Older cubers discussions

[MarcelP]

Thanks Raoul, I will take all your advise. I will be happy with all sub 40 solves I will be joining
-2 X 2 (No practice at all except 5 solves every week for weekly competition)
-3 X 3 ( At least 100 solves every day for the last few months)
-4 X 4 (little practice with a 1 - 5 solves every day)
-Pyraminx, no practice at all but did a timed Ao5 last weekend and had something between 1 and 2 minutes

 

[Kattenvriendin]

I am aiming for sub40 to be honest. At this point in time I am not aiming for 35, as I am doing the 35ishes here at home now. Add 5 for nerves which goes sup 40. So hopefully the sub40 can be done, and maybe better

I AM taking the cubes along I think.. maybe if the feeling is right I will participate in one more event. Need to ask if that is possible on the day itself or not. If not.. also peachy. My main focus will be that 3x3.

 

[moralsh]

kattenvriendin, pretty sure you can decide it on the day but why wait? add 2x2x2 some of your nerves will go away there

Edit: Marcel, pyra is very easy to get to sub30, just practice for a couple of hours

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Nope.. not doing that. Just saw the schedule and 2x2 and 3x3 are too close together. In fact.. 3x3 is first
Marcel.. use that vid I gave you. You can see my times with that in the siggie.

 

[MarcelP]

Edit: Marcel, pyra is very easy to get to sub30, just practice for a couple of hours

I just looked at your WCA profile.. It's apperantly not that easy.. LOL

Marcel.. use that vid I gave you. You can see my times with that in the siggie.

I have seen the video but I am not that smart to do Pyraminx quickly. Trust me, I have tried.. I think I will ask Erik A to teach me a bit on monday... For example doing centers first takes me about 30 seconds.. I just do'n get it LOL... Monday is not about getting good times for me.. In Eindhoven I have set my mind on good times.

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Yeah.. the centers are the hardest, but once you see where to look it becomes easier

Solve the tips first, that will help you in recognition. Then just make the three same tip colors on one face.

 

[sneaklyfox]

Hey, you are back! Hope you had a great vacation!

Thanks! It was good, but I'm glad to be home. I certainly do not miss the bugs. It wasn't really that buggy but I still somehow managed to attract what mosquito population there was and got myself 50+ bites. They itch like crazy.

Good luck on your upcoming comp. I would still like to go to my first...

 

[moralsh]

I just looked at your WCA profile.. It's apperantly not that easy.. LOL

That was then, now is now , in fact I might probably have ended with a sub 30 average if that cutoff wasn't there, just two bad solves.

I used to solve it without method and learned keyhole with a video of Erik A. (I like not having to write down his last name) a couple of days before the comp, but I'm sure you can do it better!

 

[MarcelP]

Ao5 with Panshi.

I have been thinking about using this cube in the competition. Not sure yet.

I have doing great averages. But as soon as I turn on the camera, the solves become cramped and way too fastturning. All in all this not so bad:

5. 29.55 D2 R2 D2 L2 B2 D B2 U L2 B2 U B' U' F R' L' B' D F L2 D' U'
6. 26.65 U F2 L2 D2 L2 U' B2 D B2 F2 U F' U' L' U' R' L2 B2 U2 B' U2
7. 27.68 D' F2 U2 R2 F2 U' B2 R2 U' F2 R2 F D' F' R L D' R2 L' D R // messed up this one..
8. 30.29 L2 D' B2 D2 L2 U R2 F2 L2 B2 U' L' D2 R D' F' R' B D2 L2
9. 25.21 B2 D2 F2 D F2 U F2 D R2 L2 U2 R' B' L D F' R D B L F U2

[video=youtube_share;_OjnvUsJ6I8]http://youtu.be/_OjnvUsJ6I8[/video]

 

[MarcelP]

I did a an Ao5 on a Zhanchi and had a sub 20 in there. I don't have that many sub 20 on video to I thought let's post that aswel.

