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Got the new Yuxin 4x4 today. It felt pretty good until I compared it directly to my G4 but with a bit of lube and a quarter turn of the screws it might be slightly awesome.
My replacement Cavs came too. Hopefully this one won't self destruct.
 
Tomorrow I fly up to Portland for the comp. I was thinking about video ideas, and tempted to interview people at the airport about cubing. Also the comp is at a mall so I suppose I could talk to passersby there. What do you think? I'm not naturally outgoing so I may chicken out. :)
 
mark49152 said:
In case anyone on this thread hasn't seen them yet, I highly recommend the F2L and OLL videos from Caleb Miller. These videos explain how the solutions actually work and are one of the best resources I have yet found. Even though I know all these cases well, I have learned new tricks and gained ideas and insights. Excellent stuff.

https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/...ive-case-by-case-breakdown-all-42-cases.62139
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I watched some of these and I don't know if I'm too lazy or what but it's hard for me to take in. Partly it's hard because he doesn't give algs, he just shows the moves. That's how I first learned Petrus many years ago before I speed cubed, and it's a lot harder for me. I do like the idea of understanding what algs do, but to me that comes better with time rather than learning it upfront. I learned most of my f2l from just the 3 basic cases, and figuring it out from there. I could use lots of improvement on rotations during f2l, so maybe I need something like this, but I don't know how to attack it. I've just picked up cases here and there to help improve the way I do things.

So after my long gripe session, any advice? :) Should I try just one or two of the cases and see if I can drill them like when I learned PLL/OLL? Some of the finger tricks and multiple push moves will also be an issue for me to get good at I think.
 
Jason Green said:
I watched some of these and I don't know if I'm too lazy or what but it's hard for me to take in. Partly it's hard because he doesn't give algs, he just shows the moves. That's how I first learned Petrus many years ago before I speed cubed, and it's a lot harder for me. I do like the idea of understanding what algs do, but to me that comes better with time rather than learning it upfront. I learned most of my f2l from just the 3 basic cases, and figuring it out from there. I could use lots of improvement on rotations during f2l, so maybe I need something like this, but I don't know how to attack it. I've just picked up cases here and there to help improve the way I do things.

So after my long gripe session, any advice? :) Should I try just one or two of the cases and see if I can drill them like when I learned PLL/OLL? Some of the finger tricks and multiple push moves will also be an issue for me to get good at I think.
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I watched through the cases which i feel i can get better - it was the cases 5 - 8. And I played around with cube. He exlpains how to solve so you can figure it out. I knew the cases he shows but with his explanations I could understand them better. After all you can write down the alg just watching it. I'm gonna to look whole series to see if there are better solutions.

@mark49152. How's your 3bld practice? I did 182 solves in 9 days with 41% accuracy and 41 solves below official PB.
 
Jason Green said:
Also the comp is at a mall so I suppose I could talk to passersby there. What do you think?
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I think getting people's reactions at the mall would be great. I'd like to watch that.

Jason Green said:
So after my long gripe session, any advice? :)
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If it's not for you, ignore it :). Personally I found it interesting as a curiosity rather than a learning aid. I already know full OLL by muscle memory but I did not learn the algs by tracking pairs, so it was cool to watch and think "oh yeah, I didn't realise the alg did that with those pairs." But it's not going to help me remember something I have already known for 4 years.

h2f said:
@mark49152. How's your 3bld practice? I did 182 solves in 9 days with 41% accuracy and 41 solves below official PB.
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I've had a busy few weeks and only done a small fraction of the practice I planned to do before this weekend's comp. My averages are 10 sec worse than before last comp, in part due to switching to corner comms, but my accuracy has gone back up to 50%+ so it's starting to stick. And I have done almost zero 4BLD. So I don't really have any targets. I would need a lucky scramble to get any PB. I'll be pleased if I can use comms instead of reverting to OP under comp pressure :)
 
mark49152 said:
I've had a busy few weeks and only done a small fraction of the practice I planned to do before this weekend's comp. My averages are 10 sec worse than before last comp, in part due to switching to corner comms, but my accuracy has gone back up to 50%+ so it's starting to stick. And I have done almost zero 4BLD. So I don't really have any targets. I would need a lucky scramble to get any PB. I'll be pleased if I can use comms instead of reverting to OP under comp pressure
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When are your next competions? During sessions I had few nice scrambles with sub1 solves but I made small mistakes (flips, seutps etc) and noone of them finished luckily solved.

And after posting it got 54.4 on the easy scramble in my orientation: U2 L D2 R' U2 B2 U2 L' D2 L' B2 F' U R2 F2 D2 F2 D' U R' Uw
 
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@h2f, continuing the discussion from the accomplishment thread, I suspect the difficulty I will face with edge comms is the same as corner comms and advanced M2. When under time pressure I revert to the simplest. Doing untimed solves I use lots of setups and shortcuts with M2. In comp, I tend to do everything vanilla style one piece at a time. That seems to be my biggest challenge with BLD execution.
 
mark49152 said:
@h2f, continuing the discussion from the accomplishment thread, I suspect the difficulty I will face with edge comms is the same as corner comms and advanced M2. When under time pressure I revert to the simplest. Doing untimed solves I use lots of setups and shortcuts with M2. In comp, I tend to do everything vanilla style one piece at a time. That seems to be my biggest challenge with BLD execution.
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Oh yeah, I know what you mean. I keep in mind what Ollie wrote: Fortune favours the brave. Since than I use only comms and I solve only few targets with M2 because I havent found good algs for them. But these are only few cases. I think the most important factor during comp is to stay with method you are comfortable with. I think you're doing good. When you used to comms you naturally solve with comms not with M2. It's a matter of time and practice because your mind need to change the way of thinking about your targets.
 
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