Older cubers discussions

[Jason Green]

I have my second comp in Dallas this weekend, I'm going to try to test a Yuxin 5x5 if I can! I really still don't think my SS is that bad, but I'm not trying to turn very fast anyway on 5x5.

I showed my wife some of Chris's unboxings, so that gives me some leeway. She doesn't mind really, I'm more the tight wad between us.

Chris the camera angle was cool I think. It gives the feel that we are looking around the cube with you.

 

[Shaky Hands]

Got my new Tec.Bean EX5000 Camera today. What do you guys think for this camera angle for my future solves or should I tripod mount it?

I liked it like this. Good POV.

For BLD, I prefer Grzegorz's angle because seeing the person wrestling with the cube is part of the fun .

Totally agree with this.

I am in the process of decorating the living room and my wife has just ordered and had delivered two new sofas so that gives me a little leeway with cube orders

I just keep my mains for 2x2-5x5 & Clock in my living room. The rest (1 of 2x2, 13 of 3x3, 4 of 4x4, 2 of 5x5 and 1 of Clock plus some other stuff I might work out how to solve one day) are behind the bed.

 

[Selkie]

Regarding the Dayan mega in stickerless I had the idea first, like one page ago I would like to try the ridged one, as I sometimes have grip problems with my Shengshou.

Oh sorry so many posts I missed it. I have just ordered the stickerless one from Puzl.co.uk http://www.puzl.co.uk/dayan-megaminx-world-record-puzzle-stickerless-p-211.html#.VvLLz_mLShc. I figure if I am going to restart and forget my MF8 colour scheme, I might as well do it when I average 5 minutes!

Nice! Guilt free cube orders for a while

Indeed though ironically I have most of what I want right now. Just a stickerless Bochuang and a stickerless X-Men Tornado would be good

I have my second comp in Dallas this weekend, I'm going to try to test a Yuxin 5x5 if I can! I really still don't think my SS is that bad, but I'm not trying to turn very fast anyway on 5x5.

I showed my wife some of Chris's unboxings, so that gives me some leeway. She doesn't mind really, I'm more the tight wad between us.

Chris the camera angle was cool I think. It gives the feel that we are looking around the cube with you.

I liked it like this. Good POV.

Thanks. I did try the chest harness with the camera but it just gets in the way. Have also ordered a desktop mini tripod for comp which arrives tomorrow so I'll do some samples with that

 

[Jason Green]

I could really not order cubes as quickly I think it might bother me to have so many cubes I want to give a chance.

 

[Selkie]

@Jason

T-Shirt has arrived, sorry it isnt a great photo. The lettering isn't as dark on the t shirt as it seems in this picture but perhaps should have ordered a slightly lighter one. Will wear it one day to Exeter Open 2016 in a weeks time

 

[Jason Green]

Mine came a couple days ago, I'll get to wear it Saturday at the comp.

So new shirt, do you know the Right Said Fred song from the 90s I think, I'm Too Sexy? Should it be

I'm too
R U R' U'
For My Shirt

Or

R U R' U'
Too Sexy For This Shirt

Second one could have question mark or not ...

 

[mark49152]

Be very interested if you could give me a demonstration of your memo at Exeter next week Mark?

Try getting me to not talk about BLD

 

[Lid]

Oh sorry so many posts I missed it. I have just ordered the stickerless one from Puzl.co.uk http://www.puzl.co.uk/dayan-megaminx-world-record-puzzle-stickerless-p-211.html#.VvLLz_mLShc. I figure if I am going to restart and forget my MF8 colour scheme, I might as well do it when I average 5 minutes!

The Dayan I have is a black non ridges with mf8 tiles, again hate stickers

 

[mafergut]

Oh sorry so many posts I missed it. I have just ordered the stickerless one[...]. I figure if I am going to restart and forget my MF8 colour scheme, I might as well do it when I average 5 minutes!

