Older cubers discussions

[Shaky Hands]

I'm sure there will be more registrations. I'm more concerned about paying Slater and Brandon than who will win. We didn't allow a ton of extra room for money, and nobody has paid any registration fees yet.

In the UK we originally switched from paying on the door to PayPal prepayments only; and now we use the payments through the WCA site. That seems to have worked well here.

Really hope your comp works out for you.

Fwiw... I just rejoined the race to sub-25 and posted a 22.9 ao12. I should point out that’s my fastest ao12 in possibly forever! Lol

Good work and welcome back.

 

[openseas]

If I drove 5-6 hours, I'd be 3 states away! Texas is HUGE. My daughter lives in the DFW area... Might have to plan a visit and link up with a DFW comp

You look pretty young to have a daughter far away from your home
If you can plan a visit to DFW far in advance, let me know - we can come up with something. Jason lives around here, too.

I noticed that you came out here to the Maryland 2017 comp back in October too. I was there...

Yes, I was there with my son. It was a long weekend - flew there to join the comp & meet friends @ DC area.
Quite a nice comp, Keaton looks like quite a good organizer.

 

[newtonbase]

Welcome @SpartanSailor
I hope you do learn blind. The basics aren't that hard but it does take practice to get it right and it is extremely addictive.

I'm having a short stay in hospital and I have to say that they have a great set up for cubing. You have a solving station right over the bed and they even provide blindfolds. I did set off an alarm on my drip when solving though but the pretty nurse just bandaged up the cannula and it's all good.

 

[mark49152]

@newtonbase - hope you recover quickly and get some uninterrupted practice in the meantime!

 

[newtonbase]

@newtonbase - hope you recover quickly and get some uninterrupted practice in the meantime!

Seems I'm in for another day so plenty of practice time. Hopefully the nurses will leave me alone long enough to do some MBLD. Might stick with 4 cube attempts to work on my rooms. Trying to get a few extra rcubes out of my house.

 

[moralsh]

or some 4 or 5BLD practice @newtonbase get well as soon as you're bored with practice xD

Welcome @SpartanSailor and any others I might have missed.

And finally Happy birthday @Marcel P, pay us a visit!

 

[SpartanSailor]

You look pretty your to have a daughter far away from your home
If you can plan a visit to DFW far in advance, let me know - we can come up with something. Jason lives around here, too.




Yes, I was there with my son. It was a long weekend - flew there to join the comp & meet friends @ DC area.
Quite a nice comp, Keaton looks like quite a good organizer.

I was there with my son too... and Keaton is a good delegate and comp organiser. I think I’m pretty lucky to have him and a few of the guys from Maryland in the “local” area to set up all the comps.

 

[SpartanSailor]

Welcome @SpartanSailor
I hope you do learn blind. The basics aren't that hard but it does take practice to get it right and it is extremely addictive.

I'm having a short stay in hospital and I have to say that they have a great set up for cubing. You have a solving station right over the bed and they even provide blindfolds. I did set off an alarm on my drip when solving though but the pretty nurse justView attachment 8762 View attachment 8762 bandaged up the cannula and it's all good.

Maybe 2018 will be the year I learn Blind?? It would be fun and I’m definitely interested.

Hope that hospital stay isn’t too long or too serious. Hope you have a speedy recovery. Nice use of time and no better way to spend your time trapped, uh I mean, stuck at the hospital.

 

[Shaky Hands]

Hope you feel better soon @newtonbase.

 

[h2f]

@newtonbase I hope you will get better very soon.

 

[Selkie]

@newtonbase - Get well soon buddy and take full advantage of the practice time

 

[openseas]

@newtonbase since you're doing BLD and MBLD, it doesn't seem to be critical but hope you get well soon.

 

[newtonbase]

Thanks everyone. It's a peritonsillar abscess. Don't look it up if you have a weak stomach It can get serious but this was caught at the deeply unpleasant stage and I'll be home tomorrow (I think) feeling great.
Got a very slow 1/4 MBLD. Having a drip fitted during memo isn't ideal. I've had that score in 5 of my 7 recent 4 cube attempts. Different types of error but I think lack of focus is base cause.

 

[h2f]

It's a peritonsillar abscess. Don't look it up if you have a weak stomach It can get serious but this was caught at the deeply unpleasant stage and I'll be home tomorrow (I think) feeling great.

Och, it's a serious infection. My wife got it few years ago.

 

[newtonbase]

Och, it's a serious infection. My wife got it few years ago.

It certainly put a dent in Christmas.

I hope that your wife didn't suffer too much.

 

[SpartanSailor]

Okay guys... after only a day, I believe you may be a good/bad influence (depends who you ask...). I just watched J-Perm on YouTube explain how to blind solve. My brain already hurts.

He explained how to do edge-swaps and corner-swaps, then parity. I don't think those algs were too much to add to my brain, but the letters... oh boy. I'm even more impressed that I have a better understanding of how to do it.

Do you guys practice by writing out the memorization? I couldn't keep up with his example to walk-through developing the memorization--specifically, I wasn't able to keep identify the letter quickly enough to follow along.

Is the letter for the edge the "position" or the "sticker"? It's the position, right? the current position, or the desired position? IDK... I'll have to let my head un-explode and watch again.

 

[newtonbase]

Do you guys practice by writing out the memorization?

Yes, that's a very useful way to learn. After a little practice turn the page face down and only look when you need too. You can also just solve it sighted but using the blindfold method.

I wasn't able to keep identify the letter quickly enough to follow along.

I labelled a cube with the letter scheme and kept it by me for reference. It doesn't take long to learn. Start with the first letter for each side. Life is easier with the Speffz scheme.

Is the letter for the edge the "position" or the "sticker"? It's the position, right? the current position, or the desired position? IDK... I'll have to let my head un-explode and watch again.

You are looking at the sticker in the buffer position initially and choose the letter where that sticker needs to be.

I'm going to hit post and see at least one better response aren't I?

Edit: Woohoo @mark49152 must be busy

 

[openseas]

Okay guys... after only a day, I believe you may be a good/bad influence (depends who you ask...). I just watched J-Perm on YouTube explain how to blind solve. My brain already hurts.

He explained how to do edge-swaps and corner-swaps, then parity. I don't think those algs were too much to add to my brain, but the letters... oh boy. I'm even more impressed that I have a better understanding of how to do it.

Do you guys practice by writing out the memorization? I couldn't keep up with his example to walk-through developing the memorization--specifically, I wasn't able to keep identify the letter quickly enough to follow along.

Is the letter for the edge the "position" or the "sticker"? It's the position, right? the current position, or the desired position? IDK... I'll have to let my head un-explode and watch again.

Again, welcome to the (oldies BLD) club

First couple of times, it will be easier if you do sighted solves = write down what you memorized (letters) then try to solve it.
That way, you can tell your execution is good enough. After that, practice = pushing your memos further.

The parity is not difficult. You use it only when you have odd number of targets. If number of targets for corners are odd numbers, you'll have odd numbers of edge targets as well. Then, you need to use parity since OP corner algorithm (modified y perm) is swapping UB and UL. But if you have even number of targets, no need.

 

[h2f]

I hope that your wife didn't suffer too much.

All went fine.

 

[One Wheel]

You can also just solve it sighted but using the blindfold method.

I would note that if you're using M2 it's more confusing to execute one target than two, so for sighted solves always do an even number of edge targets at a time.