Hi, Gordon from Swizerland here!

[MarcelP]

I agree with Kattenvriendin, TPS is nothing he needs to worry about. In fact, his turn style is very nice and should give him great look into the next pair. At this point Gordon is probably not really experienced in looking ahead. Turning faster will only make lookahead more difficult. I agree that cross is something he could work on which might have the best effect on his times on short term. Becomming CN helps a lot in that area

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Yup, indeed.. as you know I CAN have a fast TPS, but my look ahead needs working on. So.. I am actually slowing down, purposely now training on looking and finding the next pair as of when I found the current one.

 

[Gordon]

I could turn faster, but then I have to search longer for the next F2L pairs. Not that I don't have to search for them when I turn with tis speed, but this way, I hope that my lookahead improves.
However, my TPS during OLL and PLL could be higher.

For the moment I stick with trying to get CN and improve my cross.

My last Avg of 5 on blue cross: 38.86 (individual times: 49.01, 40.17, 33.60, 37.32, 39.08)

 

[cxinlee]

You should check out macky's guide on looking ahead here. It really helped me a lot. Also check out badmephisto's f2l videos if you haven't already done so. His channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/badmephisto/videos?view=0 .

 

[lcsbiffi]

I do the cross fast, then on f2l I slow down a lot of and when I get to LL I do it super fast. That's how it goes for me

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[Gordon]

Just broke my ao5 PB for 4x4: 3:55.19 - Jeeee! Sub 4 minutes
Individual times: 3:52.68, 4:05.14, 3:47.74, 4:49.69, 3:34.12
Scrambles from Weekly Competition

The 3:34.12 is just 1.2 seconds over my single PB...

 

[Gordon]

New 2x2 average of 12 and average of 5 PBs:

Average of 12: 8.44
8.65, 5.66, (5.32), 11.81, 7.52, 6.62, 8.73, 9.14, 8.20, 10.19, (14.97), 7.88

Including average of 5: 6.60
5.66, (5.32), (11.81), 7.52, 6.62

 

[Kattenvriendin]

NICE!!! Well done

 

[Gordon]

Thanks. I'm really happy with those times. I've improved both PBs by roughly 1.5 seconds.

I used my freshly tensioned and lubed WitTwo V1. I guess that helped.

 

[Zamulacz]

Hi Gordon!
Ya, that's sad there aren't competitions in swiss : ( You had just 2 WCA cometition, I think in Genewa and other one, from french canton. And in Poland we have like 6-7 in year I'm sometimes in swiss, in Biel, and other.Beautiful country. Btw, you must try have better look ahead, with that speed you can solve much faster. Nice vids.

 

[MarcelP]

New 2x2 average of 12 and average of 5 PBs:

Average of 12: 8.44
8.65, 5.66, (5.32), 11.81, 7.52, 6.62, 8.73, 9.14, 8.20, 10.19, (14.97), 7.88

Including average of 5: 6.60

5.66, (5.32), (11.81), 7.52, 6.62

Nice!! I should practice 2 X 2 more...

 

[lcsbiffi]

Nice!! I should practice 2 X 2 more...

Me too

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Me three, but I am going to focus on the 3x3 mostly, even with the comp coming up. Doing pyraminx as well.

But I want to improve that 3x3 time already lol

 

[Gordon]

And again some new PB's, this time for 4x4:

Average of 5: 3:27.30
3:24.24, 3:28.83, 3:04.40, 3:57.08, 3:28.82
(Scrambles from the weekly competition)

Both PBs far better than the old ones:
old single PB: 3:32.92
old avg of 5: 3:55.19


It would be time for some new 3x3 PBs aswell...

 

[MarcelP]

I think I will do the 4 X 4 in this weeks weekly competition also. You should feel really superior after seeing my times

 

[Gordon]

But I would bet it doesn't take very long and you are faster than I am.

 

[MarcelP]

I think it would take very long.. here is my entry for the weekly competition:

4X4X4: (6:11.84) 5:59.69 4:38.70 4:54.67 (4:22.56) = 5:11.02

Note, the last 3 are all without any form of parity

 

[Gordon]

Today I've finished the blue-only phase with this avg of 12:

Average of 12: 39.353

Individual times:
32.743, 41.848, 43.546, 41.946, 45.803, 43.950, 35.118, 36.818, 39.250, (31.050), (47.582), 32.512

The times are not that good and I still have problems finding the right pairs during F2L. Maybe one week blue only was not enougt to get used to it. But I will now go over to green, maybe that also helps a bit for blue. We will see in one week...


After the blue only avg of 12 I did some solves on white again, just to check how the times are:

Best Time: 27.648
Worst Time: 1:14.426
Average of 5: 34.105

Spoiler

Individual times:
1: 49.012 (U' F' U2 R' U R2 D2 F' D L F D R U' B U2 L' U' B' D2 F' R2 D' L U' )
2: 32.409 (B2 R B2 L2 D2 F D' F2 U' F' R' B U R' U2 R' F2 R D B L D F' R' F' )
3: 35.720 (R B2 U' B2 L2 D2 F' L' B L F' U' R' F D R2 U F D R' U R B' R' F )
4: 27.648 (D B R B2 R2 D' F' L U' L' D L' U' B' R U F U' R D' R U' R2 U B2 )
5: 1:14.426 (B D R2 F U' L' U B L' U' R2 U' F D' R' F' L' U2 B2 U R2 D2 F2 U' B )
6: 34.186 (B' R' U' F R D' L2 F D' L B2 U2 R' F U2 R2 D' L' F2 R2 B' R' F D' F2 )

The first solve was strange. I had first to get used to white cross again and the time was crap.
After that it was better, except for the fifth solve, where I messed up a G-Perm twice... without that, the time would have been better. After the first time messed up the G-perm the time was around 34 seconds...

 

[Gordon]

After Kattenvriendin talking that much about the tuttminx, i ordered one today. I think this one will fit perfect in my collection.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Woohoo!!!

I do hope you ordered from VeryPuzzle. You will not be disappointed.

Do note the 120 degree turns and all as depicted on the site. There is also a lot of info on it on the Twistypuzzles forum that is useful.

I have yet to scramble it, I want a friend to see it first, and I know solving will be a multi-day event alright lol