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Skewby_Doo's Progress Thread - Grinding 2x2, FTO, and 5x5 - 28/57 OLL - 31/42 CLL - Doing 7x7

What are your favorite WCA events?

  • 2x2

    Votes: 21 37.5%

  • 3x3

    Votes: 40 71.4%

  • 4x4

    Votes: 20 35.7%

  • 5x5

    Votes: 21 37.5%

  • 6x6

    Votes: 5 8.9%

  • 7x7

    Votes: 8 14.3%

  • 3BLD

    Votes: 11 19.6%

  • FMC

    Votes: 4 7.1%

  • OH

    Votes: 16 28.6%

  • Clock

    Votes: 19 33.9%

  • Mega

    Votes: 11 19.6%

  • Pyra

    Votes: 18 32.1%

  • Skewb

    Votes: 10 17.9%

  • Squan

    Votes: 16 28.6%

  • 4BLD

    Votes: 2 3.6%

  • 5BLD

    Votes: 2 3.6%

  • MBLD

    Votes: 5 8.9%
  • Total voters
    56
Skewby_Doo

Skewby_Doo

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2023LEES15
New progress thread w/goals and globals:

2x2: Currently avg around high 4 w/Ortega, long-term goal is sub-4 or sub-3.

3x3: Currently avg 16-17 w/CFOP, long-term goal is Sub-10.

OH: Currently avg high 30 w/CFOP, long-term goal is sub-20 or sub-15.

4x4: Currently avg 1:20 w/Hoya, long-term goal is sub-1 but sub-45 should be easily achievable if I get sub-10 on 3x3.

5x5: I do not time 5x5 solves right now, but most likely will in the future.

6x6: I do not have one.

7x7: Same as 5x5.

Skewb: Currently avg 6-8 w/Sarah's Intermediate, long-term goal is sub-6 or sub-5.

Pyraminx: Currently avg 8 w/LBL, long-term goal is sub-5.

Clock: Currently avg 17 w/Beginner's method/Flip, Idk if it's the same thing or not. Long term goal is Sub-10.

SQ-1: Avg sub-1 w/out parity, sub-1:45 with parity. I hope to learn parity alg and get sub-30 eventually. (Not just from learning parity lol)

Megaminx: I think I avg around low 3 on mega, as I do not practice or time solves that often.

FMC: Not sure what my avg move count is right now as I have done 2 means, but it is around low 50. I guess my goal is sub-40.

3BLD: Learning BLD right now, can do solves with just letter pairs, have not tried memo yet. I suppose my long-term goal is sub-1.

MBLD: I do not even know 3BLD yet.

4BLD: I do not know 4BLD.

5BLD: I am not megamind. :D

Ty for reading this, hope you have a good day.
 
Skewby_Doo said:
New progress thread w/goals and globals:

2x2: Currently avg around high 4 w/Ortega, long-term goal is sub-4 or sub-3.

3x3: Currently avg 16-17 w/CFOP, long-term goal is Sub-10.

OH: Currently avg high 30 w/CFOP, long-term goal is sub-20 or sub-15.

4x4: Currently avg 1:20 w/Hoya, long-term goal is sub-1 but sub-45 should be easily achievable if I get sub-10 on 3x3.

5x5: I do not time 5x5 solves right now, but most likely will in the future.

6x6: I do not have one.

7x7: Same as 5x5.

Skewb: Currently avg 6-8 w/Sarah's Intermediate, long-term goal is sub-6 or sub-5.

Pyraminx: Currently avg 8 w/LBL, long-term goal is sub-5.

Clock: Currently avg 17 w/Beginner's method/Flip, Idk if it's the same thing or not. Long term goal is Sub-10.

SQ-1: Avg sub-1 w/out parity, sub-1:45 with parity. I hope to learn parity alg and get sub-30 eventually. (Not just from learning parity lol)

Megaminx: I think I avg around low 3 on mega, as I do not practice or time solves that often.

