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Logiqx said:
Gotta love a PB single on film...3 move x-cross. :)



50 HTM = 4.3 TPS

EDIT: It should have been sub-11 but I looked at the timer after OLL and got excited! I usually use MU algs for the U-perm. lol
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Whoooaaa and full step. You are doing something right with practicing ;) Cool.

mark49152 said:
Have you considered giving it a serious go? Like doing nothing but 5x5 for a few weeks? It's a great puzzle, with so much more to think about. Great for helping look ahead and finger accuracy/control too. I reckon you'd get down to 3:00 in ~100 solves or so and it might help your 3x3 times too.
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I get bored after 5 solves or so. I do 5X5 while watching TV. Only slow relaxing solves ;) I have no wish of becoming fast in anything other than 3X3. Focusing on 5X5 would definatly help :)

Jason Green said:
I have some more on the way from thecubicle with Marcel's color scheme. :)
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And these are the best. You will not be disappointed! :) Btw, nice average! You will be faster than me in no time. I took me waaay long to achieve your results.
 
Jason Green said:
I wanted to get at least a sub 23 average of 5 on cam, and I got this 21.84. I was looking accidentally at the ao12 column and didn't realize I had this until a couple more solves. :) Two sub 20s also. :D
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Very nice solves indeed. I told you, you're catching up really fast. I'm gonna need a GuoGuan YueXiao to keep up... just kidding, of course.

Also, seeing your Stackmat Pro I'm starting to regret having compulsively ordered a Yuxin timer and mat this weeked seeing how cheap it was on zcube. Today I just watched Cubeologist review of the Yuxin timer and he says it has some problems with sensitivity of the touch pads :( He also could not make it work with csTimer but I see that you are inputting the times by hand, so I assume you couldn't make it work with Stackmat Pro either. That will not stop me from trying, though. But I would not like those 15 bucks to go to waste and have to buy a Speedstacks afterwards :( I'm not planning on going to a comp any time soon but I bought it just to have an idea of how worse my times will actually be with a timer, properly picking up and dropping. With that I fear maybe you will be already much, much closer to my times :)
 
MarcelP said:
Whoooaaa and full step. You are doing something right with practicing ;) Cool.
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I'm not going to call it proper full step since I skipped an F2L pair. Whilst solving what I thought was the third pair, I realised that the back left pair had already been solved. :)

Still... requiring 50 moves isn't crazy lucky. ;)
 
I'm getting closer to 3 minutes in 4x4 so I think I'm going to register for that event at my next comp, last year cut off time was 2:45.

One question, if one of those small internal pieces pops, do I have to put it back before finishing the solve? I hope not.
 
muchacho said:
I'm getting closer to 3 minutes in 4x4 so I think I'm going to register for that event at my next comp, last year cut off time was 2:45.

One question, if one of those small internal pieces pops, do I have to put it back before finishing the solve? I hope not.
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Per 5b5 it is considered solved, internal pieces do not count and 1 center or 1 side of a corner are also permited
 
Good luck with the Yuxin timer. I didn't get mine working with cstimer yet but I may try some more. If sensitivity is a little off it might not be that bad (stackmat is really good). Using the mat was not too big of an effect on my times once I got a little used to it. I do some practice with and some without now.
 
Jason Green said:
Good luck with the Yuxin timer. I didn't get mine working with cstimer yet but I may try some more. If sensitivity is a little off it might not be that bad (stackmat is really good). Using the mat was not too big of an effect on my times once I got a little used to it. I do some practice with and some without now.
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I will tell you guys here as soon as I get in on the mail and can have some time to test it. For now I just use the space bar so, I'm sure that my times would be at least .2 to .5 slower than yours just because of this.

Today I finally did my first back-to-back Ao100+ in a long, long time. Last one recorded was from October. Today I did a 125-solve sessions in one sitting. I like to do just a bit over 100 so that I can roll the Ao100 for a while, as warm-up solves are usually slower.

Looks like I have not improved during these 3 months but I haven't lost ability as I thought I had, so that's good news :). Nice Ao5 of 16.60 (I think it's top 5), decent but not great Ao12 of 18.11 and sub-20 Ao50 (19.32), Ao100 (19.58) and overall (19.94), even with warm-up times and all and not removing a single DNF / bad solve.

In fact I think I just beat my record for 10 best times in a session like this with 6 sub-15 and almost 10 sub-16 times (the 10th is a 16.00 :)). Exactly 50% of sub-20 solves but I still get too many 20-21s and too few 18-19s to consider myself globally sub-20 yet. All with my old YJ Chilong. Histogram of the session goes like this:

14: XXXXXX 6
15: XXX 3
16: XXXXXXXXXX 10
17: XXXXXXXXXXXXX 13
18: XXXXXXXXXXX 11
19: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 20
20: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 22
21: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX 14
22: XXXXXXXXX 9
23: XXXXXXXX 8
24: XX 2
25: XXX 3
26: X 1
27: X 1
28: X 1
DNFs: 1
 
Once you improve slowly, slower than before, it may feel like you don't improve at all, but it may just be a feeling.

That ao100 is enough to say you are sub-20, at least I would, especially since with a Thunderclap you would be 1 second faster :p
 
muchacho said:
Once you improve slowly, slower than before, it may feel like you don't improve at all, but it may just be a feeling.

That ao100 is enough to say you are sub-20, at least I would, especially since with a Thunderclap you would be 1 second faster :p
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I'll do another one with my Thunderclap as soon as I can and let you know the results :)
 
h2f said:
Nice times. Looks really fine!

I did today only ao50 and it was 20.6x with low 15.
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I was now doing some untimed solves focusing on lookahead and I did like 3 solves in a row that seemed to have pretty good lookahead so I decided to go back to the timer. Fourth timed solve and I got a 13.67 full step, best solve of the day :) I think the main difference between my good and bad solves most of the time lies on whether I can do a good cross-to-f2l transition or not. If I can, then all the f2l seems to flow nicely, if not it's like I cannot see what I'm doing for most of the solve.

Reconstruction:

1. 13.67 D2 L U B2 R B2 R' D' U2 F2 L2 B D2 F2 U2 B' U2 L2 B2 L'

x2 // Inspection
R U F2 L D' // Cross (5/56)
R' U R // F2L#1 (8/56)
U2 R U' R' U R U R' // F2L#2 (16/56)
U L U' L' // F2L#3 (20/56)
U' L' U L y' U R U' R // F2L#4 (28/56)
U2 R' F R F' R' F R F' R U R' U' R U R' // OLL (44/56), awful alg for this case, I know I should change it :(
U' y' U-perm // PLL (56/56)

TPS = 56 / 13.67 = 4,09 // I cannot get much faster than this
 
Me too, especially between the first and second block, if I know where the piece that goes under the other center is it usually flows ok, but if I have to search for it the second block (and usually the rest of the solve) is quite choppy and slow.
 
Awsome. I think my good solves have similiar feature. If my transition to f2l is good um 16 or 18. With bad oll or PLL recognition low 20. With all bad around 25.

patataj patataj patataj
 
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