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@Selkie: Chris, you went all the way from winning our sub 3:30 race to almost winning already the sub 3:00 race :) Congratulations. I have not had time to practice this week at all. I have not even done a single solve on my new Dayan Mega with ridges :( I hope I can get back to practice a bit on the weekend. You improve too fast for us to keep up, man.
 
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Really nice Selkie!

My stickerless Dayan arrived today, but I'll have to wait a bit more to restart Mega.

PB on 3x3: 14.352 (last was 15.271 from 1 week ago)

14508 21-abr-2016 16:16:36 00:14.352 F2 U' B2 R2 D' L2 F2 D B2 U2 B2 R' B' L2 D2 R B U L U L U'
y' x
U' F U2 B M' U' M U2 L' U L
U' Rw2 R U' R' U Rw U' Rw' U' R' U R
U' R U R' U R U2 R'
U' M' U M U M' U' M U2 M U' M2 U' M2

46 STM (3.2 tps)

h2f said:
Next sub-20 with Roux: 18.55 with cmll skip but a long lse.

B2 L2 B2 L D2 U2 R' U2 B2 L' F2 B' R B2 D2 U' L' B2 D'
x2 y'
D2 r' U' R U R' F //FB
U r' U' r U' M' U' M U2 R U' R' //sb
M' U2 M U' M' U2 M U' M U2 M2 U' M' U2 M U2 M U2 M' U2
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Congrats, nice FB as usual, I got 25 seconds on that scramble, this is how it started:
x' z'
R' U F' R U M U M' U2 B
 
muchacho said:
That FB is beautiful, do you always see the FB on the inspection time?
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I think in 60-70% of my solves I can plan fb. If I cant I do square. But often I'm to lazy and I plan only square. Kavin's tutorial helped me a lot. If there's nice edge with center I start with this on the left. If i have a bottom pair without a center I start with it on the left - this is how it goes in this fb. If there's no pair and no edge and center I stare with edge of the fb on the left. These only rules I do. Earlier I did always my center on the left and did connection with D/D' moves but it's not efficient and this is not creative. Keeping only edge of fb on the left and doing tricks with center allows to have more possibilites to creat blocks. This is what I think about fb in Roux. I've implemented it now when I've switched few days ago and you see how good it works. I'm surprised that I see blocks I've never seen before.

But now I'm trying to remeber my cmlls and it's hard - I know all H set and Pi set, but only few cases from T, Chameleon and Headlights. My sunes and antisunes sucks.
 
Two Sq-1 PB s today :)

10.247 single & 17.374 avg of 12

(10.247), (21.237), 16.375, 19.435, 19.814, 18.585, 18.289, 17.358, 14.025, 16.235, 19.519, 14.108

Here is the single scamble:
(4, 6) / (5, -4) / (0, -3) / (4, -2) / (-1, -1) / (4, 0) / (6, 0) / (-3, 0) / (-4, 0) / (-5, -2) / (0, -3) /
/-1,0/-3,0/ || CS
-2,-3/0,3/ || CO
6,0/-3,0/3,0/-1,-1/-2,1/3,0/ || EO (special one, swaps other pieces than the usual 1+1)
-1,-4/3,0/-3,0/3,0/-3,0/-3,1 || Leaves an easy PBL, N/J
 
@mafergut Migual, @muchacho David - Thank you. To be fair have not practiced much other than Megaminx in the last week or so. Do feel I can possibly get down to UK cut in 2-3 months with practice. Its a fun puzzle and the DaYan is breaking in well.

I have had a MoYu YJ YuHu stickerless megaminx delivered and straight out of the box it is so smooth and fast and has the same colour scheme as the DaYan. It wont replace my DaYan for a few reasons:-
  • The two green shades of the YuHu are very close together, far too close for comfort.
  • My aged fingers have gotten very used to the ridges and solving without ridges basically entails my fingertips slipping off the corners :rolleyes:
  • It feels quite locky on repeated RU'R'U commutators for corner orientation of last layer but it is quite lose out of the box which may be the reason
Need to start a practice regime for London but not sure what to concentrate on. Should really get practicing 4x4 since I missed it at Exeter.

@Lid Stefan - Awesome Sq1 and Giga times. Which gigaminx do you have?

@Shaky Hands Andy - My stickerless 6x6 and 7x7 have arrived and though the red/pink swap on the 6x6 will take some getting used to, I am confident I can so my black AoShi 6x6 is looking forward to meeting its new owner in London ;)

@Logiqx , Mike, thanks for posting the Faz video on edge control in F2L, having learned WV which I will be building into my solves post London Open, was really good to watch this :)
 
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@Selkie: Chris, my main problem with the YJ Yuhu is that it's very unstable. When you hold it in your hand it's too easy to misalign a layer and cause lockups. Maybe it's just that mine is too loose or that I got one of the first batches with croocked screws but the fact is that it's a pain to solve with it.

I have not solved yet with the Dayan but just holding it in my hand I feel like I push inadvertently on the ridges and also cause the layers to misaling so my impression is that I'm not going to adapt to it well, but maybe I just need to hold it differently. Will solve it this weekend but the little time I've had this week I have been breaking in the CB G4.

Anyway, don't be so humble, I don't think I would have come down to sub 3:00 even if I had practiced as much as you say you had this week. I don't think I'll ever get down to sub 2:30 either.
 
@mafergut , Miguel. Thank you. I really do hope I can make UK cut in time but I think I am going to have to learn some LL OLLs to get there.

Just had this sub 3:00 Average of 12
2:58.37, 2:45.05, (3:25.79), 2:57.39, 3:00.13,3:04.47, 3:04.03, 3:05.48, 2:53.02,3:04.97, 3:04.42, (2:41.51) = 2:59.73

@h2f , Grzegorz: Oh dear those 6x6 pops can be epic. Caught one on film a few months ago :) ...


Glad you are enjoying solving it. Have my stcikerless Aoshi now so another 6x6 to break in and @Shaky Hands (Andy) is having my black stickered one :)
 
Selkie said:
Grzegorz: Oh dear those 6x6 pops can be epic. Caught one on film a few months ago :) ...

Glad you are enjoying solving it. Have my stcikerless Aoshi now so another 6x6 to break in and @Shaky Hands (Andy) is having my black stickered one :)
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Yeah, I remeber... :) My Aoshi popped in 1/4, I mean I had to assamble only 1/4 of the cube, but wasnt sure which parts are which. Yes, finally I got a good cube and start to enjoy 6x6. I have a lot of fun with Roux. My ao100 rolled to 28.xx.
 
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Very nice Gigaminx indeed. I just solved mine once so far but it's an awesome puzzle and quite cheap at zcube if someone wants to get one.

Gonna start breaking in my Dayan Mega and see how much I like it :)

EDIT: But first I had to do my weekly comp 4x4 scrambles... already loving my CB G4. Still catching a bit but it's so much better than either the Aosu or Guansu!!! And the stickerless shades are so nice as well. Now I wish I could have all my cubes in those shades. Got a PB single of 1:14, by the way :)
 
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