Older cubers discussions

[Selkie]

Video time!
Here is the 2x2 walkthrough solve video for this week's 1st scramble. I confuse R and R' all the time in the video.

@MarcelP: I hadn't read your spoiler. Oh, man, now I'm even more impressed that you managed to do different things on the fly to preserve pairs and got that time. When I try to complicate the cross or whatever to preserve pairs I end up spoiling the solve completely.

Really nice reconstruction. Great commentary too :tu

 

[muchacho]

Nice video. I was hoping for a timed try at it (the scramble in the description would be helpful also).

I should have found your 2 moves first face solution, I didn't even try to find better options.

 

[mafergut]

Thank you both for your encouragement and suggestions. I will include a timed attempt next time, even though it might force me to edit the video if I fail at it (camera nerves, you know). I'm so lazy that I don't edit my videos at all. I just put a miniature with the scramble as I heard somewhere that putting scrambles on video descriptions has made youtube take out some of them but maybe it's just an internet legend, who knows.

EDIT: Scramble added to description

By the way, color neutral full step PB:
1. 15.62[blue cross] L' F2 L R2 B L' B2 R F2 U' R' U R2 B2 F' L R' F

It looks like my color neutral training is paying off. Closer to sub-20 but still a second and a half slower in average that with white and yellow.

 

[Jason Green]

@mafergut, I don't like to edit vids either. Well I like it but to lazy usually.

 

[muchacho]

It was not a legend, but I have not heard of any problems recently (maybe because people don't put scrambles there anymore, but I've done it and they have not been deleted yet).

 

[mafergut]

It was not a legend, but I have not heard of any problems recently (maybe because people don't put scrambles there anymore, but I've done it and they have not been deleted yet).

That's why I was putting it on the miniature but, anyway, I have to find time to edit my videos a bit.

 

[MarcelP]

By the way, color neutral full step PB:
1. 15.62[blue cross] L' F2 L R2 B L' B2 R F2 U' R' U R2 B2 F' L R' F

It looks like my color neutral training is paying off. Closer to sub-20 but still a second and a half slower in average that with white and yellow.

Awesome.... and remember.. CN people are a tad bit cooler than the rest..

 

[kbrune]

Getting the last event done in WC.
Just set a new PB in 3 BLD.

3:14.72

Before this one. I only had one sub 4 result and it was at comp a few years back lol

 

[mafergut]

YJ YuChuang!!! 6 dollars at zcube. Who's gonna be the 1st to try it?

Impressive result at 3BLD, @kbrune. I'm envious. My PB is 8 minutes something at the moment.

 

[kbrune]

@mafergut

It took me a looooong time to push my memo quicker. I'd say I'm still between 4 and 5 min on average. But I'm now more comfortable with my memo system that I'm starting to push memo times.

You recently started doing BLD events am I right?

 

[mafergut]

@mafergut

It took me a looooong time to push my memo quicker. I'd say I'm still between 4 and 5 min on average. But I'm now more comfortable with my memo system that I'm starting to push memo times.

You recently started doing BLD events am I right?

Yeah, I started like 1 month ago, remembering the little OP I had learned like 1 year and a half ago. And then a couple weeks ago I learned basic M2. The 8min something is with OP/M2. I also changed to audio edges (memo last / exec 1st) at the same time I learned M2. Maybe I have done, in these 2 weeks, like 10-15 attempts with OP/M2.

 

[mark49152]

Nice one, @kbrune. BLD is addictive

Just smashed my 4BLD PB by 50 seconds: 7:39, on cam too. Have learned some new centres tricks that I was too cautious to learn before Exeter. Now I wish I had!

Anybody figured out yet how to edit signatures on this new forum?

 

[muchacho]

Congrats! Youtube? Was the race to sub-8? now what? sub-7?

The signature can be changed here: (I used the "Use BB code editor" button on the right)
https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/account/signature

 

[mark49152]

That's funny, that link says I don't have permission. Is there a menu option anywhere? I don't see one. I cannot edit my own posts either.

I think it was race to sub-7... if not, it is now . It was quite an easy scramble - 8 corner no twists, 24 edge and 13 centre targets, no twists and no significant parities, and easier centre memo than usual. Likely to remain a PB for some time .

 

[muchacho]

It's in the menu, if you hover over your username it appears the link "Signature".

I can edit my posts, you've already broken the forum.

 

[mafergut]

Nice video. I was hoping for a timed try at it (the scramble in the description would be helpful also).

By popular request Timed solve attempt:

 

[muchacho]

Nice, but I'm not popular

 

[mafergut]

Nice, but I'm not popular

You are, at least for us here in the forum.

 

[kbrune]

Wow nice! @Mark
I watched Noah's tutorial on 4 BLD. I'll eventually do 4 and 5 BLD but atm I've got too many events I'm trying to improve. In a way I'm improving my BLD skills by improving my MBLD attempts each week

@mafergut

I was exactly where you are 1 month in. I didn't practice very much and i got down to 6-7 minute results. I took a long break from BLD. Just started back up more seriously in the last 2 months. I only do the WC events for practice so I'm sure you'll get there. I've noticed that the one aspect that helped most during improvement was getting a better feeling for when targets have all been accounted for. I used to count targets and new cycles to make sure i had them all. More and more i don't have to count them. I often just know.

 

[muchacho]

I've added an avatar to my profile, after the forum change I need them to easily see who wrote the post I'm reading.