Older cubers discussions

[kbrune]

I've never tried uploading a photo from my phone. I use my PC for most posts and just click the "Upload a File" button... et voila!

Hope your hand heals up fast. That's no fun at all. Especially when your favourite hobby requires healthy dexterous digits.

Thanks. It's been very frustrating not being able to practice much. In a way though it's forced me to practice parts of BLD taht ive always been too lazy to focus on. Bright side i suppose.

As far as uploading pics. i dont even have the option "upload file" anywhere. The options i have are: Image, media, and media gallery embed. None of them allow me to upload a pic.

Edit.. aaaaaand i just figured out a way 2 seconds after this lol
i reduced window size and dragged and dropped the pics from desktop.

 

[kbrune]

The pics i tried to add a few days ago.

 

[earth2dan]

You know you are going to do it so, c'mon, don't make it last longer than it has to. Pull the trigger already!

Lol. The trigger has been pulled Now I wait...

The pics i tried to add a few days ago.

Holy crap dude! That's brutal. Do you OH with your left hand? I hope so cuz that right mitt is out of cubing commission for a while buddy Hope it heals up well and quickly.

 

[kbrune]

Holy crap dude! That's brutal. Do you OH with your left hand? I hope so cuz that right mitt is out of cubing commission for a while buddy Hope it heals up well and quickly.

i do OH with left. But my left hand dexterity is so bad. I don't enjoy OH and have never really put effort into it. Even now with a broken hand unable to solve normally. Im not motivated to OH. I've done maybe a dozen OH solves since losing right hand ability lol

Im enjoying the learning im doing for 4BLD and 5BLD so at least i have that. Otherwise id go crazy not being able to practice.

 

[newtonbase]

The pics i tried to add a few days ago.

Ouch. That looks nasty.

Blind practice is good though. I've been using this from Roman's site for a couple of days to practice my image pairs. You can set it to any length Bestsiteever.RU/memotest/

 

[h2f]

@kbrune, looks scary. Best wishes in your recovery.

 

[mafergut]

That pic gives me shivers! I hope you recover completely and as fast as possible.

 

[mark49152]

Right, I have finished my 5BLD practice for ABHC this weekend! Having a break now until the comp. I finally made it to 50 attempts since I started 5BLD practice after Worlds. Out of those, 18 were successes, so 36% success rate overall, but worryingly, half of those successes were in the first 12 attempts after which my accuracy plunged, and it's currently only about 25%. The average time of the successes overall was 13:15, but again there's a worrying trend: the average time of the first 9 successes was 13:35, of the next 4 was 12:25, and of the most recent 5 was 13:18.

So I started with great accuracy, got faster but with worse accuracy, then got slower again without recovering accuracy! Ah well, maybe I should focus on clock .

And, my 3BLD times have worsened by 5-10 seconds because of my focus on 5BLD too.

Hoping for some luck on Saturday

 

[newtonbase]

Right, I have finished my 5BLD practice for ABHC this weekend! Having a break now until the comp. I finally made it to 50 attempts since I started 5BLD practice after Worlds. Out of those, 18 were successes, so 36% success rate overall, but worryingly, half of those successes were in the first 12 attempts after which my accuracy plunged, and it's currently only about 25%. The average time of the successes overall was 13:15, but again there's a worrying trend: the average time of the first 9 successes was 13:35, of the next 4 was 12:25, and of the most recent 5 was 13:18.

So I started with great accuracy, got faster but with worse accuracy, then got slower again without recovering accuracy! Ah well, maybe I should focus on clock .

And, my 3BLD times have worsened by 5-10 seconds because of my focus on 5BLD too.

Hoping for some luck on Saturday

With a 2 day break and time for 3 attempts you'll be fine. Good luck.

 

[SenorJuan]

Thanks for posting that Stackmat display link, Johnny. Electronics is my field, it's interesting to see different approaches to the design problem.

