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[LL Cool Skip]

Pyraminx is the only puzzle that I can still get decent times, for myself, while this intoxicated. Although I'm sure I'd be much better sober.
Times are in description. Prisma says the 3.42 is pb single. It probably is.

 

[mark49152]

Thanks all for the kind words on the 4BLD.

Nice 3BLD times, Grzegorz! You are fast these days.

Boomerang method: I had a look at that a while ago but got a headache wading through all the description. The example solves are interesting though. Looks to me like it's a little more efficient than OP, nowhere near as efficient as comms, but not as good a stepping stone for progressing to comms because of the separated orient & permute.

And finally, a 5BLD success on cam. I will not being doing many of these...

 

[h2f]

Calm reaction Mark.

Something changed in my 3bld. I took in mind what Jayden wrote about his progress - the key factor were good images. My goal is to be around 1 minute with my means.

 

[Shaky Hands]

Great video Mark. Love the editing and music and even though you'd already said it was a success I felt I was willing you on anyway!

My own bit of recent news is that I learned to solve a 6x6 in the past week and although my times are nothing to write home about I've been making some good improvement on it. The Weekly Competition has been my main motivator to learn this. I may need to invest in a better cube for solving this at some point as I only have one 6x6 and it's mega-sandy.

EDIT: Just got 2x2 and 5x5 PB singles in the Weekly Comp.

 

[muchacho]

First real BLD (only corners) solve.

3:01 U2 F2 L2 R2 D2 U F2 U' B2 F2 L2 B' U2 B' U B U B R2

Memo was:
U2 Sune U2 51 16 74

Spoiler

2:30 B' R' B2 R F2 U2 B2 U2 F2 R D2 R F' R' F R' B' D2
U' "U" U x2 "Pi" x2 151 242

 

[mafergut]

First real BLD (only corners) solve.
Memo was:
U2 Sune U2 51 16 74

Is that the boomerang method? Looks weird but for a 1st corner BLD it's not bad, congratulations.

By the way, 4x4 PB Ao5 (1:30.09) and Ao12 (1:37.09). Luckily the Ao5 is exactly the 5 scrambles of the weekly comp, the rest are warm-up and some other solves I did afterwards:

Ao12 = 1:45.62, 1:37.82, 1:47.40, 1:55.98, 1:24.21, (1:23.28), 1:29.49, 1:36.57, (1:58.65), 1:41.19, 1:26.75, 1:25.87

Sub 1:30 solves are becoming more frequent but still I make lots of mistakes with pairing at times. Still ages to get closer to 1 minute.

 

[muchacho]

Thanks, I've had 2 more successes only, there are too many ways I can mess it up and I know only 6 cases of preorientation, there are like 15 more, so I can't (or don't want to) even try most of the scrambles, but I'll learn more cases to be able to try 2BLD this week at the WC.

Congrats!

 

[Selkie]

@mark49152 Wow, awesome 5x5 BLD and agreed, very subdued celebration

@Shaky Hands Well done on adding the 6x6 to your solving repertoire Andy

@muchacho Grats and an interesting looking corner method

@mafergut Nice times. I am sure you ave said before but what method do you use for 4x4

 

[h2f]

Today's ao50: 20.21 and ao100 with yesterday's ao50: 20.48. Looks good.

Congrats to all with your times...

 

[mafergut]

@Selkie, Chris, I use Yau but my solving technique can be improved a lot, I'm sure, like, e.g. when pairing the 3 first cross edges, which I do on E slice (with solved centers in U and D) instead of M slice as I think most people do. Also I am still stuck with 6-2 pairing and only if I find problems I revert to other options (and wasting a lot of time in the process in those solves). Also I still use 2look OLL in some cases because of muscle memory / recog issues (the 1L OLL just doesn't want to trigger).

I think I should record a solve or two and post the video here. I'm sure you guys could offer me a lot of advice to improve.

 

[Jason Green]

I've been thinking I should post a 4x4 solve too. I need to write some questions on 4x4 and 5x5 for everyone here.

 

[newtonbase]

@Selkie, Chris, I use Yau but my solving technique can be improved a lot, I'm sure, like, e.g. when pairing the 3 first cross edges, which I do on E slice (with solved centers in U and D) instead of M slice as I think most people do. Also I am still stuck with 6-2 pairing and only if I find problems I revert to other options (and wasting a lot of time in the process in those solves).

I use E slice too but I do 3-2-3 which I strongly recommend switching to.

 

[Lid]

Today Gigaminx solves, 2 new PBs, first a 18:59.39 then the 2nd solve was even better 18:46.20, baby steps ...

 

[earth2dan]

I use E slice too but I do 3-2-3 which I strongly recommend switching to.

I also use the E slice for cross edges. I build them in the correct order too, which is not the usual Yau method but it works better for me. I found I often made mistakes trying to offset one cross edge.

And definitely 3-2-3 edge pairing. It's just so efficient, and dang it feels good when your look ahead is on point and you nail your edges without any pauses

 

[h2f]

In 4x4 I do cross edges on M slice in correct order leaving last one to be build after doing all centeres. 4 centers I build on M with half centers method in my own order. Last wing edge I build on E but I'm not sure if it's good. I do 3-2-3 but I started with 6-2. I think 3-2-3 is much better when you got harder cases.

 

[newtonbase]

6-2 is fine and quick if it works but there are far too many complications. 3-2-3 is much more likely to work and is more flexible.
I had never considered doing the edge pairing in any particular order.

 

[Logiqx]

I think by "correct order" people mean the first 3 cross edges are correctly placed. The original Yau method places one of the cross edges incorrectly to aid insertion of the final one. I think it is unusual to use that approach as there is less to think about if the cross edges are placed correctly.

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[h2f]

I think by "correct order" people mean the first 3 cross edges are correctly placed. The original Yau method places one of the cross edges incorrectly to aid insertion of the final one. I think it is unusual to use that approach as there is less to think about if the cross edges are placed correctly.

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Yes, exactly this is what I meant. I've seen Rob Yau's example solves and he does the same. Doing cross edges I do what I see and Im not searching any particular wings.

 

[MarcelP]

Good averages are hard to get on film but this one was nice

Spoiler: Ao5

1. 18.58 R' U L2 B R B2 L' D2 R' U2 F' L2 U2 F' D2 F U2 R2 F D2
2. 17.74 L2 U2 F L2 U2 B' L2 R2 F2 D2 F' R U' B' L D' R' F' R2 D R2
3. 17.48 U' R' F' D' R U D2 R F U2 F D2 B U2 F' B2 D2 L2 B
4. 15.80 F' U2 B2 L2 U' L2 F2 U' L2 D2 L2 U L' B U' F D L U2 F L'
5. 19.16 (DNF) U' L2 D2 R' U2 R F2 L2 R U2 F2 B' U2 F' R D U L2 B2
stddev 0.59

Cube: Gans 356

 

[Schmidt]

I'm something like 3000 posts behind in this thread. Everybody doing ok?