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louster200
Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 1581 Location: YYZ, Indiana
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:42 am Post subject: |
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I'm still working on my first one! :D
>_>
And I saw the video of the guy solving a 20x20x20. it's awesome. _________________
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Cuno
Joined: 27 Apr 2008 Posts: 38
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:58 am Post subject: |
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iirc, they've made up to 11x11x11 cubes. They just cost a lot.
I still have my original 3x3x3, except now it's all lubed and re-stickered.
Average is ~47 seconds, record is 32 seconds (Total last layer skip... I finished 2nd layer and...I was done. It took me a moment to hit the timer since I was flipping out at my luck >.<)
I do cross-3 corners-3 2nd layers - 4th corner- 4 2nd layer - 2-look OLL - PLL. I have all the PLLs memorized except the stupid double ones (i.e. corner & edge rotation)
What I mean by "3 corners-3 2nd layers - 4th corner- 4 2nd layer "
Is that I do 3 of the corners, use the empty corner to put up 3 of the 2nd layer pieces (which puts them up in place in 3 moves instead of 8 moves), then do the 4th corner/4th edge (a lot of the time i can do them at the same time).
I have not learned F2L, and I'm still faster than most of the F2Lers at my school...Hurray fingertrixies. |
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Fug
Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 2188 Location: Grand Rapids, MI
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:59 am Post subject: |
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Ahh, the Rubik's Cube. It was my life for a few months earlier this year. I solved a 3x3 in 54 seconds. I solved a 4x4 many, many times but never timed myself. :/ Pry took me around 4 minutes on average, that's my guess. _________________
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blackwidowcd
Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 1717 Location: Bucketheadland
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Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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Cuno wrote: | iirc, they've made up to 11x11x11 cubes. They just cost a lot.
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Actually, the v cube company makes them up to 7 but they will go up to 11. Don't expect that one until about 2020. _________________
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121212
Joined: 16 Jul 2007 Posts: 534
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:11 am Post subject: |
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Solved one last week, took me a while, its fun to play with when you have nothing to do. |
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blackwidowcd
Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 1717 Location: Bucketheadland
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:36 am Post subject: |
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reikonkeiri wrote: | blackwidowcd wrote: | reikonkeiri wrote: |
MuckFizzou wrote: | My personal best with a 3x3x3 is 48 seconds, but average 1 minutes and about 20 seconds. I was motivated to solving 4x4x4 cubes this summer but lost interest. I could solve until the 2nd to last step too. |
irony because the second to last step is to solve it like a 3x3 rofl.
my best on a 4x4 is 4:53 but I only legitimately timed myself once |
That's not what I do. I solve it in about 7 minutes and I do top layer, bottom layer, middle edges, finish last 4 faces. |
lol i didn't even know there was another method haha. that sounds a lot harder to me. all i have to do is align centers, align edge pairs, 3x3, parity. sooo very easy and parity isn't even necessary all the time |
I've tried that strategy and one of my important algorithms for getting the edges messes up the faces. _________________
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turbo
Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 1910 Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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Kyuukyuu
Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 659 Location: BC, Canada
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:05 am Post subject: |
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A friend of mine has an "average of 5" record of just under 20 seconds I believe, for the 3x3x3 (his best time is 17 seconds or so).
I haven't really learned (too busy with teh PLASTARS), but damn, cubing is a way cooler parlour trick than playing plastic guitar |
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blackwidowcd
Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 1717 Location: Bucketheadland
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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turbo wrote: | blackwidowcd wrote: | Cuno wrote: | iirc, they've made up to 11x11x11 cubes. They just cost a lot.
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Actually, the v cube company makes them up to 7 but they will go up to 11. Don't expect that one until about 2020. |
I was keeping an eye on the vcube about a year ago, they hadn't been released at the time.
Just checked the site. OMG THEY ARE RELEASED.
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I know, I first went to the site about 3 years ago and it was called "rubik's cube olympics". Back then they just had drawings and I was anxious for the 6 to come out and for months I checked for a release date. I got back into cubing less than a few months ago and the have the 6 and 7! _________________
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blackwidowcd
Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 1717 Location: Bucketheadland
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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I'm mad. I just solved my 3x3x3 with the fastest time I've ever done it but I didn't time it. I'm thinking about 30 seconds and my old time was about 45 seconds. This time was lucky, I got the first 2 layers in maybe 20 seconds and right after I finished the two layers, the cube was already set up for an ALLAN, which takes me probably less than 5 seconds. It was so lucky and I wish I could've timed it.[/url] _________________
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gochipper127
Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 21
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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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I used to cube a ton.
I slack off now but I still mess around with them at school.
My average is around 50 seconds, but it used to be around 40.
My fastest is probably about 30 seconds or so.
I use a modified Fridrich method that I made up so I don't have to memorize all 60 algorithms or however many it is.
My steps are:
1. first cross
2. F2L with one step
3. 2 algorithm OLL
4. 2 algorithm PLL |
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turbo
Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 1910 Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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Rikuthemaster
Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 2401 Location: My own personal hell
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 1:24 am Post subject: Re: Rubik's Cubes? |
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tenorsrule2008 wrote: | Rikuthemaster wrote: | I recently got a 3x3 Rubik's Cube, and was surprised at how much easier it is to solve than it was when I was way younger. After practice, I can solve this thing in about 3 minutes. I have yet to work on a 4x4, but the simple question is, has anyone ever solved a Rubik's Cube? | Are you talking without algorithms? Dang man, good job
I can almost solve it but i never bothered to learn the fish and H algorithms, so i kind of have to get lucky |
No, I've never solved it without Algorithms. I do the layer method. Ya know, the method that is taught with the manual that comes with it. xD I'm a failure. _________________
Did somebody say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]? |
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Mischlings
Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 455 Location: The state of Confusion (aka Michigan (Ann Arbor, if you want to get specific))
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:31 am Post subject: |
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I started cubing last summer. Third time I solved it, it took me 42 minutes. Within a week, I was down to 4 minutes. At my peak, I managed 33 seconds, with a 45 second average of 10.
I have and can solve a 4, but I've never timed myself and can never remember the parity algorithm.
And there's the little matter of this:
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blackwidowcd
Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 1717 Location: Bucketheadland
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:31 am Post subject: |
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Mischlings wrote: | I started cubing last summer. Third time I solved it, it took me 42 minutes. Within a week, I was down to 4 minutes. At my peak, I managed 33 seconds, with a 45 second average of 10.
I have and can solve a 4, but I've never timed myself and can never remember the parity algorithm.
And there's the little matter of this:
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If you did that, congrats! _________________
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