Older cubers discussions

[Jason Green]

I'm like 7x lol.... a lot to improve.

I'm 18x at home and about 29x officially. But maybe closer to 15 times on home average.

 

[mark49152]

@Logiqx once plotted 3BLD versus 3x3 times from WCA data. The best blinders are about 3x (at least they were 3 years ago).

https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/threads/relative-solve-times-for-2x2x2-7x7x7.47405/#post-974568

 

[h2f]

I tend avoid any with more than 1 setup move.

In 12.83 Ishaan used 5 moves setup which seems crazy for me...

@mark49152 do you mean 3bld to normal ratio? Mine is 3,8 home and 4,55 official.

 

[newtonbase]

In 12.83 Ishaan used 5 moves setup which seems crazy for me...

And yet he can execute in 1s.

 

[h2f]

And yet he can execute in 1s.

Yeah - it was 15mover. Amazing.

 

[openseas]

As of last week:

There are 29 people lower than 2.5 ratio. (So many for 2.5, just listed one guy).
The number one, aiyan Zhuang, actually, his official 3BLD Pb is faster than his official 333 Pb. I guess he doesn't compete 333 any more. You can see there are a lot of dedicated blders in China high in this ranking as well.

BTW, Kaijun and Jeff are top 2 who has the best 333bf & 333 single combined (nobody else is close), their 333 Pbs (6.13 & 6.81s) are too good as blders, kind of disadvantage to this category.

 

[openseas]

As of last week:

The number one, aiyan Zhuang, actually, his official 3BLD Pb is faster than his official 333 Pb. I guess he doesn't compete 333 any more.

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I'm kinda wrong. His last competition was year 2010, and he mostly competed both events at the same time. So, he is "UNIQUE" king in this category!

 

[h2f]

I guess he doesn't compete 333 any more.

In case of Kamil Przybylski I dont think the ratio is accurate

The 20.20 is a full 3bld.

 

[openseas]

The 20.20 is a full 3bld.

Haha, Even Gianfranco & Ishaan do the same for 333 these days (bld'd 333 attemps)

 

[h2f]

Haha, Even Gianfranco & Ishaan do the same for 333 these days (bld'd 333 attemps)

Yeah! That's a passion.

 

[xyzzy]

I'm kinda wrong. His last competition was year 2010, and he mostly competed both events at the same time. So, he is "UNIQUE" king in this category!

He was actually banned from WCA comps from 2010 to 2013 for unsportsmanlike behaviour, and in that period he set up the Chinese Cube Association. Wiki has an article on him.

 

[Fyzzna]

So after the MF3RS debacle I really wasn't sure if I even wanted to give magnetizing another try since ruining my Valk did not at all sound like a fun afternoon to me. However, after some more consideration I decided to just go for it and I have to say I'm quite pleased with the result. Even though I used the same magnets, they feel a lot weaker in the Valk and M-slices are finally bearable.


Also, new PBs (probably not entirely unrelated)

ao5: 14.58 -> 13.97
ao12: 15.92 -> 15.15
ao50: 16.98 -> 16.45

Times of the ao5 with scrambles:

Spoiler

1. 13.63 F U2 B' R2 F L2 R2 D2 F2 U2 F2 D' F' D' B D' L' R2 U2 F' D'
2. (13.50) R' D2 F' D L B' D' B D F' R F2 R' B2 U2 F2 B2 U2 L B2 R'
3. 13.92 D' L2 U2 L2 R2 D' R2 U' F2 U L B U2 L' B R F2 U2 F' U
4. 14.36 D B2 R2 U2 F2 D B2 D' R2 D' U' R D L U B' L' U F' U' L'
5. (16.43) R F2 B R D2 L F' U D' B' U2 F2 L F2 U2 D2 R' F2 L U2 R

 

[pglewis]

With no comp on the horizon I'm taking this time to fully break my 3x3 last layer, it's time to push for full OLL. All that remains are most of the dots, lines, and Frying Pan/mirror for 46/57 now, and I pretty much have H COLL down as well. Recognition and recall are what you'd expect, average dropping to 35-40 with some over a minute while I stare into space recalling.

