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Completed a 2nd magnetic conversion. This time on my main the GAN Air. The plastic on the GAN must be a fair amount thinner than on the GTS as the exact same magnets have a much greater force. The "bump" is a lot more pronounced than on the GTS.

I think the 4mmx2mm N35's are too strong for the Air. I do prefer the feel of the GTS M compared to the Air M. I'm a bit annoyed with myself as I couldn't wait to do the conversion on my Air so I just went for it, and right now I'm not a fan. I haven't spend enough time with it yet to form a proper opinion so will give it a day or 2 and see how it goes.

I was considering magnetising my Valk however I think I'll do a little more research to see whether I go with the 4mmx2mm N35's or the 3mmx2mm N35's before I go ahead.
 
JohnnyReggae said:
Completed a 2nd magnetic conversion. This time on my main the GAN Air. The plastic on the GAN must be a fair amount thinner than on the GTS as the exact same magnets have a much greater force. The "bump" is a lot more pronounced than on the GTS.

I think the 4mmx2mm N35's are too strong for the Air. I do prefer the feel of the GTS M compared to the Air M. I'm a bit annoyed with myself as I couldn't wait to do the conversion on my Air so I just went for it, and right now I'm not a fan. I haven't spend enough time with it yet to form a proper opinion so will give it a day or 2 and see how it goes.

I was considering magnetising my Valk however I think I'll do a little more research to see whether I go with the 4mmx2mm N35's or the 3mmx2mm N35's before I go ahead.
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Give it a bit more time. I've felt the same after a magnetisation but eventually really liked it.
 
I was shopping around in a mall today and look what I found! And very cheap too!

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Working on memo system:

I decided to look at oral memory systems today. I think I have something original... I haven't seen anything like it yet. (It is quite different, it ends up as a non-speffz scheme.)

But I've got a long way, before I'd inflict it on others ;). More work needed. I suspect as I get better at BLD, I'll be able to use it. For now, I think a long term memory system is more likely to give some successes, and get me to where I can play with it successfully. More work to do on BLD.
 
A week from comp. I haven't done any 4x4 in weeks so I may decide to ditch that debut this time out. My back-ordered stickerless WuQue finally shipped though, and if it's significantly better than the first run I may end up doing a lot of 4x4 next week (my current one was an early pre-order, so definitely a first run).

Still keeping my goals conservative, if I come away with a PR in either 2x2 or 3x3 it's a victory. Just gimme orange somewhere. Of course, I'd definitely like to see a sub 40 3x3 average; my times are on the move again and low 30s are the norm when I'm "on", but I still relapse into the 40s easily.
 
pglewis said:
A week from comp. I haven't done any 4x4 in weeks so I may decide to ditch that debut this time out. My back-ordered stickerless WuQue finally shipped though, and if it's significantly better than the first run I may end up doing a lot of 4x4 next week (my current one was an early pre-order, so definitely a first run).

Still keeping my goals conservative, if I come away with a PR in either 2x2 or 3x3 it's a victory. Just gimme orange somewhere. Of course, I'd definitely like to see a sub 40 3x3 average; my times are on the move again and low 30s are the norm when I'm "on", but I still relapse into the 40s easily.
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Times don't matter on your first attempt. You are setting yourself up for an easy PB at the next comp. Go for it.
 
newtonbase said:
Times don't matter on your first attempt. You are setting yourself up for an easy PB at the next comp. Go for it.
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This'll be my third, though. First was Sept and I just had one the beginning of Jan. It's a little sooner than I'd planned on getting back but it was only an hour drive, so hard to pass up. I'm still not pressuring myself too much, my 3x3 last time out was 44/48 so should not be hard to PR (and even so, my 2x2 should be even easier to orange). But I'm hoping my comp times start to creep closer to my home times.
 
mafergut said:
I was shopping around in a mall today and look what I found! And very cheap too!

