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FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10342 Posts
March 29 2013 04:25 GMT
#1
12:00am, 1 more day til the competition. For speedcubing. Hopefully I just get my average (roughly 20.5 seconds). I've trained pretty well for this, memorizing all my PLLs that I still had to memorize (about 5) and some more OLLs (10 maybe?). So I prepped pretty well for this.

Well, hope I do well tomorrow and will post the results after the competition! I've signed up for both the 3x3 and the 5x5 solves. Keep it real.

-FlaShFTW

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Azera
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
3800 Posts
March 29 2013 04:42 GMT
#2
Hey man, good luck with your competition! Don't forget to keep us updated!

FlaShFTW fighting!
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jrkirby
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1510 Posts
March 29 2013 04:48 GMT
#3
Good Luck. I could solve a rubik's cube once. I think it only took me 30. + Show Spoiler +
30 Minutes.
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
March 29 2013 05:13 GMT
#4
nice, good luck! (I live beside some speedcubing nerds, who have absurd times like 9.39 average... too bad my time is like 150 seconds :D)
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Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
March 29 2013 05:14 GMT
#5
I have yet to solve my first cube. Best of luck to you!
Kommatiazo
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States579 Posts
March 29 2013 05:18 GMT
#6
FGOGO FlashFTW!!! I hope you're feeling pumped up about the competition. Kill it dude! Leave no nerds standing.
"You must enemy don't know, and very good micro" - Bosstoss #Wet4Ret
Aerisky
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States12129 Posts
March 29 2013 05:18 GMT
#7
Good luck! Didn't know you were into speedcubing, gogo!

I, too, have yet to solve my first cube lol.
Jim while Johnny had had had had had had had; had had had had the better effect on the teacher.
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
March 29 2013 05:25 GMT
#8
Good luck dude, I had no idea you were a cuber, not that I am . Hope everything goes as planned!
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BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50654 Posts
March 29 2013 05:25 GMT
#9
good luck, do well and have fun.
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synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
March 29 2013 05:28 GMT
#10
Man I could never break like 40 seconds...
GL man, so sad my 5x5 broke before I could practice much
:)
ReketSomething
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6012 Posts
March 29 2013 05:49 GMT
#11
Damn, 20 seconds for a 5v5. You'll probably win ez.

XD
Jaedong :3
Emzeeshady
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
Canada4203 Posts
March 29 2013 05:53 GMT
#12
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Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-29 06:16:36
March 29 2013 06:16 GMT
#13
I learned to solve cubes five years ago. Bought a cube, solved it once, took me a whole night iirc. Never touched it again haha.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Sawamura
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Malaysia7602 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-29 06:19:23
March 29 2013 06:18 GMT
#14
Good luck flash for the win let's you hope you ace it

edit : I can't solve rubic cubes and I am a shame of my self T_T
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DusTerr
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
2520 Posts
March 29 2013 06:18 GMT
#15
On March 29 2013 15:16 Cambium wrote:
I learned to solve cubes five years ago. Bought a cube, solved it once, took me a whole night iirc. Never touched it again haha.

That's when you leave it on the coffee table for other's to fiddle with. When they've had enough you solve it in a minute and they never visit again
TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
March 29 2013 08:09 GMT
#16
Go for it man! My best time was 1:48, and after I hit under two minutes, I stop practicing. I am rooting for you!
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. -Charlie Chaplin
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
March 29 2013 08:17 GMT
#17
20 sec for a 5x5 ? You're good !

gl hf !
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Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
March 29 2013 08:22 GMT
#18
On March 29 2013 15:18 DusTerr wrote:
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On March 29 2013 15:16 Cambium wrote:
I learned to solve cubes five years ago. Bought a cube, solved it once, took me a whole night iirc. Never touched it again haha.

That's when you leave it on the coffee table for other's to fiddle with. When they've had enough you solve it in a minute and they never visit again


we actually have a French cube finalist at work and he's teaching everyone speedcubing, so that would actually NEVER work.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
March 29 2013 08:53 GMT
#19
On March 29 2013 17:17 endy wrote:
20 sec for a 5x5 ? You're good !

gl hf !


I suspect he's referring to the 3x3, haha

the world record for a 5x5 is 51.09
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FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10342 Posts
March 29 2013 15:45 GMT
#20
Yeah I meant my 3x3 average which isnt that good vs the pros xD but i go fro fun and go to experience

my 5x5 is like 3 minutes TT.TT
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IRL_Sinister
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Ireland621 Posts
March 29 2013 16:03 GMT
#21
Omg those times, lol.
Golden Ghost
Profile Joined February 2003
Netherlands1041 Posts
March 29 2013 18:01 GMT
#22
Good luck in the competition.
Made me think of this TL guide from a couple of years back. Was a joy remembering and rereading it.
Life is to give and take. You take a vacation and you give to the poor.
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
March 29 2013 18:45 GMT
#23
On March 30 2013 00:45 FlaShFTW wrote:
Yeah I meant my 3x3 average which isnt that good vs the pros xD but i go fro fun and go to experience

my 5x5 is like 3 minutes TT.TT


naw, 20 sec is quite good just keep working (personally I'm too lazy to memorize all the fancy algorithms... sigh. I already put _enough_ time into stuff like Tetris...)
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MysteryMeat1
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States3292 Posts
March 29 2013 22:16 GMT
#24
FLASHFTW HWAITING!!!

OWN DEM NOOBS AND SHOW EM WHOSE BOSS!
"Cause ya know, Style before victory." -The greatest mafia player alive
XXGeneration
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States625 Posts
March 30 2013 01:46 GMT
#25
Good luck!

I remember when I worked so hard to break 20, then 15 second Ao5s. I stopped cubing after getting a sub 12 and a sub 10 single.

Advice: make sure your hands are warm, and not sweaty
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E.L.V.I.S
Profile Joined April 2011
Belgium458 Posts
March 30 2013 01:55 GMT
#26
my 3x3 is like 10minutes with google telling me what to do
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