mitja
Member
Well, thats fast, is there any 3-cycle in there? Great
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newtonbase
Premium Member
I can't remember what I actually used in this solve. There were a couple of easy corner comm pairs there but I often bottle them at speed as I'm not confident.
In relaxed solves I use all the Advanced M2 stuff with lots of tricks and maybe 50% comms as I'm trying to learn them.
h2f
Premium Member
Awsome!
pglewis
Member
Everyone is on fire! Big congrats to @newtonbase on a really good day.
pglewis
Member
You're a lot more consistent than I and you're clearly faster officially... I'm surprised you haven't hit a faster outlier yet (I'm on the lookout for a lucky sub 16 or better). Checking my notes, my current 16.88 single from Sept was an OLL skip + Ra and I've also had a 17.72 with a PLL skip and one beautiful 17.85 full-step.
Also, and I have nothing other than superstition for this, it seems like every time I do focused 3bld practice and return to regular 3x3 I'm magically a little faster.
SpartanSailor
Member
That was full step... not that 17s is terribly impressive on the grand stage for a full-step solve. However, my previous 18.xx PB stood since June. I've had a few 18s and 19s, but 7 months.... seemed like 17 was never going to happen. Of course, a random fast one isn't my focus. I'd like to really get my average down closer to 20 (sub-20) consistently. Right now, I'd say I'm a 25 second solver... that my official average and I just hit sub-25 3 weeks in a row over on another thread, but globally I'm still in the 25 range. Slow and steady progress. As long as I'm having fun... but I AM keen on the 3BLD stuff and will be keeping a watchful eye out for any comps that offer 3BLD within driving distance of my house!
pglewis
Member
You can bet a 17 will still get my blood pumping. I'm basically in the same boat... about 3 seconds slower but hoping my current tinkering lands me sub 25 globally and flirting with sub 20s more often. I'm at that stage where my potential has improved and I can threaten my shorter averages and single if I hit a good spell but still too many high 20s / low 30s and disaster solves (usually mis-solved F2L pairs trying to look-ahead more).
SpartanSailor
Member
EXACTLY the same for me... sometimes I get excited and mess up my PLL or OLL and it becomes so jacked up I'm essentially resolving F2L pairs to fix it. ugh
JohnnyReggae
Member
Not sure if you guys have the same experience .... I find that I get stuck at a certain time range for a while and then suddenly I'm solving at a second or more less without any change in what I'm doing. Things just start to "click" in a way. I've been stuck at the 16/17 range for the last few months and in the last couple days the 14's have been flowing quite easily without me trying anything different.
On further inspection my look ahead appears to be working a little better. Not paying attention to the pairs I'm trying to solve seems to be what is happening. However when I actively try not to focus on that the exact opposite seems to happen
@Selkie ... is my inspiration with this ... your solves seem so effortless ... I need to try tune my mind out more
and rely on the subconscious ...
On further inspection my look ahead appears to be working a little better. Not paying attention to the pairs I'm trying to solve seems to be what is happening. However when I actively try not to focus on that the exact opposite seems to happen
@Selkie ... is my inspiration with this ... your solves seem so effortless ... I need to try tune my mind out more
and rely on the subconscious ...
openseas
Member
Great time! Do you use OP for the rest of 50% when you don't use comms?
I wanted to move away from OP - that's why I'm trying to going through orozco (it will take 21 different orozco paths to complete the whole 3 cycle corners) but not sure mixing with OP will be better way?
CLL Smooth
Member
Hello all, I’m drinking and that’s why I’m here. This is the equivalent of the speed solving bar, right? @JohnnyReggae we seem to be about the same speed, although I’ve been stuck there for a few years... despite having at least a half dozen sub-15 Ao12s and two sub-16 Ao100s I don’t think I really practice enough to improve. Or maybe I just don’t practice enough sober. Regardless, one of the first things I always notice when I start to really improve is noticing how many mistakes I make, while still getting “normal” times.
The rest of you, keep the blind talk to a minimum. There’s a thread for that. I joke. Happy New Year!
The rest of you, keep the blind talk to a minimum. There’s a thread for that. I joke. Happy New Year!
SpartanSailor
Member
Not sure if you guys have the same experience .... I find that I get stuck at a certain time range for a while and then suddenly I'm solving at a second or more less without any change in what I'm doing. Things just start to "click" in a way. I've been stuck at the 16/17 range for the last few months and in the last couple days the 14's have been flowing quite easily without me trying anything different.
On further inspection my look ahead appears to be working a little better. Not paying attention to the pairs I'm trying to solve seems to be what is happening. However when I actively try not to focus on that the exact opposite seems to happen
@Selkie ... is my inspiration with this ... your solves seem so effortless ... I need to try tune my mind out more
That seems to be my experience as well... I feel like I just made a sudden improvement by a couple seconds over the holidays or somewhat recently.
SpartanSailor
Member
I “felt” like I knew I had made some improvement because I was “making all kind of errors” and still getting better than my previous average... so... yeah, speedsolving bar is now open! Lol
newtonbase
Premium Member
OP is definitely my default but I just try and add in comms where I can. I'd drill them if I had more dedicated practice time. I don't know anything about Orozco.
openseas
Member
It's using comms but solving targets one at a time (keep circulating one target = you need to know comms from one sticker to the rest = 18). Links are:
https://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Orozco_method
https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/threads/how-the-orozco-bld-method-works.60487/
Jason Green
Member
I delete those super jacked up solves unless I'm trying to count an average of 100 or something which is rare. This is in the category of things I repeat here periodically.
Anyway, I don't want to know my average counting those, I want to know what it is without them. Because in comp I just won't let it happen more than once in an average. So far that's held pretty true, and even if it doesn't oh well.
h2f
Premium Member
I was mixing OP with comms when I was learning it. The same as mixing M2 and adv M2 with edge comms. There's few tutorial which show how to step from begginers method to comms but the essence is: mix both.
mark49152
Premium Member
I also tried to mix but found it difficult. The essence of OP is brainless spamming and no pauses, so I rarely thought to insert a comm, even an easy one. The change came when I accepted the slowdown and tried to solve using all comms. Once I started thinking of comms first, and resorting to OP when stuck, it got easier.
newtonbase
Premium Member
I try to think about comms at memo stage in the hope that it will trigger something when I'm executing.
newtonbase
Premium Member
Closest 4BLD attempt yet. Missed a corner twist in memo (amateur!) and a mystery 3 cycle on wings. Tired but got time for another try. 
