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I'm the same age as the cube also. :)

Good job Marcel! Can you remind me how soon you thought I'd be sub 20? It still feels so slow ever since I hit 23. Maybe partly because I practice more than just 3x3 now, although everyone seems to say that helps.

I am going to try to catch a sub 20 ao5 on film soon, I'm having them more often maybe once a day if I do a decent number of solves.
 
Jason Green said:
Good job Marcel! Can you remind me how soon you thought I'd be sub 20? It still feels so slow ever since I hit 23.
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Because of plateau's does it feel like forever. But the fact is, in every plateau you will need to gain a specific skill before jumping to the next. For example, learning these F2L cases you always take 20 moves to do, or learning all AUF for all PLL's or learning to do blind cross including tracking 1st F2L pair in ALL cases. My guess is that you will brake the sub 20 barrier soon (within months) and complain why it takes so long to brake that sub 16 barrier LOL.

EDIT: I had a huge PB single in 4X4 (1:08) in weekly contest :)

h2f said:
Nice, Marcel. I have a white and black aolong and it was my main till I got thunderclap but I like still to solve on them.
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If they would make an AoLong V1 with adjusted corners (sharp corner point like Gans) to prevent cornertwists, then you would have the ultimate Cube. I think everybody would love that cube.
 
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MarcelP said:
Because of plateau's does it feel like forever. But the fact is, in every plateau you will need to gain a specific skill before jumping to the next. For example, learning these F2L cases you always take 20 moves to do, or learning all AUF for all PLL's or learning to do blind cross including tracking 1st F2L pair in ALL cases. My guess is that you will brake the sub 20 barrier soon (within months) and complain why it takes so long to brake that sub 16 barrier LOL.

EDIT: I had a huge PB single in 4X4 in weekly contest :)
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Congrats! 1:08.01 beats my PB single by a lot! Mine is still 1:14.xx (in fact I have a couple 1:14.xx).

Regarding 3x3 progress and plateaus. My plateau is close to a year now. Maybe it's not a plateau but if there's some slope it is so small that I cannot even see it in my statistics. I had hoped I would be around 16-17 average by now but nope, I'm still around high 18 to mid 19. Also big cube (and other events like Mega, Pyra, Skewb, 2x2) take so much time that I seem to be getting worse at 3x3 instead of better. There are weeks were I don't even do the race to whatever (like e.g. the race to sub-20 full colour neutral) because I start to warm up before doing the race scrambles and I just can't get in the range, I mean, I start solving full cn and I cannot get into sub-20 territory, like maybe in half an hour. So I run out of time without ever doing the race scrambles, and that happens again the next day and so on. I might end up not even trying to time myself and just do untimed solves for fun. If that's the case I might go beyond WCA puzzles and devote more time to other things like ghost, mirror, etc. But I like the adrenaline rush of timed solving so much that I don't really think that will happen, but I'm so upset at times with the lack of progress that I'd throw the cube against the wall (just kidding but only slightly).
 
MarcelP said:
I had a huge PB single in 4X4 (1:08) in weekly contest :)
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Congrats, great time! Now you can join the race to sub-1 :D

MarcelP said:
If they would make an AoLong V1 with adjusted corners (sharp corner point like Gans) to prevent cornertwists, then you would have the ultimate Cube. I think everybody would love that cube.
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I wonder if AoLong v1 edges/centres plus AoLong GT corners would work? I might try that tonight.

mafergut said:
Regarding 3x3 progress and plateaus. My plateau is close to a year now. Maybe it's not a plateau but if there's some slope it is so small that I cannot even see it in my statistics. I had hoped I would be around 16-17 average by now but nope, I'm still around high 18 to mid 19.
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Yeah I am around the same level and have also been on a plateau for about a year. I got fed up with lack of progress at 3x3 and moved on to other events. Now I rarely practise 3x3, but I'm not really getting worse at it either. Just becoming a better all-round cuber and enjoying other events just as much. One day I will go back to 3x3 once those other events have given me enough skills to make a leap forward at 3x3. Maybe once I am sub-1 at 4x4 and sub-2 at 5x5 :).
 
Congrats Marcel!

Mo100 PB on 2x2: 7.495 (old one was 8.004 from almost 4 months ago, I really should practice more)

I thought solutions had to be longer than 4 moves for 2x2, but apparently 4 is fine, so I guess this single PB (lolscramble was U R F U, solution was y U' R' U' R') is legit.

Single PB: 1.897 (was 2.360 from 3 days ago)
 
@mark49152: Yeah, that's what I'm doing as well. Thanks to that I have improved a lot at 4x4 and learned to decently solve skewb, pyra, mega... As soon as I get to at least 1:30 average on 4x4 I will have to focus more on 5x5 and up. Not sure that all that will allow me to make a leap at 3x3, though, which is and will ever be my favorite event. Anyway, dreaming is free so, maybe, why not?

@muchacho: David, nice improvement at 2x2. Half a second improvement at 2x2 is huge progress!!! I'm liking my new WeiPo a lot. Will it become my new main? Only time will tell :) Talking about mains, by the way, finally I could not deal with Yuexiao catching all over the place and went back to my well broken in Tanglong. It's heavier to turn, yeah, but at least it's very very smooth and does not catch. Still I'm suffering from a worsening in my 3x3 times. I hope it's temporary.

