Older cubers discussions

[Rastinha]

I did 8 solves and gave up after the first one like Jason's where I thought I could restore it but didn't and had to start again. These were my times:

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[Jason Green]

I think it makes a good cubing riddle. What kind of competition were my first two times 14 seconds and 6 minutes 52 seconds? Hahaha

 

[newtonbase]

I bet this guy was glad he had bins.

What on earth was going on there?
Looks like his judge moved a couple of his cubes during the solve too.

Got possibly my easiest scramble ever this morning. Simple cross, easy pairs and PLL skip. Unfortunately I got this during my first ever attempt at a timed OH AO5 and got a 42s.
Edit: forgot about OLL!

 

[mark49152]

What on earth was going on there?

I can imagine the discussions leading up to this. "Where's the best location for multi?" "Oh let's put it right next to the cacophonous cavorting martial arts display so that the screaming drowns out any distractions." "Great, I'll bring my extra enormous ear muffs."

Glad the 5x5 thing proved fun. I also had some fast and some very slow ones. Now for part two: same thing but on 3x3 . One additional rule: no resorting to a normal solve. You can solve and rescramble if you mess up the cube though.

 

[Jason Green]

So do five moves of a scramble, but treat it like a normal solve starting with cross and so forth? Or FB I guess for Roux.

 

[muchacho]

I was trying to get a new mo100 PB before reaching 20.000 timed solves, it was a good try... until the DNF mean of the last 65 solves was 22.193 (my PB is 22.965). Anyway I was not going to make it before 20.000 because apparently I'm now only 3 solves away from that o_O

 

[mark49152]

So do five moves of a scramble, but treat it like a normal solve starting with cross and so forth? Or FB I guess for Roux.

No, do five moves of a scramble, then toss and spin it, and see how long it takes you to figure out how to undo the scramble.

 

[Shaky Hands]

Now for part two: same thing but on 3x3 . One additional rule: no resorting to a normal solve. You can solve and rescramble if you mess up the cube though.

This is way harder for me.

 

[mafergut]

This is way harder for me.

Same here. 5 DNFs in a row and I quit. Max for me seems to be 4 moves.

 

[muchacho]

That was fun... and too hard.

DNF 2:21.75 DNF DNF 25.44

 

[mafergut]

That was fun... and too hard.

DNF 2:21.75 DNF DNF 25.44

At least you got some right. I DNFed when I couldn't figure out in 1 min or when I had already made a wrong turn and didn't know how to go back.

Also, to avoid remembering the scramble it's better for other person to scramble for you or, at least, scramble in random & unknown orientation (toss cube in the air, scramble without looking, toss cube again). Anyway you can always remember if the last moves were just 90º turn or 180º turn, which could help a bit.

 

[moralsh]

I can imagine the discussions leading up to this. "Where's the best location for multi?" "Oh let's put it right next to the cacophonous cavorting martial arts display so that the screaming drowns out any distractions." "Great, I'll bring my extra enormous ear muffs."

That was Arnold Classic Europe 2015, organized by yours truly.

It is a multisport event and it's always very very noisy. In the 2013 Edition We had 3BLD first round next to a cheerleader contest, earmuffs did nothing I had a 3:xx successs when I was averaging like 2 minutes because I had to memo everything twice.

Last year we also had a lot of problems with competition space and competitors access, so we are not going to organize that again, although a guy form Barcelona is going to organize, I think, but not my usual team and me.

On a side note, I need a Sq1 and WF single to have a single in all events and the same and 3BLD and FM to get all the averages, I'm pursuing to have everything but WF and plan to do it by the end of the year, would you guys try feet to get everything?

 

[muchacho]

Feet solving does not appeal to me at all, but that is the least of my concerns, if somehow I would be able to do mBLD/4BLD/5BLD I would probably try feet and clock for completeness sake.

 

[mafergut]

That was Arnold Classic Europe 2015, organized by yours truly.[...]
On a side note, I need a Sq1 and WF single to have a single in all events and the same and 3BLD and FM to get all the averages, I'm pursuing to have everything but WF and plan to do it by the end of the year, would you guys try feet to get everything?

