Older cubers discussions

[newtonbase]

Also, I mentioned this to Mark at the last comp, but I had a 3BLD "almost-success" last week. All solved except for a single corner that I twisted during execution. Still happy though as I now know I have it within me to get the memo correct.

I'd call that a success.

 

[Selkie]

@mafergut Miguel, I was going to order the Valk and Moyu Weichuang GTS this evening. Both in stickerless. UK vendor so should be an unboxing before the end of the week.

@Shaky Hands Andy, some great improvement there mate. Nice to see sub cutoff single but if you are concentrating on 5x5 hopefully that one will be there too soon

@JohnnyReggae Its a great puzzle Brent. Haven't solved mine for a time but it take a lot of time searching for pieces

@Logiqx Nice breakdoown of your puzzle times. The one that stands out for me is the 2 for OH. Thats very fast for >40. Do you have many different OH algs to 2H?

 

[Shaky Hands]

@Shaky Hands Andy, some great improvement there mate. Nice to see sub cutoff single but if you are concentrating on 5x5 hopefully that one will be there too soon

Thanks. Yes, I'm far more into 5x5 at the moment. Main improvement has come from turning faster I think.

 

[Logiqx]

@mafergut Miguel, I was going to order the Valk and Moyu Weichuang GTS this evening. Both in stickerless. UK vendor so should be an unboxing before the end of the week.

@Shaky Hands Andy, some great improvement there mate. Nice to see sub cutoff single but if you are concentrating on 5x5 hopefully that one will be there too soon

@JohnnyReggae Its a great puzzle Brent. Haven't solved mine for a time but it take a lot of time searching for pieces

@Logiqx Nice breakdoown of your puzzle times. The one that stands out for me is the 2 for OH. Thats very fast for >40. Do you have many different OH algs to 2H?

I'd estimate that 30% of my algs are different for OH, excluding basic differences in execution. 13 of my PLLs are different but I'd estimate that only 25% of my OLLs differ. I think 7 of my 28 COLL algs are different.

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[mark49152]

Also, I mentioned this to Mark at the last comp, but I had a 3BLD "almost-success" last week. All solved except for a single corner that I twisted during execution. Still happy though as I now know I have it within me to get the memo correct.

Ah, an accidental twist? Yeah I'd call that a success too then, definitely. I thought you meant twisted like you'd solved the wrong sticker or something, leaving the buffer twisted too. Which would still be close .

 

[bubbagrub]

I'm curious which puzzles are most popular or unpopular with us oldies and why. Here's mine.

Events I compete in: So far, I've got official singles in every event except 7x7, 4BLD and 5BLD. My goal is to get averages in everything that it's possible to get averages in -- right now the ones I don't yet have averages in are 5x5, 3BLD, feet, Megaminx, Square-1 and 6x6.

Right now I can't imagine ever doing 4BLD or 5BLD, but I hope I will, some day.

For the past couple of months I've been practising Square-1, mostly, as it seems like the one where I'm most likely to be able to get an average (the cut at the next comp is 45 and I'm averaging around 42, so it's not a sure thing, but I still have a few weeks to improve...)

One of my favourite events is FMC. I highly recommend it to other oldies that don't do it, because TPS and agility are not required -- it's an almost entirely mental activity. And although memorising algorithms might be helpful in some cases, it's more about logic and understanding the way the cube works.

 

[mark49152]

Qualification times for UK Champs are posted on the UKCA site. 6x6 mean 4 mins, 7x7 mean 6 mins, MBLD 3 points.

@Shaky Hands, no 6x6 for us.

@newtonbase, guess you will be out of luck with MBLD, unless you can successfully appeal that they add it at Guildford to give people a chance to qualify.

 

[Jason Green]

One of my favourite events is FMC. I highly recommend it to other oldies that don't do it, because TPS and agility are not required -- it's an almost entirely mental activity. And although memorising algorithms might be helpful in some cases, it's more about logic and understanding the way the cube works.

Sometimes I wonder if my mental is fading faster than my fingers. [emoji15]

 

[Selkie]

Qualification times for UK Champs are posted on the UKCA site. 6x6 mean 4 mins, 7x7 mean 6 mins, MBLD 3 points.