EDIT: New PB Ao12 at 4x4 including the 5 weekly comp solves. Got it down to 1:31.22. Sub-1:30 Ao12 is close :)
 
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MarcelP said:
Because of plateau's does it feel like forever. But the fact is, in every plateau you will need to gain a specific skill before jumping to the next. For example, learning these F2L cases you always take 20 moves to do, or learning all AUF for all PLL's or learning to do blind cross including tracking 1st F2L pair in ALL cases. My guess is that you will brake the sub 20 barrier soon (within months) and complain why it takes so long to brake that sub 16 barrier LOL.

EDIT: I had a huge PB single in 4X4 (1:08) in weekly contest :)
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Yeah, I still think my biggest area is to learn to look ahead more consistently. Some solves I feel like I can do it and I'm fine. Also more tricks for F2L cases help. Thanks, you always encourage me to make me feel better than I am. :)

Awesome PB BTW!

mafergut said:
...There are weeks were I don't even do the race to whatever..
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I miss the races a lot these days. Partly because the weather has been nice and I like to practice with a cigar and not at the computer. :) Partly because I do not have any I am terribly motivated by.
- Racing to sub 10 in 2x2 - big whoop
- Sub 25 yellow cross only - maybe I should care more
- Racing to sub 20 - I care but I've never even had an ao12 under 20 so it's not realistic yet
- Racing to sub 2 (or was it 2:30) in 4x4 - actually I'm getting closer to that it might become my most exciting race for now! If I was doing 2:30 I should be there. :)

mark49152 said:
Now I rarely practise 3x3, but I'm not really getting worse at it either. Just becoming a better all-round cuber and enjoying other events just as much.
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I wouldn't say I rarely practice, but compared to doing 100% 3x3 like I did for many months I relate to this quote too!
 
Isaac Lai said:
Don't do this. Just do whatever cross colour you see fit during inspection. This will be more effective and also force you to care more:)
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I have found that both types of practice help in the road to CFOP full color neutral. Doing only green cross, or blue cross, etc. and also just do whatever cross you see the best for the scramble, maybe avoiding the ones you regularly do (for me it would be anything but white or yellow).

As @Jason Green is trying to become dual CN white & yellow it makes a lot of sense for him to just practice yellow cross.
 
newtonbase said:
Ordered a Weilong GTS. People seem excited about it and there's no bandwagon I won't jump on.
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I was thinking about it, because I loved the smooth feeling of my Weilong v2 but I have bought so many 3x3s already that I told myself I would not buy any new ones. Now, after not being able to come to terms with the Yuexiao and finding my Tanglong a bit heavy to turn I am thinking twice about it. Of course I also have to try some others that were left aside without really breaking them in, like the Thunderclap, Tornado and Aolong v2, at least. Please, tell me what you think about it and I might consider buying one.

By the way, nice 4x4 PBs today while doing the race to sub-1:45. Finally sub 1:30 Ao12, 1:23 Ao5 and two, almost consecutive, singles: 1:13.xx and 1:10.91.

And really liking the WeiPo 2x2.
 
Hey folks. Been a while since I check in. I stopped getting email notifications when they upgraded the forum. Hopefully this post will kickstart them again.

Anyway, today I delegated Albuquerque Spring 2016 and set quite a few new PBs. Here were the most significant ones:

I got my first sub 5 2x2 single as part of my first sub 6 2x2 average. Looks like CLL is finally beginning to pay off. Here's the single:


My first 4x4 attempt was a 1:01 and I was thrilled. All the way to the point where I brought the cube back to Anthony Brooks who was scrambling and he noticed that the cube still had an adjacent PLL parity so we had to switch it to a DNF. Argh. That would have been a great new PB I'll have to settle with my first sub 1:10 4x4 single:


I also managed a few sub-40 OH singles. Here is my best attempt of a 37.86:


3x3 was unremarkable but I did manage to shave half a second off my PB average so it's now a 23.62. Here was my best attempt:

 
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EvilGnome6 said:
Hey folks. Been a while since I check in. I stopped getting email notifications when they upgraded the forum. Hopefully this post will kickstart them again.

Anyway, today I delegated Albuquerque Spring 2016 and set quite a few new PBs. Here were the most significant ones:

I got my first sub 5 2x2 single as part of my first sub 6 2x2 average. Looks like CLL is finally beginning to pay off. Here's the single:


My first 4x4 attempt was a 1:01 and I was thrilled. All the way to the point where I brought the cube back to Anthony Brooks who was scrambling and he noticed that the cube still had an adjacent PLL parity so we had to switch it to a DNF. Argh. That would have been a great new PB I'll have to settle with my first sub 1:10 4x4 single:


I also managed a few sub-40 OH singles. Here is my best attempt of a 37.86:


3x3 was unremarkable but I did manage to shave half a second off my PB average so it's now a 23.62. Here was my best attempt:

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Well done. I thought I'd got my first official sub 2mins 4x4 single at my last comp until the judge pointed out the same problem.
 
EvilGnome6 said:
Yeah. Now it's just 3x3 that's lagging behind everything else. :)
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Nice job Mike! I wished I could've came for that my brother lives in abq. I did that one night with my 4x4, thought I had a good solve before bed and woke up the next day to see the parity. :)

I have thought maybe I would learn CLL, I'm sure I have lots of room to improve with Ortega if I cared enough to actually practice more. :)
 
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