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Ok.
For my first comp

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muchacho said:
Nice, you are getting all official PBs [emoji14]

You are competing in 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 or some more?

How is going you first comp? Fun? Too much noise and distractions maybe?
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It's enough! I'm able to solve 5, mega, pyra, skewb, but in large time windows!
It was fun, no problem for rumors.
I'll upload some 333 solve for suggestions from all of you!
 
Congrats to Marcel and Eugenio for their competitions.
In particular, official sub-20 Ao5 is an accomplishment. Well done, Marcel!
And surviving to your 1st comp without any DNFs is also something to be proud of, Eugenio.

Today I'm practicing 4x4x4 and getting closer to the 2min barrier. New PB single (with double parity):

3. 2:14.74 B' Rw' Uw2 U L Rw B F' D Fw B R' F' R2 L D2 L U2 B2 Uw' F' Uw2 U' F2 B Uw2 R2 L' Rw F' Fw D L R2 B' Rw2 L2 Fw L F'

I just need to get more comfortable with Yau restricted centers and edge pairing and also I need to recognize PLL parity faster in some cases.
 
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mark49152 said:
Ahem... What happened in the second round? :)
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LOL... Yeah... First round I was very nervous, because I had no time to warm up. I had to judge first group. I was in second group. First solve 24 secs.. Blehh.. But then the rest went OK. I had 'panic' hands resulting is locky and slow LL. Fortunatly my lookahead was inmaculate. Just awesome... LOL.. Second round I was not nervous, and fully warmed up but messed up everything. The DNF was a 14.XX but left with a R U.. But honoustly I even doubted to start in second round because I knew I would not beat my first round.. Funny facts.. My 1.36 PB on 4X4 beats my old 1.36 PB.. and my 4.18 best on 5x5 did not beat my prevous 4.18 best.. :) Second solve on 5x5 I was starting PLL at 3.49.. totally freaked out when I saw that, messed up the PLL and had to re do OLL and PLL.. resulting in a 4.31. I should have practiced 5x5 way more..

Oh I tried a Yuxin 5x5 at the competition... oh man, that cube is awesome.. I ordered it right away.. I used the Cyclone Boys myself and it is way to fast.. Over-shoot every move...

cubesp said:
I've got my official PBs!

Congrats Marcel!
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You too! Did great. Better than I did at my first competition.

guusrs said:
Congratz Marcel with your sub-20 PB.
Sorry I wasn't there...
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Thanks Guus, getting closer to you.. LOL
 
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Oh, and I see Ron van Bruchem was at Dutch Open, so many fast old cubers there.


Today I've done 23.x two times, my PB is still 23.06 (I did a 21.x but it was a hand scramble) and it was set almost 5 weeks ago when I was averaging 38-39 (6-7 seconds more than now), I want to beat that time NOW!!!
 
Yay Marcel, good job for beating mine and Mark's average and thanks fore letting me keep the single :)

Congrats Eugenio on getting your WCA Id and welcome to the "I want to beat my official PBs" club
 
Congrats Marcel on official sub 20

mafergut said:
Nice! I should get one sooner or later. I don't know exactly what are the odds, assuming I'm not doing anything to influence the LL during F2L, such as edge orientation, WV... What worries me is that when I finally get one I will waste it with some horrible F2L and it won't even be PB.
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I had another LL skip today, but this time with a mediocre F2L. 17.74. Was just my 3rd fastest solve today of 50 (avg 24.43).
My times today were all over the place for some reason. Yesterday, I had 3 sub-20 and 3 sup-30. Today had 8 sub-20 (4 sub-18) and 5 sup-30.
 
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