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Now that I am one of the cool guys (Almost true sub 30 ;) ) I thought it would be easy to make a Ao5 sub 30 video. Well.. it took me more than an hour or so.. In fact I have not had a sub 30 Ao12 the last few days. Today my Ao12 are sometimes even up in the 34 range. Making a video makes me nervous but I think it is good practice.

I performed a wrong PLL somewhere in there. But since it is no contest I don't care ;)


Average: 29.59
(27.50) 29.84 29.02 (30.38) 29.90

 
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Nice! You're TPS has improved no doubt. One thing - the 29.84 would be a DNF - and you can set that in the bottom left corner. So that would become the worst time.
 
MarcelP said:
Now that I am one of the cool guys (Almost true sub 30 ;) ) I thought it would be easy to make a Ao5 sub 30 video. Well.. it took me more than an hour or so.. In fact I have not had a sub 30 Ao12 the last few days. Today my Ao12 are sometimes even up in the 34 range. Making a video makes me nervous but I think it is good practice.

I performed a wrong PLL somewhere in there. But since it is no contest I don't care ;)


Average: 29.59
(27.50) 29.84 29.02 (30.38) 29.90
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How didn't you see that the cube wasn't solved on the 29.84?

Also, stop the timer faster and that will improve your average by like 1.5 seconds.
 
ThomasJE said:
Nice! You're TPS has improved no doubt. One thing - the 29.84 would be a DNF - and you can set that in the bottom left corner. So that would become the worst time.
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Thanks Thomas. Yes, I know there was a way to do something with the DNF. But I figured let's do the 5 solves first ;) I really did not care about the wrongly executed PLL.

ben1996123 said:
How didn't you see that the cube wasn't solved on the 29.84?

Also, stop the timer faster and that will improve your average by like 1.5 seconds.
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Yes, I did see it when I stopped the timer. The video looks like there is enough lights. Well actually there is a spot light from above. So from the sides it is quite hard to tell the colors apart. Unfortunately it is dark really early in Holland now.

To improve my timer stopping have I ordered a QJ timer. I think, it will get better quickly then.
 
Well, roughly two hours.. ;)

Rubik's cube
Nov 11, 2012 10:36:47 AM - 12:40:20 PM

Mean: 31.97 (OLD PB Crushed)
Standard deviation: 3.94
Best Time: 23.34
Worst Time: 41.87

Best average of 5: 27.11 ((NEW PB)
35-39 - (24.96) 25.39 (30.21) 27.17 28.78

Best average of 12: 29.20 (EXACT SAME AS PB)
33-44 - 26.65 30.51 (24.96) 25.39 30.21 27.17 28.78 27.65 31.45 (35.85) 33.59 30.64

Ao100_31_97.jpg


Whhhoooohoo! :p
 
Nice! You're rapidly improving. If you can get a sub-30 Mo100 by Christmas, that would be great. (43 days!) Also, I looked at your first ever post, and saw this:

MarcelP said:
...My goal is to get below one minute...
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And now you're nearly half that time. You're going to be on my tail very soon...
 
ThomasJE said:
Nice! You're rapidly improving. If you can get a sub-30 Mo100 by Christmas, that would be great. (43 days!) Also, I looked at your first ever post, and saw this:



And now you're nearly half that time. You're going to be on my tail very soon...
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Yes, it is going very well lately. Ao100 sub 30 is my first next goal.

BenVdd said:
damn you broke my ao100 PB :D I'll get you next weekend! ;)
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What? Not today? ;)
 
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Ok, my weekly time session. I was hoping for a Sub 31 Ao50. I came so close...
Ao50_31_06.jpg



And then at no 51.. Oh man... Are you kidding me?
Ohman.jpg


The last 50 I slowed down in dispite my enthousiasme of my good Ao50.. still new PB Ao 50. Ao5 came real close with 0.04 difference.. My Ao100 went from 31.97 to 31.79.. Yay!!
Ao100_16_Nov31_79.jpg
 
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Hoi Gordon,

Looking at my race to sub 30 results there are no sudden jumps in my speed. I started out in week 121 with an Ao12 of 48 seconds.
RaceSub30.jpg


I practice about one hour per day. On friday I do my big time session (with takes about 2 hours). And of course when I watch TV or so I might have a cube in my hands ;) I travel to my work by train. So when I am not a sleep in the train I do slow solves. About 50 each day I guess. How much do you practice?

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I only practice things I am not good at. Crosses, difficult F2L cases, Lookahead etc. Untill now I take about one second of my times every week. I noticed you have been at the same times for a few weeks in de race to sub 30. I might hit that wall soon too..
 
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Low 20 are very rare in my solves. Today I had a nice one due to a PLL skip.
Also, this is my brand new Dayan Lunhui. Very smooth and silent cube. I love it! I just hate the color on these stickers. Can wait to get a half bricht set stickers on it:

scramble: R2 U2 R2 L2 D' R2 D' L2 U2 F2 U F' R2 B2 U'R'B U2 R D2

[video=youtube_share;ZgkPM0WX_Zk]http://youtu.be/ZgkPM0WX_Zk[/video]
 
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MarcelP said:
How much do you practice?
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I do not practice that much.
Usualy I do something between 0 and 12 real solves per day, but mostly none. By real solves I mean solves where I try to do my very best.
The most of the times i just scamble and solve the cube. This doesn't realy help my times but unfortunatly I do not have time to practice more...

Yesterday I decided to at least do one avg of 12 per day. I wonder how long I can do this.

And practicing on my way to work would not be a good idea, I go by car :)
 
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