Nevan J's Road to Square-1 NR

[Nevan J]

OMG WHAT
i just got a squan pb single a few mins ago and i'm still in shock

Generated By csTimer on 2022-11-24
single: 9.74

Time List:
290. 9.74 (0,-4)/ (0,3)/ (4,-5)/ (-3,0)/ (-1,-1)/ (-2,-5)/ (5,0)/ (-3,0)/ (0,-1)/ (6,-3)/ (0,-2)/ (-2,0)

Just take a look at this scramble bro
recon coming soon on my youtube channel

 

[Nevan J]

here's the progress i've made over the past month

I wasn't practising 3x3 and 2x2 that much because I finally have a competition upcoming, and it is in my city, and the venue is just 5 mins away! anyway, it only has side events, so no 3x3 2x2 and 4x4 but it has square-1

So I have mainly be focusing on square-1 the last month. I have become sub-30 to sub-26, gotten quite good with intermediate cubeshape and also learned some EPs. I have started learning full CS as well

For 2x2, I was practising it for the most part, but I wasn't focusing on it that much because it wasn't in the comp. Also i have gotten so bad in 4x4 that i'm not even sub-1 minute but that's because obviously I can't do that many events.

Lastly for 3x3, i have improved a bit even tho I didn't practise it, and you can see that from my previous weekly comp results

I'm doing sq-1, FMC, and 3BLD in this comp, so I really hope to podium in sq-1 since i think there aren't any good people in sq1 except Sukant Koul at the comp (jk). For FMC, I have learnt NISS, Blockbuilding and Pseudoblocks, but I only practise it in weekly comps. and for 3BLD, again I only do it in weekly comps, but when I am feeling motivated I do practise it

My future goals are mainly just to get good in Square-1, 3x3 and 2x2, but I'll probably only start seriously practising 3x3 and 2x2 after the comp

 

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[Nevan J]

Yesterday was my comp so here's what happened

starting off with FMC - I got a 43 move solution so here's what I did: I basically used Blockbuilding, NISS, and was trying to make a skeleton but it was just too bad, so I went with normal Last Pair OLL+PLL, and I got the 6 move OLL, along with a U Perm. Overall quite crazy for me, and I think this is most probably a PB
Next was 3BLD, and I did terrible on the first 2 solves. In the first solve I messed up memo so bad, forgot to do parity, and messed up corners. But on the last solve, I did get a success, which made me happy
next was squan 1st round, and I wouldn't say I did terrible, but I did DNF 1 solve because I did Adj/Adj from the wrong angle
although I did get a counting 15 i think, it still ended up being 22 sec average but I did make finals

In Squan finals, guess what... I got a sub-20 average, which is quite normal for me at home
So overall this comp went great mainly because I will get 3 more events added in my WCA profile and I did decent in all events

btw solves coming on channel soon


also my winter vacations are coming, so I will start updating this thread again!

 

[NigelTheCuber]

Yesterday was my comp so here's what happened

starting off with FMC - I got a 43 move solution so here's what I did: I basically used Blockbuilding, NISS, and was trying to make a skeleton but it was just too bad, so I went with normal Last Pair OLL+PLL, and I got the 6 move OLL, along with a U Perm. Overall quite crazy for me, and I think this is most probably a PB
Next was 3BLD, and I did terrible on the first 2 solves. In the first solve I messed up memo so bad, forgot to do parity, and messed up corners. But on the last solve, I did get a success, which made me happy
next was squan 1st round, and I wouldn't say I did terrible, but I did DNF 1 solve because I did Adj/Adj from the wrong angle
although I did get a counting 15 i think, it still ended up being 22 sec average but I did make finals

In Squan finals, guess what... I got a sub-20 average, which is quite normal for me at home
So overall this comp went great mainly because I will get 3 more events added in my WCA profile and I did decent in all events

btw solves coming on channel soon


also my winter vacations are coming, so I will start updating this thread again!

Sub Nevan J in fmc by 1 move yay

 

[Nevan J]

I finally got a 3x3 pb single after such a long time! My winter vacations have just started from today, and I have started grinding 3x3 seriously

Generated By csTimer on 2022-12-23
single: 8.13

Time List:
180. 8.13 L U2 L U2 B2 L2 B2 F2 L' F2 R' D2 F' D' F2 D2 L' B2 F U'

 

[Nevan J]

Today I finally received what I ordered for christmas!

