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It's hard to find free time to practice BLD when so much of your life is filled with noise and distractions. Or you worry that staring at a cube for 5 to 7 minutes without actually applying any moves is akin to ignoring your significant other. Still haven't had a success since all those "close calls" at comp. I kinda wanna get at least one more PB before I start learning M2.
 
Chree said:
It's hard to find free time to practice BLD when so much of your life is filled with noise and distractions. Or you worry that staring at a cube for 5 to 7 minutes without actually applying any moves is akin to ignoring your significant other. Still haven't had a success since all those "close calls" at comp. I kinda wanna get at least one more PB before I start learning M2.
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Exactly my problem :)
But you should learn M2 right away.
 
Chree said:
It's hard to find free time to practice BLD when so much of your life is filled with noise and distractions. Or you worry that staring at a cube for 5 to 7 minutes without actually applying any moves is akin to ignoring your significant other. Still haven't had a success since all those "close calls" at comp. I kinda wanna get at least one more PB before I start learning M2.
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I'm there with you but as you have already been told, learn M2 now. It's fun and better!
 
Too many topics to comment on! I freakin love this thread!

I wish we had the means of organizing a comp for the oldies of this thread. One that we could all attend! That would be the bomb!

@ who ever was talking about the overwhelming amount of events to practice. I feel you guys! I focused on 3x3 for my first 2 years after wanting to be sub 30. I didn't start doing 4x4 or 5x5 till after my first 2 comps at least.. I think. I competed in 2x2 but never put serious practice in until this year.

I find the WC to be a perfect way of casually keeping my skills in various events at par. Then I have 2-3 events that I try to practice everyday.
 
kbrune said:
Too many topics to comment on! I freakin love this thread!

I wish we had the means of organizing a comp for the oldies of this thread. One that we could all attend! That would be the bomb!

@ who ever was talking about the overwhelming amount of events to practice. I feel you guys! I focused on 3x3 for my first 2 years after wanting to be sub 30. I didn't start doing 4x4 or 5x5 till after my first 2 comps at least.. I think. I competed in 2x2 but never put serious practice in until this year.

I find the WC to be a perfect way of casually keeping my skills in various events at par. Then I have 2-3 events that I try to practice everyday.
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Yeah I had said we should have a senior competition if we could all go. Even if it's open to everyone, we could do oldie awards. So who among us is the secret multi millionaire that will fly us all somewhere? Or maybe some talk show will hear about us and fly us all out for a mini comp on TV. :)
 
I just can't seem to do any of the things that are supposed to improve my cubing. I do very few untimed solves. I think the thought I might have an awesome solve and not know how fast it was drives me crazy.

I also can't slow turn or look ahead. I was trying not to rush turning tonight and not having many sub 20s. Then I started going for faster turn speed and was getting lots of them, and a new PB ao5 by a about .3 seconds. When I turn slow it just doesn't help my look ahead enough so I still have the same pauses. Someday maybe...
 
All this talk about Roux and ZZ made me do some Petrus solves again. My times have slipped a bit since I'm forcing myself to practice COLL+EPLL but my recall is slower than OCLL+PLL. However, I did get my first sub-20 single yesterday - 18.71. :)

I'm awaiting an order from the Cubicle but I'm starting to wonder if they are being delayed in customs or worse still, maybe confiscated. The tracking shows they were in Heathrow on Sunday but nothing since that time. I don't remember it taking so long the last time I order from the US.

1 x MoYu WeiLong GTS
1 x Gans 356S V2 (Master)
1 x MoYu AoSu 4x4
1 x MoYu AoShi 6x6
1 x MoYu Cubic AoFu 7x7 GT
... plus stickers for my Gans356
 
Logiqx said:
I'm awaiting an order from the Cubicle...

1 x MoYu WeiLong GTS
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if you are addicted to Gans 356 (like me)it will be hard to make the change to GTS.

Jason Green said:
3x3 I love my Yuexiao! I used a Gans until I got it. I am also growing interest in the GTS, I have not tried it.
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If you love the Yuexiao, then you will go nuts over GTS. It is an improved Yuexaio :) I have troubles becomming adjusted to it's speed. The speed of this cube is insane.. Just did this 12 secs solve a few minutes ago
60. 12.40 D R2 D' F2 B' R2 F' L U L2 F2 U2 R' D2 L' F2 L2 U2 L B2
x2 y // inspection
U' L R2 x' U2 F R U' R' x D2 // VERY STUPID CROSS (12)
R' U R U L' U' L // 1ST (7)
R U' R2 U R // 2D (5)
U' R U' U' R' U' L U L' //3RD (9)
R U' U' R' U R U R' // 4TH (8)
U' R2 U' R' U' R U R U R U' R U2 (13)
//54 in 12.40 = 4.3 TPS
https://alg.cubing.net/?setup=D_R2_..._U_R-_//_4TH U-_R2_U-_R-_U-_R_U_R_U_R_U-_R_U2
My times are very close to Gans 356 but not quite there yet. The uncontrollabilty (due to speed) is costing me averages because many solve are screwed up. Like the 27 seconds solve before this 12 LOL.. Still, I used this cube in competition and I am working on it to make it my main. The feel of this cube so nice. I think if I get used to the speed I will never like another cube. (Btw, gans feels sluggish after GTS).
 
Jason Green said:
I just can't seem to do any of the things that are supposed to improve my cubing. I do very few untimed solves. I think the thought I might have an awesome solve and not know how fast it was drives me crazy.

I also can't slow turn or look ahead. I was trying not to rush turning tonight and not having many sub 20s. Then I started going for faster turn speed and was getting lots of them, and a new PB ao5 by a about .3 seconds. When I turn slow it just doesn't help my look ahead enough so I still have the same pauses. Someday maybe...
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Don't worry too much about it Jason. I know exactly how you feel. I have the exact same problem when trying to slow turn. My times just get slower. But what I've realized from reading other people's comments and advice over and over again is that slow turn practice isn't really about your times. What it does is it allows you to spot other options and possible new ways of solving. I know that for me. I've noticed that I'm always looking for the same Patterns when turning fast. And I used to think that I just wasn't capable of using certain techniques. But really it's most likely that fast turning has created specific habits that I can't break out of now.

Moral of the story is that slow turn practice will help your look ahead longterm. Itll allow you extra time to track pieces you miss during higher tps. And the more you do it. Those new tracking skills will be usable at higher speeds once theyre etched in yoir brain. That's what I understood anyway.

Having said all that. That is going to be my next goal. Improving my cross and f2l efficiency.
 
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