Older cubers discussions

[Selkie]

Very nice solves Chris! That twelve was sweet. Too bad for the lock up in the 13 solve. that could have been an 11 sec solve

Thanks Marcel. Yes, that lockup is a shocker when you think OLL was complete at 8.4x. In fact its the same PLL that I messed up on my last comp average. Perhaps time to look for a replacement alg

Going to try (and probably fail) to get a sub 14 Ao5 on camera over Xmas. The Christmas cubing to do list is getting bigger and bigger

Yes those are awesome! People used to say sub 10 averages were impossible, so I guess now we've just updated our thinking that it's only impossible for older people? I say we change the way people think again!

I couldn't agree more. When I started speed cubing about 5 years ago my eventual goal was global sub 15. My Ao100's are about 16.2-16.5 so still a lot to improve. I keep finding excuses why I cannot get faster and it demotivates me but if I think about it most of my excuses are age related. I'll keep going though key at the moment to to make some comps next year, haven't been to one in a couple of years and they are great motivation.

With all that said, this thread offers me as much motivation as anything else. To have people of a similar age enjoying the same passion and doing well really spurs me on

 

[muchacho]

Going to try (and probably fail) to get a sub 14 Ao5 on camera over Xmas.

Hope you succeed, I love to see those fast averages of even older people than me, it's a great motivation.

 

[muchacho]

I've timed 30 first blocks with 15 seconds inspection and it seems it takes me 8.5 seconds.

In a 10 seconds Roux solve the first block is done in like 2 seconds, so for a 29 average like mine it should take less than 6 seconds. I'm going to switch (from right now) to unlimited inspection until I get that time where it should be (with reasonable inspection times).

 

[mafergut]

Thank you all and at 46 years young I still feel there is plenty of room for improvement. Sorry no, I did not get that average on film, in fact I don't have any sub 14 average on film. Got a few 14.x averages on camera, such as this one:-

Oh my! You don't even look like you're turning that fast! And that PLL lockup in the 13.84... without it the solve could have easily been an 11.xx. And I thought that being 45 years young, as you say I was already reaching my peak at barely sub-20... You're an inspiration, sub-15 is definitely possible.

EDIT:

Very nice solves Chris! That twelve was sweet. Too bad for the lock up in the 13 solve. that could have been an 11 sec solve

I swear I hadn't read your post before answering!

 

[h2f]

I just got some mockups done of the t-shirts I'll be making available at the next competition I'm organizing.

http://azcubing.com/AZCubingTShirt.png

I think one of the projects I was voting for.

Thank you all and at 46 years young I still feel there is plenty of room for improvement. Sorry no, I did not get that average on film, in fact I don't have any sub 14 average on film. Got a few 14.x averages on camera, such as this one:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZpUivh8zwg

Great!

I've filmed my 1:03 3bld. I was too lazy to put some books to get better camera angle but luckily wasnt to lazy to turn camer on. My previous times today were around 2 minutes so I was excited when I put blindfold off. Memo was around 27, execution 34. 96 stm/34 = 2.82 TPS

Spoiler

U R2 B2 L' U2 L2 D2 F2 R' F2 L D F D2 R' U' F L D2 U2 Rw Uw'

z'y D L2 B' R B L2 B' R' B D' //
F' R' B2 R F R' B2 R //
y L' U' L U L' U' L U R U' L' U L U' L' U L R' y' //
U2 M' U2 M' B' R B U R2 U' M2 U R2 U' B' R' B //
B' U R U' M2 U R' U' M2 B //
U R' U' M2 U R U' B L' B' M2 B L B'//
B' R' B M2 B' R R B M2 B' R' B
U' M U2 M U2 M2 U

alg.cubing.net

 

[Jason Green]

I've timed 30 first blocks with 15 seconds inspection and it seems it takes me 8.5 seconds.

In a 10 seconds Roux solve the first block is done in like 2 seconds, so for a 29 average like mine it should take less than 6 seconds. I'm going to switch (from right now) to unlimited inspection until I get that time where it should be (with reasonable inspection times).

