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Rocky0701 said:
What I did was work on getting to 17.5 because it's half way to sub 15. Or you could just take it second by second.
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Took me a long time to get to 20 so second by second for regular 2H 3x3. Might get a stackmat and shoot for sub-20 with that. Or maybe dual CN. Or maybe sub-25 3x3 stage on 4x4 - that would help lookahead :)
 
mark49152 said:
Took me a long time to get to 20 so second by second for regular 2H 3x3. Might get a stackmat and shoot for sub-20 with that. Or maybe dual CN. Or maybe sub-25 3x3 stage on 4x4 - that would help lookahead :)
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Yeah it would be good to get a stackmat to practice with. When I first got one I was like super afraid that it would make my times go up a little bit, but they are about the same as doing it with a keyboard.
 
Mark,

Do not forget that you are not sub 20 untill you post some kind of evidence ;) LOL... A ao12 would be fine..

Today I had a better session. 108 solves but not sub 20.. 20.85 However, some very cool ao12's in there (best Ao12 18.24) and some very nice singles (15's en 16's) and this one:

13.06 R B' R B D F R B U L2 D2 F B2 D2 B2 U2 F R2 B U2

13.06 R B' R B D F R B U L2 D2 F B2 D2 B2 U2 F R2 B U2

y// inspection
D U' R' F R U2 L2 //cross (7)
R' U R U' R' U' R //1ST (14)
U L' U L //2ND (21)
U' R U2 R' U R U R' //3RD (29)
y2 (yeah I know U' ( R U' R') //4TH (35)
r U R' U' L' U R U' x' //OLL (43)
U2 R2 U' R' U' R U R U R U' R U' // PLL (57)

4.3TPS
[video=youtube_share;TniogE7BNbk]http://youtu.be/TniogE7BNbk[/video]
 
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How's the Roux going Marcel? I now consider myself sub-40 with 24.24/34.04/35.48/38.04 today (1/5/12/50).

My 4x4 averages also improved by 5 seconds yesterday. I don't know about my other events (2x2, 5x5, 3x3 OH) because I've only been doing them untimed recently.

I suspect my bouncing around multiple events isn't conducive to progress but as long as my times keep improving, I'll stick with the variety approach. :)
 
Logiqx said:
How's the Roux going Marcel? I now consider myself sub-40 with 24.24/34.04/35.48/38.04 today (1/5/12/50).
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Nice times! :) I have stopped doing Roux only practice. I was starting to lose PLL's and OLL's. My CFOP times where going up. That's when I thought I have to choose now. I am more of a CFOP guy. I still do a few Roux solves per day. I hope to be fast at it one day. I have had big sub 30 averages. After doing almost 3 months Roux I was expecting to be faster by now. A bit disappointing :)
 
MarcelP said:
Nice times! :) I have stopped doing Roux only practice. I was starting to lose PLL's and OLL's. My CFOP times where going up. That's when I thought I have to choose now. I am more of a CFOP guy. I still do a few Roux solves per day. I hope to be fast at it one day. I have had big sub 30 averages. After doing almost 3 months Roux I was expecting to be faster by now. A bit disappointing :)
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Thanks. Looking back through my records (Excel) my Roux times have been nearly identical to my CFOP times at the same number of timed solves. It's almost felt like I've been learning from scratch but it's been fun. I've not reached 1000 timed Roux solves yet and timed solves probably account for at least half of my total solves. I can see masses of room for improvement yet so I'll keep at it with the time available.

I was on a course earlier this week and I did a CFOP Ao50 in my hotel room (first timed CFOP session in months) and it was 21.6. That's only fractionally slower than I was before playing with Roux and other events so I don't mind the drop in performance. It's nice to be (slowly) improving at a few different things. :)
 
Hi all, what's going on?
It's quiet here lately... did I miss something?

Who of you, besides Marcel, has the YuXin 4x4? What are your thoughts?

Ive received mine a week ago and first I was like woow!!
But at that time I had some troubles with my wrist, so I could not cube like usual. Now that my wrist is well again, I did an average of 5 with it and I do not like it that much anymore.
It is still a great cube and I get coparable times with it, but I have lot's of lock-ups. Maybe I'll have to use it more to get rid of it... Let's do another average of 5 :)
 
Gordon said:
Hi all, what's going on?
It's quiet here lately... did I miss something?

Who of you, besides Marcel, has the YuXin 4x4? What are your thoughts?

Ive received mine a week ago and first I was like woow!!
But at that time I had some troubles with my wrist, so I could not cube like usual. Now that my wrist is well again, I did an average of 5 with it and I do not like it that much anymore.
It is still a great cube and I get coparable times with it, but I have lot's of lock-ups. Maybe I'll have to use it more to get rid of it... Let's do another average of 5 :)
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Yeah, it is quiet in here LOL. I have not been cubing a lot. I picked up piano playing and putting most of my free time in that. :) I have the Funs GuangYing too. I really like that cube. It is very fast. Maybe too fast. Right now it is not replacing my main (Cyclone Boys). I like the Yuxin 4x4 a lot. After using it for two weeks I put in a few drops Maru and it was so smooth and fast. AoSu and mini AoSu are maybe more stable. Less locks, but also 50% slower. My times on Yuxin are definatly better. anyway, for only 12 - 14 dollar it is really competitive to MoYu.

