Older cubers discussions

[cxinlee]

I'm gonna have to finish my school work before I can have the time to do one.

 

[MarcelP]

How many times do you have in PPT now? And what is the first time recorded?

I cube on three different computers. The one where I did these video's says 2946 scrambles since Aug 1st 2012. That sounds about right.

EDIT: just checked on my main cube computer, it has 4000 scrambles in the history

Own, your kid is just too cute haha I really like kids they are fun to be around and are always surprising us

Yep, a true joy in life.

Awww Marcel, your kid is sooo cute!

And about the Ao100s... it's a lot easier when you're faster because it takes a lot less time.

Thanks! And you are right.. after a while scrambling goes faster (and also practice for fingertricks) and solving goes faster.

 

[MarcelP]

I took the day off for cubing .. well.. only the morning. My son is to school, and in the afternoon I go and join him in judo class..

So...,

I was doing an Ao50 white cross when number 39 was an awefull nice scramble, so I turned the camera on and had a sub 18 full step solve on camera!!

39. 17.44 L2 D' L2 U' L2 D2 R2 U' F2 U2 R2 B' L2 F U' F R F2 L' D' R2 U2

[video=youtube_share;wgu8zeUgAX8]http://youtu.be/wgu8zeUgAX8[/video]

anyway, I have been latetly doubting my color neutral training. I had been doing quite a few white cross averages and these where very good. So today I did an Ao50 on CN and on White/yellow cross only


Ao50 Color neutral:

Mean: 28.70
Average: 28.51
Best time: 23.00
Median: 28.31
Worst time: 43.57
Standard deviation: 3.65

Best average of 5: 24.86
13-17 - (23.25) 25.17 (26.98) 23.69 25.72

Best average of 12: 26.68
6-17 - 24.84 28.92 26.96 25.07 28.77 (31.34) 30.66 (23.25) 25.17 26.98 23.69 25.72

Ao50 dual white/yellow:

Mean: 27.43
Average: 27.45
Best time: 17.44
Median: 27.52
Worst time: 36.00
Standard deviation: 3.53

Best average of 5: 23.24
35-39 - 22.02 26.55 (27.70) 21.16 (17.44)

Best average of 12: 25.62
38-49 - 21.16 (17.44) 28.41 (29.11) 27.61 28.84 24.24 29.10 23.00 25.93 22.09 25.85

So, it seems that at least today my times on CN are not far off my white crosses.. So for now continuing on CN practice

Also, I crushed my 4 X 4 PB in the entry for the weekly competition! I have been doing about 5 solves per day for the last week, I took almost one minute of my PB

4X4X4: (5:11.44) 4:19.60 4:11.77 4:22.06 (3:48.60) = 4:17.81

 

[tintinwrc]

I do a 8.779 on your scramble w/ a EPLL skip.
F2L 1+2 : z2 y2 R U' R' U R' U2 R U' R' U R
cross + F2L 3 : y' U' r U' r2 F' r
F2L 4 : y U' L' U' L y' U' R U' R'
COLL : y R U' L' U R' U L U L' U L U2
35 moves, 3.99 tps

 

[moralsh]

veeery nice scramble 18.30, beats my PB but I feel like cheating so I'll keep considering my 19.88 and my 18.82 as my non lucky and lucky PBs

 

[sneaklyfox]

Nice cross on that scramble. To me, it looks like you are still obviously biased towards white/yellow.

 

[MarcelP]

veeery nice scramble 18.30, beats my PB but I feel like cheating so I'll keep considering my 19.88 and my 18.82 as my non lucky and lucky PBs

18.30 is also very nice! And yes, this was a very lucky scramble (you got to love them )

Nice cross on that scramble. To me, it looks like you are still obviously biased towards white/yellow.

Yes, although at my averages is one second difference not worth talking about I continue to solve CN. I am faster on white cross, but I do not use look ahead (not on purpose). Solving CN forces me to look ahead. And I master look ahead perfectly solving CN at a reasonable slow TPS. On white cross I just turn super fast and almost immediately find a new pair after the other one.. So continuing on CN maybe one day I might do better solves on white just because I have learned to slow down and look there too

 

[sneaklyfox]

Yes, although at my averages is one second difference not worth talking about I continue to solve CN. I am faster on white cross, but I do not use look ahead (not on purpose). Solving CN forces me to look ahead. And I master look ahead perfectly solving CN at a reasonable slow TPS. On white cross I just turn super fast and almost immediately find a new pair after the other one.. So continuing on CN maybe one day I might do better solves on white just because I have learned to slow down and look there too

That is a good strategy. I think Breandan Vallance (top UK cuber) practices on CN but does yellow cross in competition. It actually doesn't work for me and is rather opposite. On white/yellow I can look ahead. For CN, I am not able to look ahead because I can't see the correct colours fast enough.

