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I'm going to look into organizing a comp myself in the fall. If it goes well I'll put my name in for consideration as a delegate should there be a need for a second one in Ontario.

@earth2dan

Yeah for sure. Family first. Unless you can get them all to compete too.
 
earth2dan said:
The only thing that really scares me about this is the time investment. Once my kids are a little older I'd certainly like to get more involved. Maybe when I'm a slightly older... older cuber ;)
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Just get your kids cubing, and you can set one up for them :-). I don't have any kids, but I got my nephew a cube for his 2nd birthday, and there are at least two or three other kids I know who have expressed some interest since I started. There's every possibility of a nice little pocket of cubers in SW Wisconsin in a few years.
 
earth2dan said:
The only thing that really scares me about this is the time investment. Once my kids are a little older I'd certainly like to get more involved. Maybe when I'm a slightly older... older cuber ;)
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Yeah same for me. I would really like to organise a comp and could even try to make the time, but all it would take is a sick kid or other family issue and I fear having to drop out and dump it on others.
 
kbrune said:
@earth2dan
Actually I have a plan. You move back to Morrisburg and we split the time investment that goes into comps!
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Now there's a plan :) Good luck convincing my wife to move back to the 'burg though haha.

One Wheel said:
Just get your kids cubing, and you can set one up for them :). I don't have any kids, but I got my nephew a cube for his 2nd birthday, and there are at least two or three other kids I know who have expressed some interest since I started. There's every possibility of a nice little pocket of cubers in SW Wisconsin in a few years.
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Oh man have I tried. I'd love it if I could get my kids into cubing. I don't get it, my kids don't like Star Wars and they don't like cubing... If they didn't look like little clones I'd question their parentage. Every kid I meet that sees me solving is entranced and wants to play with my puzzles and wants me to teach them how to solve. Every kid that is, except my own. My girls just have zero interest :(

So I filmed an unboxing of my stickerless puzzles that just arrived. It's kinda long and I ramble a bit, but it's uploading now. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I'll post it in the morning when it's up.

Edit: Well, it didn't take that long to upload so here it is:

Regarding the Cyclone Boys G4. Is there anyone here that has it and likes it? I did a bunch of solves with it tonight after opening it and I'm just not feeling it. It's really really catchy. Like flawed design kind of catchy. The middle layers are horrible for major lockups even when everything appears to be perfectly aligned. It catches and locks up so bad that I can't move it in the direction I want without reversing it a quarter turn and starting the move over again. It's really bad... Either I got a lemon, or this thing straight up stinks. As it is now, it doesn't hold a finger to my AoSu. It doesn't even compare to my Guansu (which had an outrageous pop, but at least it's enjoyable to solve)
 
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earth2dan said:
Regarding the Cyclone Boys G4. Is there anyone here that has it and likes it? I did a bunch of solves with it tonight after opening it and I'm just not feeling it. It's really really catchy. Like flawed design kind of catchy. The middle layers are horrible for major lockups even when everything appears to be perfectly aligned. It catches and locks up so bad that I can't move it in the direction I want without reversing it a quarter turn and starting the move over again. It's really bad... Either I got a lemon, or this thing straight up stinks. As it is now, it doesn't hold a finger to my AoSu. It doesn't even compare to my Guansu (which had an outrageous pop, but at least it's enjoyable to solve)
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I'll watch your unboxing later today but, regarding the CB G4 I had the exact same reaction and the fact is that, yeah, out of the box it feels like the puzzle is deffective or something but it's not. Those nasty catches will go away gradually with breaking in. I'm not saying that mine does not have any but it happens much less frequently and the catches are much less severe. I hope they will completely go away with some more hundreds of solves as I don't think it has broken in completely (it has maybe a couple hundred solves on it). But the 3x3 stage is so great out of the box already. That's indicative of how good the puzzle is... or will become.
 
kbrune said:
@mark49152

I found a good comp for you

https://www.cubingusa.com/MentalBreakdown2016/events.php
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I would like to take part in such comp - only bld events, feet and fm. 2 days. Wow.

I'm back to blind and slowly getting better. My accuracy was 30% in first 15 solves and around 50% in next. Finally I got sub-1 solve (54.04) and quite good mo3 1:14.36 (1:23.61, 1:25.43, 54.04) - new pb - and new pb ao5 1:20.99 ((DNF(1:17.14)), 1:13.90, 1:23.61, 1:25.43, (54.04))
 
Nice progress @h2f. 3BLD has been my focus since London but I have not had much practice time. Yesterday I had 8/10 successes at 1:52 average. That's about my overall average time but better success rate than usual. I think I have a long way to go to beat my 1:27 comp PB. It was too easy a scramble :).
 
earth2dan said:
Regarding the Cyclone Boys G4. Is there anyone here that has it and likes it? I did a bunch of solves with it tonight after opening it and I'm just not feeling it. It's really really catchy. Like flawed design kind of catchy. The middle layers are horrible for major lockups even when everything appears to be perfectly aligned. It catches and locks up so bad that I can't move it in the direction I want without reversing it a quarter turn and starting the move over again. It's really bad... Either I got a lemon, or this thing straight up stinks. As it is now, it doesn't hold a finger to my AoSu. It doesn't even compare to my Guansu (which had an outrageous pop, but at least it's enjoyable to solve)
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The G4 is fantastically, horribly bad out of the box. The middle layers catch and it feels like there's a bunch of flashing or a defect getting in the way. You have to work it hard for a few weeks and it'll break in. You'll see big improvements over the first 10 solves but keep at it. The catching goes away and it ends up being really nice. Add a drop or two of really heavy silicone lube to make the plastic feel softer and you're there. It's been my main for quite a while and I have access to trying lots of cubes.
 
EvilGnome6 said:
The G4 is fantastically, horribly bad out of the box.
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Agreed. Mine went straight back in the box. I have felt @newtonbase's G4 and it does indeed feel nice. The problem is that it isn't such a huge improvement over the AoSu that I would be prepared to put myself through a couple of weeks of bad solves for it.
 
I had the original CB 4x4 first, and used someone else's G4 at my first comp so ordered one. I did not really have any severe issues right away, but I still think it's improving. Maybe three bad locks that totally confused me, I could not turn it either way until I messed with it for 30 seconds or so. Overall I've enjoyed it since I got it. Maybe I turn 4x4 so slow it doesn't matter what the cube does. :)
 
I bought a moyu aoshi 4x4 from a local cuber and I love it. Mind you the cube I was using before was a modded SS. It was super easy to turn but was way too loose. my moyu is far smoother.

I don't have much experience trying out many different brands though. I often have no clue what you guys are talking about! I'm jelly of the mighty collection many of you have!
 
mark49152 said:
Nice progress @h2f. 3BLD has been my focus since London but I have not had much practice time. Yesterday I had 8/10 successes at 1:52 average. That's about my overall average time but better success rate than usual. I think I have a long way to go to beat my 1:27 comp PB. It was too easy a scramble :).
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I dont think there's big progress. I rolled my pb mo3 and ao5 by 1 second or around. But I had more good solves and rolled up ao12 from 1:55 to 1:29. :)
My accuracy is between 30% to 90% today. I try to be more focused during practice. It means I do one 30 minutes session per day.

If everything will go well I'll get this in 2 weeks:
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