Spoiler

1. 27.55 D2 B2 U' B2 U L2 D' B2 U2 R2 U' L' D2 U L2 B D' F D2 B R U2
2. 19.32 B2 R2 D B2 F2 D L2 D L2 B2 D2 F R' L U2 B F2 D' R' B R'
3. 30.74 F2 U2 R2 F2 L2 U F2 L2 U2 L2 D2 L' B' R2 D F' U L2 B2 F2 R U2 // ofcourse freaked out by the previous solve
4. 26.48 U' F2 L2 U B2 R2 U R2 B2 R2 U2 B' D2 U2 R' B D F2 R' D2 B2 D'
5. 29.00 L2 D' F2 R2 D B2 F2 D2 R2 F U B' L' D' R2 B2 R U2 B2 U

[video=youtube_share;GN0-69qi6sU]http://youtu.be/GN0-69qi6sU[/video]

 

[Gordon]

Well, that is really a nice solve. Now do five of them next Monday and you will have a great day

 

[Kattenvriendin]

Haha yeah exactly!!

 

[MarcelP]

If that happens I am going to buy everyone drinks.. LOL When hell freezes over will come sooner I think

 

[Kattenvriendin]

You're on!

 

[MarcelP]

Well the AvG1 competition was great fun. Always nice to see the super fastest people on earth like Mats Valk, Rowe Hessler and Erik Akkersdijk doing their stuff. I had been doing very good with my averages the last few weeks. I was truely averaging 26 seconds on the 3 X 3. Two weeks before the event I decided to go to white cross training only (where I normally train color neutral). Slowly my times got worse. I figured that must have been a fluke. Well, the few days before the event I think I must have done at least 1000 solves. My times where no where near 26 seconds.. I had actually lost all my cubing skills. Lookahead was back to 0%. On the compettion day I had great fun racing against HCFONG and KATTENVRIENDIN and two other guys. My times where actually getting better again with a few sub 25 but most around 29 seconds.. At the time the 3 X 3 even started I was not nervous at all, but as expected I had no look ahead and in almost all solves I messed up the (newly learned) OLL's.. resulting in awefull times. Fortunatly on 2 X 2 and 4 X 4 I did great.. The results are not up yet but if I remember correctly I had:
3 X 3: a sub 30 single and 33 average
2 X 2: a sub 9 single and 13 average
4 X 4: a sub 3 minute single and 3 and a half minute average
Pyra: a 25 seconds single (and no clue about average)

So, it could have been a lot worse. I am very pleased with the results.

 

[moralsh]

Wow, It's very nice of you to not beat me officially yet, guess I'll survive until june , you've beaten my pyra maybe my 2x2x2 times though

I forced me to 2-look OLL for the comp as I was faster that way, but I'm sure learning and using OLL is faster on the long term.

About training, I suck solving CN but like it a lot to train, I feel it improves my lookahead on white instead of making it worse.

I should start solving te 4x4x4, I have no idea where am I, other than that glad you and all the rest had fun there, waiting for some videos and photos now

 

[MarcelP]

Wow, It's very nice of you to not beat me officially yet

LOL, if I could I would have.. From now on I will only solve CN and do stuff I like. Nothing matters more than having fun at cubing. Trying to get the best times possible was really a kind of no fun. I don't know the english word but next time I will just do my normal thing towards the competition. Also, I guess I totally suck at performing on the spot. That will not change fast I guess.. I need to do more competitions. But with a family and all that is not going to change. So I will stick with 2 per year or so. Oh and.. I have only beaten your Pyra single.. My slowest time was well over two minutes.. LOL I have not yet learned any method for the Pyraminx.

 

[sneaklyfox]

Well I'm envious you've been to your second comp already. I have yet to go to my first!

 

[kunparekh18]

Well I'm envious you've been to your second comp already. I have yet to go to my first!

There was a comp in Canada recently right? Montreal Open I think.

 

[sneaklyfox]

I have no idea. I suppose. Montreal is two hours away and I'm too busy with my family. I think I would only be going to National Capital Region comps as that's the closest to me. I believe there's one near the end of May every year so I'm hoping I'll get to go then.