Older cubers discussions

[MarcelP]

After only two days of Blue cross training an Ao25 on blue cross only:

Mean: 33.72
Standard deviation: 5.14
Best Time: 21.90
Worst Time: 50.34

Best average of 5: 28.97
9-13 - 29.98 29.62 (21.90) (36.39) 27.32

Best average of 12: 32.37
9-20 - 29.98 29.62 (21.90) 36.39 27.32 (40.03) 32.67 33.46 36.46 35.96 32.39 29.45

I can see my brain can do sub 30 solves but gets thrown off every now and then which results in 40+ solves. My guess is that these will disappear over time leaving me with nice results only

 

[Gordon]

These times are very impressive for me, the best time, avg of 5 and avg of 12 are all better than my PBs on the white cross which I do since over a year.

 

[MarcelP]

These times are very impressive for me, the best time, avg of 5 and avg of 12 are all better than my PBs on the white cross which I do since over a year.

Thanks! I am very happy with these times! I suspect that in one month there will be a great improvement in my times.

 

[MarcelP]

I just did an Ao5 on all colors. I was not expecting such good times..

Blue average of 5: 31.66
1-5 - 28.34 32.53 34.12 (34.58) (28.21)

Green average of 5: 31.05
1-5 - (34.32) 30.23 30.13 (26.42) 32.78

White average of 5: 29.96
1-5 - 30.02 (24.92) 31.44 28.41 (31.48)

Yellow average of 5: 31.18
1-5 - 28.28 35.18 30.07 (24.48) (40.28)

Red average of 5: 35.29
1-5 - 37.01 (31.24) (38.94) 32.52 36.35

Orange average of 5: 32.21
1-5 - (36.88) 32.04 33.36 31.24 (26.18)

I am happy to see that my white crosses have not decreased more or anything. And without haveing trained Red and orange I see that my mind already is looking at the cube in a color neutral way. Because a few days ago I could not solve a cube on red or orange even if my life depended on it.. LOL.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

WOW!!

That is amazing!

How did you train? Did you do (say) a week on all colors, or did you switch to a different color and then kept on until the times went down to a certain level?

 

[MarcelP]

WOW!!

That is amazing!

How did you train? Did you do (say) a week on all colors, or did you switch to a different color and then kept on until the times went down to a certain level?

Thanks! I followed this video:

Click here for video

He says, train each color for 5 days.. I skipped yellow since I felt really OK on that part. I did the 5 days on green. First averages where over one minute. After one hour training I got them down to 40 seconds. After 5 days they were around 33 - 34. Now I am on the third day of Blue training. I love this stuff. You know why? You can really quick make progress if you train seriously.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Thanks for the link.

I am currently working on yellow, it is going alright. Will switch to another color soon enough

 

[sneaklyfox]

Very inspiring. Makes me want to try for real. Except I heard it it harder to transition if you are faster. Like jskyler, you are trying around 30 second mark. I wish I had started off doing all colours besides white. The funny thing is, I have a background of green cross from my original beginners' method from a couple decades ago. You'd think it would be easiest (after white and yellow) to revert back to green.

What if I did, say, an average of 12 on all 6 colours (72 solves), then chose the weakest cross and practiced that one only for 2-3 days, did 72 solves again on all colours and repeat with whichever is the weakest cross? I wonder what would happen if I try seriously?

 

[Kattenvriendin]

I bet it would help a lot!

Times will likely increase at first, but in the end you can profit from choosing the best cross for one

 

[JE007]

@Marcel: do you use always silicone spray for your cubes?

 

[ThomasJE]

Very inspiring. Makes me want to try for real. Except I heard it it harder to transition if you are faster. Like jskyler, you are trying around 30 second mark. I wish I had started off doing all colours besides white. The funny thing is, I have a background of green cross from my original beginners' method from a couple decades ago. You'd think it would be easiest (after white and yellow) to revert back to green.

What if I did, say, an average of 12 on all 6 colours (72 solves), then chose the weakest cross and practiced that one only for 2-3 days, did 72 solves again on all colours and repeat with whichever is the weakest cross? I wonder what would happen if I try seriously?

That is the way many people improve their PLL algorithms, so I don't see why it wouldn't work.

 

[MarcelP]

Thanks for the link.

I am currently working on yellow, it is going alright. Will switch to another color soon enough

Great, it will be fun seeing your times!

Very inspiring. Makes me want to try for real. Except I heard it it harder to transition if you are faster. Like jskyler, you are trying around 30 second mark. I wish I had started off doing all colours besides white. The funny thing is, I have a background of green cross from my original beginners' method from a couple decades ago. You'd think it would be easiest (after white and yellow) to revert back to green.

What if I did, say, an average of 12 on all 6 colours (72 solves), then chose the weakest cross and practiced that one only for 2-3 days, did 72 solves again on all colours and repeat with whichever is the weakest cross? I wonder what would happen if I try seriously?

Yes, I had not even considered that. I hope that when I have completed the 5 days for each color that all of them will be around the 30 second mark. That would be awesome. And if you do just that (checking what your weak color is), then you can still do practicing hard crosses since you will be practicing that weak color for a while.

Why don't you just start today? My guess is that in two days or so you have them all around the 20 - 22 seconds

 

[ajayd]

Do you believe that color neutral will help you get faster times@MarcelP.
I was thinking about switching from your progress, but how much does this help your solves? Oh yeah, and I GOT A SUB 20 Ao12!!!!

 

[MarcelP]

Do you believe that color neutral will help you get faster times@MarcelP.
I was thinking about switching from your progress, but how much does this help your solves? Oh yeah, and I GOT A SUB 20 Ao12!!!!

I don't know. I hope my CN solves will get faster and hopefully break my PB's. If not I can always go back to solving single color only I will keep doing CN for a while though.. It's just fun.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Oh the yellows are known already, I switched to orange today

3x3 on yellow PB 39.64 - AO5 43.26 - AO12 44.37

Didn't want to wait longer and I must say it isn't going too bad hehe.. *repeats to self white is on the right of blue...*

 

[BenVdd]

did 4 solves on green 29.46, 38.95, 29.78, 28.11 now i am off to eat pretty decent considering i did not practice it that much yet. (did it on stickerless guhong to help with recognition tho :$)

 

[MarcelP]

(did it on stickerless guhong to help with recognition tho :$)

Nice times Ben. When I solve my stickerless Zhanchi or Guhong now I get really thrown off because my eyes are used to halfbright stickers.

 

[BenVdd]

I think i'm still not used to my white zhanchi even with half-brights on it.

 

[moralsh]

CN tempts me a lot...

Ao5 on White: 29.95:
27.34 (27.20) (35.77) 31.69 30.83
Ao5 on Yellow: 38.46:
37.04 38.63 (40.28) 39.71 (29.79)
Ao5 on Green: 37.80:
37.43 40.00 (50.01) 35.97 (33.05)
Ao5 on Blue: 38.64:
(32.91) 39.07 (41.24) 40.17 36.69
Ao5 on Red: 36.94:
39.09 (43.52) (28.01) 39.30 32.42
Ao5 on Orange: 39.85:
(51.99) 37.71 (35.21) 43.41 38.43

...But I'm not even close

 

[MarcelP]

CN tempts me a lot...

...But I'm not even close

Just do it! These are great times. I was reading my posts from a week ago. I was saying then 'I just did an Ao12 on green 43 seconds bla bla it's though bla bla'.. Well.. In less than a week more than 10 seconds came off these averages.. It is just perseverence.