Older cubers discussions

[Gordon]

Nice one.
I will try the scamble as soon as I get my hands on a cube.

Edit:
I had a cube in my bag
34.86. But I messed up the cross with the first F2L pair, so the time could have been better, maybe not sub 30, but better.
And btw, I had no PLL skip.

 

[JE007]

Good solve!
But, what music were you listening to? :rolleyes:

 

[BenVdd]

red hot chilli peppers

 

[MarcelP]

Yep, Red hot Chili Pepers on the radio

 

[lcsbiffi]

hahaha I really like the soundtrack of your solves.

 

[MarcelP]

LOL.. I listen to Tool mostly..

Today I totally suck at 3 X 3. Awefull times. I have not had that in weeks. But I had a great PB on the 2 X 2:

EDIT: Scramble: F' U2 F U' F' R' F R' U'

[video=youtube_share;yOmFpbXU9xA]http://youtu.be/yOmFpbXU9xA[/video]

 

[lcsbiffi]

Nice solve, what method are you using ? layer by layer ?

 

[MarcelP]

No, Ortega. Very cool method. Few algs but still fast.

 

[BenVdd]

nice! i should learn ortega aswell

 

[JE007]

I should first buy an 2x2, and then learn ortega...

 

[MarcelP]

I learned Ortega in one evening... It's only 10 algs or so where some you allready know from 3 x 3.

 

[lcsbiffi]

I learned Ortega in one evening... It's only 10 algs or so where some you allready know from 3 x 3.

I kinda learned Ortega a few months ago but I forgot due to low use of my 2x2

 

[Kattenvriendin]

*cough* inbox *cough*

 

[MarcelP]

*cough* inbox *cough*

Check

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Whahaha yep fixed, just cleaned out mine too just in case hehe.

 

[MarcelP]

After I broke thuesday all my PB's I could not get a single decent solve anymore. I mean litterally not one sub 30. I have been doing many Ao12's and some where up in the 36 seconds. Oh man that is discouraging. I kept thinking about how I lost my cool here. Then it occurred to me that I have been practicing slow solves a lot this week to improve my lookahead. The thing is that my fingers got used to the slow turning in F2L. I guess slow turing is not really productive to me anymore. I did a 25 solves or so at fast speed and I got a 31.33 avarage with many sub 30's Pfeeew.. I almost lost my cool there..

One of the best:

L2 U2 B2 D' F2 R2 U R2 U B2 F2 L' B' F' L' U R' D' L D F'
The scramble looked horrible to me. In cross red is on orange, but flipped, Orange is on red but flipped, en blue is on blue but flipped. I just do not know what to do with these awefull crosses. I just start placing them one at a time. Very luckily, all the pairs after that where real real reasy and I got a 21.40:

Let me know how you guys did this scrambe:

[video=youtube_share;1w79-efIZS4]http://youtu.be/1w79-efIZS4[/video]

EDIT:

I finished a set of 50 and it was not all that bad..

 

[Gordon]

I think I would have solved it like this: (scrambeled with white on top and green in front)

Inspecion: x2 y' --> yellow on top, orange in front
Cross: D L D B D2 R' u R' u'
1. F2L: y' L' R U' R' U' L
2. F2L: U' F U' F' U L' U L
3. F2L: R' U R U L U2 L' y U' R U' R'
4. F2L: U2 y R U2 R' U R U' R'
OLL: U2 r U R' U R U2 r'
PLL: U' R' U R' d' R' F' R2 U' R' U R' F R F
AUF: U'

http://tinyurl.com/algx2y-DLDBD2R

 

[Schmidt]

Cross: F=B: R F' D R' F2 B D'

 

[MarcelP]

Cross: F=B: R F' D R' F2 B D'

Nice! That requires knowing how to put orange on blue and green on red. So far I only know how to put (fast) blue on green (or on blue) and red on orange (or red) etc.

 

[Schmidt]

Don't think about it like that. If R and O are opp. each other, you just have to place G and B in the right place.