[Member Intro] I came across a relic of the past

ORTEGA

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Heya!
Nice to meet you all.
I'm a french student in computer engineering that recently moved to be closer to its school.

So,
I always had a thing for puzzles, I tried a lot of things such as dovetails, magic copters, boxes... and I was curious about Rubik's.

As I moved in my new flat( start of September) I stumbled upon a relic of the past that the previous student left.
A Rubik's cube ! (it was weird as it was sticker less)
Called him to let him know, he said " I don't want to touch that thing again" (multiples pops and locks later I knew why :,-) turns out it is a dayan zhanchi).
So anyway I started cubing intuitively. I went for the first face and quickly realized it needed to be redone to fit the centers to make a layer.

Then the second layer wasn't much more complicated and then last layer... I tried so many things like break something and getting it back in another way ... Nothing would do.
Eventually ( also accidentally) I got the oll right and got a pll h , I tried a few slices turns and solved it . That's It... I was hooked, scrambled it and tried again and never got anything but Gperms or dot olls so I wouldn't know what to do.

Frustrated , I went online and oh boy I was not ready. Feliks, Max park, tommy cherry, Jperm, Matt Valks... All these legendary cubers doing it in seconds , one handed and ... BLD !!? I had to try it.
So as of November, i started learning cfop and 3 style for the 3x3 and I bought a 4x4 and a 5x5 from mgc so I am learning yau .
I bought a megaminx with pyraminx from gan. I promise I will get something else for 3x3 (Wrm maglev seems about right).

My goal for now is to be sub 20 on 3x3 ( atm I plateau at 25/30) , learn blind ( got speffz and my letter pairs ready ... Why have I chosen to learn blind..) and for big just mastering those parity plus redux with yau will be enough atm.

I also like to play some hardcore vermintide 2 ( modded and some official) and same for deep rock galactic.
I'm off to read and post threads here.
Sry for the long post.
 
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Welcome to the forums! That's very impressive that you managed to solve the cube on your own, even if you got a little lucky the first time.
I hope you enjoy your stay here!

If you have discord, there's a Speedsolving Chat server that's reasonably active. There's also a Cubeur Francophones discord server, if you'd prefer that.
 
Welcome to the forums! That's very impressive that you managed to solve the cube on your own, even if you got a little lucky the first time.
I hope you enjoy your stay here!

If you have discord, there's a Speedsolving Chat server that's reasonably active. There's also a Cubeur Francophones discord server, if you'd prefer that.
Thanks for the warm welcome.
I guess my experience with puzzles helped me especially with trying to create algorithms.

I have already joined the speed solving chat, people there are great.
I'll go take a peak at the french one thank you :-)
 
Heya!
Nice to meet you all.
I'm a french student in computer engineering that recently moved to be closer to its school.

So,
I always had a thing for puzzles, I tried a lot of things such as dovetails, magic copters, boxes... and I was curious about Rubik's.

As I moved in my new flat( start of September) I stumbled upon a relic of the past that the previous student left.
A Rubik's cube ! (it was weird as it was sticker less)
Called him to let him know, he said " I don't want to touch that thing again" (multiples pops and locks later I knew why :,-) turns out it is a dayan zhanchi).
So anyway I started cubing intuitively. I went for the first face and quickly realized it needed to be redone to fit the centers to make a layer.

Then the second layer wasn't much more complicated and then last layer... I tried so many things like break something and getting it back in another way ... Nothing would do.
Eventually ( also accidentally) I got the oll right and got a pll h , I tried a few slices turns and solved it . That's It... I was hooked, scrambled it and tried again and never got anything but Gperms or dot olls so I wouldn't know what to do.

Frustrated , I went online and oh boy I was not ready. Feliks, Max park, tommy cherry, Jperm, Matt Valks... All these legendary cubers doing it in seconds , one handed and ... BLD !!? I had to try it.
So as of November, i started learning cfop and 3 style for the 3x3 and I bought a 4x4 and a 5x5 from mgc so I am learning yau .
I bought a megaminx with pyraminx from gan. I promise I will get something else for 3x3 (Wrm maglev seems about right).

My goal for now is to be sub 20 on 3x3 ( atm I plateau at 25/30) , learn blind ( got speffz and my letter pairs ready ... Why have I chosen to learn blind..) and for big just mastering those parity plus redux with yau will be enough atm.

I'm off to read and post threads here.
Sry for the long post.
welcome. How have your avgs been going?
 
welcome. How have your avgs been going?
Hey .
It depends a lot on the scramble.
For yau reduction , I am at 1 min for 4*4 ( still learning to use 3-2-3) and 4 minutes for 5*5. Then the random occurs as I only know half the olls and miss some pills.

So for 3*3 I'm currently at sub 22 but if I **** up my edge control I get a oll idk plus I might get an unknown pll. Accounting for the worst cases , I'll get a 28 avg. Just add 5-10 secs for 4*4 and 5*5 and you have my avg when they are redux.
For blind , i started using 3 style : memo 3min avg ( i need to work a lot on my words for pairs ,a lot don't come up fast) and 2 min 24 secs avg for execution ( i film plus Split m'y solves to spot problems)
I haven't timed any mega or pyra solves , i m just having fun with them. Pyra would prolly be 40 secs with no method and megaminx 7 mins , I use comms to solve LL which is super slow.
 
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