Older cubers discussions

[mark49152]

Okay, so I definitely have a problem with good results leading to worse solves.

I know that feeling. My second round from Exeter Open:
15.64 19.20 22.27 DNF DNF

Sigh.

I had a nice competition today. Really enjoyed myself,

Hey I didn't realise you had a comp coming - either I missed it or you kept it quiet . Enjoying it is the main thing and at least you had skewb to get a PB . I would love to meet Ron at a comp too.

Are you tempted to join the BLD club yet?

 

[MarcelP]

Are you tempted to join the BLD club yet?

I registered BLD for today.. but never came around learning M2 or even relearn OP. Still on the bucketlist.. I think with the new Weilong GTS I will enjoy normal 3x3 practice again. I am trying to learn ZZ a bit now. Damn that EO Line is hard. Inspection takes me over a minute and solving on average 25.. But it is fun

 

[mark49152]

I am trying to learn ZZ a bit now. Damn that EO Line is hard. Inspection takes me over a minute and solving on average 25.. But it is fun

25 is pretty good for a different method. Are you blockbuilding or doing CFOP style F2L?

 

[MarcelP]

25 is pretty good for a different method. Are you blockbuilding or doing CFOP style F2L?

Definatly block building. I want to be able to solve like Phil Yu. If I get the hang of it I will learn the CMLL to become faster at last layer (CMLL leaves the easiest and fastest PLLs for me).

 

[h2f]

Definatly block building. I want to be able to solve like Phil Yu. If I get the hang of it I will learn the CMLL to become faster at last layer (CMLL leaves the easiest and fastest PLLs for me).

You mean COLL?

 

[MarcelP]

You mean COLL?

I mean the one that orients and permute the corners in one step, and since the edges are all oriented you are left with a U PLL, H PLL or Z PLL.

 

[newtonbase]

According to my cube timer I recorded over 70 solves in under 3 mins this morning including a PB of 0.15s. I think my 2yo may have got to my phone.

 

[Jason Green]

Haha I wondered. I thought maybe Tapatalk notified me twice or something.

This was me wondering about the double posts, which were deleted. Not about which comp you were at. Just for future reference.

 

[kbrune]

Highlights of Day 1 at comp.

- turns out I beat my 2x2 average by 0.14 after all lol Also beat my single with a 6.33. Missed Round 2 by 9 spots. If I had hit my global ave I would have made it. I'll get em next time!
- finished Round 1 for 3x3 with a 22.61 ave. Came in 49th out of 145 ish. Round 2 cutoff was 48 lol
- Crushed my pyraminx goals. Wanted at least 12-13 second a05. Wound up getting 10.75 which qualified me for the second round. In Round 2 I came in 17th with an 11.40 a05 and cutoff for finals was 16.
- Skewb was all over the place. had 2 solves around 20, 40, 45, 19 and 17 second solves. finished with a 26.14 ao5. Wasn't expecting much there either way.
- Managed to beat the OH cutoff of 1 min to finish with an a05 of 56.83. And I managed to improve my official single from 44.34 to 44.19

Looking forward to Tomorrow!
Goals will be:
4x4 - beat cutoff of 1:30 to qualify for an a05.
5x5 - possibly improve my single.
6x6 - sub 8 min.
7x7 - not much hope here lol
3BLD - sub 4 min.
Mega - sub 5 min single.

@MarcelP

Nice sub 20!

@h2f

Nice job on sub 1! Impressive!

@muchacho

Very nice PB!

 

[kbrune]

This was me wondering about the double posts, which were deleted. Not about which comp you were at. Just for future reference.

My posts were deleted?

Edit: nvm I just saw a notification that my posts were merged.

 

[Jason Green]

My posts were deleted?

Edit: nvm I just saw a notification that my posts were merged.

Oh yeah sorry, just the part about you may have posted twice was deleted, which is what I had commented on. So in essence my comment was deleted.

 

[h2f]

I mean the one that orients and permute the corners in one step, and since the edges are all oriented you are left with a U PLL, H PLL or Z PLL.

I know you know.

