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MarcelP said:
Yeah, it pops on loose tensions. But on tight tensions it does not pop more than a SS. About the 16.93..... Damn dude... That is awesome. I wonder if I will ever get there..
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Ok, I will probably ask for one for Christmas then, I like tight tensions on my cubes anyway. My SS is good for now though, because I modded the heck out of it a couple months ago. Thanks! I didn't think I would be able to progress more after sub 20, but I keep having awesome time jumps. I don't know how far I will be able to go, sub 15 is my goal now, but I don't know how long it's going to take me. I bet you will be able to go further, I just looked out of curiosity, and a year ago your best ao100 was 24.94, so improve even half of that in the next year and you'll be sub 18.
 
Oh yeah... zero 2x2x2 practice since the timed session on Friday and my Ao100 is half a second quicker.

Unfortunately my 3x3x3 times have been horrible this week. The lord giveth and the lord taketh away, lol.
 
New PB Ao100 = 14.30

It felt like it took me forever to get here after I was sub-20.

Cube update: The Aolong took some work. After breaking it in, I disassembled it and lubed the core and pieces. It must have been pretty tight when I got it out of the box. I loosened it and it felt better. Then I loosened it some more. I'm not sure if it's loose enough yet. I might try even looser than what I have now. I can't decide between my Weilong and Aolong yet. The Weilong is really smooth and loose feeling which I love because I have a relatively light touch, but the Aolong is definitely more controllable and also has a nice feel to it but takes slightly more effort to turn (maybe can be fixed by making it super loose). Both are awesome cubes and in the last couple weeks I'm getting more fast times.

What are you guys all using for 3x3 main now?
 
sneaklyfox said:
New PB Ao100 = 14.30

It felt like it took me forever to get here after I was sub-20.

Cube update: The Aolong took some work. After breaking it in, I disassembled it and lubed the core and pieces. It must have been pretty tight when I got it out of the box. I loosened it and it felt better. Then I loosened it some more. I'm not sure if it's loose enough yet. I might try even looser than what I have now. I can't decide between my Weilong and Aolong yet. The Weilong is really smooth and loose feeling which I love because I have a relatively light touch, but the Aolong is definitely more controllable and also has a nice feel to it but takes slightly more effort to turn (maybe can be fixed by making it super loose). Both are awesome cubes and in the last couple weeks I'm getting more fast times.

What are you guys all using for 3x3 main now?
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Congrats on the PB! You where sub 20 in a year right? So the next 5.7 seconds took more than 2 years? Yeah that must feel like a long time. :)

The AoLong is my main. It is stable and fast. I like solving my Weilong V2 also and I get same times on both. I have recently bought a 'Formula' 3X3 on Lightake and it is pretty awesome too. It could definatly become my main. It is 56 mm but way faster than my Weilong and AoLong. And I have a stickerless cube QiYi Bullfight 3x3 (which is a rebranded New Island Phoenix). That cube is also pretty awesome. Really really fast and very stable. They are both in my video's with an unboxing.
 
MarcelP said:
I have recently bought a 'Formula' 3X3 on Lightake and it is pretty awesome too. It could definatly become my main. It is 56 mm but way faster than my Weilong and AoLong. And I have a stickerless cube QiYi Bullfight 3x3 (which is a rebranded New Island Phoenix). That cube is also pretty awesome. Really really fast and very stable. They are both in my video's with an unboxing.
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Wow, how did I miss those? Shame that QiYi isn't available in black. I haven't bought a new 3x3 for ages.
 
sneaklyfox said:
New PB Ao100 = 14.30

It felt like it took me forever to get here after I was sub-20.

Cube update: The Aolong took some work. After breaking it in, I disassembled it and lubed the core and pieces. It must have been pretty tight when I got it out of the box. I loosened it and it felt better. Then I loosened it some more. I'm not sure if it's loose enough yet. I might try even looser than what I have now. I can't decide between my Weilong and Aolong yet. The Weilong is really smooth and loose feeling which I love because I have a relatively light touch, but the Aolong is definitely more controllable and also has a nice feel to it but takes slightly more effort to turn (maybe can be fixed by making it super loose). Both are awesome cubes and in the last couple weeks I'm getting more fast times.