 

[moralsh]

That's also my approach, I'm solving this whole week on green because I think it improves my (poor) lookahead, I'll try to do the whole cycle and will decide if I stick with it or not after the whole process.

Right now, solving on white feels like fresh air, I was more comfortable with CN solving when Marcel started than now, I blame it on me getting faster

 

[Kattenvriendin]

On that scramble: 26.51 LOL!

 

[MarcelP]

I was more comfortable with CN solving when Marcel started than now, I blame it on me getting faster

Yes, I remember you doing an Ao12 or 5 months back when we where averaging 35+ and your CN times where close to the white cross times. Just keep praticing CN and do not worry about your times. It will help your white times also in the end. And if you succeed to transform to a CN solver then you have gained a lot.

On that scramble: 26.51 LOL!

Oohhh nice.. Almost a PB again

 

[Schmidt]

39. 17.44 L2 D' L2 U' L2 D2 R2 U' F2 U2 R2 B' L2 F U' F R F2 L' D' R2 U2

13.84 stackmat

 

[ben1996123]

L2 D' L2 U' L2 D2 R2 U' F2 U2 R2 B' L2 F U' F R F2 L' D' R2 U2

really nice scramble, I got 9.85 on real cube and 5.48 on sim ( pb is 5.91 )

 

[MarcelP]

So today was timing day again.

This week I have practiced nothing but color neutral slow solving. No white crosses what so ever.

Ao50 Color neutral:

Mean: 28.45
Average: 28.41
Best time: 21.55
Median: 28.56
Worst time: 37.42
Standard deviation: 3.31

Best average of 5: 25.90
35-39 - 23.40 28.81 (30.45) (22.86) 25.50

Best average of 12: 26.88
1-12 - 27.31 27.00 28.57 24.90 27.28 (34.73) 25.99 (24.76) 27.52 28.57 26.28 25.38

It seems that most often with CN my best 12 are the first 12. CN solving requires more attention or something I guess.

Next Ao50 dual white/yellow
Mean: 27.16
Average: 27.15
Best time: 20.80
Median: 27.42
Worst time: 33.84
Standard deviation: 2.67

Best average of 5: 25.15
46-50 - 26.44 (26.59) 24.14 24.86 (22.06)

Best average of 12: 26.38
21-32 - 25.35 (28.64) 27.10 27.93 27.89 (23.26) 27.23 26.38 23.49 25.74 27.90 24.82

I was quite close to some PB's so I stpped for a coffey brake and continued to make a full Ao100 white/yellow:

I broke my Ao100 with a full second, Ao50, Ao12 (my first sub 25 Jay!), and Ao5 PB's..... That's proof enough for me that the color neutral solving is helping my times

 

[MarcelP]

Today a shipment from Zcube came in. It had my address without house number on it. The post guy said to me "Since it came from China I knew I had to bring it to you. You are the only person in your village that gets packages from China.." LOL

So, I got my 7 X 7 Shengshou ... just solved it in 3 hours... Very nice... it turns so smooth.

 

[uniacto]

Today a shipment from Zcube came in. It had my address without house number on it. The post guy said to me "Since it came from China I knew I had to bring it to you. You are the only person in your village that gets packages from China.." LOL

So, I got my 7 X 7 Shengshou ... just solved it in 3 hours... Very nice... it turns so smooth.

bahaha you have a reputation now, don't you?

 

[Kattenvriendin]

LOL you should see the mail man here, he also knows the same and for things that need signing the good man even hands them off to my one neighbor. It's ok by me, I have my cubes sooner *grin*

One time he came with this absolutely HUGE van. Got out of said hugeness and went into the back. Rummaged about, and came out again with the smallest box I had ever seen a cube packed in. I believe it was the wittwo that I got from Dealmaz. I had to laugh so hard and said: "Aww.. do you need THIS big a van for that tiny little thing?"

A day later he came by again.. with this small combo car, delivering the DIY assemble house (big thing) for the cats for outside in their cat pen.

TWO huge boxes came out of that small car. I told him that "Somewhere in the planning things are not going right, ey?" LOL

 

[MarcelP]

LOL, you' re a famous person aswel..

I just stickered my 7 X 7 with Cubesmith halfbrights.. Pffftt.. My eyes hurt and my fingers are raw from the plastic razor blade where I peeled the stickers off with. Not going to do that ever again.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Did you only have the blade and not the holder for the blade then?

 

[MarcelP]

There is a holder also? I did not know that No, I used the 50 cents blade only.