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The Ghost cube is an awesome solve. The first time I tried I sat for a few days trying to wrap my head around things and I kept getting it wrong, until I realiased that you need to solve each layer in isolation. It still gets me and I have to redo things that I mess up.
 
MBLD 2/4 in 22:45. Completely forgot to solve corners on 1st cube. It was a very easy memo and later on it occurred to me that I hadn't done it but I decided I clearly wouldn't do something that dumb. The other was an R2 out before corners. Getting faster but inventing new ways to mess it up.
 
phreaker said:
BLD Update:

Since I mentioned I was working on it. At this point I'm working 4 edge scrambles, to make sure my execution is solid. Then I expect I'll graduate up to 8 edge ones.. and onto full edges.

Part of my strategy towards BLD has been slowly building my skills and confidence so I can get there. If I can't get 4 edges right, there's no real point in 12, I can learn more, and more quickly on the shorter memo... and get my memo + techniques straight. At the rate I'm rolling along, I expect I'll be doing full edges soon. Then it will be combining it all together, and actually getting my first blind solve.
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You can try my BldTrainer (see signature) to practice execution of edges/corners. While it was designed to practice 3-cycles, it can of course also be used with OP or other single target techniques. It can give you any even number of targets from 2-16.
 
Now that I'm clearly losing my 3x3 mojo in exchange for some big cube improvement and in the middle of a mediocre full CN session of around 20.5 sec average I get this Ao5 (3rd best ever) out of nowhere:

avg of 5: 15.87
(18.46), 16.09, 15.53, 15.96, (14.94)

Only the 18.xx is non-white/yellow cross, though. PLL skip on the 15.53, the rest all full step.
 
Great evening in London. After work beers and some solves with @Selkie. Factory solves were fun... Cross, swap cubes, pair swap cubes, pair swap cubes, etc. We soon discovered that solving on different cross colours was a bad idea! Switched to green or blue, depending on what looked best to me. A couple of 23 singles and an average of 28. Harder than you'd think after 3 or 4 beers!

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mafergut said:
Now that I'm clearly losing my 3x3 mojo in exchange for some big cube improvement and in the middle of a mediocre full CN session of around 20.5 sec average I get this Ao5 (3rd best ever) out of nowhere:

avg of 5: 15.87
(18.46), 16.09, 15.53, 15.96, (14.94)

Only the 18.xx is non-white/yellow cross, though. PLL skip on the 15.53, the rest all full step.
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Nice one!

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My big QiYi order finally arrived, took over 2 months in the end but at least it arrived. In the package were 4 cubes:

Valk 3
WuQue
WuShuang
WuHua

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I haven't done much with them yet as I haven't had time. I've done a couple solves with the WuQue, and only one on the WuShuang. The WuHua hasn't done more than a checkerboard pattern. I'm leaving the Valk 3 wrapped up for now, no real reason except that I don't need it right now as I am going to magnetise my old one first.

Initial thoughts are that they are all quite smooth to turn. The WuHua turns a lot easier than my Aoshi. There is a fair amount of catching on the WuQue but I think the tensions are too tight. Will see how things go over the next few days.
 
MarcelP said:
Hi Guys,

My name is Marcel, 42 years old. I have learned to solve the cube at age 11 - 12 or so. I had not touched a cube a maybe 15 - 20 years. A few weeks ago I solved a cube and found it very nice to see that I still knew how to do that. When I looked at youtube I found amazing stuff from you speedsolvers. I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I solved the cube in a layer by layer which could take up to 10 minutes.

So when I decided that I want to be much faster. I ordered a few cubes. The Dayan Zhianchi and Guhong. I looked at these video's:



And in one week I went from solving times of 10 minutes to below 2 minutes. In fact I have a video of a 1.30 solve:


My goal is to get below one minute. Right now I have not focussed on OLL and PLL. I just need to get the 2FL much quicker. I recon in a few weeks times must be a lot better.

Cheers!
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Practice makes perfect Marcel!! Hard work pays off!!! Keep it up friend!!!

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