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[Jason Green]

Wow. Impressive stuff Jason!

I use Tapatalk but it hasn't worked since last night.

I saw people on here saying this was a Xenforo forum now, so I looked for an app for it. I got one called Forum Talker which can connect (URL that worked was https://www.speedsolving.com/forum), but it does not look great and I do not think it has notifications.

There is one called Forum Runner but it's $1.99 and I'm not sure if this site has the plugin. I'm going to ask in the update thread. Please let me know if you have any luck!

Edit - Tried Forum Runner, could not connect, so got a refund.

 

[Jason Green]

Mike, Tapatalk is working yay!!

 

[h2f]

@Jason Green, Congrats. Great ao5. My first ao5 sub-19 was in september last year. You're progressing.

@Chree, I'm back to Hoya on 5x5. I've made few solves yesterday and I got 2 sub-3 solves when usually I solve in around 3:20. So it looks like Hoya works great now for me. I'll give a try with 4x4 and 6x6 but 6x6 I do very seldom.

Talking about progress - I've made 50 3bld solves in last 2 days (12 day before with acc. 30% and 38 yesterday with acc 60%). I'm back on track. My accuracy was 50% but finally I got new pb: 51.52 which is better from previous by 8 seconds. Scramble was easy and solve includes few M2 inserts and few easy comms based on advanced M2. I dont know memo time - havent looked at the timer.

Spoiler

Scramble: R2 U2 R2 D2 U' R2 U2 B2 R2 U' F L R F' D' B2 L2 D' F' R2 Rw2 Uw

y' //preinspection

F' x' L U' R2 U L' U' R2 U x F //3cycle

U R2 U' L' U R2 U' L//3cycle

U R D R' U' R D' R'//3cycle

U R U' M2 U R' U' //M2 insert

x' U' R U M2 U' R' U x //M2 insert

U x' M2 U' R U M2 U' R' U x U' //3cycle, adv M2

x U R U' M' U R' U' M x' //3cycle

x' U M2 U L U' M2 U L' U2 x //3cycle, adv M2

U' L' U M2 U' L U //M2 insert

U2 M' U2 M' //M2 insert

alg.cubing.net

89htm/51.52 = 1.71 TPS

 

[MarcelP]

Mark, sometimes I post feedback on YouTube, hope you see it eventually! This was a great video, thanks!





Start date is 4/25! Thanks everyone!



Well it's supposed to be me and two teachers right now, we'll see!

So this is crazy, I had my first sub 20 ao5 last night too! I tried to share the picture but the site was down for the update. I'm still having trouble with Tapatalk working with it today. Does anyone else use Tapatalk, and is it working? I like the new site, although multi-quote is a little buggy between pages it seems.

Anyway, I first had a 19.90 ao5, and then rolled it into this 18.87.

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Looking at these times I see a very cool standard deviation. When I was avaraging 20 - 23 secs my times where all over the place. Getting all about the same times as I see in the picture is a good indicator that there are no weak points in your solves. Meaning even the hard scrambles will result in about the same time. Good stuff!

 

[mark49152]

finally I got new pb: 51.52 which is better from previous by 8 seconds.

Wow, nice, you are getting fast! I also went back to 3BLD yesterday. Did 30 solves with accuracy increasing from <50% in first ten up to 70% for the session. Also set a new PB but only 1:34 so I feel slow now .

I really don't want to put down 4BLD. I am still enjoying it most, but there's no 4BLD at my next comp .

 

[h2f]

@mark49152 Thank you. I enjoy 4bld and 5bld as well and also I dont see any comp with it on the horizon.

 

[Jason Green]

Looking at these times I see a very cool standard deviation. When I was avaraging 20 - 23 secs my times where all over the place. Getting all about the same times as I see in the picture is a good indicator that there are no weak points in your solves. Meaning even the hard scrambles will result in about the same time. Good stuff!

