Another new personal best. 41 seconds. Beastie Boys’ “So What’cha Want?” remix/mashup with Cypress Hill played in the background.
personal best
42 seconds
New personal best. 42 seconds. w00t!
Bill Evans’ “Five” played in the background.
P.S. I really dig the gqTimer (Graphy qqTimer) I’ve been using lately. It stores your times (using your Google login) and logs them into graphs. Great timer — and now my go-to instead of Cube Timer.
46 seconds
Just got a new 3×3 personal best (non-lucky) solve: 46 seconds.
OLL #22(Pi)
(R U2′) (R2′ U’) (R2 U’) (R2′ U2′ R)
Only a half-second better than my last best time, but it definitely felt smooth and easy. I’m starting to believe the much-preached truth that consistent, slower turning is better than rushed turns punctuated by long delays of hunting for pieces. I was excited to encounter and easily apply a newly-learned OLL (#22) during the solve.
This was with my black Dayan Zhanchi (favorite cube, by far), restickered with a Cubesmith bright-set. The very excellent new Big Gigantic album played in the background.
47 seconds
With about two minutes before an early conference call, I loaded the timer and gave a cube a whirl. 47 seconds. Personal best.
This was with my white Dayan Lunhui, restickered with a Cubesmith half-bright set.
51 sec solve
I guess the F2L practice is starting to pay off. I just got this 51-second solve, using F2L. My personal best to date, which means that (on a good day) my F2L times have converged with my Beginner’s Method times.
(cube: recently re-stickered Type F-II; music>: Medeski Martin & Wood playing “Rise Up”)
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