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So so close Mark, I am sure you will get it soon.

Well I burned myself out a bit with BLD and on receipt of a package from Cubicle yesterday which included a Gans 356 v2, Yuxin 5x5 and Qiyi Square 1 I have been playing a bit with the new toys:-

Gans 356 v2 Advanced: Wow what great promise. I love the 356 v1 apart from lock ups and they seem to be eradicated and the whole cube feels more stable. I can tell even within the first 50 solves that I will get some type of PB soon with this cube

Yuxin 5x5: All the recommendation I heard before were right, what a great cube for the price. Maybe a little loose so will adjust the tensions. Looking forward to an Ao12 at the weekend on this one.

Qiyi Square 1: Wow, I had forgotten how to solve the Sq1. Really pleased with my last comp results of sub 45 second average and then didn't practice at all ... for 2 1/2 years! :) Took me about two hours to relearn essential algs. have to say really impressed with this puzzle too. I often used to pop the smaller slices but even though they try and pop sometimes they don't come out. Managed a just sub 50 average and a PB single of 23.x :)
 
I saw your pb on yt. Very nice solve. Were there skips? I'm around 1:20 with sq-1 now. My solves are not fluent and I'm more focused on fingertricks than time. Got also few sub-1 solves. Qiyi is awsome. I had only mf8 but it was popping a lot.
 
Yes I had skips for permutation of corners and edges on last layer. I only solve layer by layer at the moment though before I forgot how to solve I did permutate corners on both layers at the same time then did EPLL on both layers separately.

Will need to put in some work to have a chance of getting close to sub 45 at comp in April
 
I think with new qyji sq-1 become more popular. I bought my sq from Michał Halczuk who has NR wrote me he has got maybe 20 of them and sold out in a week. What is cutoff?
 
So I got up the nerve to scramble my 4x4 yesterday, and believe it or not, eventually solved it. I think the 4x4 may be my favorite of the puzzles so far. Too bad this Cyclone Boys is kind of awkward to use, I think you'd definitely say it's no good for speedcubing. I might have to take it apart, lube everything, and retension it. Hopefully I don't have to go so far as sanding things down. Certainly the stickers need replacing.

(The fun part came when I realized I'd somehow managed to swap two "center pieces," of course an impossible feat on 3x3.)

I've also scrambled my Square-1 and have partially solved it. (Of course none of this has come about without my consulting the internet.) All that remains is to swap some of the corners and, if necessary, fix parity. For what it's worth, I can give another enthusiastic thumbs-up for the QiYi Square-1. It feels as awesome as the Cyclone Boys 4x4 doesn't. (And the Cyclone Boys 3x3 isn't bad at all after retensioning, at least at my level.)

I'll be making another Cubicle order for stickers, which is the type I expect takes them the longest to fill. I also need a corner piece for my TangLong, which somehow suffered a surface crack when I restickered it. I am also having evil thoughts about ordering six stickerless YuPo 2x2s, making six "force cubes" like I see everyone doing with 3x3s, picking the best one for my sticker colors, and putting the other five aside for trade fodder. I could imagine gladly trading two or three of them for one of someone's cast-off 3x3s or 4x4s.
 
ryuusei86 said:
Too bad this Cyclone Boys is kind of awkward to use, I think you'd definitely say it's no good for speedcubing. I might have to take it apart, lube everything, and retension it. Hopefully I don't have to go so far as sanding things down.
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If it's the Cyclone Boys G4, it doesn't need much other than a few drops of lube and a few weeks of breaking in. Once done, it's a fantastic 4x4 and I prefer it to the AoSu. It's just very bad out of the box.
 
First 5BLD success, in 39:49 - yay! :D

The memo wasn't too difficult. The hardest thing about it was keeping control of all the fiddly slice moves. I nearly lost it a few times.

Regarding the CB 4x4, I bought one and quickly wrote it off as junk. Then I tried Mark A's at Manchester and it was excellent. So perhaps I will spend some time breaking mine in and give it a chance.
 
mark49152 said:
First 5BLD success, in 39:49 - yay! :D

The memo wasn't too difficult. The hardest thing about it was keeping control of all the fiddly slice moves. I nearly lost it a few times.

Regarding the CB 4x4, I bought one and quickly wrote it off as junk. Then I tried Mark A's at Manchester and it was excellent. So perhaps I will spend some time breaking mine in and give it a chance.
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Congratulations. And yes, my 4x4 IS excellent.

I'm working on getting your multi solve to you but my Dropbox is too small and my Google Drive is full. I've just set up OneDrive and I'm currently uploading to it but it's very, very slow.
 
Wow! So nice Mark!
That's such a great accomplishment! I still cannot get my mind around to solving a 4x4 blindfolded so, a 5x5... I'm speechless! You guys don't stop amazing me.
Let's see if this weekend I can continue with 2BLD and maybe I will try for 3x3 in a month or two. Your 5x5 time will be my reference... for 3x3 :p
 
Pretty crazy PB single. First sub-12!!!!

1. 11.80 D F2 D2 L2 U2 R B2 D2 R2 F2 D2 R' D' F' D F2 R U2 L2 U'

x2 y // Inspection
R u R' B2 // Cross
L' U L U' L U L' // F2L#1
U y' R U R' U2 R U R' // F2L#2 (yes, I missed again U L' U L U2 L' U L for a rotationless f2l)
R' U' R U2 R' U R // F2L#3
U2 y' L' U L U y' R U' R' // F2L#4 (here I missed insertion with sledge, orienting all edges)
F R U R' U' F' // OLL
U2 // AUF, PLL skip

With such nice F2L and a laughable LL it could have been so much better. Anyway, pretty happy with the solve :)
Low TPS for a solve so easy to lookahead (41 STM / 11.80 sec = 3,47 TPS) so definitely a missed sub-10 opportunity

EDIT: Missed opportunity confirmed :( Retried 3 times and got a couple low-9s and an 8.41
 
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Nice. But with last f2l with sledge you could miss that OLL and PLL skip.

Edit: checked and no - with sledge there's OLL 25 with all edges ok and only 3 corners left. I do that OLL with easy comm, so yeah - skip.
 
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