"NEW" Race to Sub-30!

[Baian Liu]

33.88
OH

33.33, 32.61, 35.90, 36.73, 32.47, (24.28), 32.85, 33.01, 34.07, 35.02, (42.36), 32.77

24 was a PLL skip.

 

[Alcuber]

Round 31
Average 39.96
44.10
43.26
(52.50)
40.16
37.24
38.66
(37.21)
39.55
38.42
40.32
37.68
40.22

Despite the average start this is a PB! And my first sub 40. I have improved without any practice.

 

[baseball-chicago]

38.60
1. F2 U F' B D2 L F2 U L' F B' L' B R' D B' L B' R2 U F L' D B' U'- 33.59
2. R' U' B2 D' F D2 R' F' L2 U F B' L D2 B2 F' R2 D U' L2 B' F2 L D' R' - 37.57
3. D' F' R2 U R F2 R' L F' R' U2 D F2 U R' U' F' R' U' L2 B R2 B' L' U2- 41.89
4. U2 R2 B U B' R L2 B2 F' R' B2 U' F' U F2 R2 F U' B' R2 F' U' D F B- 37.55
5. U' R2 L2 U2 R' U R' U L' U2 D' F' D' F D2 F D' F' R' D' U R' F' B D2- 40.86
6. L' B2 U B' R B2 U L D' R F2 D L' F2 B L R D2 L2 F B' L' U2 L2 F- 36.30
7. B' F2 U' B2 F2 U2 B L2 B2 U' D2 R' F L F' L F R D2 R' B' U' B2 D' U'- 34.69
8. R' B U2 R' F' U' R B2 F U F2 L B2 D' R2 U2 D F U2 R' L D U' R' F2 1:11.23
9. F R' F' D2 B F R' F' R D2 U2 R U' D' L F D2 B2 L U2 B F2 U2 L B2 - 39.67
10. R' B' L' D' B2 F D' L2 U2 B F' R' F D B2 U2 F2 L U R U2 F' L' R B'- 31.79
11. L2 U2 B' L R' F2 L B' L2 D' L B U' F' L F' B2 R' B U2 B' R B' F2 U' - 43.84
12. L2 F D2 L' U2 R2 U2 F' D F R' U' B R2 F B R B' L' R' U2 F2 L' R' F2- 40.05

 

[cuber952]

AVG. = 26.44 DONE OH
1. 29.90
2. (19.68)
3. 21.75
4. 27.38
5. 30.44
6. 27.15
7. 24.65
7. 24.02
9. 26.40
10. 25.11
11. (30.75)
12. 27.55

 

[Fluffy]

Round 31
AVG.= 40.95
1. 43.00
2. 36.33
3. 39.64
4. 35.42
5. 47.09
6. 46.17
7. 40.48
8. 37.83
9. 43.19
10. 39.22
11. 38.61
12. 45.06

This is my first time ever to post in this thread and my first time ever to be in competition ( I know its not really a competition but you get the point). I have to say i freaked out on some of my solves and sometimes my brain just went blank on a couple times when i was doing f2l. I think this was not a very good time for me time and should have been 2-4 seconds lower, I just made silly mistakes.

 

[bobo11420]

Round 31
Average = 38.28!!!
1. 38.40
2. 34.06
3. 38.50
4. 39.32
5. 39.00
6. 42.18
7. 31.28
8. 43.94
9. 40.80
10. 38.71
11. 34.48
12. 38.64

WOO! sub 40 in 1 month !! Come on sub 30 !! goal is to be sub 30 by 2 month mark, i think i can do it if i just learn those g perms and get faster with my pll recognition. And yes... best then worst... again... lol. Also new Single NL pb = 27.32 !!!

 

[danielwrr]

Round 31

Number of Pops: 1 (The 1st time poped =/)
Average: 30.17

1. 34.12
2. 28.22
3. 28.69
4. 31.41
5. 28.34
6. 31.78
7. 27.69
8. (35.62)
9. 30.44
10. 27.71
11. 30.65
12. (27.41)

 

[Godmil]

Round 31

Average 37.14

1. 35.74
2. 26.07 (PLL skip)
3. 48.86
4. 51.45
5. 30.82
6. 39.64
7. 30.02
8. 40.16
9. 52.77
10. 36.08
11. 22.80 (Pll skip and PB)
12. 32.59

AGHH! I'd been super happy lately, I felt like I'd finally started seeing my times coming down to the low 30's, but for some reason this Ao12 just went mental. Some really nice starts got messed up when I went haywire during the OLL, or I got near the end of the F2L and realised my cross was misaligned. I rarely have those kind of mistakes but for some reason I had 4 or 5 of them today... on the other hand a PLL skip gave me a new personal best by 3 seconds
Aiming for sub-32 next week.

