Older cubers discussions

[mafergut]

Nice results!!!! My head hurts. I was doing the 3BLD of this weekly comp and I cannot sub-10. So sub-10 4BLD seems so... wow!!!! Congrats Mark.
Congratulations also to all of you for the nice results.

 

[Jason Green]

Congratulations Mark and everyone!

 

[muchacho]

15.93 ao5, PB for Chris by 2 seconds :tu

That's bronze medal for a sup-40 after Ron van Bruchem and Gilles Roux.

 

[h2f]

Awsome!

 

[MarcelP]

Sub 20s are coming more often, bla bla bla

milestones when progress is slow!

Generated By csTimer on 2016-4-2
avg of 5: 20.00

LOL.. slow? Give it 4 weeks and you are past most old guys here.. Good job. Trust me, in 6 - 9 months you will be averaging 15 secs. It took me almost 4 years to get where I am now.. You seem to go about 4 times faster.. LOL

@Mark and @Chris, good job guys. You managed to make us seniors look good

 

[Selkie]

Sorry guys, home now. Thanks for all the word of congratulations and encouragement last two days. Yes have to be very pleased with the results and 17 PBs but more than that I have missed spending time with other cubers. Was a great, great comp and great to meet cubers new and old and especially Mark and Andy from this thread. There will be a flood of videos as I caught everything but first round of 2x2 and the two megaminx singles as my battery died.

But for now, here is the main event. 3x3 Second Round, 15.93 Average of 5 ... 16.15, (18.08), (14.63), 15.88, 15.76

 

[Jason Green]

LOL.. slow? Give it 4 weeks and you are past most old guys here.. Good job. Trust me, in 6 - 9 months you will be averaging 15 secs. It took me almost 4 years to get where I am now.. You seem to go about 4 times faster.. LOL

@Mark and @Chris, good job guys. You managed to make us seniors look good

Well it will be nice if you are right, it doesn't feel like it to me right now. Of course every since I started getting interested in more than 3x3 it takes some of my practice time away. Not that much since I mostly do 3x3 still.

Chris that is really awesome and fun to see! I still need to watch some of your unboxings but I watched this right away! Good looking shirt, did you get any comments on it? I'll have to forward to my brother to see this.

 

[Shaky Hands]

Already at it with the vids, Chris? Good stuff. Great to meet you in person at the weekend and congrats to both you and Mark on your successes.

The fact that we both screwed up the same Clock scramble in the same way will haunt me until the next comp too.

Cheers.

 

[Jason Green]

Already at it with the vids, Chris?

We are very demanding fans.

 

[muchacho]

Nice video, since when is the Tornado your main? Do I hear some spring noises?

 

[mafergut]

Nice video, since when is the Tornado your main? Do I hear some spring noises?

I think in his last unboxing of stickerless stuff he said he would decide between the yuexiao and the tornado. It looks like he went with the Tornado without lubing the core or anything

 

[h2f]

New single pb: 11.12

Scramble:F2 U L2 D F2 D L2 R2 D2 F2 U' F' U2 L2 D R' U2 R' D' R'
z2y'//preinspection
R2 D U L2 R2 //xcross. During R2 I've noticed that it was xcross. I wasnt planning it but I thought in such cross (R2/L2 moves) it might happen.
y' U L' U2 L U L' U' L //
y U' R U R'//
y' R U R' U' R U R'//
U' R' F R U R' U' F' U R // OLL
U2// PLL
alg.cubing.net

35htm/11.12=3,15 TPS

It's a part of 17.75 ao5 which is 0.3 worse from my best and a part of 19.91 ao50.

 

[Shaky Hands]

Very impressive Grzegorz. Well done. I love skips.

 

[h2f]

Thanks. My sheet says it's best ao50. After few solves it's 19.78

 

[Selkie]

Already at it with the vids, Chris? Good stuff. Great to meet you in person at the weekend and congrats to both you and Mark on your successes.

The fact that we both screwed up the same Clock scramble in the same way will haunt me until the next comp too.

Cheers.

Great meeting you too. I very nearly made the same mistake on the last clock scramble too and that would have DNFed the average. Its 6 o'clock ... everywhere!

Nice video, since when is the Tornado your main? Do I hear some spring noises?

I think in his last unboxing of stickerless stuff he said he would decide between the yuexiao and the tornado. It looks like he went with the Tornado without lubing the core or anything

It became my main as I stood over the score card for the second round and thought that the YueXiao had locked up so many times in the first round. Hardly broken in and in need of some lube on the core etc but it didn't let me down. I will spend some time setting it up and lubing it now.