FMC: Not sure what my avg move count is right now as I have done 2 means, but it is around low 50. I guess my goal is sub-40.

3BLD: Learning BLD right now, can do solves with just letter pairs, have not tried memo yet. I suppose my long-term goal is sub-1.

MBLD: I do not even know 3BLD yet.

4BLD: I do not know 4BLD.

5BLD: I am not megamind. :D

Ty for reading this, hope you have a good day.
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You should learn intuitive L4e to get faster at pyra but while you use this also learn L4e at the same time.
 
JDAW6 said:
You should learn intuitive L4e to get faster at pyra but while you use this also learn L4e at the same time.
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I started learning some l4e a week or two ago. I know all the solved layer and top edge solved ones, (14 total?). I haven't done too much pyra practice but I am using a mixture of tigersandcats cubing videos and an l4e website.

Still need to work on top edge solved recognition though.
 
Skewby_Doo said:
I started learning some l4e a week or two ago. I know all the solved layer and top edge solved ones, (14 total?). I haven't done too much pyra practice but I am using a mixture of tigersandcats cubing videos and an l4e website.

Still need to work on top edge solved recognition though.
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That is good, after some solves with the algs you get the recognition down. anyway happy to help.
 
Update on my OH progress:

I have 3 comps with OH coming up in a few months, so I decided to practice OH today. Two of the comps have a 45 cutoff, other one is 1 min. I did an average of 100 today because I was not sure what I average for OH and if I would make cutoff, but this went really well. I ended up resetting all of my pbs, and the average was really consistent.

ao100 stats:

Single: 26.04

mo3: 28.65

ao5: 29.37

ao12: 29.99

ao100: 33.21

I feel really good about making cutoff now, and I am going to practice 4x4 and clock in the coming days, as I want to find my clock average, and the 4x4 cutoff of 1:30 is sometimes hard for me to reach, but most of my solves are sub 1:25.

Edit: I just noticed that nobody likes 6x6 according to my poll. (I don't either)
 
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An Animating Cuber said:
HOYA GANG!! we average really close in 4x4
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Nice! I am hoping to have 90% of my solves sub 1:30 before my comps. Around 60 percent are right now. I fell at tennis yesterday and went to a doctor today, I found out that I bruised my Radius(forearm bone) so I won't get to practice as much. :( I still want to improve at 4x4 but I may rest my arm for the next 2-3 days. The doctor said I can cube some so I am still going to work on 4x4, just not as much. Unfortunately it was my left arm so I cannot do OH either. Hope to be progressing soon. :)
 
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4x4 Progress Update:

I have been trying to get a sub-1 single for about a week now, and it finally happened today. I have not done a big average but I did an average of 12 or so, so here are the stats. I somehow ended up with three sub-1s.

Single: 57.64

Ao5: 1:00.42 (So close to sub-1, had two counting 59s.)

Ao12: 1:03 flat

I will probably do at least an ao50 in the coming days, so I will post that soon. Really happy with these results.
 
It feels like a while since I cubed. I've been busy with school and some other stuff, but I have a comp in 2 1/2 weeks, so I am going to do a daily ao5 comp sim until the comp. I started today, and here are the results. I am kind of rusty in most of these, but here they are:

2x2: 5.20 - Pretty bad, felt off today for 2x2. Hopefully I will solve better on comp day.

3x3: 19.29 - Not great. 2 good singles and three really bad ones.

OH: 37.63 - Really bad for me. 2 average singles, 3 very bad ones.

4x4: DNF - Had 2 MGC moments. I solved decently, but the average was bad.

Skewb: 9.23 - Pretty average for me. Had some good singles, but a DNF counted a 10.

Pyraminx: 8.14 - Average. I solved pretty well here.

Clock: 16.21 - Pretty good! I am not sure what I average on clock, but I felt good about this and had a 13 single.
 
