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Hi everyone, I'm back, haha. It's been a while and I see everyone has been making great strides, leaps and bounds in my absence!

I went to the USA in September but (sorry Jason) was flat out the whole time so didn't manage to meet up with any cubers. I also barely spent any time cubing in those weeks so I got worse and then cranky about that so I took a break for a few weeks. I got back into it a week or 2 ago and have made a bit of progress on 3x3 - new PB single of 27.95 and Ao5 33.75, and I've had 3 or 4 times in the high 20s.

So, still leagues behind most of you guys, but feeling reassured that I can make progress still and that sub-30 is a possibility; I won't be stuck in the 40s and 50s forever! There's a competition a few hours away in December which I might try to make it to, but I'm at a computer science conference at the other end of the country flying back the day before so not 100% sure if I'll make it, haha :)
 
Rastinha said:
Hi everyone, I'm back, haha. It's been a while and I see everyone has been making great strides, leaps and bounds in my absence!
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Welcome back. Good to hear you are improving. :)

It was great to catch up with most the oldies today. Congrats to Mark for a podium finish in 4BLD... definitely the result of the competition from this group!
 
bubbagrub said:
Here's the video of Mark's 4BLD solve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_GRoXqr0wE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_GRoXqr0wE

Sorry the quality's not great... (the video, not the solve, obviously!)
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That's pretty awesome!!

Welcome back Rastinha! I was afraid me saying we could meet while you were over made you scared I was a serial killer or something. Those days are well behind me though. Good job getting back to progress, I'm sure it would be frustrating to have a break for me!
 
Had a great time at the comp this weekend. Meeting up with the guys from this thread was a real highlight.

I got PBs in 3x3, Pyraminx and 4x4. 2x2 times were decent but need to be beaten next time. 9s off 5x5 hard cut but still reasonable for me.

Then there was 3BLD. On the bright side it took me just 8 mins to rescramble the cube compared to 9 at WGC. Next time will be better.

Congratulations on 4BLD success and Pyraminx averages etc.
 
Here's some of my garage practice from today. I wish I could do this well on my race to sub 30, but I'll probably blow it now. :)

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bubbagrub said:
Here's the video of Mark's 4BLD solve:
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Awesome, thanks so much for filming that!! Wow, my centres are slow. Even slower than the rest of it. It's like watching slow motion. Poor Ollie! Now I have a success I feel motivated to continue 4BLD and improve my speed :)

That was a fantastic weekend. Great to meet up with everyone and get immersed in cubes, and the nice results are just icing on the cake. Congrats again to everyone who got the results they wanted!
 
Jason Green said:
Welcome back Rastinha! I was afraid me saying we could meet while you were over made you scared I was a serial killer or something.
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Haha, I was worried that me not being back on here after that might make you think that, lol. Nah, I was only there for 11 days and when you haven't been over in 25+ years there are a lot of family members to catch up with!

I'm thinking I might get into 3BLD soon. I've ordered a mini cube to see if it helps my one-handed at all, at the moment I've done about 8 OH solves in total and my best time is like 2:25 because it's just so hard to turn anything, lol. I thought I'd be happy if I could just solve a 3x3 in under 1 minute, but it never really stops does it? Haha

Hannah
 
Rastinha said:
Haha, I was worried that me not being back on here after that might make you think that, lol. Nah, I was only there for 11 days and when you haven't been over in 25+ years there are a lot of family members to catch up with!

I'm thinking I might get into 3BLD soon. I've ordered a mini cube to see if it helps my one-handed at all, at the moment I've done about 8 OH solves in total and my best time is like 2:25 because it's just so hard to turn anything, lol. I thought I'd be happy if I could just solve a 3x3 in under 1 minute, but it never really stops does it? Haha

Hannah
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I understand. We make the 8 hour drive to my hometown a couple times a year and it's difficult to try and get together with old friends during a week or so. :)
 
execution is easy, memorizing is hard, especially edges. For me, 12 minutes memo, 2 minutes execution.

I only just started learning over a month ago, I got my 1st success last week, but overall learning it is a really great challenge, and thoroughly recommend it!
In general, it has much less emphasis on algorithms and speed and feels much more like puzzle solving (learning it and doing it).
 
RicardoRix said:
execution is easy, memorizing is hard, especially edges. For me, 12 minutes memo, 2 minutes execution.

I only just started learning over a month ago, I got my 1st success last week, but overall learning it is a really great challenge, and thoroughly recommend it!
In general, it has much less emphasis on algorithms and speed and feels much more like puzzle solving (learning it and doing it).
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2 minutes execution? Are you talking about 3BLD, right? if it's 4BLD that must be totally impressive for a 1st success!
 
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