Older cubers discussions

[h2f]

Are any of you guys practising anything else? Bigger cubes maybe?

3x3 mostly. I have a busy time in job so I stopped big blindes. To be in on fire I've started regular practice (20 minuetes per day) of all comms (one day edges, one day corners).

 

[mafergut]

@mark49152 Very little time these days to practice so I have been forced to focus on just 3x3 and some solves here and there with 4x4 or 2x2. I want to cry

 

[mark49152]

Sound like a lot of oldies are busy too. I'm also struggling to find enough time to prepare for UKC.

 

[pglewis]

Seems to be a lot of 3x3 discussion these days. Are any of you guys practising anything else? Bigger cubes maybe?

I know about Grzegorz's and Mark's BLD progress of course.

The beauty of being so new to 4x4 is even though I'm glacial I'm setting PRs daily . Slowly getting used to Yau, current single/Ao5: 3:33/3:54 and that single needed both OLL and PLL parity fixes. It's a perfect progress distraction because my 3x3 times are bloated while still working in new F2L stuff.

 

[pipkiksass]

Seems to be a lot of 3x3 discussion these days. Are any of you guys practising anything else? Bigger cubes maybe?

Funny, before I quit I was working on 4x4, OH, and watching Noah's 3BLD tutorials, just starting in card memo. Was also dabbling with pyra and 5x5.

Since coming back, I really want to crack on with full OLL, blind cross, and lookahead. It's funny how hindsight changes your priorities and, more importantly, focus.


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[newtonbase]

I have so little time it's almost exclusively 3BLD at the moment. I keep one other puzzle to hand at a time to keep ticking over but there won't be any improvement. Other than 3BLD I'm relying on my skewb debut for a PB at the UKs but I'll probably have to relearn it, again.

 

[JanW]

Seems to be a lot of 3x3 discussion these days. Are any of you guys practising anything else? Bigger cubes maybe?

I got a 5x5 again last week. I bought one last year, but ended up giving it away after only a couple of weeks without ever learning to solve it properly. This time I learned to solve it and have played with it a bit more. Just did my first Ao5, which ended up at 5:27. Two sub 5 solves in there (4:51 and 4:59). Not too bad, I think.

Do people use any special algs for PLL on 5x5? I find some, mainly E, H and Z perms, are very difficult to execute on this big cube using my normal algs.

 

[CLL Smooth]

I got a 5x5 again last week. I bought one last year, but ended up giving it away after only a couple of weeks without ever learning to solve it properly. This time I learned to solve it and have played with it a bit more. Just did my first Ao5, which ended up at 5:27. Two sub 5 solves in there (4:51 and 4:59). Not too bad, I think.

Do people use any special algs for PLL on 5x5? I find some, mainly E, H and Z perms, are very difficult to execute on this big cube using my normal algs.

E: R2 U R' U' y (R U R' U')*2 R U R' y' R U' R2
Z: R' U' R U' R U R U' R' U R U R2 U' R'
H: R2 U2 R' U2 R2 U2 R2 U2 R' U2 R2
I use these for big cubes and OH. The Zperm I also use for 2H.
I also swear when I get Eperm, but I don't know if that helps.

 

[Jason Green]

I've been still mostly focused on 3x3 (big surprise). I am pretty consistently averaging sub 20, but don't have it officially yet. I have a comp this Saturday so with nerves I may not get it. I'd like a second or two more padding in my home average.

I definitely enjoy 4x4 quite a bit now, I'm getting 1:30 more often, still not 1:20 very much. 2x2 is even funner now that I have my Weipo. Which reminds me, I never edited my unboxing it's still sitting on my phone! Anyway, I'm about sub 8 on 2x2 at home. I do pyraminx and skewb in comps now, so I better solve once or twice to make sure I didn't forget how. 5x5 I am liking better too, but haven't touched it in a week or so since it's not even going to be at this comp. And OH seems like I will enjoy some day when I practice, but for now it's just hovering around 1 minute on a good solve.

 

[MarcelP]

I've been still mostly focused on 3x3 (big surprise). I am pretty consistently averaging sub 20, but don't have it officially yet. I have a comp this Saturday so with nerves I may not get it. I'd like a second or two more padding in my home average.

I definitely enjoy 4x4 quite a bit now, I'm getting 1:30 more often, still not 1:20 very much. 2x2 is even funner now that I have my Weipo. Which reminds me, I never edited my unboxing it's still sitting on my phone! Anyway, I'm about sub 8 on 2x2 at home. I do pyraminx and skewb in comps now, so I better solve once or twice to make sure I didn't forget how. 5x5 I am liking better too, but haven't touched it in a week or so since it's not even going to be at this comp. And OH seems like I will enjoy some day when I practice, but for now it's just hovering around 1 minute on a good solve.

Nice! I am still sup 9 on 2x2. About 3x3 competition nerves, I watched a youtube video of ... I think that BLD solver guy Noah, and he had this thing about 'do not care'. He said, for example he was very nervous at 2x2 and with 2x2 a small mistake will mess the times up. So he did 'not care' on purpose by doing a DNF in the middle of the average just to make the nerves go away. I was always very nervous but picked up from that video. So for example, I used my uncontrollable Valk3 in stead of my main cube. Just to get rid of the nerves part. Or I do a Roux solve in an average. Or I do the whole second round on none white/yellow cross. Anything to take away the thing of wanting to do excellent. And it helped me alot. And now I have two sub 20 avrages which I am so proud of. Last comp I took my horrible SS 4x4. It helped me with my nerves.. but I did not realise that at my best I have 20 - 30 more seconds in an average whith a horrible ShengShou.. LOL. Will not do that again. I am sure you will get a sub 20 or even sub 19 average this weekend! After all, you are the most talented oldie getting this fast so soon.

