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Summer weekends are bad for this thread. We are all busy at the swimming pool or something :)
I did my 1st solves with the Yuxin 6x6. It was the Ao5 for the weekly comp directly no untimed solves, no warmup, no thinking what kind of parities I could find and how to deal with them, just get the cube and solve it :) Best time was 8:25.xx, not bad taking into account that I'm averaging now around 3:30 on 5x5 and double that would be 7 minutes.
 
mafergut said:
Best time was 8:25.xx, not bad taking into account that I'm averaging now around 3:30 on 5x5 and double that would be 7 minutes.
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Yeah that is not bad, nice job. I think the 2x rule assumes a similar amount of practice. I am about 2:20 on 5x5 and 6:20 on 6x6 but I put that down to having done 10x as many 5x5 solves.
 
@mafergut... Good unboxing video, I watched it all, thanks for sharing. I agree that keyring mini-cube is great. I actually keep it with my keys so I have a cube on me almost all the time these days. Still tempted on the 6x6 Yuxin.

A few updates on my progress.

3x3 has been going well for me. I think I'm becoming more consistent with my solving.
- new PB Ao5: 22.00 (was 23.33)
- new PB Ao12: 23.90 (was 24.90)
- new PB Ao25: 25.35 (was 25.57)
- new PB Ao100: 26.09 (was 27.05)

Also, first sub-3m 5x5 solve (2:58.33)

Scramble (avoid if doing the 5x5 Race thread):

Rw2 B2 Bw F L' F' B2 Fw2 Rw Lw2 R L B' Dw' U' Uw' B' Rw Fw' D L Rw' Dw2 L F2 D2 F U' L2 D R2 Rw2 Dw' Uw2 Rw2 L2 Uw2 D' B2 Rw2 L' Dw U D' R' D Dw2 B' Dw' B' Fw' Uw Rw' U B' Rw2 B2 R' F' R2

And then a few scrambles later another slightly better (2:57.80)

Scramble (avoid if doing the 5x5 Race thread):
R2 B' F L2 R Dw2 F2 Uw' R' Uw Lw2 Bw2 Rw2 Uw Bw2 Lw D' L2 F' B Dw2 F Rw' U Bw' Uw Rw2 B Lw' B2 L' Bw2 B' L D' Lw' F D F Rw' Uw' Dw' F Fw' B2 R F' Bw' U2 L' U' Fw B' U' Uw' D' Bw' U Uw Lw

My previous 5x5 PB single was 3:15.xx, so I've managed to shave nearly 10% off that. Productive lunchtime for me. Feeling happy! :)
 
mafergut said:
Summer weekends are bad for this thread. We are all busy at the swimming pool or something :)
I did my 1st solves with the Yuxin 6x6. It was the Ao5 for the weekly comp directly no untimed solves, no warmup, no thinking what kind of parities I could find and how to deal with them, just get the cube and solve it :) Best time was 8:25.xx, not bad taking into account that I'm averaging now around 3:30 on 5x5 and double that would be 7 minutes.
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My first two solves took one hour each :) But I liked it.
 
MarcelP said:
My first two solves took one hour each :) But I liked it.
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Well, to be honest, I had already solved my 7x7 like 5-6 times some time ago when I bought it but still 6x6 had some surprises and I had to think how to execute the parity algs I already knew to deal with them. And I had watched some videos on how to deal with L2C on big cubes as well.
 
mafergut said:
Well, to be honest, I had already solved my 7x7 like 5-6 times some time ago when I bought it but still 6x6 had some surprises and I had to think how to execute the parity algs I already knew to deal with them. And I had watched some videos on how to deal with L2C on big cubes as well.
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I still havent got any 7x7 cube. That is the last one from the offcial puzzles I havent got yet.

Every day brings new pbs. Today new ao12 18.02 from 18.31 set few days ago. And new ao100 19.43 from 19.66 set in april...
 
mafergut said:
I'm getting a lot into big puzzles lately. If I manage to get below 10 min at 7x7 I might get an 8x8 eventually, just for fun.

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Awsome. I think you can get it very soon. I promised myselft to take some attempts in 6bld this summer, if we talk about solving big cubes.
 
mafergut said:
Nice white cross already done for you and plenty of easy pairs in sight to choose from. Hope you got a good time on that ;)
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Shaky Hands said:
Looks a good scramble @Logiqx. Led me to the F double-sexy F' OLL and a G-perm. Didn't time it, but would have been good.
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I think this was my third every cross-skip but I was having a bit of an off-day yesterday, averaging about 18.2 during the evening. I got 13.2 on this solve but I handled it quite badly!
 
Nice solve, Grzegorz @h2f. I have to try and record some solves as well. I don't usually do and I would like to get a good single on camera :)
By the way, I decided, just for fun, to time some solves with my new LanLan Domino / 2x3x3 cuboid. Times are so variable due to last layer not being alg optimized and, well, the puzzle is not really good for speedsolving (corner cutting is almost non-existent).

Generated By csTimer on 2016-7-12
avg of 12: 37.24

Time List:
48.62, 38.38+, 41.68+, 35.42, (22.85), 26.13, 38.63, 45.73, 45.13, 24.88, 27.75, (48.72)
 
mafergut said:
I'm getting a lot into big puzzles lately. If I manage to get below 10 min at 7x7 I might get an 8x8 eventually, just for fun.

Sent from my Nexus 4 with Tapatalk
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Nice. I am still sup-20 minutes for 7x7, but it did not stop me from buying this monster :)

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