SpartanSailor
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I’m impressed.
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I’m impressed.
SpartanSailor
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Ok... now I’m REALLY impressed!! That’s fantastic. Nicely done.
newtonbase
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Fantastic achievement. Well done.
Had a 10:38 DNF today which is my fastest.
newtonbase
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Just tried the 3rd scramble from round 1 at the weekend. That's the one that cost me a mean as I didn't start the timer. 1:48 DNF as missed one of the flipped edges in memo.
Logiqx
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Congrats. I saw that when I went to the PB spreadsheet and looked at the version history.
openseas
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@Logiqx , @mark49152 , @SpartanSailor , @newtonbase / Thanks!
Sounds like your sub-conscious was working to make you feel better
Sounds like your sub-conscious was working to make you feel better
SpartanSailor
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another 0/3 attempts on 3BLD last night. I feel like I'm getting the memo right, but kept having 1 pair or cycle off. I'm doing untimed solves just to remove that additional pressure, but still no luck last night.
Any advice about how else to practice other than just doing it? I could go back to only corners or only edges to practice, I suppose.
Any advice about how else to practice other than just doing it? I could go back to only corners or only edges to practice, I suppose.
JanW
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Everyone here is making so much progress, both in old events and in learning new! Congrats all!
I'd need to practice more. Just finished the first 1000 timed solves of 2018. Ao1000 19.10 and more sub-18s than sup-20s, which I'm quite happy with!
I'd need to practice more. Just finished the first 1000 timed solves of 2018. Ao1000 19.10 and more sub-18s than sup-20s, which I'm quite happy with!
If you only want to practice execution, you could try my bldtrainer (link in sig).
SpartanSailor
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1000 solves already? No wonder y'all are so much faster than I am! I think I've done a few hundred... but certainly not 1000 timed 3x3 solves in 2018 already. I better get to work!
Thanks for the bld trainer link. I'll check it out.
Thanks for the bld trainer link. I'll check it out.
newtonbase
Premium Member
Do you know if it's your memo, tracing or recall letting you down? You could try jotting down the memo before execution then checking it against the scramble afterwards.
mitja
Regular
Thats really impressive. I wish i had so much time like you guys. My work just doesn't permit me. I am too much of a workaholick.
I am still trying to rehearse my execution for 4BLD, so I am lying sick in Italian ski resort and having some peace while my girls are skiing.
My execution is getting better the best ones are 3:30-4:30. It is sighted execution, but i just search a pair and execute with eyes closed and thats for all, centres, wings and OP corners. Slowly I am getting confidence to my second try for 4BLD solve. Just want to get better, I know that execution will be much slower ones I do BLD with all retracing.
SpartanSailor
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I’m not totally sure. I think it’s tracing or misidentifying the piece. I feel like I execute my memo accurately, so I’m thinking the problem is getting the memo correct.
Logiqx
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I've done 1825 timed 3x3 solves this year (i.e. averaging 34 solves per day).
Looking at my rolling average of 1000, I'm around 0.7 seconds quicker than I was on 1st January.
newtonbase
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If that's the case then my suggestion should help. Try the scramble again against your written memo and see what happens. It works better using a different cube so you can see the one that went wrong and compare errors.
mark49152
Premium Member
Off topic, but has anyone seen this act of breathtaking superhumanity? Makes MBLD look silly.
SpartanSailor
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That is beyond remarkable... my head hurts just imagining it.
SpartanSailor
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Wow. I just hit 200 timed solves in my current session. I hope to hit 1000 before my comp at the end of March. I will need to average 23 solves a day to get the next 800 (just did the math) and already planned to do at least 25 a day. My average for that 200, however, is slightly improved over my previous session leading up to my previous comp. Again... I'll take consistency and slow/steady progress at this point.
I do, however, do MANY (possibly as many as 100) untimed solves during the day too. I don't go "slow" per se, but I do sometimes go slower to specifically work on look ahead or a particular finger-trick or something else specific. I think those are actually helping too.
openseas
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Thanks. I'm a firm believer of targeted pratice. In BLD, actually, sighted executions are not necessarily faster than blindfolded exec. Your execution times look good.
SpartanSailor
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Do you think it is a helpful tactic to do the memo and tracing then solve the cube sighted using your same memo? I am wondering if this may be a good way for me to do some practice... that way I can identify immediately if I memo'd something incorrectly. Thoughts?
