Older cubers discussions

[MarcelP]

I didn't change the lighting, I changed the stickers. Here is my current color scheme:

http://thecubicle.us/stickers_share.php?public_id=27036

I started with half brights from The Cubicle and swapped out the Fluro Yellow for Bright Yellow. It has better contrast with white. Unfortunately, it sits a bit closer to orange now but I confuse colors less frequently than before. I also switched the Blue to Ocean Blue because it's prettier.

Interresting. I am still on fluo Yellow. I might try it sometime. But my red is more awesome http://thecubicle.us/stickers_share.php?public_id=16556

 

[muchacho]

Mine:
http://thecubicle.us/stickers_share.php?public_id=33601

It's not that yellow and white (I have not replaced the original Moyu's) but a similar one, the yellow Moyu one even looks brighter than that one, I can't understand why it looked so similar to the orange last night.

 

[mark49152]

Has anyone else done any similar experiments?

I also suffer in bad lighting. Hotel rooms are the worst. I always take a cube on biz trips to unwind at the end of the day, and often find nothing but a dull yellow glow from an underpowered bedside lamp.

At home I use three overhead 40w spots and a 20w xenon desk lamp behind my shoulder, in one room, and in the other room 10-12 overhead xenon spots in a grid across the ceiling. The latter is better, but it's still worse than daylight, so often if practising after dark I'll do blind cross practice or 3BLD where it won't have as much impact.

On another topic, my 3x3 seems to have got lots worse since I started BLD. A month ago I was averaging around high 17 low 18 pretty consistently. Now I'm around 19-20 and its not just a bad day, this is hundreds of solves over several sessions over several weeks. Sup-20 sessions are not unusual. I don't even feel slow or off-form, I feel the same as before - I'll do a fast solve and hit the timer thinking "that's got to be 16-17" and it will be 19.x at best. Don't know why. Anyone had similar experience?

 

[MarcelP]

Anyone had similar experience?

Yeah, Me. I have not been around 17 like you but I have been very comfertable low 19 with two sub 19 Ao100's. Then something changed. When I look back at my video's from when I was slight faster, I notice less pausing. That is the only thing. The rest is still the same. So I think it all comes down to focus and lookahead. I am practicing lookahead now on daily basis... Sometimes now I feel after doing a practice session that my times are better. Like this morning I did a 19.3X Ao50 with a sub 19 Ao12 in there.

 

[muchacho]

...my first solve was around 1:50, the rest improving until the fifth one, that I think it was less than 1:10 (I usually average less than 40 seconds).

There were 18 people competing, the fastest had a 23 seconds average. I was not the slowest but almost, I think only 2 were slower.

My times:
1. 1:51.26
2. 1:47.50
3. 1:12.86
4. 1.15.19
5. 1.07.92


http://cuborubiklogrono.blogspot.com.es/2015/09/resultado-torneo.html

1---- Meguel Pajares ----- TMi -21,18 ------ TMe -23,03
2---- Eder Villar ----------- TMi -21,60 ------ TMe -24,54
3---- Javier González ----- TMi -36,27 ------ TMe -40,39
4--- Juan Carlos García -- TMi -30,85 ------ TMe -40,48
5---- Alain Fernández -----TMi -36,98 ------ TMe -41,58
6---- Jesus Gil --------------TMi -39,00 ------ TMe -44,15
7---- Mateo Peciña -------- TMi -38,25 ------ TMe -44,56
8----Victor Puras ---------- TMi -40,34 ------ TMe -45,16
9----Adrian Miranda ------ TMi -38,00 ------ TMe -45,83
10--Alonso Del Rincón ---TMi -39,49 ------ TMe -48,66
11---Enrique Ojeda ------- TMi -40,30 ------ TMe -57,24
12---Javier Rodríguez ---- TMi -46,48 ------ TMe -61,82
13--- Daniel Gil ----------- TMi -53,01 ------ TMe -64,37
14--- David Alejos -------- TMi -72,86 ------ TMe -86,94
15--- Dani Sánchez ------- TMi -76,37 ------ TMe -88,35
16--- Unai Pagaldai ------- TMi -75,95 ------ TMe -92,89
17--- Hugo Zangriniz ----- TMi -69,94 ------ TMe -93,28
18--- Carolina Martínez -- TMi - 78,74 ------ TMe -98,32

 

[Jason Green]

I also suffer in bad lighting. Hotel rooms are the worst. I always take a cube on biz trips to unwind at the end of the day...

My bad lighting is in the evening. I like to have a cigar in my garage and practice, timing solves with my phone. As it starts to get dusk it gets difficult, I start throwing out some times because I blame the light, and then give up and watch youtube or something until I go in to practice on my computer.

I hope no one would go on a trip without a cube, how could you cope!! I have to have mine by me in the car. I scramble with one hand while driving and solve at stop lights.

Yeah, Me. I have not been around 17 like you but I have been very comfertable low 19 with two sub 19 Ao100's. Then something changed. When I look back at my video's from when I was slight faster, I notice less pausing. That is the only thing. The rest is still the same. So I think it all comes down to focus and lookahead. I am practicing lookahead now on daily basis... Sometimes now I feel after doing a practice session that my times are better. Like this morning I did a 19.3X Ao50 with a sub 19 Ao12 in there.

