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Speed Cubing F2L Practice

Chris Brown — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:15:32 +0000

I haven’t done “f2l only” averages but my cube times are dropping and it’s because my cross / f2l times are dropping.

When I switched to cross on bottom / f2l on bottom of the Rubik’s cube it was like I had to translate every move as I solved. I used to do Cross on top / f2l on left.

Anyway… I practice f2l slow a lot. I’m getting better at using d (little D, bottom 2 layers) turns instead of cube rotations when possible.

My cross time is definitely getting faster but it was decent already.

I gave each f2l pair a name and though of some key things that it’s color reminds me of… this made it a lot easier to see them around the cube as I insert each other pair. Great look ahead trick and it’s also helping to lock in unconscious competence of the order of colors (like what’s left and right of what). I wrote about this on my cube site.

Anyway… just thought I’d drop a quick F2l Update.

3×3 Rubik’s Cube Average Time 2-8-2008

Chris Brown — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:39:36 +0000

I’ve been cubing again… not as much as I used to… I don’t know if I’ll ever get back down to the half minute area but I am having fun.

Here are my results for today:

Average: 01:08.44
Best: 00:56.08
Avg. 5: 01:07.63
3 of 5: 01:06.17
Avg. 10: 01:09.23
10 of 12: 01:08.16

Chris Spurrier

Chris Brown — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:41:50 +0000

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Hash Brown Blues

Chris Brown — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:36:48 +0000

At the gig tonight while we were on break we walked down to Spinner’s to check out Hash Brown. Very authentic blues. Great guitar and great musicians. I totally enjoyed them. Pretty pretty pretty good! <- LD style

If you are around the DFW area and you like real blues check out Hash Brown when you can. Here’s a link to their videos page.