Random Cubing Discussion

[guysensei1]

A classmate just told me that the cutoff for 4×4×4 at Singapore Open dropped from 70 seconds to 60 seconds…

I'm guessing it's not possible to improve by ten seconds in two days, RIP.

Just hope you get lucky on the first 2 solves.

Also 1:40 5x5 cutoffs wow, what is UWR for hardest 5x5 cutoff?

 

[xyzzy]

Just hope you get lucky on the first 2 solves.

Also 1:40 5x5 cutoffs wow, what is UWR for hardest 5x5 cutoff?

Lol yeah, I'll try. I think the cutoffs are quite a bit stricter than "usual" cutoffs because last year's comp was quite far behind the planned schedule.

 

[Daniel Lin]

i just realized
my 3BLD times are roughly double my 3x3 times

I'm sub 30 3BLD and sub 15 3x3
and my 3BLD pb is 18.86 while 3x3 is 9.42
pb av5 is low 25, while for 3x3 it's low 12

 

[Confucius]

Do ypu guys think it is possible, in theory, to memorize enough algorithms to get a 2x2x2 average of under a second?

 

[YouCubing]

got 3 overall PBs in my comp this weekend this brings my total of overall PBs gotten in comp (including former ones) to 23 :O

how many have y'all gotten

 

[guysensei1]

got 3 overall PBs in my comp this weekend this brings my total of overall PBs gotten in comp (including former ones) to 23 :O

how many have y'all gotten

5bld was pb, second success ever
The two 9/10 multis were 10 cube attempt pbs, fmc nr mean was overall PB since i dont do means except officially

I believe 3:08 nr single was overall pb at the time.

 

[CLL Smooth]

got 3 overall PBs in my comp this weekend this brings my total of overall PBs gotten in comp (including former ones) to 23 :O

how many have y'all gotten

I've gotten overall mega pb avg all three times I've competed in it. 3 for me

 

[Cale S]

got 3 overall PBs in my comp this weekend this brings my total of overall PBs gotten in comp (including former ones) to 23 :O

how many have y'all gotten

MBLD several times (17/17, 20/23, 19/23 * 2, 21/23)
mega average twice
almost 4x4 single but +2
former 4BLD NAR

 

[guysensei1]

Just a funny convo with a sub-9 guy i had...

Me: Don't you hate it when you spend 10s of inspection tracking this pair and then the corner and edge end up in separate slots?
Him: uhh, then why did you track that pair?
Me: I didn't know it would end up in that spot...
Him: lol

 

[Ksh13]

got 3 overall PBs in my comp this weekend this brings my total of overall PBs gotten in comp (including former ones) to 23 :O

how many have y'all gotten

46.27 4x4 average and 1:22.31 5x5 single, which was PB by 6 seconds. And FMC single I guess since I have never done a proper FMC attempt with all WCA rules at home.

 

[Torch]

got 3 overall PBs in my comp this weekend this brings my total of overall PBs gotten in comp (including former ones) to 23 :O

how many have y'all gotten

47.51 4x4 single (Indiana 2015), 27 FMC single (Florida Feast 2014, FMC USA 2015, Athens Winter 2016), 1:21.07 Mega single (Athens Summer Omega 2016), 5.71 Pyra single and 7.49 Pyra average (Indiana 2015)

Hm, that's more than I thought!

 

[TheMachanga]

Is anyone else annoyed by the fact that almost every single youtube cubing video has crappy EDM playing the whole time, be it a solve or a tutorial or even background music. And if the video doesn't have music playing during the video itself, you better believe there'll be a 10 second intro with EDM blasting in your face.


Does anyone have any channel reccomondations that don't do this? I'm slowly getting back into cubing and recently have been lurking around the youtube cubing community (wow things have changed haha)

 

[shadowslice e]

Is anyone else annoyed by the fact that almost every single youtube cubing video has crappy EDM playing the whole time, be it a solve or a tutorial or even background music. And if the video doesn't have music playing during the video itself, you better believe there'll be a 10 second intro with EDM blasting in your face.


Does anyone have any channel reccomondations that don't do this? I'm slowly getting back into cubing and recently have been lurking around the youtube cubing community (wow things have changed haha)

Mine doesn't but there's only one video so it might not be of much use (just snarky and sarcastic captions)

Kavin and Kian don't normally but they use roux so may be of limited use.

 

[Smiles]

Is anyone else annoyed by the fact that almost every single youtube cubing video has crappy EDM playing the whole time, be it a solve or a tutorial or even background music. And if the video doesn't have music playing during the video itself, you better believe there'll be a 10 second intro with EDM blasting in your face.


Does anyone have any channel reccomondations that don't do this? I'm slowly getting back into cubing and recently have been lurking around the youtube cubing community (wow things have changed haha)

My channel! I've been firmly against this since the start. No intros and no music and no rambling.

youtube.com/JPerm

I make tutorials on everything

 

[Joel2274]

Is anyone else annoyed by the fact that almost every single youtube cubing video has crappy EDM playing the whole time, be it a solve or a tutorial or even background music. And if the video doesn't have music playing during the video itself, you better believe there'll be a 10 second intro with EDM blasting in your face.


Does anyone have any channel reccomondations that don't do this? I'm slowly getting back into cubing and recently have been lurking around the youtube cubing community (wow things have changed haha)

I don't know many channels that don't have intro music...why does it bother you so much? Do you just not like EDM?

 

[TDM]

Is anyone else annoyed by the fact that almost every single youtube cubing video has crappy EDM playing the whole time, be it a solve or a tutorial or even background music. And if the video doesn't have music playing during the video itself, you better believe there'll be a 10 second intro with EDM blasting in your face.


Does anyone have any channel reccomondations that don't do this? I'm slowly getting back into cubing and recently have been lurking around the youtube cubing community (wow things have changed haha)

This is one of the main reasons why I don't bother watching any cubing videos any more. I don't watch anything if there's a >5 second intro, and if there's music going on I also won't listen.

 

[Daniel Lin]

i found a new alg for dots!!11!!!!
really fast

y (R' F R f')6 y'

 

[FastCubeMaster]

Is anyone else annoyed by the fact that almost every single youtube cubing video has crappy EDM playing the whole time, be it a solve or a tutorial or even background music. And if the video doesn't have music playing during the video itself, you better believe there'll be a 10 second intro with EDM blasting in your face.


Does anyone have any channel reccomondations that don't do this? I'm slowly getting back into cubing and recently have been lurking around the youtube cubing community (wow things have changed haha)

Try this Australian BigBLDer. He's the one that got me into this type of music and now I love it.
AQBBQA
Edit: His latest video

 

[NoobishCuber]

I think the QiYi Warrior W should have been more hyped than it was.

 

[Elo13]

got 3 overall PBs in my comp this weekend this brings my total of overall PBs gotten in comp (including former ones) to 23 :O

how many have y'all gotten

At my first comp I got a 2:06.xx 5x5 solve and 2:27.xx average (pb by 12 and 5 seconds respectively)
Last weekend I was 0.1 seconds off my 4x4 overall pb and would have been extremely close to mega overall pb avg if I didn't DNF a 1:19 because of a corner twist