Ken....Ouch! Those little empty image boxes in your original post gave no warning of what was to come later.
Hopefully you're not starting a 'show us yer gory pics' trend. Got any X-ray pics? HeHe.
Seems like the ideal time to break out the "Get Well Sune" gag again.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Hoping for some luck on Saturday

Seems I always have to go through some dry spells like this before making improvements. As long as you're learning from those solves, you're getting better - just remember that.

 

[mark49152]

Thanks Mike, yeah that's the way it goes. Doing some serious 5BLD practice has been fun though.

 

[oneshot]

treated myself to some new cubes today! even bought my 7 year old daughter her own 3x3 with pink instead of red. she has a pb of 10 seconds on the 2x2, and is learning the last step of a 3x3 now.

 

[Shaky Hands]

Hoping for some luck on Saturday

Sounds like you've had a lot more time to practice than I have. With 2 weeks away in the Scottish mountains and returning to a house move I've had virtually no practice time; but I'm looking forward to seeing what I can achieve at this weekend's comp regardless. Maybe a lack of practice will become my new success strategy!

Look forward to seeing you, @Logiqx and @bubbagrub tomorrow; safe travels one and all.

 

[bubbagrub]

Sounds like you've had a lot more time to practice than I have. With 2 weeks away in the Scottish mountains and returning to a house move I've had virtually no practice time; but I'm looking forward to seeing what I can achieve at this weekend's comp regardless. Maybe a lack of practice will become my new success strategy!

Look forward to seeing you, @Logiqx and @bubbagrub tomorrow; safe travels one and all.

Same here. Well, apart from the Scottish mountains and moving house... I've done quite a bit of 4x4 practice recently, but not much else. I seem to have more or less given up on BLD, sadly.

Anyway, yes, looking forward to seeing you guys tomorrow.

 

[earth2dan]

treated myself to some new cubes today! even bought my 7 year old daughter her own 3x3 with pink instead of red. she has a pb of 10 seconds on the 2x2, and is learning the last step of a 3x3 now.

That's great! I have two daughters (8 and 10) that couldn't be less interested in cubing. I don't know where I went wrong

 

[pipkiksass]

@kbrune... OUCH. Just... ouch!

I've been thinking about a new project, making a magnetic Gans 356 (because NOBODY) has done that, eh? Anyway, ordered from SpeedCubeShop last night, my first order from them, because I spotted the Air Master was on sale there and JPerm (sorry, can't remember his forum name) posted a further discount code in his latest YT offering.

Anyway, bit the bullet and ordered some more magnets off eBay... my project will henceforth be known as the Gans 356 Air Tasty (Mm). Because the Ultimate pieces are glued, so you can't make a DIY UM.

Also ordered some SCS lube, Martian, to compare to DNM37. Will be sure to share my experiences here!

Good luck to all those cubing today.

@kbrune, did I mention OUCH???!!!

 

[mark49152]

And... drum roll... three DNFs

 

[Jason Green]

And... drum roll... three DNFs

Well today realistically looks to possibly be the most disappointing comp yet results wise. It's all afternoon events I'm about to drive there. 3x3 I'll need quite some luck to get a PB, especially since I've been practicing more blind I'm rusty. 4x4 soft cut is 1:10, which I would say is 20% or less of my solves. Blind is fun, but I don't know what to expect. I think the effect of nerves is going to be different trying to memo versus doing a normal solve. And then OH is probably my best bet for a PB, but again I haven't practiced a whole lot.

That being said I'm just looking forward to all the other great attributes of a comp!

 

[newtonbase]

And... drum roll... three DNFs

Unlucky. Silver was there for the taking. The results took forever to show up on Cubecomps.

Well today realistically looks to possibly be the most disappointing comp yet results wise. It's all afternoon events I'm about to drive there. 3x3 I'll need quite some luck to get a PB, especially since I've been practicing more blind I'm rusty. 4x4 soft cut is 1:10, which I would say is 20% or less of my solves. Blind is fun, but I don't know what to expect. I think the effect of nerves is going to be different trying to memo versus doing a normal solve. And then OH is probably my best bet for a PB, but again I haven't practiced a whole lot.

That being said I'm just looking forward to all the other great attributes of a comp!

Good luck. First blind attempts at comp are good experience whatever the result.