Ota Mota's Progression Thread // Road to Very Fast (2-4)^N and 3^N OH

[bldcuber314]

I have since beaten this time multiple times
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I also counted my the 1:04 in an ao5. 1:03 had OLL parity. I now global sub-1:20

Welcome to the 1:01 4x4 PB single gang!

 

[Bingus cuber]

Welcome to the 1:01 4x4 PB single gang!

Mines 1 minute flat

 

[OtaMota]

First sub-4 in 5x5
Generated By csTimer on 2024-05-25
single: 3:40.89

Time List:
1. 3:40.89 L' Bw2 Rw2 D L U2 L2 Fw' U Rw Bw2 B2 D2 Lw F' Fw2 U Rw' R Uw F' L' Dw2 Lw2 D' Dw' Bw' Dw2 D' Uw2 R Bw Rw Uw' F Lw U2 Fw F U2 B' Rw D Rw' B' Dw Rw2 Dw2 Uw F2 R' Bw R Uw2 Fw2 L Bw Lw' D2 B2

 

[OtaMota]

Did my first FMC attempt


R' U' F U2 R2 U2 L B2 R D2 R F2 U2 F2 R2 U L2 R2 F' D2 L B' D B R' U' F

Was the scram

Sol was B U2 L' B R' D2 R U F D F' U2 B' L B L' D L D2 L' D' L' F L F' L' D' L D' L' D' L2 B D B' D' B D' B' D' B D B' L'

44 moves

Which is good I guess

I did a xxcross

I did some random sledges for the third pair, which helped out nicely for the 4th pair, and EO for LL

LL was a COLL I know that just happened to PLL skip this time

 

[OtaMota]

Just grinding 4d 2x2, and I now have a sub-2, 1:49.45. I think I am going to try recording a solve sooner or later

 

[artless1der]

I'll take it up with the engineering teacher who set up the table

HohohohohohohohohoNo.!
Take that engineering teacher DOWN who set up such an ineptly and obviously frivolously impotent (and possibly *Russ!an*!') table

Ain't nobody got time to eat at that table no way. Huh.
(⁠┛⁠◉⁠Д⁠◉⁠)⁠┛⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻ ...Word is bond. I'm Out.

 

[artless1der]

I found a 4x4 at my school, and did some solves. Two pb singles

Generated By csTimer on 2024-05-17
single: 1:11.34



And this one
Generated By csTimer on 2024-05-17
single: 1:08.89

that's kool but umm what kind of 4x4 cube you found at your skool?
¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

(asking bcoz I lost a Moyu WR M 4x4... at your school...)

 

[OtaMota]

that's kool but umm what kind of 4x4 cube you found at your skool?
¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

(asking bciz I lost a Moyu WR M 4x4... at your school...)

It was a Qiyi old budget cube

 

[artless1der]

It was a Qiyi old budget cube

Dangit! haha but good on ya mate

That's some good times on what I'm guessing is a non-magnetic with not a great mechanism to it

Kinda reminds me of how some YouCubers used to do Non-magnetic November solves

 

[bldcuber314]

Did my first FMC attempt


R' U' F U2 R2 U2 L B2 R D2 R F2 U2 F2 R2 U L2 R2 F' D2 L B' D B R' U' F

Was the scram

Sol was B U2 L' B R' D2 R U F D F' U2 B' L B L' D L D2 L' D' L' F L F' L' D' L D' L' D' L2 B D B' D' B D' B' D' B D B' L'

44 moves

Which is good I guess

I did a xxcross

I did some random sledges for the third pair, which helped out nicely for the 4th pair, and EO for LL

LL was a COLL I know that just happened to PLL skip this time

By the way I don't think rotations count on FMC so you don't need to spend time removing them. You definitely won't hit the 80 move limit anyway.

 

[OtaMota]

By the way I don't think rotations count on FMC so you don't need to spend time removing them. You definitely won't hit the 80 move limit anyway.

FMC best practice to not have rotations.

 

[OtaMota]

 

[OtaMota]

I did my first 2^4 ao5 (off cam) and got this avg
(1:17.73)
1:24.15
(2:14.99)
1:41.34
1:54.27

= 1:39.92 ao5

 

[OtaMota]

I got a WR for 2^4 ao5, but only bc no one else submitted to the leaderboard (https://hypercubing.xyz/leaderboards/), so my record is gonna last for like a few hours once others become motivated, and its gonna be broken by a big jump. Ultimate skewb Jan 2014 moment

 

[OtaMota]

I still have WR bc the people who were getting sub-30 singles almost a year ago forgot to sit down and do 5 consecutive solves on cam or something , and they are also inactive today it seems.

The leaderboard btw. https://hypercubing.xyz/leaderboards/#__tabbed_4_2

Edit: I also got my first sub-1 unofficially today so that's good.

 

[OtaMota]

Got sub-1 single on cam

 

[OtaMota]

Got overall PB single, first sub-50

 

[OtaMota]

Got sub-1 Ao5

 

[bldcuber314]

Got sub-1 Ao5

Since my YouTube is blocked, all I saw was sub-1 ao5 and I thought it was 2x2

 

[OtaMota]

First sub-45 single on cam