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Hello my fellow moldy oldies!

I've just realized I have a serious problem with my cube storage situation. Up until 6 months ago (maybe 8) I didn't have very many cubes. And all 5 or 6 of them had their own paper storage container. Now i have 20 ish and still only 5 or six have their own container. Because I travel an hour each way for work. I just keep them all in a book bag. This way. I always have them close by. I almost always have my bag with me.

Since my last comp in April. There are a bunch I have touched since I haven't practiced as much. I pulled out all my cubes yesterday and all the ones that were at the bottom (about 8 of them) were in pretty rough shape! Stickers gone or stuck to other cubes. Dirt and grime build up.

I felt like a crackhead parent who neglects their kids!!

On to my question. Do any of you haul around many of your collection with you like I do? If so what do you use to store your cubes in?
 
kbrune said:
Hello my fellow moldy oldies!

I've just realized I have a serious problem with my cube storage situation. Up until 6 months ago (maybe 8) I didn't have very many cubes. And all 5 or 6 of them had their own paper storage container. Now i have 20 ish and still only 5 or six have their own container. Because I travel an hour each way for work. I just keep them all in a book bag. This way. I always have them close by. I almost always have my bag with me.

Since my last comp in April. There are a bunch I have touched since I haven't practiced as much. I pulled out all my cubes yesterday and all the ones that were at the bottom (about 8 of them) were in pretty rough shape! Stickers gone or stuck to other cubes. Dirt and grime build up.

I felt like a crackhead parent who neglects their kids!!

On to my question. Do any of you haul around many of your collection with you like I do? If so what do you use to store your cubes in?
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Right now, I have a 2x2, two 3x3's, 4x4, 5x5 in the backpack that I use to take my laptop to and from work.

Ordinarily I only have 2 cubes in my work bag. I keep them in the front compartment and they seem to be ok.

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kbrune said:
Hello my fellow moldy oldies!

I've just realized I have a serious problem with my cube storage situation. Up until 6 months ago (maybe 8) I didn't have very many cubes. And all 5 or 6 of them had their own paper storage container. Now i have 20 ish and still only 5 or six have their own container. Because I travel an hour each way for work. I just keep them all in a book bag. This way. I always have them close by. I almost always have my bag with me.

Since my last comp in April. There are a bunch I have touched since I haven't practiced as much. I pulled out all my cubes yesterday and all the ones that were at the bottom (about 8 of them) were in pretty rough shape! Stickers gone or stuck to other cubes. Dirt and grime build up.

I felt like a crackhead parent who neglects their kids!!

On to my question. Do any of you haul around many of your collection with you like I do? If so what do you use to store your cubes in?
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I always have a 3x3 on me and often carry a couple of other cubes in a bag to work but nowhere near as many as you. This week is a bit of an exception as there's a competition at the weekend so I have at least one of each WCA puzzle (except 6x6 and 7x7) but they still fit in my bag. I would need a suitcase for the whole collection.

Some people use a metal case with foam cutouts to keep their cubes safe at competition.
 
MarcelP said:
I also use the
Na the z U R' D R2 U' R D' U R' D R2 U' R D' z'
but for
Nb I use R' U L' U2 R U' M' B r' U2 R U' L. It is not found on the Wiki or algdb. But it is so nice...
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As weird as that M' B r' sequence is I've adopted that Nb for now. It starts the same as the Ja I'm using so was easy to memorize and with my Na being very new I have less chance of confusing me with the two for now.

Logiqx said:
My favourite tricks for that case:

Edge from FL to BR: R2' D' F2 D R2
Edge from FR to BR: (R' F R F') (R' U' R)
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These are my new favorite things in the world, they turn up more frequently than the "standard" alg. I should have figured out the sledge based one for adjacent, but I wouldn't have figured out the diagonal one on my own with a month of experimenting.
 
Been quite busy with work to be able to properly follow this thread or to be able to get any real practice.
@pglewis So nice gitar video. I love it!
@Logiqx I have to try those F2L cases. Thanks! And very nice OH times, I wish I was at least sub-40. Sub-30 looks so impossible to me.
@Selkie , @muchacho Nice slow solving, guys!

I received my Valk3 yesterday and I had like half an hour to do some slow solves. I think it will be my new main but I will have to do some timed ones to make sure it is equally good when pushing TPS. Very nice cube indeed and I don't find it too small, it's just perfect. I got the stickerless one so I will have to adapt a bit my recog, more used to black plastic on 3x3 but if I could get used to it on 4x4 and up I don't see why it should be a problem on 3x3.

I also got a Weilong GTS but this one I didn't even have the time to open the box.
 