What are you guys all using for 3x3 main now?
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Wow nice! I use a WeiLong V1 because my AoLong feels too flimsy. Plus my WeiLong has been my main since I averaged like 35, it is nice and broken in and perfect tensions for me so I don't feel like switching.
 
mark49152 said:
Wow, how did I miss those? Shame that QiYi isn't available in black. I haven't bought a new 3x3 for ages.
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Well, NewIsland has annouched that they will make the New Phoenix also in black and white. So chances are the Bullfight will also come in Black. :)

Rocky0701 said:
...it is nice and broken in and perfect tensions for me so I don't feel like switching.
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Never change a winning combination :)

sneaklyfox said:
I can't exactly remember, but yeah, something like that.
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I doubt I will ever make a 5 seconds improvement after sub 20 ;) Right now I am completely into Roux btw. So I am not practicing CFOP anymore. Roux is great fun. Although most people become rather quickly faster with Roux after stepping from CFOp to Roux, I doubt I am one of these.. I have done millions of CFOP solves and I am not that committed anymore to so many solves. So I think becomming sub 30 with Roux will be a nice challange on it's own..
 
MarcelP said:
Right now I am completely into Roux btw. So I am not practicing CFOP anymore. Roux is great fun. Although most people become rather quickly faster with Roux after stepping from CFOp to Roux, I doubt I am one of these.. I have done millions of CFOP solves and I am not that committed anymore to so many solves. So I think becomming sub 30 with Roux will be a nice challange on it's own..
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I'm interested to hear how you are approaching Roux. I like to experiment quite a bit during F2B and I don't allow myself to complete blocks with a 7-11 move CFOP alg, unless I'm 99% sure it is the best approach. There's almost always something better!

It's nice to look at the case with an open mind and look for something neat which is shorter and / or more ergonomic. I don't tend to time myself and don't plan to do so until I feel like I have a good grasp of the method. That being said, I haven't done any Roux solves for a few weeks because I've been doing other cube sizes!
 
Logiqx said:
I'm interested to hear how you are approaching Roux. I like to experiment quite a bit during F2B and I don't allow myself to complete blocks with a 7-11 move CFOP alg, unless I'm 99% sure it is the best approach. There's almost always something better!

It's nice to look at the case with an open mind and look for something neat which is shorter and / or more ergonomic. I don't tend to time myself and don't plan to do so until I feel like I have a good grasp of the method. That being said, I haven't done any Roux solves for a few weeks because I've been doing other cube sizes!
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Well, I do exactly the same. On both blocks I try to do it as efficient as possible. I have watched a few Alex..5BLD-guy walkthroughs. I find them mind boggeling. I really want to learn that :) I also do not time myself. I suspect my times being around 40 - 60 seconds or so.. But doing many slow solves I allready recognize hard cases and know how to make use of M slice to make an efficient block. The part that slows me down is the correcting bad edges. I have not learned all the cases but do it intuitivly. Sometimes it takes a few tries.. Also the four corners I do in two steps..All in all that is much less efficient compared to knowing all OLL's and PLL's.. but I do think it has some potential for me.. Most important for me it that, just like when I decided to go Color Neutral, it is a lot of fun.
 
MarcelP said:
I doubt I will ever make a 5 seconds improvement after sub 20 ;) Right now I am completely into Roux btw. So I am not practicing CFOP anymore. Roux is great fun. Although most people become rather quickly faster with Roux after stepping from CFOp to Roux, I doubt I am one of these.. I have done millions of CFOP solves and I am not that committed anymore to so many solves. So I think becomming sub 30 with Roux will be a nice challange on it's own..
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I play with Roux once in awhile. Also ZZ for fun. It would be nice to get sub-20 with Roux. I actually forget whether I ever reached sub-25 with Roux.
 
It's been a good day for deliveries. I've received all my new windsurf boards for competitions next year and my AuChuang. :)

I did a few solves on the AuChuang and it feels sooo nice compared to my SS! I started an Ao12 for the first time ever and after 9 solves I was averaging well over a minute faster than the SS. My neighbour knocked on the door during my tenth solve and when I returned to the computer, I deleted the time (well, so I thought) and carried on with the next solve.

Doh... I hadn't deleted the one solve. I'd deleted the whole session. WTF!

I'll try again tomorrow. I haven't got time to restart the Ao12 tonight. lol
 
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Schmidt said:
Not in my thread
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Yeah, I just checked the Race to sub-25 and sub-30 thread... I don't think I did sub-25 Roux. So maybe I'll practice again and join the race there.

Edit: Just checked that thread again. Looks like hardly anyone is racing these days. It used to be really popular. Who wants to join me doing Roux (or something else)?
 
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