Skewby_Doo said:
It feels like a while since I cubed. I've been busy with school and some other stuff, but I have a comp in 2 1/2 weeks, so I am going to do a daily ao5 comp sim until the comp. I started today, and here are the results. I am kind of rusty in most of these, but here they are:

2x2: 5.20 - Pretty bad, felt off today for 2x2. Hopefully I will solve better on comp day.

3x3: 19.29 - Not great. 2 good singles and three really bad ones.

OH: 37.63 - Really bad for me. 2 average singles, 3 very bad ones.

4x4: DNF - Had 2 MGC moments. I solved decently, but the average was bad.

Skewb: 9.23 - Pretty average for me. Had some good singles, but a DNF counted a 10.

Pyraminx: 8.14 - Average. I solved pretty well here.

Clock: 16.21 - Pretty good! I am not sure what I average on clock, but I felt good about this and had a 13 single.
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What comp are you going to?
 
Daily Practice Comp Sim:

2x2: 5.64 - Bad, but this was so weird. I started with an 8.73 after doing the wrong OLL and PBL, and then got back to back threes. I then DNFed, which counted the 8, and ended with a low 4.

3x3: 16.49 - This was good! I started badly with a 20, then got an average 18, then a 16, then ended off with a 13 and a 14. Happy with those singles and the average.

OH: 34.52 - Pretty decent. Not too bad but also not the best. I had a counting 36 which kind of messed up this average, but overall I am happy with it.

4x4: 1:17.24 - I do not really know what I average on 4x4 but I was not happy with this. I had an internal pop on solve three which wrecked the average by counting my 1:21, but I did have a 1:04 single.

Skewb: DNF - Not really much to say about this one. I dropped the cube and stopped the timer on accident, and then accidentally started before the timer did.

Pyraminx: 7.99 - Slightly better than average - Solved pretty well.

Clock: DNF - ...Clock moment - Had some good times but clock is clock so I DNFed
 
Daily Comp Sims:

2x2: 5.15 - I plus 2ed a 4.02 at the start, had 2 4s and 2 5s, so the average ended up being low 5. Not great, but it is my fault for forgetting to AUF. I began learning CLL this morning and have learned all of the Sune cases, but I still pause for recognition.

3x3: 16.52 - I was happy with this. The average was good other than a 20 single, and I had 2 15s, as well as a 16 and a 17.

OH: 36.32 - Not great, but not really much to say about it.

4x4: 1:12.28 - Pretty happy with this. I got PB3 single with a 58, but I DNFed by messing up OLL parity and counted a 1:19, but with a counting 1:03 it did not matter.

Skewb: 10.82 - DNF and plus 2 led to a bad average. I did end with a solid 6 single though.

Pyraminx: 10.44 - Pretty much the same situation as Skewb. Bad average, but I did get a 5.

Clock: 14.97 - This was really good! I solved well on this average.
 
Daily Practice:

2x2: 4.37 - This is the first average for 2x2 that I have been happy with in my practice so far. Most of the scrambles did have at least one bar, which did make this somewhat lucky, but I executed really well in this average. I had a low 3 single and a pretty bad low 6, but the rest were low 4s.

3x3: 18.31 - Overall just pretty average. I plus 2ed an 18 on the first solve which was kind of bad, but I did decently on the others, as well as getting a 15 single.

OH: 32.58 - This was solid. I had 2 30s, 2 31s, and 1 37. Excluding the 37, all of these solves were better than my average.

4x4: 1:03.88 - PB2, but I really thought I would get a sub-1 avg here. I have gotten very close(1:00.1x), and I think that soon I will get it. Still really happy with this result though.

Skewb: 8.55 - Good average, only had 1 bad single by doing the wrong OLL(13). I got a 6 single on a LL skip, which I was happy with.

Pyraminx: 7.62 - Pretty good, 2 6s, a 9 and a 10, as well as 1 average 8.

