2019 Goals & Predictions

6 years ago

Speedcubing Thoughts

Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I wrote on here, but since I did a 2018 goals/predictions post, I thought it would be nice to revisit that and do one for next year.

Here are the goals I wrote at the start of the year:

And, here are the predictions I made at the start of the year. 

So, on to my speedcubing goals for the year. I think that goals are most effective when they are in that slightly uncomfortable zone. Too easy and you won’t stretch yourself, too hard and you’ll get demotivated. I also like to keep the focus fairly narrow. I took a look at my old goals (since 2015), and of the quantifiable goals, I've actually only achieved 3 of 8. These are definitely stretch goals.

Besides general improvement and competition performance, my specific goals for this year are:

Now for the fun - prediction time!

Safe bet:

Slightly Riskier:

Crazy:

Let me know if you have any goals or predictions for speedcubing this year :)

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Silas Lickliter

Silas Lickliter Posted 6 years ago

^I totally get that.  Everyone has a personal preference though

László Csonka

László Csonka Posted 6 years ago

You can see videos about the X. You can see it's too flexible and you can't use it normally because of the misaligns, lockups and more corner twist compared to the SM.

You can see videos about the SM. There's no misaligns at all, almost 0 lockups and 0 corner twist.

Question?

 

People like the X more because it's newer, more quiet and basically smooth (but you need insane luck to turn it perfectly not to get lockup). And the interchangeable magnet system is perfectly unnecessary.

Hery Zo ANDRIAMANANTENA

Hery Zo ANDRIAMANANTENA Posted 5 years ago

Hi everybody! I'm not a big cuber for the moment but I work on it! let me introduce myself, my name is Zo and I'm a Madagascar Cuber, we had our first WCA comp in Madagascar a month ago. I would like to be sub 10 in 3x3x3 but my average is about 13 seconds actually I saw all the videos of Feliks Zemdegs and I work on it everyday but this is so hard! so can you help please?! what should I do?! what is the plan?! where shoud I begin surely I should focus one by one in Cross then F2L then OLL then PLL?! my last question is how do all of you do this?! it's amazing to see all of you in youtube and I thank all of you so much because now I love playing Rubik's cube too! :D

László Csonka

László Csonka Posted 5 years ago

Hery Zo ANDRIAMANANTENA 

Hello. You should practice F2L. In the inspection time you could plan the first 2 pairs. If you're color neutral, it's much easier because you have more options on more colors. If you practice enough and smartly, you will see you pieces changes their positions and you won't have to stop to find fairs.

Moreover J perm has advanced F2l cases PDF file below some videos of his, you can download them. Those F2L cases help you to solve some fairs in incorrect positions as well, so you don't need to take the pairs in the standard F2L positions to solve them.

Feliks knows many, many OLL cases and OLLCP algorithms. He can solve OLLs in more positions and he can solve the corners as well.

And he uses more PLLs, not 1 for each PLL.

 

But honestly, I don't think there will be many people who can get his times at home. Just look at his times back in 2009 and 2010. Many years ago he reached quite good times and averages and just a few people can reach these times nowadays althought they use much better cubes.

László Csonka

László Csonka Posted 5 years ago

+Feliks knows so many other algorithms like: VLS, Winter variation, ZBLL, BLE, CLS, TTLL, TSLE, etc.

And he can solve the pairs from every single view. And the F2L is the most important part of the solve. There are speedcubers who can solve the F2L in 3 seconds or 2.5. If they get a skip or an easy LL, it will be insane good.

Jacob Shum

Jacob Shum Posted 5 years ago

Your crazy wish came true and was exceeded lol

Jacob Shum

Jacob Shum Posted 5 years ago

Hery Zo ANDRIAMANANTENA

Your main focus should always be F2L, and at sub-13, you should also improve your LL to get faster. 

 

László Csonka

Planning first 2 pairs are very difficult to do alongside being color neutral because doing that within 15 seconds is barely possible, even at world-class level. Color neutrality gives you more options, but takes more time for inspection(I am color neutral). 

Also, as a Chinese descendant, I don't feel overly offended, but some people will be offended. This is the internet. Your opinion is different on everyone else, like J Perm, who doesn't like the Valk Power, but many other people like it. And it probably locks up because you/they didn't set it up. 

László Csonka

László Csonka Posted 5 years ago

Jacob Shum

I hate hatred, sorry. I was really disappointed in these cubes nowadays. I spent more than $500 for unuseable cubes, so I'm really disappointed.

Yesterday I got my first sub-14 avg100 with LBL (13.96) and it's so bad to see how my better times are keeping off with this cube (Gan 356 X). I ordered another cubes but I have to wait for months because our post service is horrible.

Jacob Shum

Jacob Shum Posted 5 years ago

Your turning style would be the problem with you not being able to use the X. The X needs a fairly light turning style, with hardly any rough turning. I tried doing rough turning, and it wouldn't turn. It's probably bad because you lubed it too much(if you did), because I felt one of my friend's X's and it was overlubed to the point of slower than a Guanlong. 

Mickey Chan

Mickey Chan Posted 5 years ago

Sebastian will get a 4x4 world record single with parity.

He did it one year later folks.

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