No need to say sorry, I was just making a joke that we all seem to have ideas for new puzzles we want / need. Nice choice and you're right, you will get used to the new scheme quite soon, you'll see. As I'm not in a hurry I will wait some weeks just in case they put it on sale

By the way, almost sub-3 single in the weekly comp scrambles (3:02.01). The rest was just meh.

 

[h2f]

This thread moves so fast that I can't be bothered to search back for it, but someone recently mentioned letter pair lists, so here's my thoughts.

Originally I did not want to make a list, as I felt that it would be easier to remember a memo that came naturally, taking multiple pairs together in context. So sometimes, different images would be used for the same pair, depending in context. That's especially the case if creating sentences.

However, my memo is still slow, and I do find that sometimes I am stuck for several seconds trying to find an image or word for a pair. So recently I did start putting together a list. My plan at first was to cover only the hard pairs that I struggle with, but I've broadened it and am also finding and capturing better images that are easier to remember than the ones that came to me more obviously, for easier pairs.

Not sure how it will pan out, but it's at least got me putting a lot more thought into image choice and consistent ways of deriving images, outside of the time pressure of a solve.

Thanks Mark. I think this is a very good advice for me. At the moment I'm doing my 3style list - mostly for edges, cause corners I've done long ago and I only have to change few algs. Edges seem much easier so far. I think I'll be able do 80% of edges with better 3cycles than advanced M2.

@Chris @Jason - great stuff!

 

[kbrune]

Lol @ the wife on cube purchasing of the last few pages.

Mine doesn't care too much either but then up until a month or two ago I only had 5 puzzles. Just bought 8 new ones recently though and I still need at least 4 puzzles to at least be able to compete in all official events.

You guys are waaaay ahead of me in hardware knowledge. Half the convos are over my head and I know none of the brands lol I'm jealous!

@Jason
Good luck at comp! Looking forward to seeing how you did.

@who ever mentioned letter pair memo. I'm in favor of having a list since creativity is a challenge for me. I'm practicing multi and I'd say at least 50% (I'm sure I'm being conservative) of my memo time is spent just searching for images to associate with a pair. I understand the idea of on the fly. But it's unrealistic for me. I feel like any pro who has very good times is working from a list that's already been created in one way or another. So I may as well compile one.

 

[mafergut]

I forgot to say... Gentlemen, you look sooooo ready to rock & roll with those T-shirts!
Good luck in your competitions.

 

[Jason Green]

I forgot to say... Gentlemen, you look sooooo ready to rock & roll with those T-shirts!
Good luck in your competitions.

Thanks!

 

[Shaky Hands]

So new shirt, do you know the Right Said Fred song from the 90s I think, I'm Too Sexy? Should it be

I'm too
R U R' U'
For My Shirt

Or

R U R' U'
Too Sexy For This Shirt

Second one could have question mark or not ...

I like the first one better. Clever idea.

 

[Selkie]

By the way, almost sub-3 single in the weekly comp scrambles (3:02.01). The rest was just meh.

Awesome solve, average cut in UK is 2:30 and I thought that was outside my reach, this gives me motivation. Thanks :tu

@Chris @Jason - great stuff!

I forgot to say... Gentlemen, you look sooooo ready to rock & roll with those T-shirts!
Good luck in your competitions.

Thank you

Mine came a couple days ago, I'll get to wear it Saturday at the comp.

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160323/3fd0bd0ac36472588bd0d12a8f8a5252.jpg

So new shirt, do you know the Right Said Fred song from the 90s I think, I'm Too Sexy? Should it be

I'm too
R U R' U'
For My Shirt

Or

R U R' U'
Too Sexy For This Shirt

Second one could have question mark or not ...

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Re my obsession with stickerless I got close to a pb ao12 on the GuoGuan YueXiao Stickerless yesterday that was not on film but here is a sub 15 ao5 I did get on film. I am so tempted to make it my main but I wonder if that is wise 1 week pre comp?!

@Marcel - The stickerless has no catching issues and I have no idea why as the tensions aren't different to the three stickered ones I have!