Clock: 16.57 - Good for me. DNFed the first solve but ended up counting a 14 by getting a PB single. (10.64)

Overall, I am really happy with the results today.
 
Daily Comp Practice(w/comp mains and goals):

Here are the comp sim results from today:

2x2: 5.09 - Pretty bad, but I just solved badly today.

3x3: 17.07 - Decent average, had a 15 and a 12(Really Good), but I had a 19 and a 22(really bad) also? I thought it was funny how the times were 10 seconds apart.

OH: 33.01 - Pretty average, had a a bad 39 single but I got a 29 which was nice.

4x4: DNF - Popped the first solve and accidentally stopped the timer on the 4th.

Skewb: 8.91 - Solid, had a 7 single.

Pyraminx: 9.19 - Not great, but I had a mid 4 single on the first solve.

Clock: DNF - Yeah, not really sure what happened here. Guess I messed up cross on 2 of them.


My comp is in 12 days, so I decided to post my mains + goals. I am still going to be doing the daily comp sim practice, but I felt like posting these today.

2x2 - Gan 251 Pro - Hoping to get at least a sub-5 avg, maybe a sub-4 single.
3x3 - WRM V9 SE - Sub-18 avg, maybe a sub-16 single.
OH - Guhong Pro 54 Standard - Just an avg avg(33), as my OH times have kind of fallen off lately. Maybe a sub-30 single.
4x4 - MGC 4 - Sub-1:10 avg, maybe a sub-1 single if I do not get parity on a good solve.
Skewb - Gan Enhanced - Sub-10 avg, maybe a sub-8 single.
Pyraminx: XMD Bell V2 - Sub-9 avg, maybe a sub-7 or 8 single.
Clock: You'll never guess...(Qiyi) - Sub-17 avg, probably a sub-15 single.

Hope to do well in these events.
 
Daily Comp Practice:

2x2: DNF - Really bad solves, 2 DNFs, 2 6s and a 7. This was very bad.

3x3: 18.06 - Pretty average. Had a 14 single which was really good.

OH: 33.60 - Also pretty average.

4x4: Pretty average. I did get another sub-1, and am starting to think there is a good chance I can get one in comp.

Skewb: 10.76 - Pretty bad.

Pyraminx: 8.49 - Average. I did have a 6 single though.

Clock: 15.73 - Pretty good for me. I had a 14 single but DNFed a 13 by one turn.
 
Daily Comp Sims:

2x2: 3.89 - :O This was with a DNF also! Very good for me.

3x3: 17.02 - Good for me - had a counting 15.

OH: 29.90 - PB2 ao5, really good solves. I got pb single by 2 seconds and had 3 sub-30s! Pb: 24.24 - decent cross, 2 Free pairs, OLL at end of y perm and Jb perm. REALLY happy with this average.

4x4: 1:07.00 - Good for me. Had a 1 flat single.

Skewb: 10.80 - Pretty average average. I DNFed solve 1 by not starting the timer, but ended with a 5.08. (Maybe Pb2?)

Pyraminx: 8.40 - Pretty average . DNFed solve 4(U layer off by over 45 and messed up tip AUF), but I had a low 5 single at the end.

Clock: 15.77 - Good for me. I messed up the first solve very badly(22), but had some good times to save the avg.
 
Daily Comp Practice:

2x2: 5.55 - Pretty bad.

3x3: 19.52 - Not very good.

OH: 31.00 - Good avg, had pb3 26.26 single.

4x4: 1:18.25 - Oof this was very bad. I DNFed solve 4, and popped twice on solve five(I fixed it), leading to a 1:32. I did a a decent sub-1 single though.

Skewb: 9.15 - Pretty average.

Pyraminx: 7.62 - Really solid, all sub-8 except for 1.

Clock: 16.72 - Pretty good for me.

Also, I got overall Pb single in the weekly comp for OH. It was a 21.
 
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