Older cubers discussions

[mark49152]

Congrats Grzegorz @h2f on the 4BLD PB!

 

[chtiger]

Some more oldster comp results
http://cubecomps.com/live.php?cid=2396&compid=58
PB avg in everything- 2x2, 3x3, pyra, sq-1, OH (by default), and PB single (3.50) in 2x2

Spoiler: times+comments

3x3 -- Fairly standard for me. Only 1 bad solve. Smoother turning in the 2nd round got me sub-21. Next stop, sub-20.
22.32, 22.55, 23.44, 29.08, 22.15 = 22.77
23.90, 20.75, 21.31, 19.98, 18.31 = 20.68

2x2 -- 1st round was terrible, 3 bad mistakes, 1 just slow, and 1 decent. 2nd round started good, but messed up last 2 solves to blow an easy sub-6. Still PB with counting 8.99.
12.63, 8.30, 6.60, 9.12, 11.03 = 9.48
5.31, 3.50, 6.03, 8.99, 9.14 = 6.78

OH -- wasn't expecting to make the 1:00 cutoff. First solve was good (for me), 2nd solve was CFOOPFOP.
50.18, 1:51.49, 1:04.54, 1:06.99, 54.34 = 1:01.96

pyra --decent times for me, none were great, none were bad.
10.57, 11.96, 11.34, 11.32, 10.57 = 11.08

sq-1 -- wasn't sure I'd make the :45 cutoff. Did way better than expected. First 4 solves not having parity certainly helped. Second round was unexpected and didn't really care about it. The 3 solves I was doing bad on also had parity.
36.49, 30.88, 39.83, 32.05, 44.83 = 36.12
54.99, 33.25, 35.50, 54.66, 1:03.97 = 48.38

 

[Jason Green]

I'm starting to time my blind solves, just had a 15:30.90 success with some interruptions. There's a comp on 8/26 with a 15:00 cumulative cutoff, so I'm hoping I can get an official single! Did not practice a lot this week while on vacation but it's really fun!

Edit: just got a 9:41.64 success! It's so fun starting something new and improving so fast.

Edit 2: 3 more attempts, 7:40.58, DNF by missing an edge flipped in place, 9:19.19

 

[h2f]

Congrats Grzegorz @h2f on the 4BLD PB!

Thanks. I'm happy I did it though I hoped for 7:xx. I was late for a comp due to traffic jam and was very nervous about it. I had only 30 minutes to make all attempts: no time for rest after 4 hours of morning driving. I hoped for the same result in 5bld but no this time. For the first time I had a reall practice before comp in last month and it payed off. I'm going to keep it. Next comps with big blindes are in a month.

I also got very nice pbs in 3x3 - I havent practiced it much in last month (I did maybe 300 solves).

Results: http://cubecomps.com/live.php?cid=2408&compid=48

 

[mark49152]

I had only 30 minutes to make all attempts: no time for rest after 4 hours of morning driving.

That's unfortunate. It's good to get a success given the difficult circumstances. Did you video it?

Congrats on the nice 3x3 too.

 

[Jason Green]

For moving to M2, are there any useful tricks or algs for I and S? I'm just looking at memorizing the ones from JPerm's tutorial on the description. Is that the best approach?

 

[h2f]

For moving to M2, are there any useful tricks or algs for I and S? I'm just looking at memorizing the ones from JPerm's tutorial on the description. Is that the best approach?

There's few tricks but knowing these algs helps a lot. They are the same as in Noah's tutorial.

 

[mark49152]

For moving to M2, are there any useful tricks or algs for I and S? I'm just looking at memorizing the ones from JPerm's tutorial on the description. Is that the best approach?

Yeah as a first step, you should learn those algs as you will need them sometimes. Study how they work - it makes it easier to remember them and not mix them up.

There are some neat tricks involving I and S. See here: https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/threads/advanced-m2-guide.56076/

 

[h2f]

Did you video it?

Subs in.

 

[mark49152]

@h2f - cool, nice reaction

 

[h2f]

@h2f - cool, nice reaction

there was more but I've sweared too much.

 

[kbrune]

@Selkie

Congrats on sub 15 ao100. truly an impressive accomplishment! It took me 5 years to be sub 20 globally. 7 years for you to hit sub15.

Im only 2 years away from sub 15 ao100!!! woooo!

 

[NewbieCuber]

@NewbieCuber, I agree with Shaky Hands, turn off the timer for a while. When you are learning new things your full focus should be on those, not looking up to the timer. Whatever times you are doing now doesn't really matter, since you will so soon be doing a lot faster times anyway. When learning F2L, you could devote most of your cubing time to that stage. Just slow turning focused F2L solving, then rescramble once F2L is done.

