First chance for a week to go back and quote all the things I wanted to reply to!
Calm (5BLD) reaction Mark.
That's relief combined with mental exhaustion and being dazzled after wearing a blindfold for far too long
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Great video Mark. Love the editing and music and even though you'd already said it was a success I felt I was willing you on anyway!
I'm having too much fun with Movie Maker
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Something changed in my 3bld. I took in mind what Jayden wrote about his progress - the key factor were good images. My goal is to be around 1 minute with my means.
Yeah I have also been trying to firm up my images. I waste too much time waiting for something memorable to come to me. I started an image list.
I have also been working on corner comms. I did a long average of OP corners as a benchmark, and they take me 24-26 seconds (26 recently, 24 last time I benchmarked in late 2015). Last week I did an average with comms and was sub-27, down from over a minute, so am progressing nicely - however, I spend way longer on inspection/memo working out what comms I will do. OP is of course zero inspection. My aim is to get down to 26 with minimal inspection and then I will start combining comms to regular BLD solves.
My other focus in BLD practice is to push my memo. It's way too slow, and doesn't improve unless pushed.
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.
4BLD is so much fun. I am looking forward to London being over so I can go back to practising 4BLD
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Almost 75 tries at corners BLD, only 12 successful ones so far, maybe I shouldn't rush them, but it's nice when I get a good time. I'm starting to do also impossible cases, with setup to possible ones because I don't know those algs yet, it's tricky, first one was a success, but I was probably lucky.
This is probably no surprise, but maybe you should learn a method that is easier, faster, only one alg, normal memo, and with a smoother transition to fast methods in future
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I have two more comps before ending the first half of the year (both organizer again
) in which I'll try to ... join the sub 20 3BLD club.
Good luck, that's a very exclusive club, dude
. Seriously, good luck with the 4, 5 and MBLD. The race is on
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4x4 PLL parity. How do I recognize the case? I'm lost. I do some alg, see what I get, do some other alg, until I can spot what's going on. Some are not as bad as others.
I have two approaches to PLL on 4x4. By default, I do 2-look, including parity. So first, solve the corners. I use A-perm or Y-perm, and most importantly, recognition is almost zero. Then I'm left with an EPLL that may or may not include parity. With just edges, it's pretty easy to recognise all the individual cases, and I know algs for all of them, so no extra looks for parity. There are three extra cases: W-perm, Oa- and Ob-perm, plus the usual pure parity swaps. If you're interested, I can post the algs.
Second approach is that if I recognise the PLL by two sides, and it's one I can do fastish on 4x4, I will give that a try and cross my fingers for no parity. That gives me a good chance of a fast single. If I get parity, it generally doesn't save much over 2-look, because generally my other PLLs are way slower on 4x4 (at least than A-perm), and I spend more time on recognition.
Awesome, I enjoyed that - it kind of oozed stress and frustration
