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[mark49152]

As an aside, looks like I chose the same orientation you and @mark49152 use. The only "logic" behind it for me was that I solve white first sighted and green in front is just a z2 away from WCA scramble. Great comp report.

Same logic for me, except it dates back to before 3BLD. When I was learning CFOP, I couldn't remember my side colours using the usual rules of thumb like X is right of Y. Instead, I chose a front colour, green. Orange is on the right side, blue on the back, etc. To this day, if I'm doing F2L and the blue face is towards me, mentally I'm looking at the "back" of the cube. It would have been difficult for me to choose a different orientation for 3BLD!

 

[newtonbase]

I chose my orientation while watching Noah's tutorial. He'd copied his orientation from Zane but I didn't like that so when he mentioned WCA orientation i went with it. I really should be dual colour neutral in CFOP because of it but haven't tried.

 

[h2f]

I tried few orientations and I choosed the one I liked the most.

 

[JohnnyReggae]

Some more OH practice has yielded PB's all around

Single = 23.69
mo3 = 30.18
ao5 = 32.98
ao12 = 36.44
ao100 = 39.92

 

[pipkiksass]

Howdy folks, long time no post. Been keeping an eye on proceedings, excellent job at Manchester to all UK oldies!

I've not been timing pretty much anything, although I did have a new OLL which I successfully recognised in a sub-1:20 4x4 solve the other day. I'm successfully resisting the timer while I try to absorb my remaining OLLs, which is going... OK I guess.

I never cease to be amazed by 4BLD and, of course, @mark49152's trademarked cube-tap execution tic. Love it. If I ever start BLD, I might deliberately start doing it just so I'm "down with the kids".

@Selkie - decided to take the plunge and get a Valk M then, eh? @Jason Green - how's yours treating you? My main source of lock-ups is, funnily enough, PLLs that require cube rotations, such as A perms. If the M helps with these, it would be a god-send. Other than that, I find it hard to justify the money... I'd rather buy a new 4x4 and 6x6. Maybe.

 

[mark49152]

I never cease to be amazed by 4BLD and, of course, @mark49152's trademarked cube-tap execution tic. Love it. If I ever start BLD, I might deliberately start doing it just so I'm "down with the kids".

LOL, very good. My thinking is, give it a shake, hit it or bash it on the table every so often to show it who's boss and get the thing to cooperate. It's working for me at the moment, so hey

 

[mark49152]

Yes. I've failed becasue during November I missed one word for edges. I wasnt sure if there' was that word and couldnt figure out where. It made me 3 edges off. I'm quite glad with it because I thought my edges memo in the middle is wrong - in fact whole memo was correct. I'll redo the scramble and the solution in the evening today. Of course without memo.

I missed this before. I wish I could understand Polish! Awesome anyway to get that close. Are you doing another one this year? Is that what you're memoing at the start, or was that last year?

 

[h2f]

I missed this before. I wish I could understand Polish! Awesome anyway to get that close. Are you doing another one this year? Is that what you're memoing at the start, or was that last year?

Sorry, I stopped doing translations - no time. It was last year's memo. I think, I'll do it again, but maybe I gave a half of year for it. In fact it's not hard and I think you can do it with ease.

 

[mark49152]

Triple post! For fun, I compared my official PB in each event with PB average at home, to see which events I should improve on in comp. Here's the list, in order of decreasing gap.

3BLD: 20% slower than home (comparing official single to PB normalised ao12 at home).
5BLD: 19% slower (comparing singles).
4BLD: 14% slower (singles).
3x3: 13% slower (official average compared to ao50 at home, although that ao50 is 1.5 years old and I'm at least a second slower now, so in truth more like 5-6% slower).
5x5: 5% slower (compared to home ao12)
2x2: 4% slower (home ao100)
4x4: 1% faster (home ao50)
6x6: 9% faster (official single compared to home ao12)

Bear in mind I practise 3BLD most and 6x6 least. I can think of several ways to explain the patterns there...

 

[JohnnyReggae]

Just had another LL skip, 2nd ever .... although it should have been much faster in the end, I still ended up with a 12.45 ...

D B' D2 R2 F U2 F L2 D2 B' D2 R2 D L F U' R2 F' D2 R B'

z2 // inspection
B F2 L D // cross 4
U' R' U R U2 y R U R' // 1st 12
U' L U' L' R' U' R // 2nd 19
U2 L U2' L' U' L U L' // 3rd 27
U' L' U2 L U2 L' U L U // 4th LL-skip 36

// = 12.45 @ 2.89tps

 

[JohnnyReggae]

Just had another LL skip, 2nd ever .... although it should have been much faster in the end, I still ended up with a 12.45 ...