I am switching back mostly to untimed inspection. I watched Brian Kremer's cross boot camp from the sub 30 thread, it was pretty basic for the most part. But as I watched the simple cases of doing one or two cross pieces progress to doing the whole cross without looking, it made me realize I could be planning my whole cross more if I worked on it.

 

[mafergut]

I've filmed my 1:03 3bld. I was too lazy to put some books to get better camera angle but luckily wasnt to lazy to turn camer on. My previous times today were around 2 minutes so I was excited when I put blindfold off. Memo was around 27, execution 34. 96 stm/34 = 2.82 TPS

Wow! Nice job man! You sound happy at the end too, even if I don't get what you say
That solve is on par with some sighted CFOP solves I come up with at times. Almost half a minute inspection and another half execution with some messed up OLL/PLL. You and Selkie together are lowering my morale a lot this week

That time is bordering on World Class! If you think that Feliks and A. Cantin (yeah, I know, not 3BLD specialists but WR cubers both of them) are around 40-45 seconds at 3BLD... this is serious stuff!

 

[h2f]

I think all is uderstandable.

I think bld methods and CFOP are not comparable. During memo you memorize whole cube and during CFOP you dont memo cube - instead of it you have look ahead which makes solve harder than with blindfolded method.

Selkie's solves are great! It gives me so much hope it is possible for me to be sub-15.

 

[mafergut]

I think all is uderstandable.

I think bld methods and CFOP are not comparable. During memo you memorize whole cube and during CFOP you dont memo cube - instead of it you have look ahead which makes solve harder than with blindfolded method.

Selkie's solves are great! It gives me so much hope it is possible for me to be sub-15.

Yeah, you're completely right. My comparison of 3BLD and CFOP had the only purpose of making fun of my lack of skills. You can do blind a 98 move solve in 34 seconds, which is more or less the equivalent TPS of a 20 sec CFOP solve (avg. move count of a CFOP solve around 55-60 moves) with not much more "inspection" time to memo all the cube than I need to plan my cross.

 

[muchacho]

Great BLD solve, congrats!

Translation please, I'm guessing "Yes... Yes... Cool... Almost... Wow... Almost sub-Faz... Almost sub-Faz... Wow"

 

[h2f]

Translation: there is, there is (polish jest - sound like "yes" in english - means there is. But in here means also "got you")... Holy crap... What.. Wow.. What the time... What the time... Wow...

 

[mark49152]

I've filmed my 1:03 3bld.

Awesome solve, and with M2 too

 

[Jason Green]

That blind solve is pretty awesome!!

 

[Selkie]

Absolutely, so motivating. Think I will start on my own attempts tomorrow

 

[Jason Green]

Absolutely, so motivating. Think I will start on my own attempts tomorrow

I might also if I was averaging 15 on sighted solves.

 

[Chree]

Yeah, those BLD times are pretty awesome. I guess I oughta start practicing, too... since I signed up for BLD in a January comp

 

[h2f]

It's nice to read all those words. Method I use is 3style for corners and advanced M2 (used twice in this solve). I'm not sure but I think I can call it 3style too. At the moment I'm reading and practicining about advanced M2 tricks in the thread Mark did. The thread is awsome. Maybe I will put there one idea about a trick I've found.

 

[muchacho]

I always liked: R' U R U' R' F' U' F R U R' F R' F' R U' R

Learned it from Felix's PLL video. Drilled it for the entire duration of the movie "Looper". So now when I get it in practice, I always think of Joseph Gordon Levitt and/or Bruce Willis.

I tried a lot of algs and finally decided I was going to use that N perm, but today I found this similar one that is a bit easier for me:

R' U R U' R' F' U' F R U R' U' R d' R U R'

 

[mark49152]

Maybe I will put there one idea about a trick I've found.

Yes, please do! I noticed that you used a couple of tricks, and also that you solved Q with setup to M2. These days I use (U M')3 (U M) (U M')4. It feels faster but I'm not sure it really is .

 

[h2f]

I havent checked what is faster but setting up Q by U/U' or B/B' is much easier for me to execute/look forward. But in that solve I just did it straight with that long alg.

I put my idea in your thread.