Older cubers discussions

[Logiqx]

Okey dokey. Here's my submission!

I know I'm over-inspecting... I'm taking my time after a recent phase of under-inspecting.

 

[MarcelP]

Okey dokey. Here's my submission!

I know I'm over-inspecting... I'm taking my time after a recent phase of under-inspecting.

Very cool Mike. I did like the 34 a lot since you started over at 21 secs and finishes only 13 seconds later I think you are faster than me at LL. That should be something I could work on, however I feel I am at my max LL speed. Your slow turning style is very good. Better than mine because I see little pauses at yours.

 

[Jason Green]

Okey dokey. Here's my submission!

I know I'm over-inspecting... I'm taking my time after a recent phase of under-inspecting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nd-aeDv4vQ

All fancy with graphics! I'll enjoy watching all these later. Right now I just watched one cause I'm in a meeting at work. [emoji14]

 

[Logiqx]

Very cool Mike. I did like the 34 a lot since you started over at 21 secs and finishes only 13 seconds later I think you are faster than me at LL. That should be something I could work on, however I feel I am at my max LL speed. Your slow turning style is very good. Better than mine because I see little pauses at yours.

Yeah. That solve was quite amusing and disasters like that are pretty rare for me. I was considering several cross options / solutions but the execution didn't resemble any of them!

I decided to give up on the solve and restart after 12-13 seconds, flipping the cube upside down and reverting to white cross without the benefit of inspection.

I think my LL speed is fairly decent for my overall times. I think your cross+1 is better than mine but in the end we get similar results. Maybe we'd do well for factory solves, lol.

All fancy with graphics! I'll enjoy watching all these later. Right now I just watched one cause I'm in a meeting at work. [emoji14]

Hehe. I got Premiere Elements recently so I'll try to learn some new skills on future videos.

 

[Keiji 293]

Use a metronome and set to speed to 100 bpm then try to keep up with the speed. If you find it easy then slowly increase the speed by 5. It'll work if you practice it everyday

 

[muchacho]

It worked, I felt the pressure, too much. It was going well until the 7th solve, I failed the first move and didn't realized until I was going to start the second block (I use Roux), once I started making errors it went downhill from there. Forget lookahead, I even spent more than 10 seconds searching for a piece. Luckily the camera decided to stop recording in the 9th solve.

Spoiler: times

1. 40.76
2. (34.74)
3.40.99
4. 43.86
5. 39.90
6. 38.16
7. 54.25
8. (DNF)
9. 39.81
10. 52.01
11. 43.26
12. 45.09

ao12: 43.81

 

[Jason Green]

It worked, I felt the pressure, too much. It was going well until the 7th solve, I failed the first move and didn't realized until I was going to start the second block (I use Roux), once I started making errors it went downhill from there. Forget lookahead, I even spent more than 10 seconds searching for a piece. Luckily the camera decided to stop recording in the 9th solve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ey-sY046U

That may happen to me, if I screw one up too bad I may just call it a DNF.

 

[muchacho]

I did that in the 8th one

 

[mark49152]

OK, I finally made a vid. I wanted sub-20 and would have been disappointed with sup-20, so I give you.... 20.00. Check out the comedy timer fail and the U perm that went off into the woods.

 

[MarcelP]

It worked, I felt the pressure, too much. It was going well until the 7th solve, I failed the first move and didn't realized until I was going to start the second block (I use Roux), once I started making errors it went downhill from there. Forget lookahead, I even spent more than 10 seconds searching for a piece. Luckily the camera decided to stop recording in the 9th solve.

Spoiler: times

1. 40.76
2. (34.74)
3.40.99
4. 43.86
5. 39.90
6. 38.16
7. 54.25
8. (DNF)
9. 39.81
10. 52.01
11. 43.26
12. 45.09

ao12: 43.81

Wicked color scheme! And even more wicked method! Very nice!

OK, I finally made a vid. I wanted sub-20 and would have been disappointed with sup-20, so I give you.... 20.00. Check out the comedy timer fail and the U perm that went off into the woods.

We have very similair styles. Only I think in the first few solves you did more pauses than I normally do. But you make up with much faster recognition of OLL and PLL.

 

[Logiqx]

OK, I finally made a vid. I wanted sub-20 and would have been disappointed with sup-20, so I give you.... 20.00. Check out the comedy timer fail and the U perm that went off into the woods.

https://youtu.be/eDLfQmywung

Awesome. Great to see you post a video.

I've had the sound off as Jo is next to me but I enjoyed watching it through and the last 2 solves were quite entertaining.

What happened with the timer in earlier solve(s). Did you just miss the space bar?

 

[Logiqx]

It worked, I felt the pressure, too much. It was going well until the 7th solve, I failed the first move and didn't realized until I was going to start the second block (I use Roux), once I started making errors it went downhill from there. Forget lookahead, I even spent more than 10 seconds searching for a piece. Luckily the camera decided to stop recording in the 9th solve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ey-sY046U

Spoiler: times

1. 40.76
2. (34.74)
3.40.99
4. 43.86
5. 39.90
6. 38.16
7. 54.25
8. (DNF)
9. 39.81
10. 52.01
11. 43.26
12. 45.09

ao12: 43.81

Nice to see a bit of Roux in the challenge.

