Hi, Gordon from Swizerland here!

[Gordon]

Yes, I ordered it fom there and I hope it will arrive soon. Hopefully it will take a while to be solved. The last puzzle i solved over multiple days was the super square one column, but this took so long because the inner rings were hard to turn without moving the center column.

Today I wanted to do an avg of 50. But after ine hour I just had done 40 solves. However, I bet my avg of 12 pb:
33.80

It was a while ago since I've bet one of my 3x3x3 pbs...

 

[MarcelP]

You see that doing large timed solves is good for your averages? I must sound like the advocates devil but the more large timed solves you do, the faster you get I do an Ao100normally once a week, but lately I try to squeeze in a few Ao50s per week as well.

 

[Gordon]

The problem is that I usually don't have time for that large averages. I would be happy if I could...

 

[Gordon]

First 4x4x4 solve after over a week or so:
2:53.73!

This is my first sub 3 mins time

 

[Gordon]

Woohoo!

Returned to work after one week vacation and three packages with cubes waiting for me. All of them arrived last week.
It's easyer to start work after vacations like this

I've received orders from HK Now Store (DaYan I TaiYan), SpeedCubeShop (Japanese Speedcubing Kit 3x3x3 (Rubiks Cube with tensionable core) and a DianSheng Axis Cube) and from zCube (Type A cube chun 1, ShengShou 3x3x3 Wind (2 of them), Dayan LingYun V2 and a Master Magic).

Now I'm waiting to go home to assemble some cubes.

 

[lcsbiffi]

Woohoo!

Returned to work after one week vacation and three packages with cubes waiting for me. All of them arrived last week.
It's easyer to start work after vacations like this

I've received orders from HK Now Store (DaYan I TaiYan), SpeedCubeShop (Japanese Speedcubing Kit 3x3x3 (Rubiks Cube with tensionable core) and a DianSheng Axis Cube) and from zCube (Type A cube chun 1, ShengShou 3x3x3 Wind (2 of them), Dayan LingYun V2 and a Master Magic).

Now I'm waiting to go home to assemble some cubes.

Review the shenshou wind I'm thinking about getting one for my little sister.

 

[Gordon]

If you want a review, I woult recommend to find one on youtube. Most of the reviewers there have more experience in compairing cubes than I have...

But I think for the ~$2.50 (http://www.zcube.cn/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=88) you get a quite good one for your sister. It turns good, can cut corners a bit but is not comparable to a ZhanChi or something in that range.

 

[Gordon]

Finaly again a new 3x3 single PB. Broke my old one by 0.3 seconds:

24.09
D' R D2 L' U' L2 B D2 L' B2 D2 L2 F' U' L' F' D B R2 F R2 F2 D' F' R'

It was a quite simple cross on white and two free pairs.
The funny thing is that I used my white ZhanChi which I usually never use, just picked it this morning for no reason... It even does not turn as good as my usual main cube.

 

[MarcelP]

I am going to do that scramble when I get home after work. Congrats on the new PB! Always nice to get one.

 

[Gordon]

Another funny fact about my new PB is that I broke the old one exactly after 100 days.

I wrote this on 27.11.2012:

Yay! Finaly a new single PB: 24.39. It's my second sub 25 time ever

I cannot completly reproduce my solve, but these were the cross and first two F2L pairs:
x2 // inspection
D2 R2 F' D2 U' F2 // cross
y' U R U' R' // 1st F2L
U' L' U L // 2nd F2L

 

[Bestsimple]

Nice I got a 16.57 on that scramble(good for me).

I did something like this.

D2 U B U F
R' U M' U2 r' U R2 U M' U2 M r' U' r
U L' U2 L U2 r U' r' F
M U' M' U M2 U M' U2 M

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Well done!! I'll try and remember and do that scramble later on when I am warmed up and rested. Ehh.. rested and warmed up hahah. Just got home from work

Congrats!!

 

[MarcelP]

I had 22.81 on that scramble.. Nice one!

 

[Kattenvriendin]

25.15!

And it is a legit scramble, so this is going in as my new PB single LOL

 

[Gordon]

I had 22.81 on that scramble.. Nice one!

Come on... you can do that better

25.15!

And it is a legit scramble, so this is going in as my new PB single LOL

Nice. Congratulations!




I've just filmed an average of five again, it was not the best ever, but not bad... It will be uploaded somewhen today.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

I need to do that again.. when my fingers wish to cooperate I shall LOL

Curious for yours!

 

[MarcelP]

Come on... you can do that better

Yes, I think so too. It was my first solve of the day after long and tired day at work. My hands where not warmed up. But for me 22 is stil very fast I wish these would have more..

 

[Gordon]

Here's the video:

So far my fastest Avg of 5 on video. However, .... MUST IMPROVE CROSS...

 

[MarcelP]

Nice! Turnstyle/fingers tricks are very good. Algortims are also good. Only thing is speed. You might want to speed up a bit. At your speed it is very easy to look ahead. I guess you could do you insterts of your F2L with your eyes closed. That means, you could look for the next pair while inserting. I think right now you are following the whole insert with your eyes and start to look for next pair afterwards?

 

[Gordon]

Somehow the thing with the not looking at the pairs while inserting doesn't work for me. Every time I try this, I mess up everything. In addition to that, I also loose the piece I'm tracking during the insertion, so this is not possible for my at the moment.

That's why I must insert a pair first and then search the second one.