A final pre-weekend post. Bad memories of high school, brought to you by XKCD (my favorite web comic strip):
i’m on a boat. in a freefall. cubing.
I normally cube from the safety of my couch or bed. And, in those controlled environments, I’m still stuck at just over 1 minute. This guy pulled off a 35-second solve while free falling.
Goodonya, mate.
but why?
Ridicule ( rid·i·cule/ˈridiˌkyo͞ol/) The subjection of someone or something to mockery and derision.
Yes, ridicule. I expect it. To those who will mock, I respond, “Well deserved, but it is not to you that I owe an explanation.” Owed that explanation is my conscience and my wife. Hope you’re both reading.
I interpret “why” as relating to two things: (1) cubing and (2) documenting it. Continue reading
find rabbit hole. jump in. document it.
Against my better judgment — and fully anticipating ridicule, mockery, and outright bullying — we begin. A blog is born. It generally takes me over 100 hours to properly birth a blog. I’m a perfectionist. I fiddle with every pixel of spacing in CSS, get crazy with jquery and php switches, and tinker in Photoshop until my eyes glaze over. Not this time. This blog gestated for just over an hour. Why the short shrift? Mostly because I have time for this, and should be quartered by my bosses, wife, and children for even contemplating it. But also because I’m not confident this will go anywhere. So, a hosted blog, free theme, 20 lines of CSS, and we’re off…. Continue reading
First Timed F2L Attempt
I’ve been learning more and more about F2L, as I explained in the tutorials I prepared. This video records my first timed solves using F2L. They come in at an average of 2:06 (2:12, 2:09, and 1:58).
At that speed, these are about a full minute slower than my fastest recorded beginner’s method solves. That slow-down from a new method is common, I understand. As I practice more, my guess it that I can get that down pretty quickly — and, if theory holds, below the 1:09 at which I’ve plateaued with the beginner’s method.
REVISIONIST HISTORY: Although I posted this after my inaugural post, I’ve pre-dated it to keep things chronological.
adventures in cubing 