Older cubers discussions

If someone wants to try Megaminx there is a tutorial by Justkeepcubing for the last layer. It's a new tutorial but I think is exactly like an older one she did 2 or 3 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6L-KzcgRok

mafergut said:
...the one in my new PB yesterday of 4:22.xx
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Ouch, I should have asked about your times before racing you :o

My 6 solves today have improved my ao5 PB to 7:01 (from 7:20) and ao12 to 7:20 (from 7:53).
 
mafergut said:
I know what you mean. I'm trying to practice too many new events and progress is quite slow. In skewb and pyra I have stumbled aroud 15 average and in 4x4 and 5x5 I can't get even close to decent times yet. The same with Mega.

So, it's a race! :)

EDIT: Sorry, but... was it a race to Ao12? Because, I'm afraid, if it is single, I was doing the WC#07 scrambles and on my 1st solve (yes, 1st Mega solve in two weeks, as last week I didn't do Mega) I got a quite easy LL and stopped the timer at 4:22.38. I don't have it on cam but trust me, it's real! The only explanation is that 5x5 practise has helped my lookahead on mega and the super-easy LL I got (it was just F 2-sexy F' to orient edges, 2 sunes to permute edges, one Niklas to permute corners and voilá, all corners were already oriented :)
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Ah, I didn't read that part.

I was thinking race to sub-5 ao5, but if you are already close to that then sub-5 ao12 so I have a chance if you don't practice much ;)
 
Jason Green said:
Learning megaminx reminds me of my overdue dental appointment... It will probably happen eventually but I'm not excited about it at the moment.

** Only overdue by about a month, I've been much worse in the past!
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The thing takes too much time, at first I thought it would be a good relaxing exercise, but trying to find the pieces gets on my nerves, and apparently I can't solve a puzzle without caring about the time.
 
Jason Green said:
It's a fun feeling, even though I need much practice to get recognition and recall down. Plus it's another cool thing you can tell non cubers how many you know and sound impressive. Of course they are impressed if you solve the cube in 1:30. :)
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Yeah, sounds graet!

@all

So are you going to make a race with mega?

I've finally made ao12 in 3bld 1:55.95. It's my first ao12 in that event. I do a lot of dnfs but I've found causes of my dnfs. It works.
 
There were a lot of them: too many attempts in a row, too small breaks between solves, not good pace of memo (too fast or too slow, but better faster), small mistakes during memo when you recon an edge or corner (touching them helps a lot), too many things I was trying to implement (comms, adv M2), bad cube (aolong v1 was changed for Yuxin fire), forgeting about twists and flipps (I need a better system for them). As you can see, there were a lot. I was thinking about them for a long time.
 
I'm guilty of a few of those too. Learning too much and forgetting to flip edges especially. I'm trying to focus on solid memo at the moment but it's hard to find peaceful time to do it.
 
h2f said:
I've finally made ao12 in 3bld 1:55.95. It's my first ao12 in that event. I do a lot of dnfs but I've found causes of my dnfs. It works.
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Very nice.

I'm still looking for a sub-2:00 ao1. Been doing more solves lately, but getting worse and apparently don't know how to do blind anymore. Started keeping track of my solves the last 3-4 days. Doing half M2 and half OP to see which one is the winner. Just kidding, but I am doing half of each.
Race to sub-2 results so far (don't look if you are squeamish)--

M2 attempts
2:19.18
DNF(2:23.58)
2:16.88
DNF(2:29.45)
DNF(2:43.28)
DNF(3:07.63)
DNF(3:18.54)
DNF(2:03.25)
DNF(2:45.45)
DNF(2:33.45)
DNF(2:09.61)
DNF(2:21.45)
DNF(2:42.60)
OP attempts
2:33.58
DNF(2:39.45)
2:13.49
DNF(3:27.19)
2:47.39
2:15.54
DNF(2:21.91)
DNF(2:28.74)
DNF(2:37.59)
2:22.08
DNF(2:14.81)
DNF(2:46.38)
DNF(2:51.82)
Selkie said:
Been re-learning forgotten puzzles preparing for the comp in April. This week is clock week. Quite pleased with progress, this is the fastest Ao12:-
Ao12 16.27 - 18.15, (12.74), (18.71), 18.01, 17.02, 14.29, 14.64, 15.21, 18.14, 15.35, 16.60, 15.30
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Glad to finally see some clock talk on this thread. I was wondering if any other current oldies ever did clock. Compared to the other puzzles, it's weird and unpopular, sorta like myself, so I thought maybe I'd be decent at it. Got my first sub-10 ao5 on Sunday.
Average of 5: 9.88 = 9.81, (11.56), (9.48), 9.83, 10.01
My last 2 solves from Sunday and the first 10 from my next session yesterday was a PB ao12 (10.34), but I don't think I can count an ao12 that spans multiple days. My same session a012 isn't too much worse anyway (10.45).
 
muchacho said:
Ah, I didn't read that part.