D B' D2 R2 F U2 F L2 D2 B' D2 R2 D L F U' R2 F' D2 R B'

z2 // inspection
B F2 L D // cross 4
U' R' U R U2 y R U R' // 1st 12
U' L U' L' R' U' R // 2nd 19
U2 L U2' L' U' L U L' // 3rd 27
U' L' U2 L U2 L' U L U // 4th LL-skip 36

// = 12.45 @ 2.89tps

As a comparison solve ... I got this 12.96 solve with an OLL skip with much higher TPS ....
U2 L2 B L2 B2 D2 R2 F' R2 U' L R2 D2 L R B D F'

z2 // inspection
B D' F B2 D' // cross 5
R U' R' U R' U' R // 1st 12
U2 y L U2 L' U L U' L' // 2nd 20
U R' U R U2 y' L U L' // 3rd 28
U' R U' R' U y' R' U R // 4th oll-skip 36
U' R' U' F' R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' R U R' U R U' // pll F-Perm 56

// = 12.96 @ 4.32tps

 

[Lid]

Here's my 4BLD...

Almost as fast as Mats B.!

new Square-1 single PB today, 0.02 improvement ....
(-2, 0) / (-3, 3) / (5, -4) / (1, -2) / (3, 0) / (-3, 0) / (2, 0) / (3, 0) / (-5, -3) / (-1, 0) / (6, 0) /
Solve:
0,-3/0,1/-1,0/-3,0 || CS
2,3/ || OBL
-1,-3/3,-3/0,3/-3,0/3,0/-3,0/ || CP
-2,3/3,0/-1,-1/-2,1/-1,3 || EP
Time: 9.653

 

[chtiger]

Great to see everyone's comp results. Extra congrats to @mark49152 for top 100 (86th) in the world in 4BLD.

Gonna do a late goals list for 2017.
At home:
Try to keep up and be more active with this thread, starting today.
5BLD success (going to make my first attempt in the next few days)
3BLD single faster than Kaijun Lin's official 4BLD single
give 4x4 another try
4x4 single faster than Kaijun Lin's official 4BLD single
finish 3x3 OLL algs
learn skewb
continue glacial-speed improvement of 3x3 (I'll join the sub-20 crowd in about 5 more years)

official comp goals: (none of these are lofty, first 2 are musts)
4BLD success
sub 11 clock avg
sub 2:30 3BLD
3x3 PB single or avg
sub 7 2x2 avg
do a new event

 

[Shaky Hands]

Pretty happy with today's 7x7 Ao5 of 8:00.38. Good for me at any rate.

8:07.79, (8:27.89,) 7:30.85, (7:20.55,) 8:22.49

Third and fourth solves are both all-time PB singles. If I can shave another minute I may be able to record a comp average.

I've joined @Selkie in ordering the Qiyi 7x7 from Marty's store. Looking forward to that arriving.

 

[mafergut]

Another couple of sub 1:05.xx singles at 4x4 but no sub 1 minute One of them had PLL parity. Also another solve that was going so well and I spoiled in the end with a mistake in OLL and still ending in a 1:07.xx. I'll keep trying...

Regarding the WuJi I'll keep an eye on its price but it wouldn't hurt me to actually solve my AoFu GT, or would it? Like trying to actually get below 10 minutes My 6x6 and 7x7 times are disproportionately slow compared with 2x2 to 5x5, sign that I almost never practise. Haven't even solved the WuHua once since I got it last week.

 

[newtonbase]

I've watched the video of my 3BLD PB from Manchester and there was a pause of over 20s while I recalled my first word {DQ - DEATH}. Didn't realise it was that bad. The memo was 1:05.
I left the camera running after the solve so the file is so big I'm having trouble getting it on YouTube.

 

[mafergut]

Sorry to bother you again guys... Another couple of close calls. One 1:04.xx and new PB single... 1:01.22... still not sub 1min. How close can I still get without actually getting sub 1? Maybe next PB will be 1:00.01

 

[phreaker]

Made a Valk M, but used some strange magnets, ring magnets that work out to be ~N44 magnets compared to normal 4x2mms, attached using blu tack. (Amazing stuff!)

Love it... great cube. The smooth feel and that click is amazing. Setting some really nice times with it... no PB yet... but I fully expect that's a matter of not getting a skip more than the cube... the cube is great, so far.

 

[Dom]

Made a Valk M, but used some strange magnets, ring magnets that work out to be ~N44 magnets compared to normal 4x2mms, attached using blu tack. (Amazing stuff!)

Love it... great cube. The smooth feel and that click is amazing. Setting some really nice times with it... no PB yet... but I fully expect that's a matter of not getting a skip more than the cube... the cube is great, so far.

Pictures! And information on where we can get some of those magnets!

 

[mark49152]

Almost as fast as Mats B.!

Yay, second now in the wrinkly rankings!

Extra congrats to @mark49152 for top 100 (86th) in the world in 4BLD.

Cheers! I'm amazed. How can there not be more than 84 young'uns (and Mats) faster than me?

I've watched the video of my 3BLD PB from Manchester and there was a pause of over 20s while I recalled my first word {DQ - DEATH}. Didn't realise it was that bad. The memo was 1:05.
I left the camera running after the solve so the file is so big I'm having trouble getting it on YouTube.

Windows Movie Maker. Free and fun! What's your channel? Not sure I've seen it.