New single pb: 11.12

It's a part of 17.75 ao5 which is 0.3 worse from my best and a part of 19.91 ao50.

Not only a great solve but a sub 20 ao50! Great stuff Grzegorz

 

[muchacho]

Very nice Grzegorz!

I want to see how my solves look like, I'll try to reconstruct the fastest (and some slow ones if I film them), but I already know lookahead and the rest of the solve is improving fine, but F2B efficiency is not good.

16.102 U' B2 R2 D2 L2 U' L2 F2 D R2 U B D2 L U2 R' B U' R L2 F' U2

z'
Uw' M U2 M2 B U' M L' U L M2 U2 F'
U M' U R U R M U' R U' R' U2 M' Rw U Rw' U2 R' U R
F R U R' U' R U R' U' F'
M U' M U' M' U' M U2 M U2 M' U' M2 U'

57 STM / 71 HTM

57/16.102 = 3.539

https://alg.cubing.net/?setup=_U-_B...-_U-_F- M_U-_M_U-_M-_U-_M_U2_M_U2_M-_U-_M2_U-


Alternative FB, shorter but difficult to see and fingertrick:
y'
B2 R U2 D' B2 Lw2 x' U2 Lw' B

For now I can only plan a 2x2 block, and track the other two pieces sometimes. I'm going to practice FMC FB this week.

It became my main as I stood over the score card for the second round and thought that the YueXiao had locked up so many times in the first round. Hardly broken in and in need of some lube on the core etc but it didn't let me down. I will spend some time setting it up and lubing it now.

Nice cube must be then, may be good for Roux?

 

[muchacho]

Unofficial PBs

2x2
Single: 1.280 (16-May-16)
Ao5: 4.468 (20-Sep-16)
Ao12: 5.190 (20-Sep-16)
Mo100: 6.256 (28-Jul-17)

3x3
Single: 10.121 (8-Feb-18)
Ao5: 13.81 (25-Dec-20)
Ao12: 15.19 (16-Mar-21)
Ao100: 16.74 (15-Jan-21)

3x3 OH
Single: 13.68 (17-Nov-20)
Ao5: 19.60 (02-May-20)
Ao12: 20.43 (04-Jun-20)
Ao100: 22.80 (27-Jan-21)

4x4
Single: 1:17.690 (30-Apr-17)
Ao5: 1:35.764 (30-Aug-17)
Ao12: 1:40.479 (30-Aug-17)

5x5
Single: 4:01.027 (21-Aug-17)
Ao5: 4:19.708 (21-Aug-17)
Ao12: 5:08.567 (20-Aug-17)

Megaminx
Single: 3:18.715 (19-Mar-16)
Ao5: 3:40.560 (20-Mar-16)
Ao12: 3:46.847 (20-Mar-16)

Skewb
Single: 6.120 (18-Apr-16)
Ao5: 10.272 (06-Apr-16)
Ao12: 11.704 (06-Apr-16)
Mo100: 15.789 (06-Apr-16)

3x3BLD (only corners)
Single: 47.32 (18-Mar-16)

3x3BLD (only edges)
Single: 3:55.55 (05-Aug-17)

2-3-4 Relay
Single: 2:17.255 (22-May-16)

Kilominx
Single: 42.334 (29-Sep-16)
Ao5: 1:00.798 (29-Sep-16)
Ao12: 1:03.904 (02-Oct-16)

Square-1
Single: 46.541 (18-Nov-16)
Ao5: 1:13.612 (15-Nov-16)
Ao12: 1:23.678 (15-Nov-16)

Clock
Single: 1:01.899 (21-Dec-16)
Ao5: 1:10.181 (21-Dec-16)

LSE
Mo100: 4.385 (10-Jul-17)

LSE OH
Ao100: 5.41 (04-May-20)

 

[h2f]

@Chris, David, Thank you. It's the second or third ao50 sub20. I think Im closer to sub20 ao100.

@David nice tps. When I was doing Roux there was a internet tool to practice both FB and SB.

 

[Selkie]

Well it will be nice if you are right, it doesn't feel like it to me right now. Of course every since I started getting interested in more than 3x3 it takes some of my practice time away. Not that much since I mostly do 3x3 still.

Chris that is really awesome and fun to see! I still need to watch some of your unboxings but I watched this right away! Good looking shirt, did you get any comments on it? I'll have to forward to my brother to see this.

Sorry Jason, yes got a few comments but the black lettering is not easy to see on the dark red so think I may have to order another in white. Those I pointed it out to thought it was great

 

[muchacho]

http://cubegrass.appspot.com/block_trainer/

I'll use that too.