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[bubbagrub]

Mark got 5/5 in MBLD! Great result! You must be delighted. I've got some catching up to do...

 

[newtonbase]

I've just had a look at the Manchester results. PB in 6x6.

Bad luck on the 3x3 finals. Missed out by 0.01!

Per cubecomps Mark got into round 2 as someone didn't compete and got the exact same average time. There's consistently for you.

Also, I got a further PB in 5x5, missed cut as expected, and Mark got his 5/5 in multi (due mainly to excellent judging).

And finally, Martin Berger competed in 3x3 today aged 87. He's almost exactly double my age.

 

[mafergut]

Per cubecomps Mark got into round 2 as someone didn't compete and got the exact same average time. There's consistently for you.

Also, I got a further PB in 5x5, missed cut as expected, and Mark got his 5/5 in multi (due mainly to excellent judging).

And finally, Martin Berger competed in 3x3 today aged 87. He's almost exactly double my age.

Cubing at the age of 87!!!! And I thought I just had another 5 years ahead... It looks more like 42 now
And that 5/5 MBLD is an awesome result, Mark!!!
Also congrats on your 5x5 PB

 

[h2f]

Per cubecomps Mark got into round 2 as someone didn't compete and got the exact same average time. There's consistently for you.

Also, I got a further PB in 5x5, missed cut as expected, and Mark got his 5/5 in multi (due mainly to excellent judging).

And finally, Martin Berger competed in 3x3 today aged 87. He's almost exactly double my age.

Great news. Congrats Mark!

@Raul, your results are also fine.

 

[Logiqx]

Per cubecomps Mark got into round 2 as someone didn't compete and got the exact same average time. There's consistently for you.

Also, I got a further PB in 5x5, missed cut as expected, and Mark got his 5/5 in multi (due mainly to excellent judging).

And finally, Martin Berger competed in 3x3 today aged 87. He's almost exactly double my age.

Ah... looks like it has been updated since I originally looked at it!

Congrats on all of the PBs guys... stacks of PBs for Mark Adams and Mark Rivers pushing the bars higher in 5x5 + MBLD.

 

[MarcelP]

@Mark,

Congrats on the whopping 5/5 MBLD and making it to podium! Wow!

 

[Jason Green]

Yes that's awesome Mark! I'm going to start having dreams about getting a podium I think.

Here's a video I did showing my restickered Gans and the issue I had with bubbles. I still love the stickers and they feel much more durable. I then did a "first try" average of 5 which really stunk (and the camera did not focus well, sorry). I think I may film more like this, instead of filming a lot to try and catch a good one. This to me is better practice for competition nerves. I actually did worst than my only comp.

 

[EvilGnome6]

I do stickers one at a time and sort of roll them on from one edge to the other to minimize bubbles. It takes a little longer but I like the results.

 

[muchacho]

Congrats!

 

[moralsh]

When I finally get a decent MBLD Mark comes and does it better , Congrats Mark!

@muchacho, 1:30 cutoff is quite common in Madrid and usually is not that hard to do, but first thing in a cold morning... no

@mafergut: I like all cubic events and the rest a little bit less. I try to focus in 1 or 2 at a time and then rotate to another 2, all of them are fun.

@h2f, after successfully testing my new memory palace, I'm entering Blind WC starting this week, I need a 5BLD success!

Here's my best official 3BLD so far, thank for recording Apdrf1!

 

[Berd]

Well done Mark!

 

[Jason Green]

Good job also Raul! That makes blind look fun, so much to learn.

 

[h2f]

Here's my best official 3BLD so far, thank for recording Apdrf1!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C-2iNSauDw

Good job! We got similiar offcial times in 3bld.

 

[mafergut]

Yes that's awesome Mark! I'm going to start having dreams about getting a podium I think.

Here's a video I did showing my restickered Gans and the issue I had with bubbles. I still love the stickers and they feel much more durable. I then did a "first try" average of 5 which really stunk (and the camera did not focus well, sorry). I think I may film more like this, instead of filming a lot to try and catch a good one. This to me is better practice for competition nerves. I actually did worst than my only comp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGZyFT9RIj8

I think the problems with bubbles are mainly because of TheCubicle stickers. Their vinyl is quite durable and has a nice feel but it is prone to bubbles. I do the same thing Mike has suggested, apply them one by one trying to just stick one corner and then roll / press with my finger all the way down to the other side but, anyway, I get some bubbles. I'm afraid if you get one that is not close to the edge and is annoying you, the only solution is to puncture the bubble with a needle very carfully.

