[Unofficial] Pedro's 1:23.98 on bld

[Pedro]

I caught this good solve a couple days ago

one of my best times ever (best is 1:19)

there are more cubing videos in my channel

 

[watermelon]

Great solve!

Your cube looks and sounds very nice . What brand is it?

 

[pjk]

Very nice and fluent. Congrats.

 

[joey]

That execution was faaast! Around 20s! Mine's around 1min average I need to try 3 cycle corners, it could be faster than Y perm corners.

I like the murmuring, and humming, i do that soemtimes!

 

[AvGalen]

Execution was 45 seconds, not 20s. (still extremely fast!)

 

[joey]

Execution was 45 seconds, not 20s. (still extremely fast!)

Oops! Still, 45s is still faast!

 

[Pedro]

it's a 25th anniversary cube...with about 2 years of use

yeah, that was a good solving...I still sometimes do over minute but I'm trying to get it down...

 

[hdskull]

wow, so confident that it's solved, i like that. haha. great execution with minimal pauses.

i think the slice moves are crazy, especially M

 

[Pedro]

I gotta be confident, no? at least I hope that it's solved (but of course sometimes it's not)

the Ms are just for edge orientation and the H perm...and sometimes for cycling edges, like M' U2 M U2

 

[Theromy]

Very nice solve, I wouldn't have a clue about BLD solves ^^

 

[hdskull]

the Ms are just for edge orientation and the H perm...and sometimes for cycling edges, like M' U2 M U2

i mean how u move M is crazy i usually do r' R, but when i get my cube back i'll try ur way, cuz it not only looks awesome it's extremely fast too.

 

[Pedro]

yeah, I used to do r R' or r' R...but changed to that way...the M' is pretty easy, with the left ring finger...I saw the M on a video from a japanese competition (not sure) and it looked cool, so I decided to try

 

[pjk]

Yeah, your M' is pretty nice.

 

[hdskull]

how do you hold your cube for the M' ? because i tried to do it and it always its my left hand... help ?

 

[h3ndrik]

M' is quite easy to do with your ring fingers. i find it easier to do with my right ringfinger, but an U/U' aftwerwards doesn't seem to flow as well as if i did the M' with my left ringfinger.
for M2 it's a bit different. i rotate the right layer 45° towards me (half of R') and grab the UB edge of the middle layer with my right ringfinger and spin it as i undo the " half R' " which results in an M2. hope you could follow my instructions

( i'm not doing BLD, but using roux for normal 3x3 so i do turn M quite a lot )

EDIT: forgot to answer your question xD
left thumb on FL edge, right thumb FR edge, left middlefinger (is it middlefinger in english? the one between pointer and ring-finger)BL edge, right middlefinger BR edge. left ringfinger BLD corner, right ringfinger BRD corner.
U/U' with right/left index, M and M2 with right ringfinger. D/D' also with ringfingers. for R/R' i change my right hand grip ( rather obvious )

how do you guys do normal M (towards you)? i do a combination, first my described M2 technique followed by a normal M' with my left ringfinger. seems odd, but i can do that faster than r'R

 

[ColdbuffeT]

Nice solve. May I ask what method you used?

 

[pjk]

He uses 3 cycle.

 

[Pedro]

I use the 3-cycles method...learned from Macky's site and Tyson's guide...and some others...

I hold the cube like:
both thumbs on F part of the E slice (FL and FR)
right hand:
index on BUR, middle on BR, ring on BDR
left hand:
index on BUL, both middle and ring on BD

then just push the M layer with the ring finger (then the middle, if you want M2)

for M I use my left index on the BU sticker, and "pull" it towards me...it's posible to see it on the video...when the countdown timer is at about 45-40 seconds