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earth2dan said:
No doubt. I struggled for a while with that decision. I watched CrazyBadCubers review and that's what sold me on the stickerless. I sent customer service an email to ensure I get the right one (not pink). They said not to worry :)


Unfortunately I don't have the stickerless 4x4 so I can't compare. It is definitely a lighter shade of green. I have no troubles with it, but I can see how it might get confused with the yellow if you're colourblind. I have a stickerless thunderclap with a very light shade of green and in low light I have trouble with the green/yellow.
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I don't have problems telling the colours apart but I prefer the somewhat darker shades of the stickers. I have checked CrazyBadCuber's video and, at least on camera, yellow and green seem to be a bit too bright for my taste so maybe I made the right choice by getting the stickered one. I could live with the bright blue and orange and red seem to have enough contrast. If the colours in the Yuxin 5x5 are more or less the same I would also go for the stickered, black plastic option. So, I will wait until you receive the Aofu and can compare them for me :)

Now, Lightake, can you put the Aoshi on sale as well? :D
 
They let me register late for 4x4 and 5x5 for the KC comp. :) Question, if I make the hard cut for 4x4 but not the soft cut in two tries, will I still have an official single? I think I've seen this for others. I doubt I'll make the 1:30, but feeling like 2:30 is possible I've had a few.

May do a 4x4 video for tips. 5x5 is a list cause but still gonna participate. :)
 
Congrats! 9:02 at the moment with mistake during parity - I did r instead of r'.

Edit: 8:44.05. I'm quite happy. I dont remember when I took three attemptes in one sitting. It was a long time ago. So in 5 minutes 3rd attempt for WC.
 
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EvilGnome6 said:
The results have been up for 24 hours now. Thanks for maintaining the elderly rankings! It's a great motivator for me.
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Agree very motivating :)

mafergut said:
@Grzegorz: You beat me to the top ten at WC by 2 points :)
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Wow you guys did great in the WC. Need to get some more events done :)

Jason Green said:
They let me register late for 4x4 and 5x5 for the KC comp. :) Question, if I make the hard cut for 4x4 but not the soft cut in two tries, will I still have an official single? I think I've seen this for others. I doubt I'll make the 1:30, but feeling like 2:30 is possible I've had a few.

May do a 4x4 video for tips. 5x5 is a list cause but still gonna participate. :)
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I am of the mind if you can solve it, compete, it is all valuable practice Jason

moralsh said:
new 4BLD PB, 9:38, Watch out Mark and Grzegorz!
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h2f said:
Congrats! 9:02 at the moment with mistake during parity - I did r instead of r'.
Edit: 8:44.05. I'm quite happy. I dont remember when I took three attemptes in one sitting. It was a long time ago. So in 5 minutes 3rd attempt for WC.
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Awesome, you guys are excelling at all forms of BLD :D

h2f said:
In the race in 4x4 to sub-1 for now my times are very inconsistent. Finally I"ve made sub 1:20 ao5 with nice 1:06 single but ao12 was 1:22.
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That's great Grzegorz! 4x4 times can be very inconsistent, especially if you havn't practiced for while :tu
 
moralsh said:
new 4BLD PB, 9:38, Watch out Mark and Grzegorz!
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h2f said:
Congrats! 9:02 at the moment with mistake during parity - I did r instead of r'.

Edit: 8:44.05. I'm quite happy. I dont remember when I took three attemptes in one sitting. It was a long time ago. So in 5 minutes 3rd attempt for WC.
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Challenge accepted :). I haven't practised for a few days and my tines are erratic, but last night got an 8:32 DNF off by 3 wings, a memo mistake. PB success remains 8:58.
 
h2f said:
In the race in 4x4 to sub-1 for now my times are very inconsistent. Finally I"ve made sub 1:20 ao5 with nice 1:06 single but ao12 was 1:22.
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I did an Ao12 today:

Generated By csTimer on 2016-3-9
solves/total: 12/12

single
best: 1:23.02
worst: 2:07.12

mean of 3
current: 1:41.39 (σ = 11.24)
best: 1:33.08 (σ = 9.29)

avg of 5
current: 1:43.81 (σ = 3.00)
best: 1:37.06 (σ = 3.70)

avg of 12
current: 1:42.83 (σ = 8.00)
best: 1:42.83 (σ = 8.00)

Average: 1:42.83 (σ = 8.00)
Mean: 1:43.21


Pretty good for me. I think sub 1 one day might be doable if I do some practice every day. :)

EvilGnome6 said:
Yes. It's worth the experience even if you don't make the cutoffs.
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I agree. It's good to get used to solve under pressure. However, my first 5x5 attempt in competition had a 5:00 cuttoff and I finished 5:03 and got a DNF.. That blows big time :)
 
when organizing, we don't usually are that severe, we only DNF hard cutoffs if they're far from ending when reaching the cutoff. I would have registered that 5:03.

Soft cutoffs on the other hand are strict.

No luck with today's 4BLD 10:32 DNF by 2 centers and 3 wings
 
Well, all this rage with 4x4 is making me practise a bit and, man I needed it, as I'm just starting to get into big cubes as you probably know. I'm happy because I've come to a point where I get more solves under 2 minutes that above 2 minutes. Let's keep it up until I get all solves under 2 minutes :) The Guansu is starting to break in and it's becoming nicer.
 
New PB on 3x3: 15.455 (last was 16.216 from 3 days ago)

It was an easy scramble, it had a 2x2 block on blue/white:
L2 D U2 R2 U2 L2 B2 R2 D L2 D2 B' U' R2 B' R U B2 U2 L' U'
 
muchacho said:
New PB on 3x3: 15.455 (last was 16.216 from 3 days ago)

It was an easy scramble, it had a 2x2 block on blue/white:
L2 D U2 R2 U2 L2 B2 R2 D L2 D2 B' U' R2 B' R U B2 U2 L' U'
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Wow! That's a significant improvement!!!! More than 0.7sec is a lot. Congratulations!
I'm just improving my 3x3 PB single by 0.1 if at all. One of my top 4 singles is still from 1 year and a half ago (Sept 2014).
 
New 4x4 a5 PB today :) too bad it was not sub1 thou :p This was also my 2nd pure sub1 mean of 3 (57.568), I think ...

59.623[DP], 58.524, (54.556), 1:02.823, (1:10.323[DP]) = 1:00.323
 
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