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[APdRF]

It helped a lot, as always. Thanks!!! But I still was wrong in so many ways, I guess. E.g.: I was all happy with keyhole and then I get the case where you orient the bottom centers and the 3rd edge ends up flipped in place in the keyhole I already checked some videos and found out that the fastest way to fix that is to do a two-flip between that and an adjacent bottom edge. Anyway, mi times still vary a lot between like 15 and 25 (or even worse) seconds. I need TONS of practise.

That's the key

 

[Logiqx]

Mike, do you need anything else to get me on the over 40 list? Yob again is 1974.

That's all I need. I enjoyed your videos btw... subscriber_count++.

 

[Jason Green]

That's all I need. I enjoyed your videos btw... subscriber_count++.

Thank you!

 

[newtonbase]

8 DNFs out of 8 on 3BLD. I've been doing pretty well on 2x2 and 3x3 recently but I seem to be going backwards on blind. I might be better not trying it at Manchester as a 3rd failed comp in a row could put me off altogether. I need to change something.

Moan over.

 

[h2f]

The longest streak I had is 18 3bld dnfs in a row. So you have to do 12 to equal my record. There are two main reasons of it: wrong memo or wrong execution. And there are few cures for it: slow down, check your execution. When I did few dnfs in a row I've started to redo scrambles to see what was wrong. And it helped sometimes. But sometimes it helped to make a break because theres third factor in blind solves - a mind. Maybe you were just to tired to make blind solves.

 

[Jason Green]

Tonight I had 8 sub 20 solves out of about 150. That is by far the most I've had so I was pretty excited. I think I've had 2 or possibly 3 once before.

Plus I'm posting this to see if my signature works now from Tapatalk.

 

[h2f]

Nice Jason. You're on fire. But I cant see your signature from tapatalk.

 

[Jason Green]

Nice Jason. You're on fire. But I cant see your signature from tapatalk.

Yeah me either. If you load the forum in a web browser it shows though. I guess that's how it works.

And thanks.

 

[Logiqx]

Tonight I had 8 sub 20 solves out of about 150. That is by far the most I've had so I was pretty excited. I think I've had 2 or possibly 3 once before.

Plus I'm posting this to see if my signature works now from Tapatalk.

Nice work. Well on your way to sub-20.

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[mark49152]

8 DNFs out of 8 on 3BLD. I've been doing pretty well on 2x2 and 3x3 recently but I seem to be going backwards on blind. I might be better not trying it at Manchester as a 3rd failed comp in a row could put me off altogether. I need to change something.

We all have off days. Stay positive, and don't miss the chance to get an official success! Do you know what went wrong? Often the key is to understand the kinds of mistakes you are making and work specifically on eliminating those. For example, my weakness is flipped and twisted pieces. The majority of my DNFs are down to forgetting or misremembering those.

 

[newtonbase]

The longest streak I had is 18 3bld dnfs in a row. So you have to do 12 to equal my record. There are two main reasons of it: wrong memo or wrong execution. And there are few cures for it: slow down, check your execution. When I did few dnfs in a row I've started to redo scrambles to see what was wrong. And it helped sometimes. But sometimes it helped to make a break because theres third factor in blind solves - a mind. Maybe you were just to tired to make blind solves.

I think you are right that it was a mind thing. 7 of them were so bad I couldn't work out what had gone wrong. The other was a missed letter pair. I filmed solve 8 but found I'd scrambled wrongly in the first place so went to bed.

 

[Logiqx]

Forgot to mention. Another commuter on train told me "that's astonishing" and asked if he could film me solve the cube. That's not happened to me before today. Lol

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[Jason Green]

Forgot to mention. Another commuter on train told me "that's astonishing" and asked if he could film me solve the cube. That's not happened to me before today. Lol

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That's cool. You should have told him to email you the YouTube link if he put it up.

Any idea when you'll update the over 40 post? Nag, nag, nag.

