Older cubers discussions

[One Wheel]

Also, if you are too tired for memo you could just practice tracing.

Am I The only person whose short-term memory seems to improve when I'm tired? I have a lot more trouble doing blind in the middle of the day than right before bed after a long day. I decided to push it last night and got 0/2 MBLD. Both cubes had all the corners solved, though. I haven't gone through to figure out what I did wrong exactly, but I think I forgot an early letter pair on one, and the last letter pair and a flip on the other.

 

[newtonbase]

Am I The only person whose short-term memory seems to improve when I'm tired?

I find it impossible to predict how well I'll do. I have good sessions and bad ones regardless of how I feel.

 

[One Wheel]

I find it impossible to predict how well I'll do. I have good sessions and bad ones regardless of how I feel.

I noticed in college I could about remember a 5-digit zip code immediately most of the time, but between about 11:00 PM and 1:30 AM I could recall a 10-digit phone number. The same seems roughly true for blindfolded solving.

 

[pglewis]

it looks like you would both benefit from pushed memo at this stage. As you've seen @pglewis you can drop your times significantly. Your success rate will catch up soon. It did wonders for me.

Yeah, I think I'm at that point. I've been doing a lot of sighted solves for tracing improvement-- I get more practice in with less fatigue than doing full memo-- but I've had chronic execution hiccups until the past week. Seems like the tide is turning again, I had 3/3 a few nights ago, 1/2 and 1/1 the past couple days at the coffee shop. Accuracy is back!

 

[One Wheel]

I just got a particularly encouraging DNF: 4:11.xx, off by 1 pair of flipped edges. Also 4:30 and 7:02 DNFs to follow that up. At this rate I'll be sub-2 by the time I get another success!

 

[SpartanSailor]

I find it impossible to predict how well I'll do. I have good sessions and bad ones regardless of how I feel.

Same for me. Tired or otherwise... I find it’s hard to say if I’m going to have a good session or not. Just got to give it a shot and see how it goes.

I could benefit from more tracing practice, for sure. Sometimes I run my memo several times only to see if I got each piece.

 

[openseas]

Any recommendations? For instance, set a time for inspection and begin the solve no matter what after that time period?

I also do LOTS of review.

You already know the answer. Don't review / don't be afraid. You'll fail a lot in the beginning but you'll make improvements. Just trust your memo.

Another tip, try to make strong images & distinct audio.

 

[JohnnyReggae]

Had a competition on Monday, Speedcubes Cape Town 2018. My 3rd time delegating a comp and only 6th competing. I got a competition PB in every event. 4 in total, Pyraminx, 3x3 OH, 2x2, and 3x3.

Single and average PB's in 3x3, 3x3 OH, and Pyraminx, and a single PB in 2x2. This was also the 4th straight comp where I managed single and average PB's in 3x3 OH and Pyraminx despite me not practicing Pyraminx much at all.

We had Mats Valk attend the competition as well. What a nice guy. Very humble and polite and such a nice guy to talk to and interact with. The kids at the competition were very excited and he welcomed them all. He took 1st obviously, but he was relegated to 2nd in Pyraminx by a spirited effort by a local.

Next competition I'll be attending and assisting with delegating will be at the Arnold Classic Africa, http://www.arnoldclassicafrica.com/speed-cubes.html

3 days of competition will see all the events except for the large cube blind events. Looking forward to that although I suspect that it will be quite hectic with everything else happening around the Arnold Classic.

 

[openseas]

1. 9:16.46[[5:03.42/4:13.03]] L F2 D' L2 F' U Rw2 L D F2 U Rw R F R F2 D L2 U2 Fw' Rw Fw D' B2 Fw Uw2 D2 Fw2 U' D' Rw L F' Fw L Uw' R Rw' D2 Uw'

PB in almost two months.
Centers are mostly comms (~90%) / wings are 30~40% comms / corners are orozoco.

 

[h2f]

1. 9:16.46[[5:03.42/4:13.03]] L F2 D' L2 F' U Rw2 L D F2 U Rw R F R F2 D L2 U2 Fw' Rw Fw D' B2 Fw Uw2 D2 Fw2 U' D' Rw L F' Fw L Uw' R Rw' D2 Uw'

PB in almost two months.
Centers are mostly comms (~90%) / wings are 30~40% comms / corners are orozoco.