I've been doing what you suggested and slowly my times are improving. 90% of my solves are untimed just to get the F2L cases under my fingers. When I do time myself I'm back down to the 1:10 to 1:30. It really feels like the most improvement is going to come simply from repetition. As I do hundreds of solves I'm slowly getting better.

Still, I'd love to hit a 5 solve average of under one minute.

 

[kbrune]

I have a spreadsheet to work it all out . I benchmark my speed with splits and stddev from 4-cube attempts, and from that I can project my times for larger attempts. Accuracy of these projections is surprisingly good, usually within 1-2 minutes. Current projection for 20 cubes is 1:09 at home, 1:12 in comp. From this I know I have to set a pace equivalent to 7:30 for 4 cubes, and sustain that over 20 cubes while maintaining accuracy. I'm currently averaging ~9:30 and have only twice got sub-9, so I know consistent 7:30 pace will take some practice!

I wish I had the discipline and smarts to dissect and organize my practice like you do! It's almost as impressive as your BLD skills!

Great job on the progess! Looking forward to the day you set your new PB in comp!

 

[Lid]

Todays PBs: Megaminx a5: 1:36.383 & a12: 1:43.954
Times: 1:48.645, 1:46.538, 1:47.200, 1:53.376, 1:36.797, 1:45.109, {1:38.086, 1:34.922, (2:03.310), 1:36.140, (1:33.141)}, 1:52.731

Was just about to make a cubicle order ... but they were once again out of Silk ... sigh ...
Anyway plan to get a Magnetic 3x3 & 4x4 before next competition (mid sep).

 

[h2f]

I wish I had the discipline and smarts to dissect and organize my practice like you do! It's almost as impressive as your BLD skills!

To follow my practice I've made excel sheet to write number of solves per day and few notes. My goal was 100 big bld solves. I've hit it after 28 days and in next 10 days I did another 50. When I saw what I was doing in a long period, and what is my progress it was much easier to force my mind to keep practice. I'm gonna to keep it.

 

[kbrune]

@h2f

Very nice video! Love the reaction to your success!

 

[mafergut]

Hi guys! Lots of good progress in BLD. @Jason Green, as always, progressing fast. Already 9min successes, that's very nice! Incredible MBLD feat by @mark49152 and impressive 4BLD success by @h2f. You make me wanna try BLD again but with the little time I have now for cubing I know that's not gonna work for me.

While waiting for my new magnetic 4x4 and 5x5 (I hope I'll have them tomorrow) I've been practising a bit and improved my PB Ao100 by more than 1 sec in 4x4 and 4 sec in 5x5. Some nice singles as well, a couple sub-1min at 4x4 and a 2:07.xx at 5x5. I hope to get a sub-2min single soon with the Wushuang M.

Also, after more than one year and a half I have practiced a bit of skewb this weekend. Decided to move from Sarah's beginner to intermediate and I'm still trying to make the different cases stick. Recall is still far from perfect but I have already improved all my PBs. Hoping to get sub-10 soon. Today I got an Ao50 at 11,73 but there are still plenty of 15-20sec solves due to recall and execution failures so there's some room for improvement.

 

[muchacho]

Ao5 PB: 14.798 (was 15.246)

Spoiler

50404 09-ago-2017 16:39:45 00:15.167 L2 F2 R2 U2 L2 D L2 U B2 F2 D L F' L' U F D L2 U' F2 D
50403 09-ago-2017 16:39:14 00:13.798 D B2 D' R2 D U2 L2 U L2 F2 U2 L F' D B' U R2 L2 F' D L' U2
50402 09-ago-2017 16:38:42 00:13.414 B2 D' F2 D' R2 D' R2 D2 L2 B2 U' R' L2 U2 B' R U B L F L2 D
50401 09-ago-2017 16:37:56 00:23.711 R2 U' R2 U B2 U R2 B2 U B2 L2 F' R' B L' D' B' U B'
50400 09-ago-2017 16:37:13 00:15.429 D2 F2 D2 F2 L2 F2 L2 D' F2 D F2 R' B2 R B' F' U L D B' R2 U'

 

[mafergut]

You're getting so fast, David! @muchacho

First impression on the WuQue M and WuShuang M by Juki Mods. Very stable and fast. Inner slices much lighter to turn than what I'm used to in my own non-magnetic ones. In fact, the 4x4 is even lighter to turn on the inner slice than the outer and I'll need to get used to it. But, anyway, 5th solve out of the box 59.7x Just 2 solves with the 5x5 and nothing great yet.