EDIT: But when I do cube, I get many 14's and 15's. Something is changing. My averages are still same (low 20's) but I feel a progression is on the way.
 
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MarcelP said:
Yeah, it is quiet in here LOL. I have not been cubing a lot. I picked up piano playing and putting most of my free time in that. :) I have the Funs GuangYing too. I really like that cube. It is very fast. Maybe too fast. Right now it is not replacing my main (Cyclone Boys). I like the Yuxin 4x4 a lot. After using it for two weeks I put in a few drops Maru and it was so smooth and fast. AoSu and mini AoSu are maybe more stable. Less locks, but also 50% slower. My times on Yuxin are definatly better. anyway, for only 12 - 14 dollar it is really competitive to MoYu.

EDIT: But when I do cube, I get many 14's and 15's. Something is changing. My averages are still same (low 20's) but I feel a progression is on the way.
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If I were to buy another 4x4 cube right now I would probably try the Yuxin because it's cheaper. But I heard it has almost no reverse corner cutting. Or I would get mini AoSu if not Yuxin. But I'm not going to get a 4x4 now. I'm waiting for Moyu to come out with the next cube that does both... doesn't lock up AND fast.

Awesome about getting more faster times, Marcel. Inb4 sub-15 Ao5.
 
MarcelP said:
Yeah, it is quiet in here LOL. I have not been cubing a lot. I picked up piano playing and putting most of my free time in that. :) I have the Funs GuangYing too. I really like that cube. It is very fast. Maybe too fast. Right now it is not replacing my main (Cyclone Boys). I like the Yuxin 4x4 a lot. After using it for two weeks I put in a few drops Maru and it was so smooth and fast. AoSu and mini AoSu are maybe more stable. Less locks, but also 50% slower. My times on Yuxin are definatly better. anyway, for only 12 - 14 dollar it is really competitive to MoYu.

EDIT: But when I do cube, I get many 14's and 15's. Something is changing. My averages are still same (low 20's) but I feel a progression is on the way.
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I was just wondering, how you are. I saw you playing piano on yt. After few months in Roux I'm back to CFOP. I've back before competitions 3 weeks ago. And the break from CFOP gives me now a little progress. I'm sub-25 in ao 100, have a lot of low 20's and 22's. But only a few sub-20 solves. I hope to be sub-23 soon. And it's nice to see you noticed a little progress too. :) I think I will back to Roux when I will need a break again.
 
The Fangshi GuangYing is a very nice cube. I had a nice sub 20 average today. Here a few solves from an Ao12. (removed some less spectaculair solves). I remember clearly loosing my mind over gettingf a 16 seconds solve a year ago or so.. LOL
1. 16.03 R' L2 B2 D2 L2 D2 R2 F' D2 B F2 D' R2 D B' D2 R' B D
2. 16.56(+2) R' U2 B R U' F2 R2 B D R F2 L2 U2 D2 R U2 D2 R' F2 L'
3. 16.35 U2 F2 R2 D' B2 U L2 B2 F D L' R2 D' R U' L' F L R2
4. 19.69 L' F2 R' U2 D' B D' L' U' L' B2 L' D2 R' D2 B2 R U2 L'
5. 19.77 F2 D' R F2 B D' B' R F2 L B' D2 R2 F' U2 L2 U2 F2 R2 D2 F'
6. 19.96(+2) D2 B R2 F' L2 R2 B' F R2 U2 F' L' U' B' R' D2 B' R2 D L2 U'
[video=youtube_share;nnW5kqRJjdQ]http://youtu.be/nnW5kqRJjdQ[/video]
 
sneaklyfox said:
I had to check that out after reading h2f's comment, of course. Did you teach yourself to play? Do you play other instruments? Very nice for only 4 weeks!
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Actually that was in two weeks. LOL.. I played drums as a kid. Started at age 9 until about 18 years old. So I have a sense of rhythm. But I have no sense of keeping tune when singing, or I am not able to hear what note is played. I figure that will come with time. Playing piano is really a lot harder than I figured. But I like it so much. You are a piano (as well violin)- teacher right? This song you watched on my Youtube Watching Lara from Yann Tiersen is pretty much the easiest song I could find to start out with. I have been starting on several songs but all are to hard for me to learn it real quick.. So right now I am working on:
-First couple of (cool) lines from Fur Elise
-The river flows in you
-Imagine, John Lennon (Cooler as that does it not get)
-comptine d'un autre été - yann tiersen ( can do all parts with left, and with right but just not together.. ARGGG!!)

:) Do you have a suggestion for me what is nice and easy to learn?
 
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