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I don't really know toby mao, but I've met him before I believe, at the competition I went to.
I was using F2L, which is Friedrich. And yeah, normally you can tell when youre gonna finish a cube, but this one finished just after I did OLL (orientation of Last Layer). Normally you have to do a PLL after that (permutation of last layer), but this time I got lucky so I didn't expect it XD
Also, I don't know who has the current world record, I think it's some french dude. But one of the guys who taught the class was #1 in one handed solves for quite a while. I myself can't really do it one handed in less than a minute. It's pretty hard ><
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Holy christ that's amazing, the best i've seen is a friend who can do it in 3 minutes :p
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Canada7170 Posts
On December 05 2007 09:30 blagoonga123 wrote:
I was using F2L, which is Friedrich. And yeah, normally you can tell when youre gonna finish a cube, but this one finished just after I did OLL (orientation of Last Layer). Normally you have to do a PLL after that (permutation of last layer), but this time I got lucky so I didn't expect it XD
Haha I was wondering. You looked at the cube and were like "oh I'm done. Hit the timer fast!"
Maybe I should learn Friedrich. It seems easier to memorize than what I'm currently using.
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United States20661 Posts
On December 05 2007 08:23 roadrunner_sc wrote:
haha man that's great
btw does mackey still hold the record? Haven't been keeping up.
Toby took it
then someone took it from him [forgot who]
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14.85? Wow that is impressive! well done dude. thanks 4 the vid, that was great.
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That was really impressive man! Btw, did you almost drop it at -0:22 seconds? 
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Hahaha yeah, i also almost dropped it. Kinda embarassing, but the end result was still pretty fast 
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Wow nice job. I used to be pretty obsessed in high school. I do layer by layer and it's slow as hell but I can consistently do it around the 45 s mark. I don't know how to do it by Petrus or Friedrich (although I've looked, lots of memorization) but maybe you could be my guide!
:edit: by the way your expression at the end is priceless
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nice solve!
i noticed you did your cross slow yet still had a big delay to first c-e pair - do cross slower so you can lookahead to the pair better
well i'm not really in a position to tell you anything you don't already know as i used to avg 30sec, but my excuse is that i used 4lll (edit: b/c i was too lazy to learn more than the minimum 3 algs to solve a cube with fridrich) so the only reason i could get that low is because of a fluid f2l
i got bored of speedcubing though 
i learned blindfold cubing (best was a bit under 3minutes, 50sec+120sec memorization and execution respectively..nowhere near the suggested 50-50 split lols)
which i also got bored of
still fun to watch videos of others though <3 have a visit at speedsolving.com if you haven't already
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I can do it!
But in like 5 min :D
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Damn I can only do Friedrich but I hate memorizing the last layer so I never rly finished one in reasonable speed.
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Live2Win
United States6657 Posts
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Im getting into rubiks cubes
Trying to find a way to solve it
Anyone recommend me a site/video that has the easiest way without any complicated notations to solve. I just want to know how to solve it even if it takes like 5 minutes or more.
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Wow,in the begnning I was like this kid is slow and then all of a sudden your hands were flying.
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On December 05 2007 15:31 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Damn I can only do Friedrich but I hate memorizing the last layer so I never rly finished one in reasonable speed.
you don't really need algs to be able to do the cube in about 30 sec
i do intuitive f2l which requires no algs at all (ofc the cross doesn't either)
so only LL is the problem
for LL you need 2 simple algs for orientation (making the face all 1 color) and 0-2 algs for permutation (moving pieces to correct places)
i say 0-2 because the algorithms (edge cycle called Uperm and corner cycle called Aperm) can be done intuitively also, but if you want algs optimized for speed, it wouldn't hurt to learn them
so really if you want to solve it in way less than a minute, you only need very few (less than 5) algorithms which can be learnt in a day as they're very short =)
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I've been trying to ignore all 'intuitive' systems ever since I met Andrew Kang at a summer camp I went to. Sometimes the best way to do things is just counter-intuitive. He got me into the cube back when he was like #20 in the world and now he's #2, awesome.
Basically he said 'just learn the damn fastest algs if you wanna be fast.' So I have been learning. I'm sub-35 average now with all 21 PLL moves, and my fastest time (no skips) is about 24 seconds but I need to learn the rest of the OLL and get a faster F2L before I'm actually going to be any good.
For all you people looking to get into speedcubing, or to just solve one for the first time, try one of Thrawst's videos YouTube. They're pretty good. And if you're using a rly old cube, stop. Newer store-bought cubes aren't half bad, and with a little work they can be quick enough to do most of the advanced finger-tricks to accelerate your turns and such.
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