My Quest for Sub 8 Petrus

Will I get to Sub 8 with Petrus?

  • Yes

    Votes: 156 79.6%
  • No

    Votes: 40 20.4%

  • Total voters
    196
I’ve just realised... I’m sub 17 now. I have no idea how long I’ve been sub 17 for to be honest, since I didn’t really pay attention to my time stats for a bit. And also... A new PB Ao5!!! Two 13s in a row :)
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Ummm..... Petrus-W was already invented as A HK varaint...

It's named The "petrus varaint" by Alex Maass
 
Ummm..... Petrus-W was already invented as A HK varaint...

It's named The "petrus varaint" by Alex Maass
It's almost Petrus-W but no EO is done before the pairs and the solve is finished with L5E instead of L5EP.
There are a lot of methods really similar to Petrus-W, some examples would be the Tudor method or Pikas**t.
 
The Petrus variant is what I'm talking about.

It mentions doing EO and L5EP, though.
At some point he suggests orienting ONLY the F2L edges, which is a completely different Idea.
Plus it's Alex Maass who said at my comp he wanted to burn a ZZ RUL the world t-shirt so it doesn't count.
 
I did a LOT of solving today (I think 1/5 of my overall solve times in Chaotimer were done today!), and I’m happy to say I am now sub 18 :). I rarely get 18s now, and pretty much never get above that, unless I mess up big time. The main reason for this was was probably just my lookahead has improved a lot through pure practising, no FMCing or working on specific steps. By the way I also did some of my splits, here they are:
2x2x2: 2.806
2x2x3: 4.244
EO: 1.160
F2L: 4.737
LL: 4.554
I think next week’s focus should be the 2x2x3, since everything else seems to be going really good, but here is not (it’s kind of meh). Anybody disagree?
Plus, yeah I know, I’ve been really lazy with ZBLL, but by the end of March, I PROMISE to have finished all the T ZBLLs, and have drilled them.
V2, two seconds faster now.
2x2x2: 2.307
2x2x3: 4.146
EO: 1.162
F2L: 4.675
LL: 4.357
2x2x2 has improved the most, EO has gone down a bit, but that is pretty luckbased, and takes a fraction of a solve, the rest has improved a little bit. Still need to work on expansion a little, F2L, and TPS during LL. Next week, I think I’ll just passively work on those 3 steps I mentioned individually.
 
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V2, two seconds faster now.
2x2x2: 2.307
2x2x3: 4.146
EO: 1.162
F2L: 4.675
LL: 4.357
2x2x2 has improved the most, EO has gone down a hit, but that is pretty luckbased, and takes a fraction of a solve, the rest has improved a little bit. Still need to work on expansion a little, F2L, and TPS during LL.
Looks pretty good! The expansions still seems a bit slow, though.

Also I'm learning 1L PLL and can't find your G Perm that everyone seems to like.
 
Yeah, I will continue working on that. Here are the G Perms:
 
I’ll do some individual step timing this week, instead of doing full solves, or focusing on skills. Hopefully I can get my expansion time below four seconds, and my F2L + Last layer sub 8.4. If not, I’ll give it another week
 
So, I convinced my parents to let me create a video and upload it, and they said yes, but no face reveal. Now I have one video on my channel here. It’s just a nice solve, don’t get excited.
Might not have uploaded yet.
anyone can go to your WCA profile for a face reveal...
 
My parents don’t know that, do they? ~Evil smiley face reaction~
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Now 7 :)
 
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