Update

I finally have time to update. School has taken its toll and I am relegated to 2 hours of homework on a good night. I can't wait for baseball season...

On the plus side, I have been slacking enough to learn all of the H and U orientations of ZBLL. It feels good, I must say, though U needs a ton of work. I'm estimating that I'll be at version 10 by the time I've finished learning ZBLL. Grr...

My times haven't dropped too much but I have been practicing OH and BLD quite a bit. I'm even getting successful BLD solves!!! It just takes me an hour. As memorization time goes down (I have ideas here) I'm sure I'll improve. I'll share some thoughts on BLD some other time, but I do have comments about algorithms (well, just Y actually).

I'm in Pain

Basic reason why I can't post anything reasonable: school and no more wisdom teeth. Make sure they give you some Vicodin or something because I am in serious pain right now.

Color Scheme Research

I'm starting to play around with opponent colors for a color scheme. Using a white type FI. So far it's worked out well, as I'm only 5 seconds behind my regular scheme average.

Update

It's been quite a while but not much has happened. My times have gotten slightly better but I haven't had time for a full average. I am continuing to update my ZBLL document and will soon finish re-doing the H sets. I realized that I have forgotten roughly 1/3 of my OLLs, so I have to relearn those. I recently got some pretty nice FMC solves (26, 27, and 23) that were ruined by having to undo premoves (28, 33, and 28 in the end).

The admissions lady a Grinnell asked if I could post a video of me solving. Apparently they like stuff like that.

Update

Not much happened this week. I'm preparing for a road trip to the midwest and haven't had that much time to cube. Like many weeks I had enough time to do the weekly competition on the speedsolving.com forums. I set a pb in the fewest moves challenge this week with a 28 move solve. It was the first time I got a chance to use premoves and boy did it pay off. I'm getting pretty good at this FMC thing and am really enjoying it.

I had my first sub-2 minute solve on the 4x4x4 yesterday, right after I had a dream about going sub-2 (in my dream it was 1:43.xx, in real life it was 1:57.xx). My PyraMinx solving has gotten more consistent, as well. I'm using a Fridrich-style method that gets me times around 17 second pretty consistently. I put some serious work into revamping my H sets in my ZBLL document. Some of those algs were...bad, to say the least, and I finally got around to fixing them. Now I have to relearn them all, though. Grrr...

Update

I haven't been doing much 3x3x3 recently. I performed some surgery on my C4Y DIY but other than that I've only picked up a cube that size to do the weekly competition on the speedsolving.com forums. I have been doing a lot of PyraMinx solves and have dropped my times down to just over 15 seconds. I made a cool $500 at work the last 2 weeks and have been playing baseball pretty much every day, so I have been very busy. This next week looks pretty free, though, so I'll definitely get going on ZBLL algs again.

Update

It's been about a week or so since my last post. I have done absolutely no work on ZBLL. There has just been too much other stuff to focus on. However, I have been working on my MegaMinx and PyraMinx times, which have dropped to roughly 6 minutes and 30 seconds, respectively. I can't really get fast enough at PyraMinx recognition to do much, though. It's been rather a blah week, really. I'm putting a lot of time into driving and baseball and my lack of bus time has hurt my cubing time quite a bit.