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Weekly Discussion Post (13 Jan 2025) (self.cubers)
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[–] annorax 2 points 4 hours ago

"Cubing Competitions Near Me" tool

Until yesterday, we could find the closest WCA competitions to our home (or any location and sorted by distance) with a tool on CubingApp.com. All we had to do was fill in the latitude and longitude.

Today I contact Spencer Chubb (the owner of the website) about this, and few hours later he had improved it: now we just have to fill in the field with a city!
It works perfectly and easier to use!

Find a WCA competitions near you: cubingapp.com/competitions/

Thanks to Spencer to listen to suggestions, and congratulations to him on his responsiveness.
He's a very nice guy.

[–] annorax 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Where can I find Sum Of Ranks (SoR) WCA world ranking?

Yestherday, Luke Garrett became #1 in the world for Sum Of Ranks average. In his youtube video, we can see a SoR ranking web page.

Do you know which site is it from please?

[–] thisisdee 1 points 23 hours ago

Not the same website, but you can calculate here: https://cubingapp.com/calculate-sum-of-ranks/

[–] thisisdee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Based on the screenshot, it reminds me of this website that also gives you end of year review of your WCA results. That one was a Chinese website that I can't remember right now (I originally found it shared on Reddit)

[–] annorax 3 points 15 hours ago

"Chinese" was a good clue! I found it.
Ranking is here: cubing.com/results/statistics/sum-of-ranks

Thank you @thisisdee :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've managed a solve in under 21 seconds this week and managed to get some AO5 under 30!

My lookahead game is improving

[–] annorax 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Congrats :)
If you use CFOP, do you know full PLL? OLL?
I'm interested 'cause I do same times as you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not full no. I know most of them but I gave up when I felt like I had enough to get good times.

I do know full PLL

Dot cases I don't know in OLL. I just do a fat Sexy on them and then I can go from there.

I guess I could do with sitting down and learning those when I have one of those mornings when my IBS gets me up at 6am and nobody else will be up until 10...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Slow solves have helped me drastically improve my look ahead though, and taking time to plan my cross. That was hard to start with, I'd plan 3 edges and wing the last one but that took time I didn't need to lose.

This week I've been planning my cross fully and even occasionally (on easy ones) planning my first pair. When I say that, I mean I'd have a pair in mind to start with, but not quite what the orientation of the pair will look like yet.

So next steps are planning first pair into my cross (and learning dot cases I guess).

Do you know full PLL/OLL?

[–] annorax 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for your answer. It's very interesting to know what knowledge cubers have and what techniques they use.

It's funny, we're at the same place in our progression 🙂 I plan crosses and try x-crosses/cross+1 but I'm bad at this. As you, I do a lot of slow turning. I agree with you, it's a very good practice.
For F2L, I'm still discovering new tricks/algs that save me time.
Actually, I know 20/21 PLLs and 2-look OLLs (+ 2 OLL-T). I don't want learn full OLL, so, to skip dot cases I use sledge to insert the last pair or add M moves to a last 3-mover.

I decided I would never learn all OLLs (too much for me). So, in parallel to CFOP, a few days ago I started practicing edges orientation (EO) of the ZZ method. Because after F2Ls, up-face edges are already oriented and so, there are only 8 cases (we already know). It's a (long) test. I'll see later if I definitively switch or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I would fully recommend taking the time to learn full OLL or as much as you can.

I used Jperm's website to learn OLL/PLL it's a great resource when you learn that you can click on the picture of the case you're learning to mark it as learning or learned, then go into the timer and set it to just show you cases you're learning.

I did similar cases at the same time and tried remembering them in the trainer. If you forget the alg you can make it show up move by move with a keyboard press.

I took have tried learning EO but it blags my head. It's a slow process but kills time

[–] annorax 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You have good advice but, it doesn't suit who I am. Tx :)
I'm not a competitor and I don't want spend time with a trainer.
I only do 40~50 solves a day. It's not enough to keep 57 cases in memory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hear you, I'm 40 and never gonna compete. But I still compete with every solve I do, with myself.

The serotonin dump I get when I get a PB is enough for me to spend time learning a new alg here and there. I was trying to learn a new alg a day at one point, then just a new one a week, and it's since dropped off a bit and my solves have plateaued.

So the decision to spend some time teaching myself better look ahead was exactly the kick up the arse I needed to care a bit more about cubing

I may not get the best times, but I do know that I was excited to be getting solves under a minute using 2 look and now I'm excited to be getting some in the 20-25 range.

The fact you're getting sub 30 solves without that is quite impressive to me and so i just wonder how much faster you would be with all the algs in your head.

I started by just learning a couple. When those cases showed up I'd get a little giddy and shave loads off my normal times, and that pushed me to learn a few more.

Thing is, some you already know, you just add an extra move or two onto the beginning or end.

Anyway you do you, but I do honestly think you'll be glad you learned at least a few full algs

[–] annorax 2 points 2 days ago

I share your excitement and the serotonin addiction, like all cubers :)

I just wonder how much faster you would be with all the algs in your head.

I wonder too. You can also ask yourself how much faster you would be after learning some COLL or/and Winter Variations, or if you do x-crosses/cross+1 each solve. Learning is endless in cubing! I've decided to stop − for a moment − learning new algs and focus on inspection and F2Ls.

May be I'll take a look at few sexy/sledge OLL algorithms ;)

[–] thisisdee 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Dwayne Ramos broke the New Zealand 3x3 single NR with 4.54: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca5W1X1aiL0

[–] thisisdee 2 points 4 days ago

My nephew joined his first comp over the weekend and did really well! Second fastest newcomer in 3x3. Excited for future comps and for him to (very quickly) become faster than me.