Woo, solved my Bicube!
I stumbled on a 3-cycle kind of accidentally, from which I derived the rest. Great fun.

First time I got around to posting in this thread. Today I figured out the square-2 and the SQ224 (very similar)

avg of 12: 9.72

Time List:
1. 9.58 U2 R2 F U2 F2 D2 B' U2 L2 B2 F2 U B2 U' F L' D' F' D U'
2. 9.03 D' R2 D U2 R2 F2 U' F2 U R2 F2 L' R F U2 B U' F2 L B R
3. 8.79 R2 B' D' L U' F2 U' F' L F2 U2 D2 B2 D2 L D2 F2 L'
4. 9.65 R2 F2 D2 U L2 D2 U2 F2 L' B D R' U2 R F' L D R2
5. 10.20 R' B' D' R' U2 B U' R' B' L D' R' U2 F2 R' F2 U2 F2 L U2 L
6. (11.94) D B2 D' U F2 D R2 F2 R2 D2 B' D' L' B2 D L' B' F2 L2 D'
7. 9.91 B2 D L2 D R2 U2 F2 U2 F2 L2 U2 L' D U2 B' L D F2 L B2 F2
8. 9.96 B' L2 D2 R2 D2 F' D2 L2 B D2 F2 R' B' F2 R' B2 U F2 R' D2
9. 11.06 U2 B2 U2 L F2 D2 R' U2 L' D2 F R2 B R' F' L B' D' B F'
10. 11.36 U2 B2 R2 F' L2 F R2 U2 R2 D2 B U R U L' D B' D2 U F U'
11. 7.67 R F2 R B2 L2 B2 L' F2 U2 R U2 F' R' B' U' F2 D' R' F' D' B'
12. (7.62) D2 L2 U2 B2 U2 F L2 U2 F' L2 F2 R F2 U B' F' U L2 F D F'

I also got this a couple weeks ago:

avg of 5: 8.66

Time List:
1. 8.69 U2 B2 R2 D' L2 B2 D F2 U2 F2 U R F L' R2 B2 F D U B2 R2
2. (9.32) F2 U2 L F2 L B2 R B2 D2 B2 L2 U L' D' B' U2 F' L D' U2 B'
3. 9.00 U' F2 U' L2 D R2 B2 L2 U' L2 U2 F' R2 F2 U' F' R' U' R D2
4. 8.28 L2 F2 D' U' B2 D2 U F2 L2 B2 L2 B R' D' F2 D2 L' U' L' F' R2
5. (7.89) U R2 D' B2 D' B2 U' L2 U2 R2 F2 R' D' U2 R B' R' D' L2 D U'

Although I never saw that challenge accepted, I think you won.

Also, Luke's signature versus yours.

Luke
3x3x3 single: 6.43 seconds.
3x3x3 average of five: 9.24 seconds.

X-TownCuber
PBs:single/AO5
3x3: 6.13/8.66

Indeed, I have been beat. Well played, X-TownCuber, well played...

PB non-lucky 3x3x3 single: 6.66 seconds.

Accomplishment:

Somehow managing to pop a SINGLE corner piece on a zhanchi. Yeah.

Whoohooo!! First time hitting sub-40 on the 3x3 YESSSS Man I want that dancing banana hahaha I'm SO stoked about this.

Got me some new stickers (Izo half brights) for my two backup cubes as a present

I finally committed to memory all the OLL and PLL algorithms (that I use of course... Not ALL of them). No more "cheating" on the OLL...

Whoa.. I haven't even gotten to all the PLLs yet *giggle* Well done!

Just solved my new 7x7x5 (built by Traiphum). Solved it a few times before shapeshifting. This was the 1st time after shapeshifting. It's a whole new puzzle getting it back to cuboid.

I just got a 0.79 second 2x2 solve

It was sorta lucky but I was using a scramble generator and everything. Here was the solve sequence
R' U R R2 F2 R2

It was crazy. It blew my previous PB of 2.79 out of the water.

If you're curious my average is currently 6.5ish seconds, so I'm not that impressive, just lucky.

Wooo!

Congratulations!!

Thanks - it only took about four years...

Well, ok - actually it took about a month of serious work, but I've been meaning to finish all of them for about four years.

Just tied my PB single. 6.13 PLL skip with 6 move OLL. I can't decide if I'm really excited or frustrated that I didn't get sub-6.

New PB! 25 seconds - no skips...

Finally solved my Super 3x3x5! Super convoluted method, but it works!

New 3x3x3 personal best single: 5.73 seconds.

Wow!! Well done! I will not be able to copy that one hehe.



My accomplishment is I learned a new solve method on the 4x4; Yau. Finally but slowly lowering back to the times I am used to. It is so much easier on me when edge pairing

Yay!! Oh I feel so proud of myself. I was able to solve the triamese middle cube using the CubeTwist bandaged set. Took me all day, but that is alright.

The feeling of acomplishment is way different from setting a new PB. Seeing a thought up strategy come to completion is a wonderful feeling

All I want to say is that I have finally memorized the edge parity algorithm for the higher order cubes. That's all

That's nice. There is a thread for this.

[Moderator] Moved the two Posts to the right thread.[/Moderator]

Solved the Helicopter Cube completely on my own. Started in a solved state, fiddled with what would look like commutators, edge piece series, and corner piece series and wrote down anything that looked useful.

Once I found a way to rotate corners, 3-cycle corners and swap corners, I stopped with the corners. Once I found a way to do a 3-cycle centers, I stopped taking notes. Then I scrambled the whole thing and solved it the first time, based on my notes.

Unfortunately, this emboldened me to jumble the thing. Of course, my first instinct was to try to put it into the most jumbled state possible. Bad idea. I couldn't get it back to anything resembling a cube. I then experienced "jumble rage" and proceeded to disassemble the entire thing (which I was going to do anyway at some point) only to go back to the jumbling with a cooler head.

Beat Touhou 6 (EoSD)... with continues...


Cmon, that game counts as a puzzle