Regarding your N-perm it happens to me a lot. I changed one of my Ns to some alg like that because in my tests it was faster but I mess up a lot so, I'm thinking about going back to the original one. Nice video, though, despite the lack of focus. As somebody said the other day on my Ao12 video, uncut / unedited videos FTW!

 

[h2f]

I think the problem with bubbles is caused by a method of stickering. I buy stickers from Michał Halczuk. My son stickers them with a lot of bubbles. If I do it - theres no bubbles. I clean the cube with 90% alcohol and put them one by one. On the big cubes (6x6) too. If theres a bubble I pierce it with the needle.

 

[mark49152]

Thanks everyone for the nice words, and congrats Raul & Mark A on your comp successes too . Here's my post-mortem of Manchester Open 2016.

3x3: If I look back 10 averages in my log, the date is Oct 9th. This lack of practice is showing as inconsistency. I still get a decent number of sub-20 and even sub-19 solves, but the averages are spoiled by screw-ups when I try to use an OLL/PLL that I don't use on 4x4+. Funny story from this comp: just before 3x3 I was telling Mark A how OLL-56 came up twice at UK Champs and I couldn't remember it so had to 2-look it, spoiling both solves. So after that conversation I opened up algdb.net and relearned and practised it. Guess what came up in the second solve. I tried to remember it, messed up, and had to resolve - hence the 32 second abomination.

4x4: Practised quite a bit so I was a bit disappointed not to get PB average - missed it by ~0.3 secs - although to be fair my PB was quite lucky. I was averaging 1:20-25 at home when I set it at Cuthberts and am about 1:15-17 now. So I gained something because I no longer regard my 1:17 official 4x4 average as lucky .

5x5: Very pleased. Still stuck at 2:30-35 at home so 2:20 in comp is great. In a few months I might be saying the same about 5x5 as I said about 4x4 above . The DNF on first solve was due to a messed up parity alg rescrambling the cube - I hit the timer in annoyance, but then after making soft cut I regretted doing that in case of a second DNF I couldn't avoid.

6x6: I average 6:10-20 at home. It only took a little amount of competition shakes to make it harder to control such a big cube, and I got triple parity. 6:42 was disappointing but at least it will be easy to beat next time . I want to avoid taking 6x6 too seriously. It's too time consuming to practise much.

2x2: Comedy event for me. Never practise, don't really care! Usual story of PBLs re-scrambling the cube. Again I was on algdb.net right before the round.

3BLD: Couple of good solves but still a little disappointed because I could have started execution a little earlier on both and would have been close to a PB. In comp I tend to hesitate and not trust my memo. For the third solve I had to choose between going for mean or single. I actually don't like that WCA have made means a thing, because (unless you have a chance of podium or next round) you have two results you can aim for that are in conflict.

MBLD: Big thanks to Mark A for his patience judging, and for filming. Memo was OK - not the best and it took a while to make it stick. During 4th cube I took first look at the stopwatch and it was on 16 mins so I knew then I had plenty of time and went over everything again very thoroughly and fixed some mistakes. Had to re-memo the 5th cube after realising I'd memoed it in the wrong orientation! Then took execution very steady.

Overall another good comp. Who's up for Exeter?

 

[moralsh]

Good job also Raul! That makes blind look fun, so much to learn.

It IS fun. Most BLD events become funnier when they start to be less time consuming.

Good job! We got similiar offcial times in 3bld.

We have similar times in almost everything xD

MBLD: Big thanks to Mark A for his patience judging, and for filming. Memo was OK - not the best and it took a while to make it stick. During 4th cube I took first look at the stopwatch and it was on 16 mins so I knew then I had plenty of time and went over everything again very thoroughly and fixed some mistakes. Had to re-memo the 5th cube after realising I'd memoed it in the wrong orientation! Then took execution very steady.

I could copy&paste this paragraph, also went supersafe with memo. didn't have to re-memo the last cube, though

 

[h2f]

We have similar times in almost everything xD

Oh yeah. I got my Aochuang back - the broken piece is replaced. I got first ao5 sub 3 minutes in WC.

 

[newtonbase]

Time to learn the rest of the g-perms. I'll probably use Bob Burton's unless anyone has a better source?

 

[Jason Green]

Thanks for the stickering advice. Doing one by one I might try, it sounds tedious. Maybe I'll try and puncture those bubbles I have, I thought of that but was scared to try.