 

[JohnnyReggae]

My first sub 10 and a new PB 9.57 Quite lucky with this one in the end, managed to get 3 pairs formed for me while I was inserting the 1st and 2nd pairs and a PLL skip.

B U B2 U R2 F2 L2 U2 L2 F2 D L B R2 D' B F2 D' L B2

z2 // inspection
D B2 L F R' F' // cross 6
L U' L' U y' L' U' L // 1st 13
L U' L' // 2nd 16
U R' U R // 3rd 20
R U2' R' // 4th 23
U' r U R' U R U2 r' U2 // oll pll-skip 32

// = 9.57 @ 3.43tps

 

[mafergut]

Now I'm envious, @JohnnyReggae. You got a sub-10 before I did... if I ever get one
Congratulations. Quite lucky but that's what's needed for a PB single, right? So, well done!!!

 

[moralsh]

wow, just wow, @JohnnyReggae now that's going to be very hard to beat

@muchacho, I know you don't have plans to go to another comp this year but... https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/CerbunaOpen2016

also @mafergut, you have another one in 10 days around the same distance in Villanueva de la Cañada

 

[muchacho]

Thanks, probably I'll pass, but it would be awesome if each year there were two comps there so I could choose one.

 

[pglewis]

I've been still mostly focused on 3x3 (big surprise). I am pretty consistently averaging sub 20, but don't have it officially yet. I have a comp this Saturday so with nerves I may not get it. I'd like a second or two more padding in my home average.

I definitely enjoy 4x4 quite a bit now, I'm getting 1:30 more often, still not 1:20 very much. 2x2 is even funner now that I have my Weipo. Which reminds me, I never edited my unboxing it's still sitting on my phone! Anyway, I'm about sub 8 on 2x2 at home. I do pyraminx and skewb in comps now, so I better solve once or twice to make sure I didn't forget how. 5x5 I am liking better too, but haven't touched it in a week or so since it's not even going to be at this comp. And OH seems like I will enjoy some day when I practice, but for now it's just hovering around 1 minute on a good solve.

I know, "easier said than done", but find whatever puts you into your most confident state so it's just another solve. You've done thousands and you don't need to do anything differently. (Says the guy who totally choked at comp )

Best of luck and enjoy yourself! Y'all are my heros right now

 

[MarcelP]

My first sub 10 and a new PB 9.57 Quite lucky with this one in the end, managed to get 3 pairs formed for me while I was inserting the 1st and 2nd pairs and a PLL skip.

B U B2 U R2 F2 L2 U2 L2 F2 D L B R2 D' B F2 D' L B2

z2 // inspection
D B2 L F R' F' // cross 6
L U' L' U y' L' U' L // 1st 13
L U' L' // 2nd 16
U R' U R // 3rd 20
R U2' R' // 4th 23
U' r U R' U R U2 r' U2 // oll pll-skip 32

// = 9.57 @ 3.43tps

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Three pairs in 10 moves.. That is like wining the cube lottery LOL.. Especially with a PLL skip added to that. Nice!

 

[JohnnyReggae]

Three pairs in 10 moves.. That is like wining the cube lottery LOL.. Especially with a PLL skip added to that. Nice!

It was quite fortuitous Something similar to my previous best of 10.68 which had a last layer skip But I'll take it. Getting a sub 10 is like the Holy Grail for me. It certainly is and has been an ultimate goal to achieve. Now I just need to get more

 

[pglewis]

The beauty of being so new to 4x4 is even though I'm glacial I'm setting PRs daily . Slowly getting used to Yau, current single/Ao5: 3:33/3:54 and that single needed both OLL and PLL parity fixes. It's a perfect progress distraction because my 3x3 times are bloated while still working in new F2L stuff.

Now down to 3:17/3:43 on 4x4, sub 3 mins shouldn't be too far off.

I did a handful of timed 3x3 solves for the first time in ages, just as a check-in, but didn't let the timer force me into old habits. Still regressed towards 1 min with the thinking time but some low 40s and a 38 mixed in, which is all I needed to know. I'm confident this should drop me closer to mid 30s averages when I come out on the other side but a lot of practice to go to get things smoother.

 

[JohnnyReggae]

This is my current collection of puzzles ... a few have been left out like my original Rubiks cube which I got in 1981 and my 3x3x1 which broke 2 days after getting it, and a few extra 3x3's and 4x4's. I also have another package with 4 new puzzles waiting at the post office which I am hoping to get today. That package includes 2 Ghost cubes, a GAN Air, and a 3x3 Axis.

 

[mafergut]

Nice collection @JohnnyReggae!

I just received my stickerless Moyu Magnetic Pyraminx. I am still busy so no time to play with it except unboxing and first turns but it was an instant main. Feeling is a bit strange without the ball bearings but it turns great!