motherofsix
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My username is accurate. I homeschool my 6 children - ages 18, 15, 13, 11, 10, 10. It is a mystery.
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newtonbase
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I'm impressed. There was a lady on here a while back who would practice OH while nursing.
Your children's ages would have been close to a Fibonacci sequence when they were little. Am I right in thinking some of them are cubers? I recognise the surname.
motherofsix
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My oldest holds the NAR for feet mean and just podiumed at Nats in FMC and 5 blind. My youngest has been doing 2x2 and just started 3x3 and has a 58 average. My husband also cubes.
pglewis
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It starts to snowball too, especially as you get below a minute. It seems a bit unfair but the faster you can solve, the more practice you get during your allotted time.
For algs I'd focus on OCLL for 2-look OLL, if you don't have those down yet: https://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/OCLL There's only 7, recognition is relatively easy, and you'll be using them a lot. Keep a cheat-sheet handy if you want, they'll get into muscle memory fairly quickly. I still 2-look OLL more than half the time at just a smidge under 30 seconds now.
It's probably time to start browsing for a competition nearby you. Cut-off for 3x3 is normally a very generous 10 minutes in order to accommodate practically anyone who can solve; you have plenty of cushion there. I'm a big cheerleader for getting more of the elderly generation to log official times.
h2f
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Awsome!
oneshot
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This is part of my problem. 6 minutes/blind solve, I can only do one or two solves before one of my kids comes asking me for something.
pglewis
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Got a successful 2/2, slow and careful style. I haven't involved any method of loci yet, just ad-hoc stories. I might be able to go as far as three this way but that may be pushing it at the moment.
Made a 3bld attempt around 4:40 yesterday. Catastrophic failure, mind you, but it felt "good" from a memo standpoint. The way things were twisted it definitely looked like setup/unsetup or other execution flub where execution has normally been reasonably solid. That's definitely pushing it right now, most attempts have been somewhere in the 6-9 min range and fastest success is a high 6. Solid progress for me, this is all fairly well ahead of where I expected. Just making a legit attempt under 5 mins feels like a huge victory.
Made a 3bld attempt around 4:40 yesterday. Catastrophic failure, mind you, but it felt "good" from a memo standpoint. The way things were twisted it definitely looked like setup/unsetup or other execution flub where execution has normally been reasonably solid. That's definitely pushing it right now, most attempts have been somewhere in the 6-9 min range and fastest success is a high 6. Solid progress for me, this is all fairly well ahead of where I expected. Just making a legit attempt under 5 mins feels like a huge victory.
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Jason Green
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I don't know of any others, except for @motherofsix now.
I don't think I got to meet you, wish I could have. And thanks!It was great to meet you, glad to have you join the thread here. It's definitely been a huge motivation for me!
pglewis
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Sure! My first official 3bld is two months away and that's a good target for me to be at with much better consistency than right now. I'll be happy with any success the first time out-- 8 mins is acceptable-- but with cushion for comp nerves and concentration I'd really like to be competent ~5:30 by then at worst.
motherofsix
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I don't know of any others, except for @motherofsix now.
It was great to meet you, glad to have you join the thread here. It's definitely been a huge motivation for me!
It was great to meet you too. I often feel weird at competitions, since I'm "just" someone's mother, so it was inspiring to meet other people my age.
Mike, I know we didn't officially meet, but I judged your first OH solve on the blue stage. You apologized for how slow you were going to be.
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Logiqx
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Logiqx
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I updated the over-40s rankings again yesterday.
Congratulations @Jason Green on the sub-17 average!
Congratulations @Jason Green on the sub-17 average!
muchacho
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26.483 OH Ao5, in bad quality, I need a new SD card, it usually stops if I try recording at 720p, and even if it didn't stop it only has capacity for 6 minutes.
newtonbase
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I'm with you
Daaaady I need a drink!
Daaaady L* is biting me!
Daaaady L* is on the window ledge and he's naked
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When I saw your profile I was sure I had talked to you somewhere. And of course I met your son at Indiana 2 years ago, where he helped us out a lot on staff. Glad to have "met" you, even if I didn't realize it at the time!
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And as for the BLD solving with kids issue, that's why I took to doing so much of my BLD solving after midnight. Except now the kids are old enough that they often stay up later than me.
Schmidt
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Didn't you put up a video of you solving bld while your whole family would make as much noice as possible so you could handle a little noise at a comp, Mike HugHey?
Schmidt
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Might be SneaklyFox, a Canadian mother of 5
newtonbase
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Yes. That was her.
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I didn't remember actually putting up a video of that, but certainly I did use that for practice sometimes, yes, especially for 3x3x3 BLD. But when I wanted to do a serious big BLD solve, like a 6x6x6 or 7x7x7 or big multi, I would always do them late at night after the girls were in bed.(HugHey) - thanks for that!