I had ordered Cubicle Labs Silk 5ml, and 2 T-Shirts (one for me, and one for my elder brother)

I can't test Silk right now, but I will lube my 3x3 and sq-1 with it as both are quite fast and I have heard the mgc sq-1 is good with silk
for my 3x3 (rs3m 2021 maglev) I will probably lube it with a combination of silk and weight 3 and i'll do the same for the sq-1

idk about the mgc elite 2x2 anyone pls help how I should set it up I have weight 1 and 3, and silk

(also I was and still am a bit unwell, that's why I wasn't able to update too much on this thread but ig i'll be fine now)

 

[Nevan J]

Yesterday I grinded a lot of events and I have also started practicing 3BLD recently (this time for real), but I'm only doing it so my memo improves a bit, since that is probably the slowest thing in my solves.

anyway I learnt the O/Adj Adj/O algs for square-1 ep, and I will also learn the O/W and W/O algs
as for advanced cubeshape, i have learnt a bit of Scallop Kite reductions and Scallop Scallop reductions, and I will try to finish learning them by the next few days

 

[Nevan J]

Just broke my square-1 pb single! Sub-9!

Generated By csTimer on 2022-12-30
single: 8.61

Time List:
722. 8.61 (4,0)/ (-4,5)/ (4,4)/ (3,0)/ (5,-4)/ (3,0)/ (0,-2)/ (3,0)/ (1,0)/ (2,0)

 

[Nevan J]

Got a few 1s while grinding 2x2 today

Generated By csTimer on 2022-12-30
single: 1.51

Time List:
2133. 1.51 R F U2 R F2 R2 F2 R2 U' (I got this on the first 2x2 solve of the session!)

Generated By csTimer on 2022-12-30
single: 1.68

Time List:
2193. 1.68 R' F' U' F2 R U2 R' F2 R2

Generated By csTimer on 2022-12-30
single: 1.89

Time List:
2217. 1.89 U F' U F' R' F' R2 F2 U

 

[ProStar]

Got a few 1s while grinding 2x2 today

Generated By csTimer on 2022-12-30
single: 1.51

Time List:
2133. 1.51 R F U2 R F2 R2 F2 R2 U' (I got this on the first 2x2 solve of the session!)

Generated By csTimer on 2022-12-30
single: 1.68

Time List:
2193. 1.68 R' F' U' F2 R U2 R' F2 R2

Generated By csTimer on 2022-12-30
single: 1.89

Time List:
2217. 1.89 U F' U F' R' F' R2 F2 U

What's your average?

 

[Nevan J]

What's your average?

sub-4 with eg-1 and cll

:|

I'm trying to become sub-3 on 2x2

 

[NigelTheCuber]

sub-4 with eg-1 and cll

:|

I'm trying to become sub-3 on 2x2

Try learning one look

 

[Nevan J]

Try learning one look

yes I learnt to on look 3 movers like R U R' and R U' R'
also some cases from jperm's video in which he told some tricks for specific cases
but my problem is tps and lockups so yeah

 

[Nevan J]

2x2 PB Ao5 with 3 consecutive 1s!

Generated By csTimer on 2023-01-02
avg of 5: 2.32

Time List:
2370. 3.14 U' R2 F R F R U' F2 U'
2371. 3.68 R2 F U R2 U R' F' R' F
2372. 1.96 R2 F2 R' F2 U R2 F' R U'
2373. 1.49 F U R U' F' U2 F U' R'
2374. 1.86 R2 U R' U' F R' U' R' F'

 

[NigelTheCuber]

2x2 PB Ao5 with 3 consecutive 1s!

Generated By csTimer on 2023-01-02
avg of 5: 2.32

Time List:
2370. 3.14 U' R2 F R F R U' F2 U'
2371. 3.68 R2 F U R2 U R' F' R' F
2372. 1.96 R2 F2 R' F2 U R2 F' R U'
2373. 1.49 F U R U' F' U2 F U' R'
2374. 1.86 R2 U R' U' F R' U' R' F'

I tried the scrambles

1.35 4.86+ 1.62 0.74 1.32= 1.43 average

Just try onelooking more tbh

 

[Nevan J]

I tried the scrambles

1.35 4.86+ 1.62 0.74 1.32= 1.43 average

Just try onelooking more tbh

ok should I start onelooking 4 movers as well?

 

[NigelTheCuber]

ok should I start onelooking 4 movers as well?

For U or U' insert yes

 

[Nevan J]

ofc bro

ok I'll practice it