Bantler
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What the hell are these magnets I'm hearing about and where do you put them and why???!!!
They go in the edges and corners, so that when the cube is in cube shape (as opposed to mid-turn) there is additional friction holding the cube in that shape. To a lesser extent they also pull, so that if the cube is close to aligned the magnets help align it. They are very helpful, especially for higher-order puzzles.What the hell are these magnets I'm hearing about and where do you put them and why???!!!
To follow up on One Wheel's excellent answer - the placement of the magnets (and size and strength and so on) matters a lot. You have to make sure polarity is correct and so on. It's actually very easy to magnetize a 3x3, more challenging to do higher-order cubes (since they're harder to reassemble).What the hell are these magnets I'm hearing about and where do you put them and why???!!!
more challenging to do higher-order cubes (since they're harder to reassemble).
I guess all I can see on the list who are on this thread often are you, me, and Jae. It would be nice to actually spend some real time talking to you guys - I hope we can work something out.Nevertheless. Hopefully we can pull something together Friday then when ya most likely to have the most people in town.
My 3BLD mean PB from the weekend
That one was a nice surprise when I lifted the blindfold - I expected worse. My memo is so much slower in competitions!Just so fun to watch that :51.
I had first sub10 solve with 9.97 time. Scramble: D R2 L' U' B L' F B2 L' F2 L2 D2 B2 L2 U L2 U' R2 L2 U' R2 I cant reconstruct last two pairs. It was OLL skip I predicted with Ua perm.
As I mentioned in the FB group my latest 3x3 fad has been VHLS in order to get some more advanced EO control in my tool belt. I know it's not going to provide a huge benefit on its own but I decided to take it on anyway because 1) there aren't many algs, 2) the algs are all fairly short, and 3) recognition is very very easy.
The bigger story is the deeper rabbit hole it has sent me down on fundamentals: grip and finger tricks. I had already started to pay attention to keeping in neutral grip as much as possible during F2L in slow solves and drilling the VHLS algs seemed like a perfect exercise to work on that as well.
The first problem to overcome is the lack of a U2' move with my left. I learned a lot of my algs with a right hand re-grip at the start to accommodate the fact that I could only do U2 with my right. Slowly examining what I do for U2 with my right made me realize I've been gripping too low on the back with my left ring finger. With smallish hands that makes it difficult or impossible to get a good flick with my middle finger for the 2nd turn. And just like that, now I have a usable U2' for the first time and a bazillion algs with a bad re-grip habit to break.
Next up is the hope of smooth F/F' moves without a re-grip, I'd definitely like to get a workable sledgehammer without re-grips. It's a beautiful thing when the whole last slot + OLL flow nicely without a single re-grip.
Regardless of whether or not I end up actually using VHLS much my F2L is going to be so much better once i break some of my instinctive right hand re-grips and am comfortable with the finger-trick alterations.
I’ve never sorted a regripless sledgehammer. I can’t even imagine how this works. Everyone regrips for the F’ at the end right?
I've added a page to the senior rankings, listing future competitions with senior competitors registered. Hopefully it will prove useful to people attending competitions and especially newcomers who might not know any of our little community. If you meet anybody who isn't on the list then it's also a great opportunity to share the group details! The registrations pages will be refreshed at the same time as the rankings themselves - i.e. several times a week.
https://logiqx.github.io/wca-ipy/Future_Competitions.html
I’ve never sorted a regripless sledgehammer. I can’t even imagine how this works. Everyone regrips for the F’ at the end right?
I'll see if I can get this on camera in the next week or two, I'm already convinced I can make this work. Adjusting to this new stuff is going to seriously slow me down for as much as a couple months but once the new habits are instinctive it's gonna be a huge boon for my solves.