I didn't want to say anything after I investigated when Asier had gotten that record and I saw which event it was. I was sure you had a very good reason to do it that way

Regarding WF, I know your friend @APdRF is the current national record holder and he does great at feet and all that but, oh man, I can't see me solving a Rubik's cube with my feet. Call me picky if you want

Feet solving does not appeal to me at all, but that is the least of my concerns, if somehow I would be able to do mBLD/4BLD/5BLD I would probably try feet and clock for completeness sake.

Exactly my point. In my case I'd prefer to go with a not complete profile. I get colds easily if my feet are not warm and tucked away in their nice and warm socks Maybe if the competition was during the summer... but, no way, I would have to practise at home, I forgot about that. I would have to relearn all the algs again so that means a lot of time barefoot.

 

[h2f]

On a side note, I need a Sq1 and WF single to have a single in all events and the same and 3BLD and FM to get all the averages, I'm pursuing to have everything but WF and plan to do it by the end of the year, would you guys try feet to get everything?

This is amazing. Definetly I would like to have all singles.

 

[Shaky Hands]

On a side note, I need a Sq1 and WF single to have a single in all events and the same and 3BLD and FM to get all the averages, I'm pursuing to have everything but WF and plan to do it by the end of the year, would you guys try feet to get everything?

Even Feliks can't be bothered with feet, not that it stops him from topping the Kinch rankings.

That said, it would be an interesting lifetime goal to get listed in the All Events Completion Club.

 

[mark49152]

That was Arnold Classic Europe 2015, organized by yours truly.

No offence intended, it was only a joke, because the amount of noise and activity in the video made me smile. Sometimes the venues are difficult but I'd always rather have the event than not. Cuthberts was in a shopping centre with noise and people standing around watching, but I didn't find it that distracting. Actually I'd rather have an environment that's continually noisy than a quiet environment with unexpected noises.

Regarding feet and other events, I'm not bothered about having an official result in everything. I'd rather focus on events I like and try to do well at them. In some ways I regret entering 6x6 because my result is poor and I don't have time to try to get any better at it.

On the five moves scramble I also found 3x3 much harder. It was fun trying that. I guess it might be good for training block building skills too.

 

[moralsh]

No offence intended

None taken, I also find shopping malls quite acceptable and events like the one we're talking about almost unbearable, in fact I have hearing problems when exposed to big noises and I try to avoid them. But organizing is cool and you almost always end up bearing things like those

Even Feliks can't be bothered with feet, not that it stops him from topping the Kinch rankings.

That said, it would be an interesting lifetime goal to get listed in the All Events Completion Club.

I'm 25th in Spain, cool
I only need to improve in shitty events to rank higher, hmm.

@muchacho, @mafergut, @h2f I will probably try to relearn Square-1 to a decent level in the summer and try to get the other missing means and leave the feet decision for the future me. With a bit of luck the WCA will drop the event altogether and I won't have to decide

For my competition in 10 days I'll try to get better results in all blind events, as I'm not going to have a lot of practice time.

 

[mafergut]

@muchacho, @mafergut, @h2f I will probably try to relearn Square-1 to a decent level in the summer and try to get the other missing means and leave the feet decision for the future me. With a bit of luck the WCA will drop the event altogether and I won't have to decide

For my competition in 10 days I'll try to get better results in all blind events, as I'm not going to have a lot of practice time.

Good luck! I also have SQ-1 in my TO DO list but it's taken a backseat to big cubes right now. I started with 4x4, now 5x5 and, you know, there's still 6x6 and 7x7 that I don't have a clue how to solve yet so this is taking me some time, I guess. Also BLD has suffered and I have probably forgotten M2 by now.

 

[One Wheel]

With a bit of luck the WCA will drop the event altogether and I won't have to decide .

I hope not before I have a chance to get an official time. I think I've only had one successful feet solve, and that was on the order of 7:00+, but i very much like the idea and if I learn another method it will probably be Petrus specifically for feet. It seems though that the people who are good at feet have long skinny toes, like my dad has, but somehow I ended up with short fat toes stuck on size 13EEEEEE feet.