I’m glad you finally found such a clear answer!
(You are down a cube robot though… :p)
Last time, I forgot to tell you about https://speedcubedb.com/reviews/ (which are apparently all made by Bas). There are a little bit more reviews than on https://basilio.dev/cubing/reviews.html
A little bit late since you’ve found what you wanted, but that may be useful for a next time (or another person).
And a full sub-1 solve!
That's highly probable! So much TPS…
Yes. I think that there will be a lot more of "16s" WR before there are a 15. 16 moves is less than 3% of solutions, 15 is about 0.2%.
Orange-white FB – 34stm
y' x2 //inspection
B U F' u' r M2 B' //FB 7
U' M B' R2 B U M //U' r' // SB 7/14
B U2 B' U' B U2 B' U' R' // CMLL 9/23
U2 M' U M U M2 U' B2 M B2 M2 // LSE 11/34
Graham Siggins has tried a 300 mbld https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2160951313
288/300 in 11:03:44. I can’t imagine the exhaustion!
I wanted to try a stronger magnetic cube (main is currently Tengyun v1). QiYi M Pro has a ~10$ ballcore UV, so it went onto the cart. The turning feeling is really close to my tengyun, so I like it.
Master pyraminx isn’t too much of a hassle, pretty straightforward with pyraminx algs.
I haven’t scrambled the rua yet, but it’s very stiff.
The video is really nice! Love the stop motion.
What I do is : insert corners first, then edges. Corners are easy. For edges, I do an insert "beginner"-style (URU'R' U' F'UF). (Since it can breaks the adjacent side, I pair the edge with the corner on a higher layer, that is doing 1 turn on the face). Just experiment with it, I’m sure it will "click" at some point ;)
Nice!
4x4x4 is the next logical step, but megaminx is actually easier: no new algorithm is needed (if you come from the "beginner method"). Figuring out all layers (except the last one) is pretty easy. Then I suggest you do some 3x3x3 algs to see what is affected. Anyway, that’s what I use too, no world record in sight either!
4x4x4 parity is the real hassle. I use commutators to remember it, and it’s pretty inefficient too :p
Where did you buy them?
It depends on what better means for you. What’s your goal?
You can either check CFOP or Roux methods. Both are top-level cubing. CFOP is more algorithm oriented and might be closer to what you know, Roux is more "intuitive" with fewer algorithms.
I’ve fucked up a pretty good scramble. I’ve got the wrong cmll and ended up doing a Y-perm. Still got a 21.17, but I could have gotten a PB…
D' F' U2 R2 B2 U B2 R2 D L2 U' B R' U2 L2 U B U F'
y' x' // inspection
B R B' // FB (3) 1.07
U2 R U r R U' r'// SB (7/10) 3.90
M' U R' U' R U' R' U2 R U' F R U' R' U' R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R F' //CMLL (27/37) 9.36
M' U M U' M' U M U M' U2 M' U M2 U2 M U2 M //LSE (17/54) 6.84
Nice! (it is incredible 😉)
I think that cubing is such a great hobby: with 3x3x3 you have several methods to discover (cfop, roux, zz, petrus, heise…), several events (classic, one hand, (multi)blind, fmc). You can find something that suit you: good at learning algs? you can try zz. you suck at tps? roux can be pretty fast. You’re in for the "mathematical" challenge ? petrus/heise or fmc it is.
Then you start 4x4x4, 2x2x2, 7x7x7 to make some fun patterns, 3x3x3 shape-mods, skewb, square-one, non-wca. It’s a bottomless pit, such an interesting bottomless pit…