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megagoune said:
Nice. I am still sup-20 minutes for 7x7, but it did not stop me from buying this monster :)
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Well, I just did like 3 timed solves one month ago or so when I bought the Aofu GT and the best one was a bit less than 21 minutes but since then I have practiced 5x5 and improved significantly and now my first 6x6 solves are around 9 minutes so I would expect 7x7 be around 1.5 times that now but I have not tried (will do next weekend if I can). Anyway, taking my 4x4 and 5x5 times as reference I hope I can get 6x6 down close to 6 minutes and 7x7 under 10 minutes but maybe I can't. I still feel very clumsy turning my 7x7.

That 11x11 looks great, by the way. It must take more than 1h to solve, I assume.
 
Logiqx said:
Nice scramble I just got on KingEn:

R' B R2 D U2 B2 F' U D' F R' U2 L' U R B' U' F' R2 D B D' B2 U' L2
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Nice scramble!

Got this from csTimer:
L' D' R2 U2 B2 R' L2 U L' R2 U' D F2 L2 B2 U2 R' F2 B2 R' U R2 D' L' U'

Pretty decent for both CFOP and ZZ. I did a pretty fast solve and looked up to see DNF on the screen. Apparently I didn't hold down space bar long enough to start the timer. Tried it a second time, ended up solving it slightly differently at 16.91 seconds. Unfortunately I cannot count it as my PB as it was the second attempt.
 
mafergut said:
Well, I just did like 3 timed solves one month ago or so when I bought the Aofu GT and the best one was a bit less than 21 minutes but since then I have practiced 5x5 and improved significantly and now my first 6x6 solves are around 9 minutes so I would expect 7x7 be around 1.5 times that now but I have not tried (will do next weekend if I can). Anyway, taking my 4x4 and 5x5 times as reference I hope I can get 6x6 down close to 6 minutes and 7x7 under 10 minutes but maybe I can't. I still feel very clumsy turning my 7x7.

That 11x11 looks great, by the way. It must take more than 1h to solve, I assume.
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I did not solve the 11x11 yet. I received it yesterday, and I had a 2x2 ghost cube and a 3x3x2 in the same package. I played with the smaller puzzles first! I just scrambled it for now.
I will probably not have the patience to solve this beast in one sitting. It might take me days of solving little by little. Hopping for sub-20 days :)
 
megagoune said:
I did not solve the 11x11 yet. I received it yesterday, and I had a 2x2 ghost cube and a 3x3x2 in the same package. I played with the smaller puzzles first! I just scrambled it for now.
I will probably not have the patience to solve this beast in one sitting. It might take me days of solving little by little. Hopping for sub-20 days :)
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Well, it certainly will need of some patience to solve. I recently bought a SS Gigaminx and it took me more than 1h in two sittings to solve it for the first (and only) time. I love the puzzle but you need to have some free time, unless you can solve it in 10 minutes like some people in the forum :)

I think if I decide to go beyond "WCA size" (7x7), I will start with "just" an 8x8 as the 11x11 seems a bit of an overkill for me right now, time (to solve) and price-wise. Not sure if there are any other options than the SS (I don't like pillowed cubes, so the v-cube 8x8 is not an option).

Regarding your other items in the order I just got a 3x3x2 in my last order, you have the unboxing video on my youtube channel and a post a page ago about an Ao12 of solves I timed with it. I like it a lot (mine is a LanLan). It turns smoothly but does not corner cut so speedsolving it is a bit of a pain. I have no ghosts but those are certainly on my shopping list. Not sure whether to start with a 2x2 or 3x3, though and I don't know which one to buy either. Mefferts' 3x3 is a bit expensive (and not great, or so I have heard) and others like Fangcun don't seem good either so I'm not sure. And a hand made one is out of question, either buying it or doing it myself :p
 
JanW said:
Nice scramble!

Got this from csTimer:
L' D' R2 U2 B2 R' L2 U L' R2 U' D F2 L2 B2 U2 R' F2 B2 R' U R2 D' L' U'

Pretty decent for both CFOP and ZZ. I did a pretty fast solve and looked up to see DNF on the screen. Apparently I didn't hold down space bar long enough to start the timer. Tried it a second time, ended up solving it slightly differently at 16.91 seconds. Unfortunately I cannot count it as my PB as it was the second attempt.
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Nice - 12.62 ending with an Nb-perm which to be honest is not my favourite PLL!
 
Shaky Hands said:
I mean I just keep track of times I get from scrambles I don't know in advance are going to be friendly to me. Otherwise I'd just go through the Easy / Lucky / Funny / Hard / Weird scrambles thread and collect a bunch of PB's. :)
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Haha yeah I guess it makes sense if you think of it like that. I don't usually do that well on ones I know are easy anyway. I got a 19 on that one with the cross made. Of course I had just woke up from a nap.
 
Jason Green said:
Haha yeah I guess it makes sense if you think of it like that. I don't usually do that well on ones I know are easy anyway. I got a 19 on that one with the cross made. Of course I had just woke up from a nap.
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Definition of an older cuber:
Feels the need to take naps on a regular basis. :)

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk
 
MarcelP said:
I inspected white and yellow cross since both where easy, but went for white and got 13.92. Excellent time for me ;)
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Hah, didn't even notice the yellow cross is also almost done. So 1 move white cross, 2 move yellow cross and all edges oriented. Could even do both white and yellow cross in 3 moves, not that I know of any solving method that would benefit from this.
 
JanW said:
Unfortunately memo would be quite impossible to do if you start by doing 3 moves to mess up the corners. Otherwise all edges could be solved in 7 moves with that scramble.
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I still need to learn BLD, but my thought was that if you could solve 8 edges in 3 moves, that's about as many moves as are easy to track, so memo those moves and where everything will end up . . .

I'm not much good at FMC either, but at least I can do it. It seems generally to be better to work more or less from one side to the other, rather than both sides, but I guess if you've got EO that helps.
 
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One Wheel said:
I still need to learn BLD, but my thought was that if you could solve 8 edges in 3 moves, that's about as many moves as are easy to track, so memo those moves and where everything will end up . . .
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The problem is that in blind you already memo where everything goes so you would either have to do a longer memo or adjust each part of the memo which would lose any advantage you had from the scramble.

My phone has broken so I've lost all my times. It's an opportunity to choose a new Android app. What does everyone use?
 
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