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Wow. Awsome!

 

[muchacho]

In last 2 weeks I've apparently improved almost half a second. I said I was just going to learn the last CMLL algs, but it's hard for me to stop doing fast solves now, I want to see first if this improvement is only temporarily or not.

Ao5 PB: 14.593 (was 14.642 from last week)

Spoiler

66253 13-abr-2018 12:48:36 00:14.029 R2 L2 D' F2 D2 U F2 R2 U' R2 U2 B F2 R' B2 L B F' D2 L D'
66252 13-abr-2018 12:47:33 00:15.128 B2 U' R2 D' B2 U2 B2 U R2 L2 U' F' U2 F' R' B U2 F R2 L U'
66251 13-abr-2018 12:46:58 00:18.302 L2 B2 D' F2 L2 U' F2 D F2 L2 D' R' F L2 D' R' F2 L' B' D2 R2
66250 13-abr-2018 12:46:24 00:14.519 U B2 F2 L2 D R2 L2 U F2 D' U2 F' L2 D' B' R2 D2 R D' B2 U R2
66249 13-abr-2018 12:45:50 00:14.133 D' F2 D' B2 R2 D B2 U' L2 F2 L2 B' R2 L2 F' L U B' R D R F2

 

[newtonbase]

Well done @openseas I'm a long way behind you now.

One of my brand new Little Magics has come with the wrong colour scheme. I magnetised it without checking and thought I'd reassembled the corners wrongly at first but then realised that red and orange sides were switched. I'll check the other 9 when I get home later. Bizarre.

 

[newtonbase]

Checked my other cubes and found 2 more stickered wrongly.

 

[openseas]

Well done @openseas I'm a long way behind you now.

One of my brand new Little Magics has come with the wrong colour scheme. I magnetised it without checking and thought I'd reassembled the corners wrongly at first but then realised that red and orange sides were switched. I'll check the other 9 when I get home later. Bizarre.

Just curious; when you magnetized it, you already disassembled it and polarity everything will be based on your own color scheme. Why does it matter how it came in in the beginning?

 

[newtonbase]

It didn't really matter except that I was mighty confused and thought I'd made a complete hash of reassembling. All I actually had to do was switch a couple of centre caps.

 

[Logiqx]

Good luck to all the UK folks (and any others on this thread) competing in High Wycombe this weekend.

I was planning to do this competition (first Since October) but I missed the registration expecting an automated e-mail reminder. I've added registration dates to my calendar so that doesn't happen again!

Hopefully I'll see some of you in June (Hastings) and October (Stevenage).

 

[pglewis]

it looks like you would both benefit from pushed memo at this stage. As you've seen @pglewis you can drop your times significantly. Your success rate will catch up soon. It did wonders for me.

Confirmed: it turns out I'm capable of DNFing significantly faster.

(kidding aside they're very promising DNFs)

 

[pglewis]

Day 2 of pushing 3bld memo after 0/8 last night and PB by nearly 30 seconds. It wasn't a complete anomaly either; only a little on the fast side of my pushed memo splits and nothing solved in the scramble.

4/5 on these today, 3:36 was a failure and the 5:16 I literally had to trace both edges and corners twice due to odd/even. That's somewhat chronic while pushing memo, something I need to watch... must have happened four or five times in the past two days. [Edit: keeping in mind my accuracy was more like 4/10 but multiple solves were deleted to avoid mucking up my legit splits. At least one I held the space bar too long and ended up with .5 second execution, a couple I bailed on after mucking up tracing and had no interest in another 5 min success, and a couple I bailed on with complete recall failure]

A side effect of pushing my memo is it slows the execution due to more recall pauses. Makes perfect sense, just something I hadn't anticipated.

 

[Selkie]

Older cubers curry night with good company after first day off High Wycombe with, left to right @mark49152, @Shaky Hands and me, @Selkie

 

[bubbagrub]

Older cubers curry night with good company after first day off High Wycombe with, left to right @mark49152, @Shaky Hands and me, @Selkie
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Nice t-shirt, as always, Shaky Hands...