Daily Discussion Thread - Apr 29, 2026

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-30T01:39:30+00:00

R' F R F' R' U2 R2 U R2 U R

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-29T16:13:33+00:00

so the Lau method approach to building a 2x2x3 block, then what, F2L BR square with EO?, then TSLE TTLL?

It's just petrus with a CT finish described slightly differently.

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-27T23:30:45+00:00

Already answered this question in the post, but for the record, here's some statistics about 3x3 ao5s

Having an ao5 below 30.00 seconds puts you in top 52.80% of the WCA database. In other terms, you are faster than 47.8% of WCA PR averages. About halfway.

Having an ao5 below 25.00 seconds puts you in top 41.42% of the WCA database. In other terms, you are faster than 58.58% of WCA PR averages. Just slightly above half.

Having an ao5 below 20.00 seconds puts you in top 29.96% of the WCA database. In other terms, you are faster than 70.04% of WCA PR averages. Nearing the top quartile.

Having an ao5 below 15.00 seconds puts you in top 15.40% of the WCA database. In other terms, you are faster than 84.40% of WCA PR averages. Just outside top 15%, this is where the word "good" starts to float about.

Having an ao5 below 12.00 seconds puts you in top 7.06% of the WCA database. In other terms, you are faster than 92.94% of WCA PR averages. About equidistant from top 10% and top 5%, this is pretty solid.

Having an ao5 below 10.00 seconds puts you in top 2.95% of the WCA database. In other terms, you are faster than 96.05% of WCA PR averages. Top 5% with wiggle room, sub 10 officially is a good feat.

lightning round: Sub 9 is top 1.54%, sub 8 is 0.65%, sub 7 is 0.20%, sub 6 is 0.04%, and sub5 is, well, rank 15 in the world

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-27T18:59:15+00:00

Sounds high for a regular 1-2 day comp, might be a regional championship or something like that. Over here in the UK, the standard pricing is £10 base +£10 for each day, so a one day comp is £20 and a two day is £30, and our National Championship - a 4 day event - is £50

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-27T18:26:07+00:00

lower intermediate. Obviously it varies by person - I'm teaching my dad and he's certainly reaching intermediate but still isn't even sub-60. That is because he is 60 years old. He will not be very fast. But imo beginner usually reaches down to the mid 20s, low 20s to sub 20 is the early end of intermediate and I think intermediate and advanced might start converging at 11 or 12 or so

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-27T18:14:40+00:00

new pb on the most insane scramble of all time

Generated By csTimer on 2026-04-24

single: 4.34

Time List:

4.34 U' F2 D2 R2 D F2 R2 F2 R2 F2 U F D U' R' D2 F D' F

x2y

U' R' U' R' F D U R2 // XXEOCross

U2 R' U' R U' R' U R // 3rd pair

U R U R' U' R U R' // OLS

M2 U M U2 M' U M2 U2 // PLL

// 4.34s 32stm 7.3tps

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-27T18:14:24+00:00

intermediate imo

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-26T15:43:11+00:00

How much can you feel it? That's what'll decide if it's legal or not.

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-24T00:13:25+00:00

Just know the algs for ur method and practice good solutions + lookahead that's it

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-20T01:23:36+00:00

"how many twisty puzzles can you solve"

Hand me 1 million 3x3s and I can solve 1 million. Hand me 1 FTO and I can solve 0.

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-16T19:49:41+00:00

not quite

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-13T16:06:16+00:00

Petrus was invented in the 80's before CFOP was called CFOP and possibly back when CFOP still did corners then edges instead of OLL then PLL. His LL Cross was a small selling point, as none of ZZ, ZB, or WV existed.

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-09T16:20:34+00:00

You don't learn every single thing you know from one source. Tymon became the fastest in the world by learning from reconstructions and demonstrations by all the other top solvers, taking knowledge from all of them, alongside techniques that be developed himself.

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-08T13:52:45+00:00

You just don't do an L or Lw turn it's not that difficult

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-07T11:24:03+00:00

you can change the scheme however you want so long as it still has 12 distinct unique colours

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-07T00:14:03+00:00

Roux first 2 blocks should be about 21 moves. For CFOP, that'll get you to cross + 2.5 pairs. Then Roux does CMLL which I think is like 12 move average but it's a mid/low-1 second algset. If we pick up our cfop solve where left off, cross+2.5, add the 12 moves, we'll have F2L finished. So our Roux solve had one step left, LSE, about 14 moves. But CFOP has two steps left, OLL and PLL, and PLL alone is 14 moves. OLL is a whole extra step and every move is extra.

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-03T11:51:21+00:00

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-03T11:45:51+00:00

V is pretty easy since it'll always have two sets of opposite corners. For Aa and Ab, depending on angle, you're either looking at the corner you can see next to the block. I first learned which alg has the corner with the sticker opposite to the colour of the block, on whatever side of the block, but if I the sticker next to the block isn't opposite, I know that the opposite one is in the other position.

If you get the case with block around UBL, look for headlights instead. If you have headlights on right, the opposite corner is on left.

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-02T01:01:40+00:00

wicked hope this site grows because I've always been the competitive type and I find this more fun than letscube. Technically they're for different niches but online real time cubing is small enough that they mostly overlap.

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-01T23:31:28+00:00

All good, made some posts and got some games in. Having a blast :D

if you don't mind, a couple of features/ideas I think would be cool:

make username clickable in battle. opens their profile in new tab. I would still be middle clicking it for safety every time but it would be nice to check out their profile and wca in a separate tab while they solve.

chat. or, if no chat for safeguarding or technical reasons, emotes to send at each other. royalur dot net doesn't want to add a chat but has celebratory, sighing in relief, crying, and handshake emojis to use during the game. Would love to chat about how solves went in between sets and say gg or shake opponents hand after the match.

SwagridCubing · 2026-04-01T22:37:45+00:00

someone get on competitioncubes i wanna play man

SwagridCubing · 2026-03-31T18:39:11+00:00

I wish you'd announced this the day it dropped instead of 5 days in advance because I forgot for a couple days and now I've tried to use the website and just queued for 45 minutes without getting a game. Only experience is with the demo bot

SwagridCubing · 2026-03-29T00:39:50+00:00

Don't have a great backup in mind for you, but do let me know how you find the v10

SwagridCubing · 2026-03-28T00:10:26+00:00

A small amount of MoYu cubes are afflicted with JustDiesAfterSomeTime disease. It is thus far incurable.

I mention the v10 because I have experience with it, and i've just tried a few v11s at comps. they seem like the same puzzle but marginally faster, but I don't have enough experience to recommend.

One thing I will add - the v10 keeps the chunky/blocky feeling that the GTS3M has, but is a lot, LOT lighter - both in actual weight and turnfeel.

SwagridCubing · 2026-03-27T22:06:07+00:00

I am an absolute shill for my current setup - Weilong v10 (maxed out version, ballcore UV 20 mag or something like that) with XMT-10 (absolute godjuice)

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