I have a similar experience where sometimes I will just be off for a whole day. I still have lots of improvement room relative to you guys, so overall I am still improving slowly... I think I'm close to legitimately averaging 35 now. One thing for sure is if I am tired it affects me. And the look ahead is the other thing. Sometimes I start rushing moves and times get worse because my look ahead is worse.

Marcel, I just now finally took a peak at your alg trainer. I will definitely be using that when I start learning OLL soon! Is it in Java? I wonder if it will run on my iMac (I haven't downloaded it yet). One question, how many algs does it come with "prepackaged"? Just one alg per orientation? Lots of questions... I guess I can download and find out myself! Lots of smileys in this post too huh?

 

[Jason Green]

Just one alg per orientation?

I think this was a stupid question... why would you want to learn more than one alg per case? I had been thinking about trying some new algs, but if I do I would pick one and commit to it (or not), so practicing multiple at the same time wouldn't make sense.

 

[muchacho]

Maybe if you want to be even faster than fast, for 2x2 I know more than one alg for some cases so I suppose top 3x3 cubers may do that too.

 

[Jason Green]

Maybe if you want to be even faster than fast, for 2x2 I know more than one alg for some cases so I suppose top 3x3 cubers may do that too.

Maybe same case but different rotation? Otherwise you would just want the fastest one for you right? Unless you had a different alg depending on how your arthritis was or something... This is the thread for that I guess.

 

[MarcelP]

I think this was a stupid question... why would you want to learn more than one alg per case? I had been thinking about trying some new algs, but if I do I would pick one and commit to it (or not), so practicing multiple at the same time wouldn't make sense.

No, it is no stupid question. I know all OLL's and some OLL's from different angles. (also some PLL's). But in my program there is a set of 57 OLL's, meaning one orientation per case.

EDIT, yes people run it on a Mac too.

 

[EvilGnome6]

I have also learned several alternate algorithms for big cubes and OH. Doing things like slices on a 7x7 is near impossible.

 

[mark49152]

When I look back at my video's from when I was slight faster, I notice less pausing. That is the only thing. The rest is still the same. So I think it all comes down to focus and lookahead.

Yeah I agree it's probably due to pauses, due to either worse look ahead or worse recognition. Maybe I'm just not exercising those enough because I'm spending more time on BLD. It's persisted long enough that it's got me wondering whether it's too difficult to really make progress on both at the same time, given that BLD is a very different skill. Obviously no look ahead or recognition, but I even turn differently in BLD, to reduce chance of fumbling and losing it.

 

[Jason Green]

No, it is no stupid question. I know all OLL's and some OLL's from different angles. (also some PLL's). But in my program there is a set of 57 OLL's, meaning one orientation per case.

EDIT, yes people run it on a Mac too.

I played with it a little at work. It looks really awesome! And since you can customize algs I guess you could add multiple ones just with different names.

From playing with it, it looks like it loads the image number based on the row count that entry is on, not based on the name?

 

[moralsh]

muchacho (and anybody else interested), Do you know you have 3 competitions in the next 3 weeks in Spain? Arnold classic Rubik (3rd comp I'm helping organize) in Madrid, Basauri Open near Bilbao and Spanish nationals in Granada, will you be able to go to any of them?

Marcel and I have comps this weekend, anybody else?

I've hardly practiced anything lately so I hope to be relaxed (hard to do if you're running a 100+ people comp, but I'll try ) and do it well enough, other than halve my skewb times I'm not sure if I will improve anything else.

For Granada in two weeks time I'll try to get some more practice and improve anything not improved this weekend.

Marcel, please, beat my average

 

[muchacho]

Probably I will never go to a competition if I have to go to another city, but maybe if someone is interested in hosting one here I'll try to help. Good luck in your comp and Nationals!

 

[mark49152]

Marcel and I have comps this weekend, anybody else?

Yeah I'll be at Cuthberts Open this weekend. I haven't done a lot of practice since ABHC, so my only real goal is to be more composed and not screw up as much. Like don't DNF a 3x3 average! I'll also be doing my first competition 4BLD attempt.

 

[Logiqx]

I think this was a stupid question... why would you want to learn more than one alg per case? I had been thinking about trying some new algs, but if I do I would pick one and commit to it (or not), so practicing multiple at the same time wouldn't make sense.

I know two angles for around a dozen of the OLL cases and different OLL + PLL cases for OH and big cubes. More advanced guys know a lot more algs such as OLLCP algs for some OLL cases.

To be honest, I would not consider starting to learn full OLL until you are comfortably sub-25 with a view to knowing it all when you average around 20s.

 

[moralsh]

muchacho, find a venue and help and competitors will come easily.

Mark, good luck there, I might be attempting 5BLD if i get the courage and will surely do all 3 4BLD attempts.

 

[Logiqx]

Yeah I'll be at Cuthberts Open this weekend. I haven't done a lot of practice since ABHC, so my only real goal is to be more composed and not screw up as much. Like don't DNF a 3x3 average! I'll also be doing my first competition 4BLD attempt.

Good luck Mark. It is a pity that I can't make it this time!

Edit: Good luck to everyone competing this weekend!

 

[h2f]

Yeah I'll be at Cuthberts Open this weekend. I haven't done a lot of practice since ABHC, so my only real goal is to be more composed and not screw up as much. Like don't DNF a 3x3 average! I'll also be doing my first competition 4BLD attempt.

Oh, well good luck.

I didnt know you do 4bld.