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Maybe there's still hope for my attempt to go full color neutral. Full step PB on non-white/yellow cross:

1. 14.42[orange cross] R' D2 U R2 D' F2 L2 R2 F2 U' F2 D L' D F R2 B' L D U2 F'

3-move cross and easy-to-preserve 1st pair seen in inspection. Very easy F2L and meh LL. The only other non-white/yellow solve faster than this I have on record was a 13.62 OLL skip.
 
h2f said:
I feel awfull with my official 3bld attempts. I've started filming my practice sessions and I got sub1 on cam - actually it's best on cam. I also got few 1:0x on cam. There's still a lot of room for improvement but pauses are caused by memo problems not figuring algs. Maybe this is a little sign of small impovement: doing all comms without thinking of.
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Nice solve Grzegorz. Your memo was fast there. Maybe you need more TPS :).

My corner comms have bedded in pretty well and most of them I don't need to think much about. It's just as natural now as my OP corners setups. There are a few I still have to think about though.

Edge comms are a different story. I did add a few for letter pairs that are not efficient with advanced M2, but I tend to revert to the M2 way because that's my mode of thinking during edges. Also the cases don't get much practice because there are so few of them.
 
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mark49152 said:
Yeah 4BLD is really fun. It's only about 2.5 cubes worth of memo but adds some other nice challenges. You're more than ready for it :).
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Part of the reason I started on MBLD was to get ready for 4BLD but I got a little carried away.

mark49152 said:
Edge comms are a different story. I did add a few for letter pairs that are not efficient with advanced M2, but I tend to revert to the M2 way because that's my mode of thinking during edges. Also the cases don't get much practice because there are so few of them.
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I'm the same. I know some nice algs for pairs like BD and ME but never use them in anger. I need to be brave.
 
Had a nice run with an almost PB ao12, but did manage a PB ao5 :)

Generated By csTimer on 2017-3-23
avg of 5: 14.56

Time List:
1. 14.74 R2 D2 F2 R2 U2 F' U2 F R2 B' U2 L U B2 F' D F U' R U'
2. (14.00) D L2 B2 U L2 B2 R2 B2 D2 L2 F R2 U R' F' U B U L2 R2
3. (16.99) B2 U R U' D' B L2 F D' B U2 F' R2 B' U2 L2 D2 R2 B' L2 R
4. 14.01 L2 F2 R L2 B R2 U' D' B' R' L2 F2 R2 U' F2 D L2 D R2 D' B2
5. 14.93 R2 B' L2 R2 U2 B R2 B' L2 F U' B2 L' F' U2 L R B' U2 B2
 
Hello!
even though I might be on the young side here I thought I might as well introduce myself :).
Started cubing roughly 2 weeks ago and it's been incredibly fun so far. Right now the 24 hours of my day essentially consist of furiously working on my thesis, solving my cube and sleeping.
So far my PBs are: single: 37.73, ao5: 42.61, ao12: 45.82. Haven't really had the time to do an ao50 yet, but it's definitely on my list.
 
Fyzzna said:
Hello!
even though I might be on the young side here I thought I might as well introduce myself :).
Started cubing roughly 2 weeks ago and it's been incredibly fun so far. Right now the 24 hours of my day essentially consist of furiously working on my thesis, solving my cube and sleeping.
So far my PBs are: single: 37.73, ao5: 42.61, ao12: 45.82. Haven't really had the time to do an ao50 yet, but it's definitely on my list.
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Welcome @Fyzzna
 
h2f said:
I feel awfull with my official 3bld attempts. I've started filming my practice sessions and I got sub1 on cam - actually it's best on cam. I also got few 1:0x on cam. There's still a lot of room for improvement but pauses are caused by memo problems not figuring algs. Maybe this is a little sign of small impovement: doing all comms without thinking of.
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Amazing to me. I feel like I should at least look into corner comms whenever I plateau again and return to blindfold work. OP corners feel like the beginners' 3x3 method to me: very easy to learn, but immediately apparent that it's inefficient. My Y perm is a lot more solid now, though :D.
 
pglewis said:
Amazing to me. I feel like I should at least look into corner comms whenever I plateau again and return to blindfold work. OP corners feel like the beginners' 3x3 method to me: very easy to learn, but immediately apparent that it's inefficient. My Y perm is a lot more solid now, though :D.
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It's hard work but you'll take two thirds off your move count. It's on my list of goals.
 
newtonbase said:
It's hard work but you'll take two thirds off your move count. It's on my list of goals.
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You do, but it only becomes an advantage when you eliminate the thinking. With OP corners there are indeed a lot of moves but it's easy to spam TPS with no pauses. It takes a lot of practice with comms before the reduced move count pays back.
 
newtonbase said:
I never liked it anyway.
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Me too. I've unistalled it few months ago.

pglewis said:
Amazing to me. I feel like I should at least look into corner comms whenever I plateau again and return to blindfold work. OP corners feel like the beginners' 3x3 method to me: very easy to learn, but immediately apparent that it's inefficient. My Y perm is a lot more solid now, though :D.
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Thanks. OP can be very fast. I've seen Turbo/OP sub50 during Polish Championships. :)
 
No new cubing PBs lately, but I did reach another major milestone when I finally hit sub-100 this morning. Sub-100kg, that is. Started the year at 112.5, so the drop has been quite fast. All thanks to eating more healthy and exercising. As I'm 6'5", I never classified as officially fat, despite the high weight, but I must say it feels a lot better now. This little project is also one of the main reasons why cubing progress stagnated this year. A lot of the time spent exercising and cooking healthy meals is away from cubing time. I'm hoping that in the end improving this area of my life will be at least as beneficial as improving cubing times. ;)
 
I've been speedcubing a little over 2 years now and have timed solves going back these last 2 years. I like to keep these stats as they are a reminder for how much I have actually improved even when I think I'm hitting a plateau. Realised yesterday that I had new ao5, ao12, and ao100 PB's when I started looking and parsing all the info to build my solve histogram for the last 2 years :) The last 3 days things have been consistently low with yesterday seeing the largest % of sub-15's of all solves yesterday hitting a high of 24% (16/65) solves

I have achieved one of my cubing life-time goals of achieving a sub-10, unfortunately it has only been once but I'm getting closer more regularly lately with a few 12's and 11's this last week alone.

a05 = 14.12
ao12 = 15.71
ao100 = 16.69

2 Years Stats.JPG 2 Years Histogram.JPG
 
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