Thanks! That was a pretty consistent session, except a few DNFs that I did not want to fix botched LL. Tonight I had a couple of 40+ second solves because I went ahead and finished an alg goof. I'm trying to get out of the habit of throwing out any bad solves - 1) so I can finish bigger averages, and 2) I think the discipline is good especially for comps.

 

[muchacho]

@Jason Green Wow, congrats! even sub-19, awesome!

@h2f That's impressive, you would win competitions with that time in any country that is not called Poland... well, I know there too.

 

[MarcelP]

@mark49152 Thank you. I enjoy 4bld and 5bld as well and also I dont see any comp with it on the horizon.

If you had contacted me I would have added it on my competition just for you We have a few BLD freaks in Holland who might have enjoyed that too.

 

[h2f]

@MarcelP I would come even if there's no bld event - just to meet you and say hello.

@muchacho Thank you. I wish I did such solve on competition - no matter what place I would take but medals always are welcome.

 

[mafergut]

@Jason Green, congratulations!!! Sub-19 Ao5 already, that's so nice!
@h2f, Grzegorz, that 3BLD solve... is so impressive. As David says, you could win a comp in Spain easily with that time. You never want to believe me when I say that you have some impressive cubing skills but, really, that 3BLD time is comparable to a sub-10 sigthed 3x3 average. A feat that none of us here could achieve... well, Chris is quite close but those last 3-4 seconds are so difficult for us oldies

 

[h2f]

@mafergut, Miguel - Thank you for kind words.
Let's see: WR is 4,9 and in 3bld 21,05. 21,05/4,9 = 4,29 51.52/4,29 = 12,00. So yeah - maybe it's not equvalent of sub 10 but it's close to it.

 

[mafergut]

@h2f, yeah, well, now that you did the math... but I wouldn't mind having any of those numbers as official singles. I cannot even get a sub 1 minute yet in corners only (well, 2BLD) so I can't even imagine getting close to that at 3BLD. Anyway, had I to choose, which one to get as official PB, I would prefer 51.51 at 3BLD than 12.00 at 3x3. I'm sure it ranks much higher in the world

 

[h2f]

@mafergut, definietly you're right. I would take official 3bld 51.51 with closed eyes (Im not sure if there's such idiom in English) and it would give one to be in top 100 in the world in the year.

I year ago when I started 2bld I thought the same as you - I was wondering how Mats or others who solves with bld methods can solve 2x2 in around 30 seconds.

 

[muchacho]

Only 1 year? ok, I'm sold, priority for BLD adjusted, I'll start with it this week and won't quit (not like last time I tried).

 

[MarcelP]

Ok, I tried to be cool as Mike, but did not succeed filming a cool Ao12. The best I got was 18.9X. Although that is pretty cool for me I decided not to upload. I managed to film a very cool solve though

Spoiler

Second solve of the day:
2. 13.67 U' F2 L2 U' L2 U' R2 D2 B2 L2 U R' U' R' D' B2 R' D' L B F'

Very confused.. I saw an easy blue cross (y2 x' D R' U' L' D2) but then I saw a F2L pair for white cross
so

z2 y// inspection
l U' l' L' R' F' L2 D2 // (8) Yeah, complicated, but I wanted to preserve the pair (and succeeded)
y U' L' U L // (5) F2L 1
U' R' U R U2 L U' L'// F2L 2 (8)
R U' R' U y R U2 R' U R U' R' // (12) F2L 3 I spotted the last pair I managed to preserve in this wicked way
U y' R U R' // (5) Now it's easy peasy
U R U R' U R U2 R' // OLL (8)
U' R2 U' R' U' R U R U R U' R // PLL (12)
58 moves in 13.67 = 4,2 TPS // And I thought I turned very slow so this seems quite fast.