 

[Jason Green]

I like the first one better. Clever idea.

Thanks, we also then came up with a slightly longer version.

I'M TOO
R U R' U'
for my shirt
TOO
R U R' U'
for my shirt
SO R U R' U'
it hurts

 

[ryuusei86]

The rest (1 of 2x2, 13 of 3x3, 4 of 4x4, 2 of 5x5 and 1 of Clock plus some other stuff I might work out how to solve one day) are behind the bed.

So much for my hand-wringing several pages ago that I will have eight 3x3s when the next two arrive. In fact I'd better order some more, especially since there's no wife in the picture to worry about her opinion. (A friend of mine would call his wife SWMBO, or She Who Must Be Obeyed.)

On another topic, I've been looking on this forum and the TwistyPuzzles one for information on sticker mods. In particular, I'm wondering if there's one that would make a 4x4 easier, in particular one that would prevent parity situations. I thought of stickering it with only three colors instead of six, say with the same color on opposite sides (a red-white-blue patriotic cube?). But though this would probably make it easier to solve, I'm guessing it would not prevent parity situations, as it sounds as if parity might be an integral part of the puzzle (apart from trivial cases like stickering all six sides with the same color).

 

[mafergut]

Awesome solve, average cut in UK is 2:30 and I thought that was outside my reach, this gives me motivation. Thanks :tu

Re my obsession with stickerless [...] The stickerless has no catching issues and I have no idea why as the tensions aren't different to the three stickered ones I have!

Well, there's still a long way to go from 3:00 to 2:30 but I trust you can do it eventually.

Regarding catching maybe the absence of stickers makes some room for the corner to pass over the center cap easily? Moyu put some thinner (and uglier) stickers on the Aolong GT for a reason similar to that, I think.

So much for my hand-wringing several pages ago that I will have eight 3x3s when the next two arrive. In fact I'd better order some more, especially since there's no wife in the picture to worry about her opinion. (A friend of mine would call his wife SWMBO, or She Who Must Be Obeyed.)

On another topic, I've been looking on this forum and the TwistyPuzzles one for information on sticker mods. In particular, I'm wondering if there's one that would make a 4x4 easier, in particular one that would prevent parity situations. I thought of stickering it with only three colors instead of six, say with the same color on opposite sides (a red-white-blue patriotic cube?). But though this would probably make it easier to solve, I'm guessing it would not prevent parity situations, as it sounds as if parity might be an integral part of the puzzle (apart from trivial cases like stickering all six sides with the same color).

I think a 3-color 4x4 with opposite sides of the same color would prevent "PLL parity" but I think you would still have "OLL parity". Now that I think of it, maybe you could still get adjacent PLL parity as well? I'm sure there are lots of interesting things you can do with sticker mods in a 4x4 or big cubes in general. It would also be a nice pass time, as stickering those cubes must take a while

 

[newtonbase]

I really need to do some more work on my own letter pair list. It's a useful exercise even if you don't actually memorise them all or stick to the list. I find audio easy to to do but that won't reliably get me past edges on one cube. Proper images are needed to have any chance at multi.

As for wives, mine scowls at each delivery and mutters about them taking over the house but most of them get put away out of sight. I only keep a couple of mains on top of the piano that she brought into the house but never plays.

 

[Shaky Hands]

So much for my hand-wringing several pages ago that I will have eight 3x3s when the next two arrive. In fact I'd better order some more, especially since there's no wife in the picture to worry about her opinion. (A friend of mine would call his wife SWMBO, or She Who Must Be Obeyed.)

Ha ha. Here they all are:

Spoiler

Part of the reason why I have so many 3x3's is I picked up several Zhanchi's when starting cubing after taking some out-of-date advice. The Gans will probably get some more action in the future, but I need to tension it correctly and am at a stage where I'm comfortable with the Moyu's at the moment. There's also 4 really stiff, non-modifiable cubes in there from the super-early days.

You'll probably spot the Skewb is a bit of learning-in-progress.