 

[celli]

Round 31
AVG: 33.42

12: 00:29.82
11: 00:31.84
10: 00:32.16
9: 00:32.85
8: 00:36.79
7: 00:41.59
6: 00:28.98
5: 00:35.70
4: 00:27.76
3: 00:33.97
2: 00:36.56
1: 00:35.53

PB Ao12 is 33.27: so close.... Very good average for me though, finally I'm getting better!!!!!!!!

EDIT: Just got a new PB Ao12: 32.13 jeeeeeeeej, HAPPY NOW!!!!!!

 

[cubefan4848]

Average 26.91 (ZZ) Main Method

29.86, 27.32, 28.48, 30.49, (34.81), 26.64, 27.40, 26.24, 21.04, 25.00, (20.62), 26.62

Average 42.90 (OH)

51.55, 44.98, 36.60, (33.87), 42.42, 44.79, 43.51, 47.28, (51.76), 40.17, 38.66, 39.00

 

[Zann]

round 31

AVG:31.10

1. 29.95
2. 34.29
3. 29.86
4. 27.08
5. 35.39
6. 30.85
7. 29.76
8. 28.79
9. (35.91)
10. 30.69
11. (26.97)
12. 34.37

 

[bobkruijer]

1 (23,69)
2 36,99
3 37,61
4 25,31
5 37,59
6 29,76
7 (51,72)
8 32,43
9 38,45
10 42,13
11 34,91
12 37,41
avg 35,66666667
std.dev 7,484138784

I was doing this in a pretty dark room on my laptop, so had some trouble in recognition, solve 7 was messed up as I got the wrong pll first. Overall not bad but normally I'm more consistent and my avg is about 32-33.

 

[EricReese]

Average of 12: 1:42.21

OH

1. 2:17.48
2. 1:51.90
3. 1:49.66
4. (40.59)
5. (2:22.62)
6. 1:52.13
7. 2:01.54
8. 1:39.27
9. 1:09.98
10. 1:38.73
11. 1:24.02
12. 1:17.43

 

[JasonK]

Round 31 Avg: 30.06

32.50, 32.59, 35.77, 26.06, 29.13, 27.42, 32.07, 26.04, 31.51, 28.50, 24.14, 34.74

This is good cause I've done almost no cubing this week, been busy with school, work etc.
So close though... :fp

 

[cuberr]

Round 31
Average: 38.20

33.70
36.25
46.16
36.49
41.35
36.30
40.94
37.26
44.83
30.27
36.36
38.53

 

[cincyaviation]

Round 31
Average: 39.47 (OH)
47.30, 43.11, 43.36, 41.97, 34.78, 23.52, 40.70, 36.41, 35.27, 1:21.91, 33.91, 37.92

 

[Brian Kremer]

Round Thirty-One

Average: 34.28
1. 33:07 F2 U F' B D2 L F2 U L' F B' L' B R' D B' L B' R2 U F L' D B' U'
2. 32.18 R' U' B2 D' F D2 R' F' L2 U F B' L D2 B2 F' R2 D U' L2 B' F2 L D' R'
3. 34.46 D' F' R2 U R F2 R' L F' R' U2 D F2 U R' U' F' R' U' L2 B R2 B' L' U2
4. 25.96 U2 R2 B U B' R L2 B2 F' R' B2 U' F' U F2 R2 F U' B' R2 F' U' D F B
5. 34.51 U' R2 L2 U2 R' U R' U L' U2 D' F' D' F D2 F D' F' R' D' U R' F' B D2
6. 32.72 L' B2 U B' R B2 U L D' R F2 D L' F2 B L R D2 L2 F B' L' U2 L2 F
7. 26.73 B' F2 U' B2 F2 U2 B L2 B2 U' D2 R' F L F' L F R D2 R' B' U' B2 D' U'
8. 37.01 R' B U2 R' F' U' R B2 F U F2 L B2 D' R2 U2 D F U2 R' L D U' R' F2
9. 37.52 F R' F' D2 B F R' F' R D2 U2 R U' D' L F D2 B2 L U2 B F2 U2 L B2
10. 33.27 R' B' L' D' B2 F D' L2 U2 B F' R' F D B2 U2 F2 L U R U2 F' L' R B'
11. 64.35 L2 U2 B' L R' F2 L B' L2 D' L B U' F' L F' B2 R' B U2 B' R B' F2 U'
12. 41.30 L2 F D2 L' U2 R2 U2 F' D F R' U' B R2 F B R B' L' R' U2 F2 L' R' F2

Brian -- I've got a Sheng En F2 as well, and I like it quite a bit (I don't have a lot of other cubes, just a Haiyan's Memory Cube [only had it for a week] and a Ghosthand II) but, I had the same problem. The caps would pop off here and there. Seeing that I only really need to take the caps off the center cubies, I decided that when they would pop off I'd super glue them back into place. I used super glue with the precision tip. However, if you decide to go that route -- I recommend putting just one drop, and do it inside the cubie, not on the cap. Cause some will want to squeeze out. It's not a big deal if that happens, just use an exacto and then wet sand it. Now that I've done that (and re-stickered it, cause the stickers were terrible), my F2 is my main cube over the Ghosthand (however the haiyan's is quickly becoming my fav).

