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moralsh said:
On long runs I do little inspection, most of the times 3-5 seconds, maybe that's also the case with Marcel
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I tried to do a ao 12 video so you could see, but I make video's with a compact photo camera and it just shuts down after filming a few minutes. So only 8 of them are in de video:

I messed one up but still managed to solve in 53 seconds.


Average 32.67
(27.23) 31.62 31.24 27.97 31.38 39.65 30.28 (53.97) 29.34 28.66 34.44 42.09

 
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I tell you, the cube gods are angry with me. Best Ao12 30,02.. Are you kidding me? So frustrating... )
I think I need to stop timing for a while..

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Congrats Marcel!

I've been following this thread (and read everything) since I join this forum and it is really inspiring following you. I myself are roughly at the times you have in your very first videos. And I look basically the same with all the cube-rotations and shaky hands :P And look at you now! I love looking at your progress and seeing that it is possible and that I someday will hit my goal of 30s too. It's more relateable then seeing sub10s on youtube when you cant even solve sub 1min :D So please keep us updated in the race to sub-20! Congrats again and thanks for the inspiration you give (without knowing it probably)!
 
You are very welcome! Thanks for the kind words. I find it still hard to believe that I became so fast. But it proves that anyone with the right mentality and dedication can get very fast (faster than sub 30 I mean). I have set my goal for sub 20 in about 12 months from now. Right now I have started color neutral solving. I am currently just sub 1 minute doing CN solves. I will never use it in a competition, but it is real fun, and it is true puzzling. I mean, to solve a cube CN is not a mechanical thing like when I do cross on white. I really have to think about what I am doing.
 
I'm ahead of you on this, just did a Aof5 to check:

34.63, 58.75, 42.77, 42.35, 47.39 ---> 44.17

first was white, then blue, blue, red and green. Last time I tried being color neutral I was around the same averages as with the white cross I guess I had 0 lookahead back then :)

Keep us posted with your progress, my bet is that you will be sub 40 within a week, no pressure :p
 
moralsh said:
I'm ahead of you on this, just did a Aof5 to check:

34.63, 58.75, 42.77, 42.35, 47.39 ---> 44.17

first was white, then blue, blue, red and green. Last time I tried being color neutral I was around the same averages as with the white cross I guess I had 0 lookahead back then :)

Keep us posted with your progress, my bet is that you will be sub 40 within a week, no pressure :p
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I highly doubt it ;) I will do some timed CN solves this week to see what my times are.

Gordon said:
A few days ago I also thought to start trying to become color neutral.
I then found this thread with a way I think could help me:

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?34655-How-to-Be-Color-Neutral-in-One-Month

Maybe it will help you too.
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Thanks, I will look into it later today after work.
 
ThomasJE said:
Nice! I think you should start on build rings - there's a good video on it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxO54OfqcsE.
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I just had found the time to watch this video. I like this approach! I will have to start train like that.

moralsh said:
I'm ahead of you on this, just did a Aof5 to check:

34.63, 58.75, 42.77, 42.35, 47.39 ---> 44.17
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No, you are waaay ahead. I just did a Ao5 CN. My times where all around the 1:10 - 1:30! I also did a Ao5 on cross on yellow and had a average of 43 seconds. I guess for now cross on white is really the one thing I am good at. LOL
 
just did another:

Ao5 38.93
(55.77), (29.68), 42.13, 33.29, 41.37
orange (pop), yellow, orange, green, green

I guess being slower helps my lookahead. I think I've been extremely lucky, but I'm tempted to make the switch before I hit sub 30.

On another subject, I just noticed all my PB are 4 seconds slower than yours except the single, which is 8, funny, isn't it?
 
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