guysensei1
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It makes a mess?
It makes a mess?
Berd
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I was going to say haha...
Julian
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Is this supposed to be shortest T-perm?
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Yeah, it's a T-perm ignoring the rest of the cube. There are a ton of 9-htm solutions with and without AUF.
IRNjuggle28
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Turn fast and lookahead?
This is particularly true of centers on big cubes, but true to a degree all the time: my lookahead is better when I turn faster, or more accurately, my lookahead is better when I'm able to turn fast. Being more alert and more in the zone usually leads to my lookahead and my turning both improving, which makes good lookahead overlap with fast turning for me. Furthermore, lockups destroy my lookahead. There's not really a reason they should, but they sure do. They ruin the flow of the solve, and my lookahead worsens drastically. This makes me wildly inconsistent at times; I've gone from averaging 4:15 to averaging 3:50 on 7x7 in one day just because of lubing it, which made me turn faster and look ahead better.
When I'm in the zone, I find myself automatically going all out on solves, and I think intentionally slowing my turning down to improve my lookahead would break whatever focus is allowing me to be faster than usual. Long story short, "turn slow and lookahead" is a great idea in theory, but I rarely find it to work well in practice. I might modify the statement to "do whatever helps yourself look ahead better," because turning slow usually isn't it. I was curious if anyone else is this way?
This is particularly true of centers on big cubes, but true to a degree all the time: my lookahead is better when I turn faster, or more accurately, my lookahead is better when I'm able to turn fast. Being more alert and more in the zone usually leads to my lookahead and my turning both improving, which makes good lookahead overlap with fast turning for me. Furthermore, lockups destroy my lookahead. There's not really a reason they should, but they sure do. They ruin the flow of the solve, and my lookahead worsens drastically. This makes me wildly inconsistent at times; I've gone from averaging 4:15 to averaging 3:50 on 7x7 in one day just because of lubing it, which made me turn faster and look ahead better.
When I'm in the zone, I find myself automatically going all out on solves, and I think intentionally slowing my turning down to improve my lookahead would break whatever focus is allowing me to be faster than usual. Long story short, "turn slow and lookahead" is a great idea in theory, but I rarely find it to work well in practice. I might modify the statement to "do whatever helps yourself look ahead better," because turning slow usually isn't it. I was curious if anyone else is this way?
guysensei1
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Agree, I can't turn slow on 6x6 without losing lookahead
Nilsibert
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Same here. My lookahead is best when I turn moderately fast(3x3). Turning too slow or too fast both make my lookahead worse. It's all about finding that sweet middle. It's pretty hard though, so my times can be all over the place from 11s to 15-16s.
IRNjuggle28
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I remember back when I was slow, thinking that by the time I was sub 15, I'd quit putting F2L pairs in the wrong slot, and by the time I was sub 1 on 4x4, I'd quit solving my centers wrong. Ha. HA HA HAA.
Rubiks560
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Can someone give me the earliest known date to when ortega was invented? The earliest I've heard so far is 2000.
Stefan
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Have you asked Josef already?
guysensei1
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I thought that when I was sub-15, I could always plan out my cross. Lol.
Rubiks560
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Any ideas where I could contact him? Guess I'm not sure where to start.
PenguinsDontFly
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Dont you guys hate it when your PB ao5 is faster than your PB mo3?
TDM
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I thought when I was going to get sub-15, I would do it with ZZ first. Ha. Still not there yet.
Edit: found the post and... it was sub-12, not sub-15: [post=936610]link[/post]. I'm definitely not there yet.
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It never happened to me and it statistically unlikely.
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PenguinsDontFly
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its not unlikely at all. its more likely to get 3 fast solves separated by a non-counting slow solve than it is to have 3 fast solves in a row.
TDM
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What do you mean by "statistically unlikely"? All you need is to have the slowest solve in the middle of the Ao5.
Reprobate
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I was curious and checked my Prisma timer history. Nowhere is my average of 5 better than my mean of 3, but for 4x4 the difference is less than half a second, and it's only 1.5 seconds for 7x7.
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