Hey Marcel, congrats on the sub-10!
How does that feel?
Mark, what's Colin's "legendary" OLL 55?
See vid posted by Marcel a few posts back - not invented by Collin, but he used it in his WR solve and a few people commented that it was a great alg they had not seen before.
the little one is 2 1/2 now and demands most of my time
Yep mine too. It's a great age but incredibly hard work.
I never did get round to BLD cross practice, how have you been practicing cross recently that's yielded these bursts of improvement?
Ok here's the rules.
1. Scramble as normal.
2. Inspect and memorize the best cross solution you can find - no time limt. Sometimes I take minutes.
3. Close eyes, start timer, solve cross, stop timer, open eyes.
4. If you screwed up the cross, delete the time - we are measuring speed to do it right, not rate of mistakes.
5. Keep going until you've done 50 right, even if you mess up 100 times.
Obviously a fair measurement depends on giving every cross a fair shot, and not deliberately allowing the hard ones to screw up. If I am out only by a D-turn I allow the time to stand provided I did actually try to align it (no deliberate ignoring of the D face).
My average is about 1.9. Things I have learned: efficiency is important, but not as important as finger trickability. The best solutions are ones that flow as a single movement, even if move count is not low. I regularly get sub-1.5 or even sub-1 on those. Solutions that break into sections, especially with regrips, are usually sup-2 for me, even if the solution seems simple.