 

[JanW]

100 solves is a great way to start Sunday morning! Ao100 29.68 wasn't spectacular, again there was a few longer stretches of bad solves to bring down the average. But some good solves in there as well. New PBs:

Ao5: 25.55
Ao12: 26.80

The Ao12 was particulary pleasing when I saw the times.
28.97, 28.45, 27.15, 25.33, 24.85, (29.10), 27.85, 28.72, 22.83, 27.22, 26.63, (22.70)

Probably the first time ever I managed 12 consecutive sub30 solves.

On a brighter note, I used the Weilong GTS in second round and it is now my main. I was affraid it was too fast to control in competition, but I had way more trouble controlling my main Gans. The GTS is freakin awesome..

This is great news as I happened to order one last week. The plan was to buy a Thunderclap and a YueXiao, but as usual I couldn't resist putting a couple of more cubes into the order as well, including the GTS.

 

[MarcelP]

I know you know.

I checked the Wiki.. Yeah it's COLL instead of CMLL.. LOL CMLL (which I know from Roux) does not preserve the edges..

 

[muchacho]

Wow, my best 3x3OH single was 54.172, now 42.805 with the first scramble of the WC, it felt really good

Spoiler

176 22-may-2016 17:29:46 00:42.805 L2 F U2 L2 F2 R2 F U2 B2 L2 B' D L2 D' L' F2 U' F D U

 

[CLL Smooth]

Woke up at 2am to go to work yesterday morning. Accidentally put two mismatched shoes on in the dark. Went to a comp at 9 am and drank lots of coffee.
Venue was great and had a good time despite my fatigue.
Managed to beat my previous 3x3 Ao5 by 0.01 sec. Also got a couple sub-4 2x2 solves and placed 4th. Failed OH avg again...

 

[mafergut]

Hey Ken @kbrune. Nice PBs! I hope you have a good second day.
David, @muchacho, quite an improvement in your OH PB!!! Congrats.
@JanW nice Ao100, keep pushing and you'll say goodbay to sup-30 solves in no time.

Been doing a 4x4 Ao50 today but did not get any PBs other than a minor improvement in Ao12 of less than a sec, down to 1:28.65. Best single was 1:11.xx, one second short of my PB. Close to 1:30 global average, now it's when things start getting difficult to improve significantly in a short period of time. Race to sub-1 (even single, not to talk about Ao5 or 12) is still a long way to go and, to be honest, being barely sub-20 at 3x3, sub-1 at 4x4 will prove to be quite a challenge for me.

I think next week I will start practicing mainly 5x5 for another 2-3 weeks. Lots of margin for improvement there Not sure if Bochuang or Yuxin, though

 

[Shaky Hands]

I managed to get a new 3x3 PB of 17.70 (previous was 18.48 if I recall correctly.)

The lookahead just seemed really good for me in this solve and my length of pauses was significantly down. Also, I managed to significantly reduce cube rotations (I did one during the cross, but none during F2L.) Encouraging.

This is my attempt at reconstruction. The cross, 1st and 4th F2L pairs, plus OLL/PLL are definitely correct. Not 100% sure with the 2nd and 3rd pairs but very similar at least and led to the same steps afterwards.

Scramble:
R2 D' F D R' F U2 B' D F' U L' B2 F' L' D U B D F2 R2 F2 L U F'

Reconstruction:

Spoiler

x2 y2 // inspection
L F2 D' L F y F' U' F R2 // cross
F' U2 F2 U F' // 1st pair
R U R' L U L' F' U F U' R U R' // 2nd pair
L U L' B U B' U B U' B' // 3rd pair
U2 B' U' B // 4th pair
U F U R U' R' U R U' R' F' // an OLL I know
U y R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' // J-perm

https://alg.cubing.net/?setup=R2_D-...-_F-_R_U_R-_U-_R-_F_R2_U-_R-_U-_//_J-perm

I think this pretty much confirms the Thunderclap as my new main 3x3 cube, something I wasn't expecting.

 

[muchacho]

That time with no skips, congrats! and awesome tps!

 

[h2f]

I checked the Wiki.. Yeah it's COLL instead of CMLL.. LOL CMLL (which I know from Roux) does not preserve the edges..

Many of them preserve or with small modifications.

I could do small practice after a dinner sitting in the garden and got few pbs with Roux too. Ao50 26.25, ao12 25.31, ao5 22.41. I can do f2b in 10 seconds but cmll and lse are the worst part of my solves.