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Pretty cool! I need a lot of work to become that fast.
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JohnnyReggae
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Thank for that
I've also watched a couple of comparisons on the 2. Most included the sculpted X-Man which I won't get as I don't do stickerless. I'm probably going to go with the SS Aurora as it is cheaper and will go with my current SS Gigaminx. I'm also waiting for my SS Kilominx to arrive so it makes sense for me to keep it in the family .
mafergut
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Don't forget to get the new Master Kilominx as wellThank for that
JohnnyReggae
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That is definitely on the radar ... but at $30 it is on the pricey side right now, but I am oh so keen to get itDon't forget to get the new Master Kilominx as well
JohnnyReggae
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Eventually got around to finishing off my 3x3 ball mod. Very happy to have it done seeing as it was the very first mod I started which I then shelved to do some other mods. I'm keen to do a 5x5 ball, but there are a couple other mods I want to attempt first. Up close you can see my dodgy sticker job which is something I'm not a fan of in the whole modding process mostly because it is quite tedious and something that currently is not very precise which means that it doesn't turn out as well as I really want it to.
I have it here next to my 4x4 ball mod which was the first fully completed mod I did.
I have it here next to my 4x4 ball mod which was the first fully completed mod I did.
h2f
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mafergut
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@JohnnyReggae Wow these are beautiful mods! I'm tempted to ask you for a price to buy one!!! You're quite an artist
JohnnyReggae
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Wow !! Thanks
To be honest they are not hard to do, just time consuming.I do have an extra 5x5 barrel that I've finished up except for stickers. It does need some work in that the internals are quite stiff which I haven't had a chance to look at yet. But seeing as I already have a finished 5x5 barrel I really don't need this one (photo below). It was made from a Cyclone Boys 5x5 which I rate as a budget 5x5. I'm happy to sell it off without stickers .. have I mentioned that I don't enjoy the stickering process ;-) I know Olivers Stickers does do 5x5 barrel stickers which would probably be a better idea than stickering myself except he doesn't have the shades that I use for all my cubes.
http://oliverstickers.com/special-stickers/stickers-for-hand-made-puzzles/5x5x5-barrel-6-color.html
h2f
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@mark49152, Mark Thank you - I always do corners first, next edges (of course memo inverserly). Why? Because I've learnt that way from Polish blinders - Maskow, Jałocha, Zalewski, others. I used to it. There's parity in the solve and I do it with special alg - kind of Tperm from Meneghetti's list. But I've havent learnt it for BU so I had to do 2 flips - there were 2 flipped edges in a scramble.
Why? Because I've learnt that way from Polish blinders - Maskow, Jałocha, Zalewski, others. I used to it. There's parity in the solve and I do it with special alg - kind of Tperm from Meneghetti's list. But I've havent learnt it for BU so I had to do 2 flips - there were 2 flipped edges in a scramble.
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Thank for that
If you ever do decide to pick up the X-Man, and if you go with a stickered version... grab yourself some extra stickers while you're at it. The face that's usually Cream is instead Gold, and I frequently confuse it for Yellow or Orange. It's reeeeeaaaally close, and extremely disappointing. The cube feels so good, but I just can't get used to those shades. And I'm just too lazy to resticker a Megaminx when my SS is perfectly fine.
The shades on the stickerless versions, on the other hand, are actually really nice. Way better than the YJ Yuhu stickerless shades. If you ever decided to do stickerless, this would be a great place to start.
Don't forget to get the new Master Kilominx as well
So good. So, so fun. I found time for an Ao5 on Friday. If I had time for 8 solves I woulda tried rolling that worst one out:
7:51.26, 7:05.06, (7:58.28), 6:59.77, (6:56.70) = 7:18.70
mark49152
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I've seen many fast solvers do corners first and I wonder why. Is it generally regarded as faster? Presumably you do an extra comm at the end of corners, then a set up and T perm at the end. As opposed to an extra M2 swap and a Y perm. Not sure which would be fastest for me.I always do corners first, next edges (of course memo inverserly).
h2f
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Let's count: extra alg for last target and UBR is 8 moves. In the end I do kind of Tperm without setup, or Ja or Jb. It's 14 moves. It gives 22 moves. Yperm is 15 moves + setup (2-4 moves) + M2 swap 5 moves. It gives 25 moves. It's a little bit more or the same. Of course with OP the number of moves is higher - one more Yperm with setup and parity done in the end cost you 37 and more moves.
But the main reason I do corners first is that I've learnt that way first. The first tutorial I've seen was Maskow's and he did that way - corners first, next edges. And I stayed with that.
I was thinking a lot about doing edges first and I came to conculsion that I stay with my way. Move count is the same but you have more info in long memory. For corner often I dont try remeber first letter pair - just alg. But maybe in a long run it doesnt matter - the same as position of your buffer.
mark49152
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@h2f, yes there's probably not much in it. Maybe corners first helps with bigger cubes though.
I did another multi attempt today and made the same mistake yet again. Executed edges as corners. I think it's since I started learning corner comms. I now associate each image clearly with a corner pattern and a comm. Sometimes when I recall the image during edges, I see it as corners and execute that instead. I guess it's a lapse of concentration but I have no idea how to fix this...
I did another multi attempt today and made the same mistake yet again. Executed edges as corners. I think it's since I started learning corner comms. I now associate each image clearly with a corner pattern and a comm. Sometimes when I recall the image during edges, I see it as corners and execute that instead. I guess it's a lapse of concentration but I have no idea how to fix this...
h2f
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That's pretty annoying when you dont how to eliminate your mistake.
I'm also back to mbld but havent done any attempt yet. I was told there's gonna be a round of mbld during competition in Gdańsk in December. Must work on it.
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One Wheel
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I'm the rankest of amateurs at blind, but it sounds like this calls for a slightly different approach. Any chance it might help to, for example, think of corners on the left and edges on the right? Indoor/outdoor? It would depend on what your images/words are.
Edit: in the spirit of crazy ideas, it would slow down execution, but might it help accuracy to execute either all edges or all corners on all cubes, then go back and do the other. I'm still working on one cube, so on the one hand I'm not really qualified, but on the other hand maybe a fresh mind and all . . .
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mark49152
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Yeah I was thinking maybe I should have a different set of images for edges, but that's a lot of images, and I might just make mistakes with that instead. I don't really want to change my locations. Maybe practice will be enough, to get used to solving edges from visual memory. I might do more frequent multi attempts with small numbers of cubes just to get more used to it.
newtonbase
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Might colours help? I sometimes add colours to remember the order of my images.
One Wheel
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I'm not sure how you're using locations, but I was thinking more tactilly, associating edges with your left hand or foot and corners with your right hand or foot.
mark49152
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Not sure what you mean, but I guess during execution I could do something like angle to the left when solving edges, and to the right when solving corners. I'm just frustrated because it seems a silly problem to have, and I'm inclined to just practise until it (hopefully) goes away.
