anything, they are just numbers.
As for the sub 6 avg the only explanation I can think of is that either they are 2x2 solves mixed in on accident or that my friends got their hands on my computer at some point.
@Mike Hughey , could you please delete my 5x5 times for the weekly comp?

Ill try to post the OH average soon. I'll try for this week but no promises.

Again, I'm, sorry for all of this. I know it will be hard but I hope you guys forgive me.
I promise to only post legitimate solves from now on.
I will delete this thread and make a new progression thread with zero cheating.

P.S does anyone have good algs for all 4 awkward shapes Oll's and the Nb Perm? Mine are really bad.

Thanks for coming out, man. I am bummed that you faked your times, but I hope to see improvement in you. Lying is a tricky subject to deal with, but never do it unless you are talking to anyone about their looks. Even behind their backs, always say they look good.
For the awkward shapes, starting with the ones that look like the U cases for COLL, you want to do a sune from the front or back, depending on where the corner is. Then rotate the U layer and do a T-OLL.
-- M --
M M |
M _ M Do the sune in the front, then the T will show up on top

M -- M
M M |
-- M -- Do the sune in the back, then the T will show up on top.

As for the awkward shapes that look like a T-shape oll, there is an alg that I have memorized into both muscle and mental memory.

M M --
| M M
M _ _ (r' D' r) U' (r' D r2) U' (r' U r U r')

-- M M
M M |
_ _ M Just do the same alg, but lefty. (Not supplying an alg because I am too lazy to do so)

These are the same algs that I learned from Jperm's newest oll algorithm + fingertrick video.

 

[Eli Apperson]

Lying is a tricky subject to deal with, but never do it unless you are talking to anyone about their looks. Even behind their backs, always say they look good.

This made me laugh so hard.