Grey stickers are pretty cool!

 

[mark49152]

We have very similair styles. Only I think in the first few solves you did more pauses than I normally do. But you make up with much faster recognition of OLL and PLL.

Yeah I agree. I've been a bit off form on 3x3 recently since doing BLD and I think the reason is that my look ahead has deteriorated. I didn't feel slow or clumsy on that session, I just paused too much. I want to turn more like Mike .

What happened with the timer in earlier solve(s). Did you just miss the space bar?

I went to hit the timer then pulled back when I noticed the +2. My finger hit the edge of the keyboard and I thought I was too late, but it took me almost 3 seconds to notice that I hadn't actually hit the timer and could fix the +2.

Not sure what happened on the earlier solve, something didn't look right and I paused to check the times.

 

[LL Cool Skip]

I average 16 on good days and 18 on bad days. This 17.85 is a pretty good representation of my average, mistakes and all. This is the first average I've ever videoed and was inspired by this thread to do it. I felt nervous just knowing the camera was on. Should be good practice for my comp next weekend. I got a nice x-cross on solve 9 then my camera takes a nosedive and the rest of the average goes downhill. I curse myself a bit, throughout, for not recognizing OLLCP and turning too fast during cross. I probably inspect a little too long on some but I don't care too awful much.
17.70, 17.24, 15.93, 18.07, 16.45, 18.75, 16.77, 16.47, (15.85), (21.33), 21.26, 19.82 = 17.85

I'm probably not as old as most of the "Older cubers" here, but I can say I was born in the 70's... truthfully.

 

[MarcelP]

I want to turn more like Mike .

Yeah me too. I think Mike has the most potential of this little group. The controlled way of slow solving is very very cool. And Mike does other colors as yellow/white as well making him ready to do cross plus one really fast.

This is the first average I've ever videoed and was inspired by this thread to do it. I felt nervous just knowing the camera was on.

Great solves! And that's the whole point why I film my solves every now and then. To get used being on the spot. It helps a bit for competitions. And I just love re-watching very fast singles.

I think your cross+1 is better than mine

I think 8 out of 10 times I do find my first pair in inspection these days.. It is something you can practice. Just keep track of an edge or corner during cross.

 

[mark49152]

I This is the first average I've ever videoed

Nice turning style too! I think my practice regime for the next few weeks will focus on slow turning and look ahead. Maybe that's what I need to break my 5 month plateau.

Yeah me too. I think Mike has the most potential of this little group. The controlled way of slow solving is very very cool. And Mike does other colors as yellow/white as well making him ready to do cross plus one really fast.

And he has zero competition nerves .

 

[Logiqx]

Here's an idea which may have had some influence on my turning style... "quiet turning". Whilst practicing with other people in the house, I try to turn slowly, smoothly and steadily to minimise noise. This puts the focus on look ahead and eliminating pauses during the solves but it gives a nice smooth feeling. When I do timed solves I just up the tempo (which I vary according to my look ahead) and care not about the noise!

I remember when I was averaging about 45 seconds, I knocked 5 seconds off my global average after one evening of "quiet turning". I really should do more of it nowadays since it still seems to have a positive impact on my times the following day.

Edit: I certainly felt nervous at my first competition but not so much it couldn't be controlled and masked. Hopefully, I can do the same next time!

 

[mark49152]

Here's an idea which may have had some influence on my turning style... "quiet turning".

That's a great idea, I will give that a go.

 

[Jason Green]

Here is my entry... I'm really glad you did this challenge! It made me realize I was giving up on way too many of my messed up solves. In fact I almost chickened out of this because I was afraid I would end up "double solving" half of them.

It gets less painful after the first two, about 3 minutes in. Also I just scramble randomly, I'm slow reading the patterns. I'm gonna post a follow up if I can get an Ao12 under 40.

https://youtu.be/t1KcZ4JTxao

 

[Rastinha]

I'll join in with this when an average of 12 video doesn't take me like half an hour to film

I got some new cubes in the mail yesterday:
- Gans 356, got me a new PB of 43.01 but times are really inconsistent so far as it's a fast cube but aaallll kinds of all over the place! Can't control it yet.
- Moyu AoLong Mini, which is proving to be great for my freakishly small hands. Have had a lot of low 50s solves even though my color recognition is not good on it coming from stickerless full bright.
- Cyclone boys 2x2 currently averaging 25.88, PB of 12.58 (probably would have been around 10 if I hadn't been so confused about why I couldn't find the next pattern, before realising it was solved!)

So I'm probably not getting any better right now because I'm making my brain diversify into being able to recognise different colors, and colors with a big black strip around them (it's a weird transition from stickerless!), which is also temporarily worsening my scores on my original cube. I think it will speed me up once I'm over the hump though.

And then I'll make a video and you can see how much time I spend pausing, lost, haha . Was very cool to watch the other videos though!