I superglued the caps and it was much better! The stickers were terrible, though. I replaced them all but the green ones because I don't have any spares. I switched back to my guhong until I order some new stickers someday.

Don't bother with learning OLLs for quite some time. I'm still using 2-look and there's a vid Erik Akkersdijk put up of him doing beginner's LBL method with 4-look last layer and he had a sub-20 average. If you're still pulling out your bottom layer cubies then you need to work on F2L a lot. Efficient F2L, Cross and 4LLL can take you pretty far but if you're doing 3LLL you can easily sub-30 it and even sub-20 with just that. You don't really need to learn more. Just practice what you know. If you're that close to finishing full PLL then finish that up but after that focus on F2L. You should be able to pair up you corners and edges in the top layer and then insert them together without having to pull out the white corner for most cases. If you haven't watched badmephisto's F2L tutorials I highly recommend them. More than anything else. I'll get the links to his vids.

Part One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-xbcAMfWwM

Part Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GxLM_dZqg4

Tips for Practicing F2L
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnkSZZ6OoQ4

His Thought Process while doing F2L
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzkHrz8x2eo


Those are all you need for awhile

Thank you! I started learning F2L from those badmephisto videos months ago... I went back and watched them all again. I also found some "Advanced F2L Tutorials" by DanielDude1554 that were very helpful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nR0njh_Mzk This week I learned 2 new cases with the corner cubie in the first layer and their mirrors.

log

Spoiler

Untimed: 201
Untimed bld cross: 38
Untimed bld cross and blind f2l: 36

Timed: 149
ao12: 43.32, 43.69, 41.58, 38.92
ao50: 41.21, 38.89

OH
(U' R ) x 63: 29.76, 29.29, 25.30
(U2 R2) x 6: 6.62, 7:17, 8.56, 7.07
(U' R U R') x 6: 17.23, 9.69, 16.77, 16.73, 11.71
(U R) x 63: DNF

1 pll skip and 2 oll skips this week.

 

[NeedReality]

Round 31 (Roux)
Average: 24.78

27.54,
26.18,
28.37,
32.93,
24.85,
22.00,
24.61,
23.10,
21.58,
24.22,
24.22,
22.69

Yay. I realized I'm starting to do more of a corners first Roux-ish method than just pure Roux, but I like it.

 

[darkerarceus]

YIkes! Forgot to post! I've done this for 3 days now and at the end I'll leave a message about something...

Round 31

43.71

46.41
36.55
49.77
38.75
46.92
43.43
46.19
47.66
44.11
40.74
39.59
43.34

IMPORTANT: I will not participate in this thread until around after christmas as my main's blue face screw has stuffed up again and teflon tape doesn't work (I can't screw the screw in either! ) So yeah.. C'mon Lingyuen come!

 

[Ricardo Kim]

Statistics for 12-01-2010 21:53:36

Cubes Solved: 12/12
Number of Pops: 0
Average: 39.39
Standard Deviation: 3.29
Best Time: 32.30
Worst Time: 43.47
Individual Times:
1. 42.91 D F2 R F2 U2 L' D U' B' F L D2 B F' R' B2 D U2 F2 L2 R2 B U R' U2
2. 40.25 D2 F' L2 R B F' L2 R' D U F2 L R' U L2 D U2 R' B2 F2 L' B' L R2 F'
3. 43.47 L' D' U L R2 U R2 D2 B D U' B2 R2 B' F2 L B2 D2 L2 R' U' L' R B' D2
4. 41.33 D2 B R B F L F D R2 D' U F R F R B2 F D U' F' R B' L R U'
5. 38.06 L2 R' D' U2 R2 B' F' D2 R2 D L2 R B F L' R' B F L2 R' F L2 R2 D U2
6. 41.92 R' U' R' B2 F D2 U B2 F' D2 L' R U B' D' B2 F' D R U' R U F D' L2
7. 42.56 L' R D F' U F2 L' R2 B F' R2 D2 L' D' L U' L F D' U R2 F2 D B' F2
8. 36.08 U' B' D' U2 F L2 D2 U L D' U2 B2 F2 D2 U2 B F2 L' B2 F' D2 U2 L' R' D2
9. 35.28 U' F L' B2 F' U2 L B2 U R F' U F' U R B F L D2 L2 R B L' D U'
10. 39.55 L R' B F' U' B' L2 R F R B F2 L' D U2 B' D2 R D' U L R2 D' U2 F'
11. 38.91 L' U R2 U' B' U F R B L2 B2 F' D U' L B2 F2 U' F2 L2 B D' U L U2
12. 32.30 B2 R' D U B2 F2 D R D2 U' R B U2 L2 D U2 F2 L R2 B' L2 D2 B L U'