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Logiqx said:
I think by "correct order" people mean the first 3 cross edges are correctly placed. The original Yau method places one of the cross edges incorrectly to aid insertion of the final one. I think it is unusual to use that approach as there is less to think about if the cross edges are placed correctly.

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Ah. I used to do the wrong edge placement based on the first Yau tutorial I saw but then changed. I thought I was a bit ahead of everyone but went to a comp and several people hadn't even heard of the old method.
 
No, I haven't been participating in the weekly for a month or so. But I am planning on putting my good 4*4 back together and still be able to beat your times :p
 
Wow, this was a pleasant surprise!!

95b5aba30da1eb46c4b24ab49b648744.jpg


Here's the reconstruction:

Scramble - R' L F2 R F B R B2 R U' B' R2 F R2 F R2 B U2 F2 U2

Inspection - z2 y2
Cross - L B2 U R F R’
1st pair - y’ U2 L U L’
2nd pair - U’ L’ U L
3rd pair - U’ R U2 R2’ U’ R
4th pair - U’ R U R’
OLL skip :)
PLL - U2 + [R2 U R U R’ U’ R’ U’ R’ U R’] (Ub PLL)
 
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Awsome. And scramble?

36htm. Nice solution.

Edit. Nice cross - I did an inverse of your solution and in cross this is what i cant often see - I mean trick like U R F R'
 
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WTF this is so weird, I got a new PB only a few solves after seen yours, that's motivation! (that or plain luck). Old one was 15.455 from 5 weeks ago.

15.271 U' L2 U2 F2 R2 F2 D' F2 U' R2 U2 R' B U' F R' B' F2 U2 R2 L2

x2 z'
F' Uw F' U M U M' F' M R U' M2 B
U' M' U R U R U R U' R'
U' R U2 R' U' R U' R'
U' M' U2 M U' M U M2 U' M' U2 M' U2 M2

45 STM

https://alg.cubing.net/?setup=U-_L2_U2_F2_R2_F2_D-_F2_U-_R2_U2_R-_B_U-_F_R-_B-_F2_U2_R2_L2&alg=x2_z- F-_Uw_F-_U_M_U_M-_F-_M_R_U-_M2_B U-_M-_U_R_U_R_U_R_U-_R- U-_R_U2_R-_U-_R_U-_R- U-_M-_U2_M_U-_M_U_M2_U-_M-_U2_M-_U2_M2

First block was meh (I should have looked to the "green"/white, it looks better), second block has to be my shortest to date, then lucky again with the correct CMLL although I didn't know it (still don't know S, As and U sets, working on U).
 
Jason Green said:
Wow, this was a pleasant surprise!!

95b5aba30da1eb46c4b24ab49b648744.jpg


Here's the reconstruction:

Scramble - R' L F2 R F B R B2 R U' B' R2 F R2 F R2 B U2 F2 U2

Inspection - x2 y2
Cross - L B2 U R F R’
1st pair - y’ U2 L U L’
2nd pair - U’ L’ U L
3rd pair - U’ R U2 R2’ U’ R
4th pair - U’ R U R’
OLL skip :)
PLL - U2 + [R2 U R U R’ U’ R’ U’ R’ U R’] (Ub PLL)
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Hehe. I bet that was a fun solve.

Nice time!

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wow, you just can't be busy for a week if you want to keep up with this thread, Congrats everybody on your PBs, Jason, you already have a faster single than me, keep that progression.

Mark, great sub 8 on 4BLD. I finally managed a sub 9 with an 8:17, memo still improving (sub 4 half of the times) but execution is still very slow, I need to address that.

and that's about all my progress, not cubing much lately and most of the cube time I got I spend it on investigating conmutators.

Søren, Welcome back!
 
Schmidt said:
No, I haven't been participating in the weekly for a month or so. But I am planning on putting my good 4*4 back together and still be able to beat your times :p
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I had a sub 1:40 average on 4x4 in the WC this week. I think that is quite allright for me :) That should be very easy for you.. You can do that without warm up LOL
 
Thanks, and nice times, I'll watch those.

I decided to stop practicing Megaminx until the SS and the Dayan I ordered arrives, today I got the SS and a Guansu 4x4, they feel really nice (only did some turns), but I'll try to resist and continue practicing just 3x3 and BLD (and some Skewb and 2x2) for a couple of weeks.

I think I'll film some corner BLD solves to try to see where I mess up, if I get a good solve I may upload it.
 
@Jason Green & @muchacho, David Wow! You're getting pretty fast, guys!

Thank you all for your advice on 4x4. I will try to record a couple solves this weekend and upload the video.

@MarcelP: Nice Ao5 at 4x4 this week. Mine was PB as well and unexpectedly good. At least I can motivate racing against you. Chris, Mark and others are too far away :).

@Selkie, Chris: Not that I didn't expect this but you are already faster at Mega. I have not practiced much these last couple of weeks, waiting for my ridged, stickerless Dayan but that's no excuse. You are closing in to sub-3 and will surely win the race to sub 3:30 Ao12. My PB Ao5 still remains 3:35 and Ao12 3:43.

By the way I finally got my Aofu GT. I'm not doing an unboxing because it is just one cube. Maybe I will do one when I get the Dayan Mega, CB 4x4 and BoChuang and will include the Aofu in there. First solve took like ages. Lots of problems with 2 last centers and 2 last edges.
 
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@newtonbase Great, sub 2 average, must feel good to reach that threshold? :)

@muchacho and @mafergut - Thank you very much. Really enjoying megaminx at the moment. My aim is regular sub 2:30 which is average cut in UK. Just did an Ao12 and got the following...

Megaminx
3:06.14, 3:02.40, 2:58.24, (3:48.38), 3:16.97, 3:11.79,3:14.13, (2:56.72), 3:33.05,3:14.78, 3:12.20, 3:12.75

Solves 1, 2, 3 and 8 are all PB singles and PBs for Ao5 and Ao12 as well. I will upload the single and best Ao5 today.

number of times: 12/12
best time: 2:56.72
worst time: 3:48.38

current avg5: 3:13.24 (σ = 1.36)
best avg5: 3:08.50 (σ = 7.57)

current avg12: 3:12.25 (σ = 9.40)
best avg12: 3:12.25 (σ = 9.40)

session avg: 3:12.25 (σ = 9.40)
session mean: 3:13.96
 
@Selkie: Chris, you just beat my PB single, which was 3:02 and also you have destroyed the race to sub 3:30. To be honest nor David nor myself are practising much Mega in the last couple of weeks but, anyway, impressive progress. I have to try and catch up a bit :)

@earth2dan: My 1st impression of the Aofu GT is not very relevant as I cannot speedsolve it yet. It's the 1st time I have something bigger than a 5x5 in my hands and I feel very clumsy when turning it. But I'm sure once broken in and getting used to it, it will be a great cube. Out of the box is very scratchy, but with just one solve the lube is beginning to spread and it's getting better. I just wonder how people solve it :) As I said above, L2C was a nightmare, the last 2 or 3 stickers would not want to get in place, no matter what I did. In the end I had to use BLD techniques to solve one sticker at a time like you would do for 4x4 centers with U2. I feel like a complete patzer with this monster :(
 
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