Hi, Gordon from Swizerland here!

[MarcelP]

In my defence, it was my first solve of the day with cold hands.. I am going to do the same scramble when I get home after a warm up. Hoping for a sub 20 solve

 

[lcsbiffi]

Is that a challenge? Haha

 

[MarcelP]

For me yes.. I know you are a bit faster than me

 

[MarcelP]

Ok, I did a few warm up solves (about 10) and then did the scramble again. This time I got a 26 second solve.. LOL.. figure that. Then I did the scramble with orange on U and got a 21 second solve http://youtu.be/5byCVSAhLqw This time I knew where the pairs where. So it is like cheating.

Then I did the scramble with blue on top and got a 20.59. I am pretty sure if I do it a few more times on different colors I would get a sub 20.
[video=youtube_share;p4G3A5ipFdI]http://youtu.be/p4G3A5ipFdI[/video]

 

[mark49152]

video

What are you listening to?

 

[Gordon]

What are you listening to?

Tom Petty - I'm Learning To Fly.

Or is it someone else who sings this song?

 

[MarcelP]

Yep, Tom Petty. It's just the radio.

 

[mark49152]

Yep, Tom Petty. It's just the radio.

Sorry I meant the other vid, with the guitar solo. Just wondering if listening to guitar solos might help my cubing speed

 

[MarcelP]

Ah.. I don't know which song that was. But yeah, cubing in silence slows me down. Good music gets me in the flow

 

[Gordon]

Today I cubed again the first time since nearly a week... well, since the last posted time here.

I did the avg of 5 from whe weekly forum competition and this is the result:

Avg of 5: 34.00
36.48 - not bad for the first solve of the day
32.88 - ok
31.52 - ok
38.50 - damn you E-perm, lost at least 5 seconds...
32.63 - didn't stop the time correctly, so I maybe lost a second or so.

Overall, I'm happy with the solves. But now I have to learn a better E-Perm.




Lost 5 seconds on 4th solve because of E-Perm and at least one second on 5th solve because of not stopping timer correctly

 

[Kattenvriendin]

I do my e-perm like so:

Say yellow is the last layer, Grab a solved cube, turn it so yellow is on R and then do this:

U2 R2 F
(R U R' U') 3x
F' R2 U2

You will find the two to be swappeds on top of each other

 

[Gordon]

That's how I do it. But it takes me very long to find out how to orient the top layer before executing to not get a H-Perm.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Ah like so.. at least that H perm is fast *giggle*

Maybe check the wiki for another one, that is how I found mine in any case.

 

[TP]

(x') R U' R' D R U R' D' R U R' D R U' R' D' (x)

I recently started using this E-Perm, it´s very easy to learn and execute.

 

[MarcelP]

One of the shittiest thing about the E-perm is not the execution, but the aligning of the U face before you can execute. It takes a few seconds for me to align..

 

[Gordon]

That's exactly my problem.

I just saw this video which explans the E-Perm quite good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVru99o6vjA

 

[Gordon]

I thought that it would be good to do some 4x4 again. So I started with timed 4x4 solves for the forum competition. The first solve was directly a new single PB.

3:37.45
D Rw2 D2 Uw' F2 R2 U2 B F Rw2 D' L R Uw2 Fw' D' B2 Fw U2 B Uw F R2 F' D B2 U Fw F' Uw2 R' U2 L F2 Rw D' L' B Fw2 F

The old single PB was 3:59.22... more than 20 seconds improovement... that's the advantage if you are slow... you get big improovements.
And if I remember correct, this is the second sub 4 minutes solve.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Well done!
I am slow as molasses on 4x4 but who cares as long as it's fun

 

[MarcelP]

I think I have never been below 5 minutes. I totally suck at 4 X 4 and 5 X 5 etc. But I do think it is great fun just to solve them. Nice PB! I might work on that a little bit too

 

[Username]

Well done!
I am slow as molasses on 4x4 but who cares as long as it's fun

I think I have never been below 5 minutes. I totally suck at 4 X 4 and 5 X 5 etc. But I do think it is great fun just to solve them. Nice PB! I might work on that a little bit too

Practice I was at 4 minutes and 30 seconds about 2 months ago, now I'm at 1.30