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MarcelP said:
How about you? Do you think you will stay CN?
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I'm not sure yet. I will finish the month first before deciding. I think for me, I don't mind solving the same white cross over and over. (Maybe yellow/white... even if I decide not to do CN, I would probably stay dual colour.) Even though after a few days of training on each colour and my times are decent, I think I have more trouble changing to a different colour from one solve to the next. Marcel, do you find that difficult? On the days that I train more than one colour, I sometimes forget which colour cross I was doing and that confuses me sometimes during F2L. Every solve being a different colour isn't the same as the same colour for 5 days in a row. I think I may also have to explore the X-Cross before I decide to stick with CN or leave it. If I can learn X-Cross and it happens fairly often when being CN then it has much more appeal to me. Right now, I only really know the theory behind X-Cross. I don't really practice it.
 
sneaklyfox said:
I think I have more trouble changing to a different colour from one solve to the next. Marcel, do you find that difficult?
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No, not at all. I do think however that this requires more focus. So when I am tired after a days work I have more troubles making mistakes compared to when I am rested in the weekend. I also notice that solving CN requires a longer warmup. My mind needs to get adjusted to the filters before I can start doing a good Ao12.

I am trying to learn Xcrosses. I have a cube stripped the stickers all but a white Xcross. I do random 6 - 8 moves on the solved cubes and then try to see if I can solve it within 6 - 8 moves. Right now I need waaaaay more time to figure the solution and then even I make more than 8 moves. So this Xcross thing is really hard for me. And I am not quite confinced that when I reconize the solution within 15 seconds, it still not faster than doing a normal cross and do the first pair normally. My cross times average 4 seconds. An Xcross takes me well over 10 seconds right now..
 
Today I was sooooo close by breaking my Ao12 PB...

Ao100 went nice but I was not sub 30 untill around 90 ;)
Ao100_CN_8_Feb2012_29_79.jpg


Here are some of the solves:

69. 25.58 D2 R2 U' L2 U2 L2 F2 D F2 U2 R2 F U' R' D2 U2 R U B D R' D
70. 28.23 D L2 D2 B2 F2 D R2 U2 B2 D' B2 R U F' D B' F L F L2 D U2
71. 30.86 U2 B2 L2 B2 R2 U L2 D' B2 D' U L' U2 F' R D U2 F U' B' D2 U2
72. 28.47 F2 U L2 B2 F2 D' R2 F2 D' L2 U F L' B L B' U L' F' U' L' U'
73. 25.76 B2 F2 L2 U2 B2 U L2 U B2 U F2 R' F D2 F D' F U' B U2 F2

[video=youtube_share;jcMvBFlKEDM]http://youtu.be/jcMvBFlKEDM[/video]
 
I just did an Ao50 color neutral. The force was very strong today. Even a sub 20 in there. Haven't had these in a long time ;)

7. 18.04 F2 R2 D L2 F2 D' L2 D2 B2 R2 U' F L' D L U2 B' U R' B2 L2
(btw, can not reproduce myself. The best I could get was on white cross 23 something)

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EDIT: Holy crap another one: 55. 18.32 U2 B2 D R2 L2 D2 F2 R2 D' B2 U R' F2 D' U' F' U R' B' L D (on white unfortunatly ;) )
 
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MarcelP said:
I just did an Ao50 color neutral. The force was very strong today. Even a sub 20 in there. Haven't had these in a long time ;)

7. 18.04 F2 R2 D L2 F2 D' L2 D2 B2 R2 U' F L' D L U2 B' U R' B2 L2
(btw, can not reproduce myself. The best I could get was on white cross 23 something)

ColorNeutralAo50_28_02.png


EDIT: Holy crap another one: 55. 18.32 U2 B2 D R2 L2 D2 F2 R2 D' B2 U R' F2 D' U' F' U R' B' L D (on white unfortunatly ;) )
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Interesting. I would have done the second scramble on green as it looked like the easier cross.

Oh yeah, and are you changing your signature? I see a best Ao12 of 26.31...
 
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sneaklyfox said:
Oh yeah, and are you changing your signature? I see a best Ao12 of 26.31...
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Whooohoo! I did not realize I broke my Ao12 PB. A milestone! That also prooves how much I pay attention to the fastest Ao12 LOL

sneaklyfox said:
Interesting. I would have done the second scramble on green as it looked like the easier cross.
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Yeah, the green cross was much easier... I totally missed that one. After the scramble I saw two connected edges (green on blue and red on orange ) and that is for me almost a 100% go so that I do not look further for crosses.
 
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Euphoric it is!


And oh yeah, definitely feels goooooood. :) I have lost the cool for now though, peak has gone.. so I stopped timing again and am going to do some slow down solves again :)

But sub40 yep, at least 4 times in the past.. 24hours or so. :D
 
Hey Mark, my fingers are also stiff. I am turning 44 this year. But actually my times have improved by turning slower. I can turn faster but then I need to find pairs after inserting. Right now I find pairs while inserting the previous. Btw, what are your times and how long have you been cubing and how much time do you spend every day? I have been cubing since May 2012, I have not skipped a day without touching a cube (true sign of addiction ;) ) and I do at least 100 - 200 slow solves per day.
 
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