I was thinking race to sub-5 ao5, but if you are already close to that then sub-5 ao12 so I have a chance if you don't practice much ;)
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My last Ao5 was for WC 2016-05 and it was 5:42.97, 6:02.46, (5:38.78), 5:43.45, (6:10.89) = 5:49.63
I was just very lucky with LL in my 1st solve for WC 07, that's all. Let's make it an Ao12 then, but it can take me two weeks to just do 12 solves :) I will have to count the WC solves and also do 1 or 2 warm-up solves :) But I will not make 12 solves in a row so there will be no video proof :)

h2f said:
@all: So are you going to make a race with mega?

I've finally made ao12 in 3bld 1:55.95. It's my first ao12 in that event. I do a lot of dnfs but I've found causes of my dnfs. It works.
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Wanna join? We just started two days ago :) Sub-5 Ao12. Regarding your BLD DNFs I'm sure you will overcome the issues that are causing them. You have to, some people in this forum (I am among them) are looking up to you as a reference in BLD. It's the only option for an oldie to get close to Top Class :) I'm not gonna get a sub-6 single at 3x3 in my life but you have demonstrated that we can get sub 1 minute at 3BLD. C'mon!!!

chtiger said:
Glad to finally see some clock talk on this thread. [...] Got my first sub-10 ao5 on Sunday.
Average of 5: 9.88 = 9.81, (11.56), (9.48), 9.83, 10.01
My last 2 solves from Sunday and the first 10 from my next session yesterday was a PB ao12 (10.34), but I don't think I can count an ao12 that spans multiple days. My same session a012 isn't too much worse anyway (10.45).
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Wow! You're good at that thing! And, of course you can count it as PB Ao12, or else I would never have an Ao12 at 5x5, Mega... probably even at 4x4. Not sure I have ever done 12 solves in just one sitting at any of those events. I have done like 250 at 2x2, though :)
 
mafergut said:
Wanna join? We just started two days ago :) Sub-5 Ao12. Regarding your BLD DNFs I'm sure you will overcome the issues that are causing them. You have to, some people in this forum (I am among them) are looking up to you as a reference in BLD. It's the only option for an oldie to get close to Top Class :) I'm not gonna get a sub-6 single at 3x3 in my life but you have demonstrated that we can get sub 1 minute at 3BLD. C'mon!!!
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Thanks for good words. :)

I can join to the race, but where it is?
 
h2f said:
Thanks for good words. :)

I can join to the race, but where it is?
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Ah, no, we weren't thinking of creating a Megaminx race thread in the Forum Competitions. It was just a thing between muchacho an myself, here in this thread, and as I'm just doing the WC solves, it will take me 2 weeks to gather a full Ao12. I checked and somebody tried to start a Megaminx thread like 4 weeks ago but it doesn't look like it had much traction and the thread is dead since 2 weeks ago.

So, if you wanna join just put your results here :)
 
mafergut said:
Ah, no, we weren't thinking of creating a Megaminx race thread in the Forum Competitions. It was just a thing between muchacho an myself, here in this thread, and as I'm just doing the WC solves, it will take me 2 weeks to gather a full Ao12. I checked and somebody tried to start a Megaminx thread like 4 weeks ago but it doesn't look like it had much traction and the thread is dead since 2 weeks ago.

So, if you wanna join just put your results here :)
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Ok. I'll try do it.
 
muchacho said:
Another 6 Megaminx solves:
- Ao5 went from 7:01 to 6:46
- Ao12 from 7:20 to 7:07

I guess I'll try to learn those 2 algs to orient 5 corners and something apart from sune for permuting edges.


Great!
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I will try to dig into a general purpose commutator to permute corners that I think I saw in some video. I only could do 3 solves since last Tuesday, still trying to find time to do the other two to finish this WC's Ao5. The 3 first went like this: 4:22.38 (I had already bragged about this one :p), 5:50.85, 5:04.73.
 
Shaky Hands said:
Exeter registration is this evening. I'll try to register you if no one else has; will presume it's the same events as last time for you.
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Ah super, was just about to ask in the thread who was registering Mark. Will leave it in your capable hands Andy :tu


I am up for an informal megaminx race for sure. Let me dig out a puzzle when I get back from holiday in the forest tomorrow.

Some more clock with these best averages today:-

Best Ao5 - 13.77 - 13.39, 15.23, (12.64), (17.76), 12.69

Best Ao12 - 14.42 - 13.77, 14.67, 14.04, 14.38, 14.04, 15.32, 15.50, 16.15, (12.62), 12.66, (16.21), 13.62

Total of 71 solves, session average - 15.33. Looking better :)
 
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