@Shaky Hands, no 6x6 for us.

@newtonbase, guess you will be out of luck with MBLD, unless you can successfully appeal that they add it at Guildford to give people a chance to qualify.

Ouch, only one 40+ in the world would qualify for that 6x6 mean based on official results and thats François Courtès at 3:59.35!! I only have 3 sub 4 min 6x6 means of which only 1 on film. Pity film doesn't count

 

[Shaky Hands]

Qualification times for UK Champs are posted on the UKCA site. 6x6 mean 4 mins, 7x7 mean 6 mins, MBLD 3 points.

@Shaky Hands, no 6x6 for us.

Or for @Selkie. Shame, as I enjoy this event. I understand the reasons though.

 

[Shaky Hands]

Ouch, only one 40+ in the world would qualify for that 6x6 mean based on official results and thats François Courtès at 3:59.35!! I only have 3 sub 4 min 6x6 means of which only 1 on film. Pity film doesn't count

You might get a sub-4m at Guildford...

 

[Selkie]

You might get a sub-4m at Guildford...

Only there for Sunday at Guildford. 6x6 is Saturday mate. Completely understand the reason myself too, there have to be cutoffs and qualification to keep things on time. Only pity is I was planning to trying to catch François. That might be a 2017 goal now

 

[Shaky Hands]

Ah gotcha. For some reason I thought you were there on the Saturday and not the Sunday.

 

[Selkie]

Went to place an order with ThePuzzleStore.UK for the Moyu Weichuang 5x5, Valk 3x3, Thunderclap v2 and a spares of X-Man Galaxy Megaminx and X-Man Tornado all in stickerless but whilst I can pre order the Valk it wont let me pre order the Weichuang which looks like an awesome 5x5 so I will have to keep checking back each day until they have stock.

@Logiqx , wow that is a lot of different OH algs. My hands arent fast enough anymore to warrant that investment of time. Great times sir

@Shaky Hands , If it wasnt for an elderly (more elderly than me!!) family birthday near Oxford on the Saturday I'd be there to try and qualify

 

[jfly]

Cool. I'll be great if the WCA re-introduce age statistics to their website. There's no need for full DOBs to be published... only the "effective age" which changes on a specific day of the year; e.g. 1st Jan.

I think that could make sense for older people, but probably doesn't make much sense for younger competitors. Here's the GitHub issue Jason was referring to: https://github.com/cubing/worldcubeassociation.org/issues/285. The WCA Software Team is pretty overwhelmed with work (check out our full list of issues), so I do not anticipate anyone working on this anytime soon. That said, if someone from here is interested in helping make it happen, please either drop me an email, or email [email protected] (I don't check speedsolving that often).

 

[Selkie]

@jfly Great to hear it the WCA are open to the idea and I hope one of the thread regulars can assist in this case. agreed it would be somewhat moot for the younger generation it certainly would prove very interesting for us older cubers.

Unfortunately I do not have the relevant skills in this area but will watch with interest. Thanks for taking the time to offer some feedback

 

[newtonbase]

@newtonbase, guess you will be out of luck with MBLD, unless you can successfully appeal that they add it at Guildford to give people a chance to qualify.

That would have been a big disappointment but I was never going to make the Friday evening anyway so I'm already over it.

 

[MarcelP]

@MarcelP, your 16.6 average video says it's blocked in my country because of SME copyright. Weird.

Yeah there was a radio playing so there was this copyright claim. I will reupload later without sound.

 

[Jason Green]

Yeah there was a radio playing so there was this copyright claim. I will reupload later without sound.

Of course, because everyone likes to make mix tapes of illegal songs they get from radio playing on other people's YouTube vids. Plus it's so bad for the band for more people to hear there music. [emoji57]

 

[mark49152]

Ouch, only one 40+ in the world would qualify for that 6x6 mean based on official results and thats François Courtès at 3:59.35!! I only have 3 sub 4 min 6x6 means of which only 1 on film. Pity film doesn't count

That's a shame Chris. Maybe next year. I guess the reason is to do with scrambling, since the event usually has time limits and cut-offs anyway. I didn't compete in 6x6 or 7x7 last year so don't recall how it worked.

Was anyone here planning to do both MBLD and FMC? @bubbagrub?