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muchacho said:
Yesterday I "learned" skewb (Sarah's beginners) because learning sq-1 was not an option now, if I can get it below 30 seconds I'll use skewb in my first competition to keep me busy, maybe also FMC if comp schedule is fine.
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I think with Sarah's beginners and a bit of practice you can manage to do that. You will also need to learn how to execute the sledge well. You have a nice tutorial by APdRF1 which teaches how to make it (and explains Sarah's begginers as well). Maybe you have already learned from this tutorial :)
 
Rastinha said:
I am still hovering around the 29.xx-33.xx ao5 and 31-35 ao12-100 for 3x3. That's mainly because I got a pyraminx and a 4x4 for christmas from my partner, and just before christmas I had decided to learn 3BLD, full PLL and Ortega for 2x2, so in the past few weeks in the snippets of downtime between doing holiday stuff with the family, I have learned a ton of new algorithms, and have gotten better at 2x2, pyra and 4x4, but haven't had time to get fast enough and recognition and execution of full PLL, haha.
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Welcome back and great to hear you are branching out into other events. Welcome to the Pyra club.. not many of the regulars on this thread are fans. :)

I'm turning into a bit of a lurker here but I am getting to practice 3x3 on the train to / from work (slow turning) and yesterday I did my first timed session in a month. It looks like the practice is having some effect as I knocked 0.6s off my PBs for Ao5 and Ao12.

Practicing in public may also help my competition times because I'm becoming less bothered by people watching my solves. I'm using my Gans 356 because it's the quietest cube that I own and I can keep the noise down to almost zero. :)
 
mafergut said:
I think with Sarah's beginners and a bit of practice you can manage to do that. You will also need to learn how to execute the sledge well. You have a nice tutorial by APdRF1 which teaches how to make it (and explains Sarah's begginers as well). Maybe you have already learned from this tutorial :)
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I learnt from Sarah's video. I see that apdrf1 also has a tutorial on the intermediate variant, if it's not difficult I'll try to learn it from him.

For now best ao12 is 52 seconds.
 
muchacho said:
I learnt from Sarah's video. I see that apdrf1 also has a tutorial on the intermediate variant, if it's not difficult I'll try to learn it from him.

For now best ao12 is 52 seconds.
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It's not difficult at all, you only have to learn to execute the hedge (inverse of sledge) and then learn the order in which you execute them to solve the few cases of CO + Opossite center
 
Logiqx said:
Practicing in public may also help my competition times because I'm becoming less bothered by people watching my solves. I'm using my Gans 356 because it's the quietest cube that I own and I can keep the noise down to almost zero. :)
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I often practice in public too, when I'm waiting for things, haha. I'm fine with people passively watching me solve, getting around 30s, but as soon as someone says "Go, I'll time you!" I get all flustered and it takes me like 45 seconds! So I just need to go fumble through a competition once I think to get used to it :P

Yeah I have been lurking, have been reading quite a bit but not posting. Will try to do more of that!
 
Rastinha said:
I often practice in public too, when I'm waiting for things, haha. I'm fine with people passively watching me solve, getting around 30s, but as soon as someone says "Go, I'll time you!" I get all flustered and it takes me like 45 seconds! So I just need to go fumble through a competition once I think to get used to it :P

Yeah I have been lurking, have been reading quite a bit but not posting. Will try to do more of that!
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I can totally relate to that part about getting flustered and spoiling the solve :)
 
Rastinha said:
I often practice in public too, when I'm waiting for things, haha. I'm fine with people passively watching me solve, getting around 30s, but as soon as someone says "Go, I'll time you!" I get all flustered and it takes me like 45 seconds!
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I cube a lot on public transit. I'm fine with people watching me, talking to me, and asking me questions. I'm used to people talking abotu me while I'm cubing. What happened to me last night I was not cool with. I got ona late night sunday bus and sat in the back. Some guy was loudly having a phone conversation and eventiually started talking about me loudly to some unknown person. "THIS GUY ON THE BUS, HE'S USING ONE OF THOSE, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? IT'S A CUBE WITH ALL THESE COLORS? HE'S DOING THAT! I THINK IT'S CALLED A FLICKY CUBE! HE'S DOING THE FLICKY CUBE AND HE'S REAL FAST!" for god sake's man, keep your conversation quite and talk about me behind my back like a decent human being. then this older lady comes on the bus and starts giving him this odd look and he starts talking about her. and then she's really giving him a dirty look. Then he starts talking to her. He asks her "HEY LADY ARE YOU ON DRUGS!?!?!?!" silence "LADY ARE YOU ON DRUGS!?!!??!" She explains that she was trying to figure out if he was on the phone or talking to himself. Then I got off.
 
newtonbase said:
AO12 PB of 32.74 while chatting to colleagues in the kitchen at work today. There's a lot to be said for being relaxed.
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Nice one newtonbase, how long have you been cubing? I'm trying to catch up with and remind myself of who is who from before and who has come along in my absence :) We are in similar places with 3x3 I think, I need to work on F2L a ton. Are you using CFOP? 1 or 2 look OLL and PLL?
 
Rastinha said:
Nice one newtonbase, how long have you been cubing? I'm trying to catch up with and remind myself of who is who from before and who has come along in my absence :) We are in similar places with 3x3 I think, I need to work on F2L a ton. Are you using CFOP? 1 or 2 look OLL and PLL?
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I've been cubing for 2 years. Parenthood has restricted my practice time unfortunately but I'm trying to make better use of the time I have recently. I do use CFOP. I'm 3 G perms off full PLL. I've just counted and I only know 16 OLLs that I can use in anger. I love 3BLD but have failed in competition so far. My WCA profile will show you pretty much everything else I solve and my current real world times are the same as those other than 3x3.
 
muchacho said:
27.90 ao12 on skewb using APdRF's fingertricks, good enough for now.
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So, mission accomplished and just in a couple of days and with 2 extra seconds below your target of sub-30. GJ! Makes me want to practice skewb :)
Did you learn the specific algs for H and Z center permutation? I just do a U twice for those cases.
 
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