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Lazy Einstein said:
Back into speedsolving I think. It has been 5 days and I have have done an Ao100 everyday. That is more solves than I have done since August till I began. Having my 4th children in June, so I am hoping to finish ZBLL before than and be actively solving with ZZ-a. That way I can focus on my daughter and not have to worry about putting off ZBLL for a 4th times. I am over half way done. I know my COLLs + a few extra for half of the COLL cases, 2GLL, Pi, and and 24 algs from finished AS.

Nice to been focused on solving instead of algs for once.
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Nice to see you back but I can understand that life usually gets in the middle. Had you just said... 4th children??? I've got one and I think I'm busy! :-)
 
muchacho said:
I guess I'll stick with the Weilong v2, I've improved almost 1 second with it in last 2 months (maybe it's not the cause, but I'm not gonna risk it).
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Cubers might be up there with baseball players and guitarists for superstitions.

mafergut said:
Time to forget about being full CN and try to go back to mid 18 with just white and yellow? Or time to keep trying until I succeed?
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I've been weighing the same thing. On one hand I can get a good portion of the benefits, statistically, just being white/yellow neutral and I'm only a little bit of concentrated practice from being as fast on yellow as I am white. Full CN isn't a lot of bang for my buck given where my times are. On the other hand, at some point I'll theoretically reach a plateau where the small potential gain would actually mean something. I can see where it would be a lot easier adapting full CN to 30 second solves now than getting down to 18 and adapting. For now I've decided to put focus on 2-sided PLL recog because I think that's going to buy me a bigger chunk of time than focus on full CN would.
 
mark49152 said:
Are you practising fast memo? How?
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I'm just trying it. I try to focus and a do a memo edges without a review only by making a vivid image/images. I do a review of edges during solving corners. If it works the solve goes fine. I also keep reviewing my list of words and changing it for some good words. For example for HG there's no good word in Polish but my wife told me "hooligan" which is easy to imagine.
 
I was going to get my 1st sub 6min 6x6 single, looked at the timer, plenty of time for LL... or was it? Little lockup here, little hesitation there, dang PLL parity... final time 6:00.35 :( Conclusion, 3x3 stage on 6x6 takes me ages... well, and centers and edge pairing too but you know what I mean.

Several sub 6:10.xx these past days so I know it's coming anyway. Not sure how easy it's going to be to go all the way down to sub 5min, though. Do you guys find a lot of difference in TPS in 6x6 and 7x7 compared with 4x4 and 5x5? I still fail some PLLs (e.g. R-perms) because my muscle memory betrays me whereas on 4x4 and 5x5 that happens rarely now.
 
mafergut said:
I was going to get my 1st sub 6min 6x6 single, looked at the timer, plenty of time for LL... or was it? Little lockup here, little hesitation there, dang PLL parity... final time 6:00.35 :( Conclusion, 3x3 stage on 6x6 takes me ages... well, and centers and edge pairing too but you know what I mean.

Several sub 6:10.xx these past days so I know it's coming anyway. Not sure how easy it's going to be to go all the way down to sub 5min, though. Do you guys find a lot of difference in TPS in 6x6 and 7x7 compared with 4x4 and 5x5? I still fail some PLLs (e.g. R-perms) because my muscle memory betrays me whereas on 4x4 and 5x5 that happens rarely now.
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I can do all PLL's on 6x6 and 7x7 now (this time last year I couldn't do them all on 4x4.) TPS is definitely slower on big cubes although the upside is that lookahead is better.
 
Shaky Hands said:
I can do all PLL's on 6x6 and 7x7 now (this time last year I couldn't do them all on 4x4.) TPS is definitely slower on big cubes although the upside is that lookahead is better.
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My problem is that I have to turn very carefully and slowly (most clearly on 6x6,as 7x7 is odd layered and is more difficult to pop) so, even though lookahead is better, my times are awfully worse than 4x4 or 5x5. I'm sure it's also that I have practiced less but still...

Example: 5x5 Ao100 2:42.xx and 6x6... well, I don't have a 6x6 Ao100 but, still fighting to get a sub 6min single :(
 
Lazy Einstein said:
Good work place. =P
My family is all passed out by like 8:30pm. I usually cube for a hour or two when I do cube
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The practice is done in a busy kitchen on my lunch break but at least nobody is shouting "Daddy I neeeeeed you" and I almost never have to break up fights.
 
mafergut said:
I still fail some PLLs (e.g. R-perms) because my muscle memory betrays me whereas on 4x4 and 5x5 that happens rarely now.
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I don't have trouble with big cube PLLs, but feet gives me fits. I think I have about a 50% success rate executing G-perms with my feet. I need to learn some good RU H- and Z-perms for feet, OH, and big cubes. With those and consistency executing the others I think I can come close to vying for a podium spot in feet at a local comp someday.
 
I thought I'd invented a new A perm this morning. Checked it against a database and the top one on the list was the same but with a much better wide move to start. Then I realised that this was the same as the one I already use but from a nicer angle.
I've been using the same crappy algs for over 3 years.
 
I have no idea on the average age here, I have only just joined myself after finding my old cube yesterday, and picking it up and playing non stop.
I only ever learnt the beginner method when I was younger, so was by no means very fast, I believe my best solve was around 50 seconds. I am hoping this will help my memory improve though as I do have some issues there.

I am 26, coming up 27, so not old by conventional standards, just might be by cubing standards lol.
 
muchacho said:
I'm 40, the average age in this thread is probably higher than that, but don't worry, you are old enough ;)

Welcome!

I think my memory has improved, at least it was much harder to remember algs at the begining.
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That is good to know- I was a bit worried upon joining here I would be the oldest here lol! I don't know much about speed cubing at all, it is just something that interests me and after finding my cube yesterday, thought I might as well have a try and see how well I can do.

Hopefully I can get to my pre illness speed of a best of around 50 Seconds, and then improve upon this. This will be using the beginner method, how fast can people actually get using this method?

Also, I think you helped me in the thread about which cube to buy, thanks again for that :).
 
conanthewarrior said:
That is good to know- I was a bit worried upon joining here I would be the oldest here lol! I don't know much about speed cubing at all, it is just something that interests me and after finding my cube yesterday, thought I might as well have a try and see how well I can do.

Hopefully I can get to my pre illness speed of a best of around 50 Seconds, and then improve upon this. This will be using the beginner method, how fast can people actually get using this method?

Also, I think you helped me in the thread about which cube to buy, thanks again for that :).
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I think 50 seconds was about where I was when I first learned F2L, 2-look OLL, and 2-look PLL, although that might have been after I learned those. I'm not especially good at speedcubing, but it is a fun pastime. I run around 34 seconds now with full PLL, but most of my cubing time is spent on bigger cubes.

Welcome to the thread. I think I was previously the youngest on here, and I'll be 30 next month. It's kind of nice to not be the youngest.
 
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