https://alg.cubing.net/?setup=U-_F2_L2_U-_L2_U-_R2_D2_B2_L2_U_R-_U-_R-_D-_B2_R-_D-_L_B_F-&alg=z2_y//_inspection l_U-_l-_L-_R-_F-_L2_D2_//_Yeah,_complicated,_but_I_wanted_to_preserve_the_pair_(and_succeeded) y_U-_L-_U_L_ U-_R-_U_R_U2_L_U-_L-_ R_U-_R-_U_y_R_U2_R-_U_R_U-_R- U_y-_R_U_R-_ U_R_U_R-_U_R_U2_R-_//_OLL U-_R2_U-_R-_U-_R_U_R_U_R_U-_R_//_PLL

Cube: Moyu Tanglong

 

[mafergut]

@h2f: As David @muchacho says... did you mean you started 1 year ago to do 2BLD? or with BLD? Because if that's the level one can reach in 1 year I also think I already wasted 1 year I am going to take BLD much more seriously.

By the way, Grzegorz, I'm not 100% sure about English but I think there is such an idiom. And in Spanish as well "con los ojos cerrados".

@MarcelP: Nice full-step!!! I have to record a long session some day to get used to the camera and see if I can get some good singles and/or averages on camera. I think the best I have is like a 17.xx and I would like to have something better, to compare and see why other solves are not like that good one

 

[muchacho]

Oh, it's only 2bld, he has results in competition from 2014... I'll try anyway.

3x3 ao12 new PB: 21.380 (old was 21.872 from 3 weeks ago)

Spoiler

22.734 D2 R2 U' R2 D R2 F2 R2 U2 L2 U' B' L' U' R L' U' F' L' F U2
22.902 U R2 U' R2 B2 D' B2 L2 U2 L2 U B' L2 D2 R B' F' R' B2 F D2 U'
20.551 B2 L2 D R2 B2 F2 U' L2 D2 F2 D2 R D U' R' F' D2 R' B2 F2 R' D'
22.903 D R2 D2 F2 L2 B2 L2 U' B2 D2 L2 F' L2 F U L' F' U2 R' L U' R'
20.710 D2 B2 F2 L2 B2 D' L2 D B2 U' R2 F' R' F D2 R F2 R U' F2 D
35.846 B2 F2 D B2 U R2 B2 L2 F2 D F2 R' U' F' R' L' F' U2 R2 U' B' D'
17.759 B2 F2 U R2 D2 R2 D2 B2 D' B2 U B U2 F R2 U L' B' R' F R' U2
24.630 U R2 F2 U' R2 D2 B2 L2 U' L2 U' R D' B2 D2 R' F U2 B2 R' B' U
19.647 B2 D2 R2 U2 L2 F2 U' L2 B2 F2 D' F D F2 R' F U B' D' R B U'
21.703 R2 D2 F2 U L2 U' F2 U F2 D2 U' B U' F2 D' R L' B R D2 L'
18.199 R2 L2 U F2 L2 F2 U' B2 U L2 U2 B L U2 F' R B2 R' F2 U' L2 U'
19.822 U' B2 L2 B2 U' R2 D' B2 U' L2 U B' R2 D' R B2 R D' U B' L2 U

 

[Selkie]

My accuracy was 50% but finally I got new pb: 51.52 which is better from previous by 8 seconds.

Fantastic, what a great PB :TU

Second solve of the day:
2. 13.67 U' F2 L2 U' L2 U' R2 D2 B2 L2 U R' U' R' D' B2 R' D' L B F'

Very confused.. I saw an easy blue cross (y2 x' D R' U' L' D2) but then I saw a F2L pair for white cross
so

Lovely single

 

[mafergut]

Video time!
Here is the 2x2 walkthrough solve video for this week's 1st scramble. I confuse R and R' all the time in the video.

@MarcelP: I hadn't read your spoiler. Oh, man, now I'm even more impressed that you managed to do different things on the fly to preserve pairs and got that time. When I try to complicate the cross or whatever to preserve pairs I end up spoiling the solve completely.