UK Open 2008?

Escher said:
its gonna be excellent :) yeah im not looking forward to H2H with joey gouly and lars vandenberg & ron van bruchem... hah even with a 17s average, ill be completely floored. o well :) p.s i got a 26s average doing slow/smooth turning. well pleased! sped up a little for LL admittedly.
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don't worry, i'm worse than you :P you can at least beat me!
 
I like it, I just don't ever do it :p
But you know there is no pyraminx at UK open.. so unless you plan to go to another competiton you won't beat her officially!
 
Hmm, haven't cubed much recently (3x3 average decreased by 3-4 seconds, OH by 5-6 seconds, and my 4x4x4 broke so I haven't done it in months - even forgot parity alg!) so I think I need to do some before the competition.

However, have been practicing BLD as though in a competition (i.e. being careful but slow on first and trying fast on rest, and getting lots of 4:xx.xx, DNF, DNF :P), and managed to get a sub 3 solve! So expecting to do well (relatively) at BLD but crap in the other events.
 
Garmon said:
Mefferts, I won't get as fast as you, but I can try:)
I got 2 sub 30s on 3x3 just now!! :O:O:O first ever. Hope it happens in competition.
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<3 mefferts. i'm really not that fast, i need to improve a LOt. i don't do anything particularly exciting to solve it either, just the first method i came across on the internet! practice practice, it's easy :P
 
Will anybody be selling puzzles at UK Open? I might be interested in picking up a few oddities, such as Square-1, Pyraminx and Megaminx, with a try-before-you-buy system =P
 
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MTGjumper said:
Will anybody be selling puzzles at UK Open? I might be interested in picking up a few oddities, such as Square-1, Pyraminx and Megaminx, with a try-before-you-buy system =P
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i have a black square one that you can buy if you like. it's not particularly good, but it's not awful and it's probably fine to start solving with. it turns okay and stuff. having said that, matyas called it "a piece of s***" the time he used it.

pyraminx wise i have some white ones i never use, so i could sell one, but i would need to make it "nice" first. let me know and i can bring them along.

incidentally, if anyone has a good clock i would pay very good money for one :P mine is hideous.
 
Cool, that's awesome. I've wanted to try solve them by myself for a while now, but most applets I've used are unintuitive when it comes to turning the puzzles.

I still need to apply =/ I'd best get practicing 4x4x4, 'cause I suck =P
 
cool. thanks. well i can bring some speedcubes, i can post you one if you really want so that you can use it before the comp. i have a few dian sheng cubes which just don't pop. or at least i've never popped one and i'm quite rough.
 
Diansheng is Type E, right? The non-poppability gave me increased interest, because I think my Type D managed to pop on every other solve I did tonight; it hadn't popped for ages before.

Ooo, another: anyone have a Rubik's brand 4x4x4. I've heard that providing they're broken in well enough, they are better than ES 4x4x4. My ES locks up like mad, which I'd like to think is what is preventing me from improving =P
 
yeah i have a rubik's 4x4. i would consider getting rid of it for i have enough ES 4x4 and i just hate 4x4 anyway :P

yeah i think it's type E. i bought 5 for $8 or something ridiculous. i was only expecting one, and FIVE came in the post! awesome!

the stickers i got were awful mind so i had to resticker it and those stickers did not come off easily :P it really doesn't pop, i couldn't even pop it on purpose. it does lock up a bit to start with though, but once it's broken in a bit more it's fine :) it also seems really light which is good for OH!
 
CharlieCooper said:
the stickers i got were awful mind so i had to resticker it and those stickers did not come off easily :P it really doesn't pop, i couldn't even pop it on purpose. it does lock up a bit to start with though, but once it's broken in a bit more it's fine :) it also seems really light which is good for OH!
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My dian'sheng is awesome, pity it´s too special for me to use >_>
 
So, I thought it'd be interesting to see what everyone's aims for the competition are. I'll post mine (averages of course):
2x2x2: Sub 7
3x3x3: Sub 24
4x4x4: Sub 2:20
5x5x5: Sub 4:50
3x3x3 OH: Sub 43
3x3x3 BLD: Sub 3
 
2x2 - sub 10 (not really practicing this)
3x3 - sub 20 (hopefully - get nervous easily though)
3x3 OH - sub 45 (am practicing this a lot now)
3x3 Head2Head - hoping not to get absolutely thrashed...
i think i put these somewhere else too... o well
 
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