Fellow UK oldies, just a heads-up that I will not be able to make Guildford Sunday. Got a family member who is unwell but looking forward to UKC. Hope you have a great time and go get some over 40 records
 
Logiqx said:
Quotes of the day from a lady who'd been sat next to me for 15 mins whilst I was doing untimed solves:

"Have your managed to do it yet?"

"Do you manage it every day?"

Lol

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I was congratulated on my ability to solve my jigsaw at the weekend!
 
Selkie said:
Fellow UK oldies, just a heads-up that I will not be able to make Guildford Sunday. Got a family member who is unwell but looking forward to UKC. Hope you have a great time and go get some over 40 records
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Oh man, I was looking forward to your new 3X3 times. I hope your family will be well soon!
 
I have been filming the whole week in the hopes to catch a PB on film. I took the week off from work just to practice (and relax and spend time with family). I think I did about 200 timed solves a day from which 100 - 150 on camera.. No PB's and not even great Ao12's.. LOL I think the higher TPS I am using is working against me. But I did however catch a LL skip on cam yesterday (it is on my youtube for the ones who care). I did film quite a bit of full step 12 and 13's and a 10 with skip. Here is one of the nice full steps. Cross + 3 in 5 seconds :) Complete F2L + OLL sub 10!

Reconstruction
3. 12.46 D' L2 D2 L' F' D' L D2 F' R2 F U2 B D2 R2 D2 F' R2 D
y'// Inspection I see the G/O pair
R D' R' // CROSS (3)
U' U' y L' U L // 1ST (6)
R U' R' L U' L' // 2ND (6)
U' R U' U' R' U R U' R'// 3RD (9)
y U' R U' U' R' U R U R'// 4TH (11)
U' F R U' R' U' R U R' F' // OLL (9)
U2 R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' R U R' F' U'// PLL (16)
//12.46 IN 60 MOVES = 4.73 tps
It is the second solve in the video, and I added the slow motion part so I could see the times ;)
 
MarcelP said:
I have been filming the whole week in the hopes to catch a PB on film. I took the week off from work just to practice (and relax and spend time with family). I think I did about 200 timed solves a day from which 100 - 150 on camera.. No PB's and not even great Ao12's.. LOL I think the higher TPS I am using is working against me. But I did however catch a LL skip on cam yesterday (it is on my youtube for the ones who care). I did film quite a bit of full step 12 and 13's and a 10 with skip. Here is one of the nice full steps. Cross + 3 in 5 seconds :) Complete F2L + OLL sub 10!
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I saw the video, you managed to get another sub-10 thanks to the LL skip. It was also an AUFless LL skip if I saw it right!!! I'm sure that if and when I get a LL skip I'll waste it on a terrible solve.
 
mafergut said:
I saw the video, you managed to get another sub-10 thanks to the LL skip. It was also an AUFless LL skip if I saw it right!!! I'm sure that if and when I get a LL skip I'll waste it on a terrible solve.
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LOL.. I probably will mess up the next LL skip. But now I have to wait a 15000 solves. My little boy was talking to me and I was kind of distracted the whole time. I did also not realise I had a LL skip. I thought I had a PLL skip... ha ha ha, but at least I saw the skip comming. I noticed all the yellow pieces and noting to permute :)
 
Guildford competition is getting closer.

Tonight was my final commuter session with consistent times in both events.

I'm looking forward to catching up with you guys!

OH
Title: 3x3x3 OH
Scrambler: 3x3x3 Simple
Session: 8
# of solving: 27
# of penalty: 0
# of DNF: 0
Std Dev: 2.021
Best of all: 23.458
Worst of all: 34.993
Average of all: 30.013
Best Avg of 5: 28.243
Best Avg of 12: 28.883
Best Avg of 25: 29.794

Solving times: 31.621 32.727 25.562 31.124 29.476 29.568 26.543 31.366 28.203 26.958 30.688 33.302 29.979 27.593 30.086 30.305 27.118 23.458 30.471 31.609 29.882 34.993 29.095 30.653 31.337 32.756 32.317

3x3 - 100% sub-20
Title: 3x3x3 Cube
Scrambler: 3x3x3 Simple
Session: 49
# of solving: 30
# of penalty: 0
# of DNF: 0
Std Dev: 1.163
Best of all: 13.624
Worst of all: 19.998
Average of all: 17.141
Best Avg of 5: 16.352
Best Avg of 12: 16.426
Best Avg of 25: 16.990

Solving times: 16.614 16.992 16.618 17.591 15.052 18.676 18.067 18.381 19.231 13.624 15.638 16.694 16.725 16.783 19.764 17.034 16.338 15.084 17.202 15.718 17.051 19.113 16.137 16.148 17.901 19.998 19.930 16.220 17.818 16.142
 
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