need to get better at f2l, 2look OLL

  1. 29.37 - Looks like my cube had dried out a bit, added a drop of Lubicle Silk before the next solve (White cross)
  2. 21.90 - Almost new pb. Got an Xcross with about 5 or 6 moves, and f2l was very fluid (Yellow cross)
  3. 28.13 - Ok solve, accidentally did an f2l case an inefficient way, and pretty bad lookahead during f2l in general (Yellow cross)
  4. 27.41 - Weird cross solution (8 moves) preserved 2 (!) f2l pairs, but it took so long to figure out that the solve wasn't very fast (Yellow cross)
  5. 29.29 - Average solve, f2l lookahead needs work

Overall thoughts:

  • Need to do other color crosses than yellow and white
  • Bad f2l lookahead slowed down most of my solves
  • Need to practice some cases so that the efficient solution is muscle memory, not the inefficient solution.

The top wasn't as perfect as yesterday, but still pretty nice. I remembered how to cycle the cross without notes! FRUR'U'F' became "gotta get FRU the RUF"! So I only need notes for the top middle swaps and the top corner cycles.

a rough scramble, but maybe doing it after half a bottle of cava wasn't the best strategy.

middling scramble. Was able to optimise a few of the white corners on the fly, which was a first.

one mistake in the middle layer, but a good run in an average scramble.

some on-the-fly optimisations in the yellow cross and white corners, which I liked. Still need notes for the yellow corner cycling tho.

sub 2 min! Really friendly top cross, and a new timing app, but still.

First NO NOTES run! With a hard yellow layer too.

No notes, a decent scramble, and a pb! Not bad for a friday night.

optimised the yellow cross and a few white corners, but also messed up one corner and had to re-fi

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friendly yellow edges but also I just felt in the zone for most of this.

friendly yellow corners, and I panicked at the last step, but still good.

splitting headache meant it took three attempts to actually finish one. But a decent time in the end.

I forget to submit yesterday, even though I did like 8 solves, so I have no guilt in dropping yesterday's pb in for today. This has nothing to do with doing a 3 minute solve this morning.

nothing to note today

A particularly nasty middle layer, where all the edges were there but in the wrong places and orientations. Had to roll two out by hand in the end.

After yesterday's streak entry, I managed two PBs, one touching 1:30! Haven't repeated that yet.

Very friendly final corners, but I'll take it!

Hard middle layer today

missed one day with work, another with family! Streak is back on now tho.

Been rubbish lately! A few practice solves as I rehearse my videobrains talk.

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much more unfriendly scramble than recently, hence the time. Didn't need notes until the top edge swaps.