I'm also spamming slow-solve F2L pairs at the same time, thinking longer than I normally would in a speedsolve. I expect full OLL should nudge me from mid 20s to low 20s and improving some of my nastier F2L cases should cut down on the slower solves... so I think I should come out the other side of this flirting with ~20. It's not going to be a process of a few days though, my 2-look OLL recog is fairly deeply established.

 

[Shaky Hands]

Good stuff @pglewis. I've also been working on OLL a fair bit recently, although as most of my practice is on 5x5, the LL algs are a far smaller percentage of my total solving time than for most people, so I get relatively less time to work on this step. Most of my desire to go further towards Full OLL was due to all 5 of my 3x3 solves at the World Championships having OLL cases I didn't know.

I currently know 45/57 cases. Finishing this off may end up being a target to complete by the end of 2017. Time will tell if I can achieve this or not. But I'd rather set a target and miss it than sit still and learn nothing new.

Hey, optimism!

 

[pglewis]

Most of my desire to go further towards Full OLL was due to all 5 of my 3x3 solves at the World Championships having OLL cases I didn't know.

Yeah, I plowed right past OLLs I knew in at least two of my solves at comp. I've been at about half for a while, which means I'm still 2-looking half the time and that's becoming a tug of war. Time to bite the bullet and break my old habit.

Luckily for me I'm reasonably comfortable doing lefty mirrors so it's about half the algs to learn. I'm definitely not as fast from the left but I've worked on being reasonably ambidextrous from the start. Sexy and sledge from the left are definitely comfortable and still outrun rotations, if not as fast as from the right side.

 

[openseas]

He was actually banned from WCA comps from 2010 to 2013 for unsportsmanlike behaviour, and in that period he set up the Chinese Cube Association. Wiki has an article on him.

Wow.... thanks for the info.

 

[Jason Green]

Yeah, I plowed right past OLLs I knew in at least two of my solves at comp. I've been at about half for a while, which means I'm still 2-looking half the time and that's becoming a tug of war. Time to bite the bullet and break my old habit.

Luckily for me I'm reasonably comfortable doing lefty mirrors so it's about half the algs to learn. I'm definitely not as fast from the left but I've worked on being reasonably ambidextrous from the start. Sexy and sledge from the left are definitely comfortable and still outrun rotations, if not as fast as from the right side.

I've known full OLL quite a while but I learned a lot that aren't that great, pretty much bad mephisto's cheat sheet and even used some of the non preferred ones off that because they were mirrors and easier to learn. I plan to relearn a lot more RU ones at some point, but now it's a matter a priority.

 

[kbrune]

Hey guys.

Has anyone heard of anyone selling a 13x13? I've recently started looking to add some big cubes to my collection. I considered buying brand new but I figured I'd check the forums for possible used opportunities.

I checked the buy/sell/trade section but there aren't many posts for anything above 7x7. And those I tried to message haven't replied.

Hope everyone's doing well!
Cheers!

 

[muchacho]

Mo100 PB: 18.080 (was 18.265 from 3 weeks ago)

My goal this year was to average sub-18, now (sometimes) I feel I'm almost sub-19, maybe I'll not be sub-18 in 2017 but it will be close.

I learned the antisune cases some time ago and I'm still not sure if I'm faster than using 2-look, this should tell me I should start learning the sune cases as soon as possible but it's doing the opposite

 

[One Wheel]

Hey guys.

Has anyone heard of anyone selling a 13x13? I've recently started looking to add some big cubes to my collection. I considered buying brand new but I figured I'd check the forums for possible used opportunities.

I checked the buy/sell/trade section but there aren't many posts for anything above 7x7. And those I tried to message haven't replied.

Hope everyone's doing well!
Cheers!

Keep an eye out on ebay, and maybe try the twistypuzzles.com forum. They do come up from time to time. You could also post a WTB on the buy/sell/trade forum or on the twistypuzzles forum.