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h2f said:
Wow. Finally! And PF! :) Memo?
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I was thinking about 20 minutes songs and this one came to my mind. Memo was ~45 minutes, but real memo I'd say like 10 minutes less

muchacho said:
That is crazy... and it should be an official event :D
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Thanks! And yes, I'd like to see what the pros can do in an hour (10? 15? more?)

mafergut said:
If you allow me to say something in Spanish for Raúl... en 2 palabras IM-PRESIONANTE!!!!
Impressive feat. And when you stopped mid-solve on the 2nd cube to go back to the first and then continued with the 2nd where you were...!
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That part was pretty stupid xD, I just didn't remember if I had undone the setup correctly and just shoot twice to the same sticker on the fist cube to check if the ending was the same, just didn't want to over think it and thought it was a good idea (or at least not a very bad one)
 
h2f said:
Race to 6bld solve? I'm thinking about 6bld sometimes... :)
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Yeah I'm up for that :). I was thinking about it earlier and I don't think it would be too hard except for the amount of memo and maybe the size and awkwardness of the cube. Two lots of wings and two lots of x-centres same as 4x4, and the obliques I guess could be solved using U2 similarly to x/t-centres. I might try out of few of the 4/5BLD algs later to see if they still work.
 
Nothing beats a pb! I'm going to try to reconstruct this because it's so easy. I did a few tries and got down to 11.25. The scramble is on this image (I clicked "last" for the pic).

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Ok, I don't even know how to do this really, so correct me if I'm wrong.

Scramble - U R2 U R2 U' L2 U' F2 D' F' D U L' D B2 R2 D B2 U2

Inspection - x2 (put white on bottom, blue center in front)
XCross - L2' B y' D2' F D' (solved 1 F2L slot)
2nd Slot - y' R' U' R
3rd Slot - y' U' R U' R' y R U R'
4th Slot - y' R U' R'
OLL (L shape) - R' F R2 B' R2' F' R2 B R'
PLL (Ub) - R2 U R U R' U' R' U' R' U R' + U
 
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moralsh said:
Deal!
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mark49152 said:
Yeah I'm up for that :).
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So the deal.

mark49152 said:
I was thinking about it earlier and I don't think it would be too hard except for the amount of memo and maybe the size and awkwardness of the cube. Two lots of wings and two lots of x-centres same as 4x4, and the obliques I guess could be solved using U2 similarly to x/t-centres. I might try out of few of the 4/5BLD algs later to see if they still work.
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I'm not sure what "oblique" is in 6x6 - it's a matter of translation. Are they elements between x-centers? I did few sighted solves and they are similiar more to x-centers...
 
Grzegorz, yes, those are the obliques. Comms are quite similar, it's easier to do pure conmutators, I guess U2 is also quite similar. The problem is tracing and not mixing both types of obliques. To me, type one arejust next to a wing sticker and type 2 are opposite, if that makes sense to anybody :p
 
moralsh said:
Grzegorz, yes, those are the obliques. Comms are quite similar, it's easier to do pure conmutators, I guess U2 is also quite similar. The problem is tracing and not mixing both types of obliques. To me, type one arejust next to a wing sticker and type 2 are opposite, if that makes sense to anybody :p
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Thanks. I know what you mean. For me type 1 is next to Ubl and type 2 next. So I think I call them inverserly to you. I use comms for centers.

@Jason, congrats. Nice solve.
 
moralsh said:
The problem is tracing and not mixing both types of obliques. To me, type one arejust next to a wing sticker and type 2 are opposite, if that makes sense to anybody :p
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It makes sense but I don't think it would work for me because I still sometimes confuse the wing stickers. It's one of my regular causes of 4BLD DNFs and I have to think too much about it. I would probably try to distinguish the obliques as clockwise and ccw, although I haven't tried yet.
 
muchacho said:
Congrats, and reconstruction is also ok, good job!

5 rotations is normal in CFOP?

https://alg.cubing.net/?setup=U_R2_..._R2_F-_R2_B_R- R2_U_R_U_R-_U-_R-_U-_R-_U_R-_U
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The less rotations the better but, in F2L, as edges are not oriented, as in ZZ, there are times where it's faster to rotate than to try and do Fs and Bs, which are not easily finger-trickable. So, I'd say Jason's solve is quite nice and it is not only PB but full step. Well done, Jason! I have to time that one myself :)
 
mark49152 said:
It makes sense but I don't think it would work for me because I still sometimes confuse the wing stickers. It's one of my regular causes of 4BLD DNFs and I have to think too much about it. I would probably try to distinguish the obliques as clockwise and ccw, although I haven't tried yet.
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I have a little trick for wings, Imagine a superimposed watch on each face, your sticker is the sticker with the highest hour on each side, if that doesn't make sense just imagine you're traveling clockwise and pick the last sticker before changing sides.

@Jason, nice, you're starting to get really close to my PB (13.3x). Stop right there! xD
 
moralsh said:
I have a little trick for wings, Imagine a superimposed watch on each face, your sticker is the sticker with the highest hour on each side, if that doesn't make sense just imagine you're traveling clockwise and pick the last sticker before changing sides.
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Yes that's what I meant by clockwise and ccw. Usually I look at the dedge and imagine it as a propeller rotating clockwise. The target stickers are on the leading edges of the propeller, if that makes sense. Because I make frequent mistakes I am trying also to see them as clockwise or ccw on the face as you describe.
 
Record points and number of events this week at WC-10 but still not in the top 10 :(
Congrats to Grzegorz for beating me again and also to APdRF for winning this week. Your 3x3 with Feet and big cubes were phenomenal but, at least I beat you at FMC :p
 
Thanks. Your result is awsome. My points are from blind events. I cant compare with you in mega or 2x2. And you beat me in skewb. I did square because I've started to forget algs. :)
 
Well, at skewb you must have had a bad day, as your official average is much better than that, meanwhile I just had a decent average. I also did notice that you had an outstanding result at FMC. I'd like to learn from your solution if you have it at hand and can post it here. This week I had an incredibly lucky skeleton.

My problem is that I have started to practise so many new events that I cannot make real progress at any of them so I have decided to devote a couple of weeks at least to each of them in turn. Right now it is Mega but all my big cubes need a lot of practise, not to talk about SQ-1 or blindfold :)
 
mafergut said:
Record points and number of events this week at WC-10 but still not in the top 10 :(
Congrats to Grzegorz for beating me again and also to APdRF for winning this week. Your 3x3 with Feet and big cubes were phenomenal but, at least I beat you at FMC :p
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Thank you! And congrats everyone. It's funny because my big cubes were the thing I was less proud about :P I don't know how to finish the cubes in FMC :(
 
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