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I had a competition yesterday in Belgium. Yeah I did go international ;) I was sick in bed on saturday but felt little ok on Sunday morning. I had to drive for two hours to Arnoud van Galen and hitched a ride with himto Belgium. So the 4 hour drive totally broke down my energy. At the competition I was feeling like I was in hell. Big fever sweats. At some points I almost could not judge (affraid I would fall down). Still I managed to do a PB average on Rubiks cube, PB single OH and two great 4 X 4 solves (not enough to get an average though). I even was allowed to go to the second round of Rubiks cube, but I was so sick that it was I was using beginners method ;).. The fact that I now have a PB average 25.71 which on a normal day is my Ao100 totally made it worth it. It looks like I am getting the hang of competition stuff and have my nerves under control. ;)
 
Nice going, Marcel! New official PBs! Sorry to hear you weren't feeling well though. Wow, I don't think I could travel that much for a cubing competition. At least, I can't see myself doing this anytime soon. Perhaps when I am an empty nester, ha! I even think 40 minutes of driving is "too far". Good for you!
 
sneaklyfox said:
Wow, I don't think I could travel that much for a cubing competition. ..I even think 40 minutes of driving is "too far".
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Yeah, it was a bit too crazy for me. I mean being not 100% well and then doing that. I probably should have stayed at home. But then again I would not have had that nice PB average.. LOL The things we do for cubing..
 
lol... I totally understand though. I think if I did not have such a young and big family... if I were still in university days and single I would totally drive around the country and go to comps if my job permitted ie. weekends are cool.
 
sneaklyfox said:
lol... I totally understand though. I think if I did not have such a young and big family... if I were still in university days and single I would totally drive around the country and go to comps if my job permitted ie. weekends are cool.
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That's like me lol if I only had a license, I would go to every comp I could in the Midwest. So like a 12 hour radius pretty much :P
 
Today I did an Ao100 with a Zhanchi. Now that I have so many great cubes I really do not know what to choose. It was a great average with many sub 20's Unfortunatly also a lot sup 30's ouch.. I think I will stick with Zhanchi for a while.

Mean: 24.99
Average: 24.94
Best time: 15.36
Median: 24.80
Worst time: 38.62
Standard deviation: 3.47

Best average of 5: 20.74
80-84 - 22.05 17.65 (27.12) 22.53 (15.36)

Best average of 12: 22.47
78-89 - 18.99 27.48 22.05 17.65 27.12 22.53 (15.36) 22.51 19.00 24.81 (30.53) 22.53
 
I had almost solved nothing this week. Still feeling shitty from a flu, but also no motivation at all. That has not happened to me before. Good thing tomorrow I hope to receive the version 2 of the Gan III and the ChiLong. I think both landed yesterday. New cubes really lift your spririts ;)
 
sneaklyfox said:
Aww, sorry to hear you're still not feeling well from flu. I wish I were getting new cubes tomorrow. Let us know what you think of the Gan III v2 and ChiLong!
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You will receive your new Weisu and ChiLong and SuLong (if I remember correctly) also soon. ;) Surely I will make some video's. I have high hopes for the Gan III V2. I have been in contact with the designer and he sent me the cube. He also told me that next year the Gan IV will be 57 mm ;) Jay!
 
Well, Wallbuys is supposed to get their Weisu restocked in a couple days at which time they will send out the order I guess. And yes, I have the Sulong and Chilong coming in along with the Weisu. But I don't expect them for another couple weeks at least because sometimes shipping takes a long time. I really can't wait for the Weisu though. If you saw my channel, I just uploaded a video of my current really bad 4x4. I've tried to practice some on it and I think I'm about the 2-min mark. So far best Ao12 is 1:57.95 which is not bad on this cube. I've done about 150 solves. It locks so much and moves so slow and weird... it takes me 8 seconds to do OLL parity. And 3x3 stage would take me about 30-40 seconds ugh!

Oh, btw, I tried Reduction, Hoya, and Yau methods. I am pretty much decided that I like Yau the best. At first I really hated Yau because of the last 4 centers step but since I adopted doing half centers, I do that most of the time if not all and now that step isn't so bad. I think you're doing Yau too, right Marcel?
 
sneaklyfox said:
Well, Wallbuys is supposed to get their Weisu restocked in a couple days at which time they will send out the order I guess. And yes, I have the Sulong and Chilong coming in along with the Weisu. But I don't expect them for another couple weeks at least because sometimes shipping takes a long time. I really can't wait for the Weisu though. If you saw my channel, I just uploaded a video of my current really bad 4x4. I've tried to practice some on it and I think I'm about the 2-min mark. So far best Ao12 is 1:57.95 which is not bad on this cube. I've done about 150 solves. It locks so much and moves so slow and weird... it takes me 8 seconds to do OLL parity. And 3x3 stage would take me about 30-40 seconds ugh!

Oh, btw, I tried Reduction, Hoya, and Yau methods. I am pretty much decided that I like Yau the best. At first I really hated Yau because of the last 4 centers step but since I adopted doing half centers, I do that most of the time if not all and now that step isn't so bad. I think you're doing Yau too, right Marcel?
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Wat. We're the same speed on 4x4.
 
sneaklyfox said:
I think you're doing Yau too, right Marcel?
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Your times are great!! Yes, I use Yau. I did nothing but 4X4 yesterday evening. I had a 2.04 and a 2.03 and a 2.02.. But most where in the 2.30 - 3.00 range.. ;) Still hoping for that sub 2 average. Today I am learning Hoya. I am sub 3 mostly with that.. Still figuring stuff out. What I like from Hoya is the freedom to choose a color that has big parts solved on centers.

Edit: I am going to view your 4 X 4 solves ;)
 
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