 

[mafergut]

Forgot to mention. Another commuter on train told me "that's astonishing" and asked if he could film me solve the cube. That's not happened to me before today. Lol

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The most I have experienced myself as a cuber+commuter was one day, months ago, when some woman on the train looked at me and said something like "wow! incredible". Nothing about filming me solving or things like that. She was cute, though, does that count?

 

[Logiqx]

It was quite amusing. The solve ended with Na perm and i do the long but fast 20? move solution (conjugate of t-perm). I wasn't looking at the cube and i saw his reflection on the window as his draw dropped. Lol

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[muchacho]

I'm averaging now those 27 seconds of the last ao5 I uploaded to youtube, so I've done a slightly faster one (25.47). I was averaging 29 seconds then, so it took me 40 days to improve 2 seconds... too slow, Jason is getting out of reach!

Spoiler: Ao5 times

1. 26.528 B2 F2 L2 B2 U' B2 R2 D B2 U' L' R2 B' R' D' B' R U' F' U2 L'
2. 23.918 F2 R2 U L2 D2 F2 U F2 L2 D U' B' L2 U B' D' F' L' U' L D2 U'
3. 25.199 B2 D2 F2 D' R2 F2 D B2 D2 U F2 L' B' R B2 U' R2 U F' R F' U2
4. 25.991 R2 D R2 U' B2 D2 B2 D2 L2 B2 U B' R' F' D' L' F2 R F U' L2 D
5. 25.222 R2 F2 U2 B2 U2 R2 D R2 U' R2 F2 L B' D' B' R2 B2 F' R' B' U

Single PB: 16.328
Best average of 5: 21.865
Best average of 12: 24.017
Best average of 100: 26.095

 

[SenorJuan]

Some years ago (2007?) when I wasn't so skillful at OH 333, I worked with a couple of French university students who were over here on work experience. They were astounded by my just-sub-60s solves, and wanted to film me. I declined, and I told them a Frenchman, Thibaut Jacquinot, was one of the best OH guys, and was a 20-sec solver. After watching clips of him, I guess they realised my clumsy solves weren't so astounding after all....
I was still using a heavily-modded Rubiks brand then, algorithmic 'F2L' with lots and lots of cube rotations.

 

[MarcelP]

I'm averaging now those 27 seconds of the last ao5 I uploaded to youtube, so I've done a slightly faster one (25.47). I was averaging 29 seconds then, so it took me 40 days to improve 2 seconds... too slow, Jason is getting out of reach!

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

Spoiler: Ao5 times

1. 26.528 B2 F2 L2 B2 U' B2 R2 D B2 U' L' R2 B' R' D' B' R U' F' U2 L'
2. 23.918 F2 R2 U L2 D2 F2 U F2 L2 D U' B' L2 U B' D' F' L' U' L D2 U'
3. 25.199 B2 D2 F2 D' R2 F2 D B2 D2 U F2 L' B' R B2 U' R2 U F' R F' U2
4. 25.991 R2 D R2 U' B2 D2 B2 D2 L2 B2 U B' R' F' D' L' F2 R F U' L2 D
5. 25.222 R2 F2 U2 B2 U2 R2 D R2 U' R2 F2 L B' D' B' R2 B2 F' R' B' U

Single PB: 16.328
Best average of 5: 21.865
Best average of 12: 24.017
Best average of 100: 26.095

Very nice!! Looks pretty smooth and controlled. Keep it up!

 

[h2f]

I think you are right that it was a mind thing. 7 of them were so bad I couldn't work out what had gone wrong. The other was a missed letter pair. I filmed solve 8 but found I'd scrambled wrongly in the first place so went to bed.

I've noticed that if I'm back from a job at night (7-8 pm) Im not able to make good solves. Not only 3bld but ohters too.

 

[muchacho]

Very nice!! Looks pretty smooth and controlled. Keep it up!

Thanks, I'll try. It doesn't look too smooth to me. I seem to make more mistakes and pauses just by filming myself... or maybe I make them but don't usually notice, anyway I should film more solves.

It's a strange ao5, 2 solves where with first block on the right, usually it's maybe just 1 out of 10 and 7 with blue/white and 2 with blue/yellow on the left.