pglewis
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It has been a month since I got back to regular 3x3 practice and two weeks since I really returned to spamming lots of solves but I'm definitely at peak again now. I had a very encouraging session last night after getting home from a lovely family holiday.
Knocked another quarter second off my Ao50 and feel like I could have kept rolling it lower if I'd had the time. I think my LL is as good as ever again, better recall and execution on some OLLs that were iffy before and the remaining ones that need work were never solidly in muscle memory before, so they were already either responsible for sup 30s or just 2-looking in timed solves anyway.
The biggest drag on my Ao50 has been the disaster solves, making it difficult to get it sub 25. I only had four sup 30s in 66 solves with nothing over :33, so a really big improvement there though I'm unsure if I can attribute that part to anything. Two obvious and very small things are probably the biggest factors for the improvement: 1) paying extra close attention to the transition from cross to 1st pair (and not forgetting to keep doing it after the first 3 solves) and 2) Being very conscious about not watching the pair I'm solving all the way into the slot.
My confidence was at a level I've rarely experienced. I commonly get "spooked" during a good session and start to trail off but last night every solve just felt like an opportunity to do better. My current Ao5 PB is probably a full second better than my next best one and even though I never threatened it last night I felt like I could at any moment... the thought of a couple 17s and an 18 felt perfectly reasonable if I hit a hot streak.
Now to give the same treatment to 3bld. PB is still over 3:00 so it shouldn't take nearly as long
Knocked another quarter second off my Ao50 and feel like I could have kept rolling it lower if I'd had the time. I think my LL is as good as ever again, better recall and execution on some OLLs that were iffy before and the remaining ones that need work were never solidly in muscle memory before, so they were already either responsible for sup 30s or just 2-looking in timed solves anyway.
The biggest drag on my Ao50 has been the disaster solves, making it difficult to get it sub 25. I only had four sup 30s in 66 solves with nothing over :33, so a really big improvement there though I'm unsure if I can attribute that part to anything. Two obvious and very small things are probably the biggest factors for the improvement: 1) paying extra close attention to the transition from cross to 1st pair (and not forgetting to keep doing it after the first 3 solves) and 2) Being very conscious about not watching the pair I'm solving all the way into the slot.
My confidence was at a level I've rarely experienced. I commonly get "spooked" during a good session and start to trail off but last night every solve just felt like an opportunity to do better. My current Ao5 PB is probably a full second better than my next best one and even though I never threatened it last night I felt like I could at any moment... the thought of a couple 17s and an 18 felt perfectly reasonable if I hit a hot streak.
Now to give the same treatment to 3bld. PB is still over 3:00 so it shouldn't take nearly as long
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