Hi everyone, welcome to our first weekly discussion thread. Do you have any PBs recently? Did you attend any comps? Any exciting new puzzles? Or just a general, what do you have planned for the week? Anything is welcome here!
I got an AJ Curvy Dinominx recently. I don’t actually have many other corner-turning puzzles, so this was pretty new for me. I thought it was fun enough to figure out how I was supposed to solve it (although it’s on the easier side), although turning the smaller corners is not a fun experience.
I just looked it up. It’s an intense looking puzzle! What puzzles did you have before this that have similar solving techniques?
I honestly can’t really come up with something from the same immediate line of puzzles that this one’s from (don’t own them), but (spoilered for those who want to solve it themselves):
Methodology
Solving the intersection of the corner cuts before solving the rest of the puzzle reminded me a little of the way I solved the corners of the Polaris Cube after solving the rest of the puzzle.
That is to say, it was a lot of pairing and less about actually coming up with algorithms, so I found it pretty easy and sort of mind-numbing after I solved it the first time around.
Just got back from a comp a few hours ago and finally broke 1 minute average in 4x4!
Congrats! I can solve 4x4 and 5x5 (while needing to look up help for parity) but I haven’t started speedcubing with them. I need to finish learning full OLL/PLL for 3x3 first or everything will turn to mush in my head lol
How long has it taken you to get sub-60 for 4x4?
Way too long! I was just scrolling through old photos and found my first 4x4 sub-1 at home solve was 3 years ago! My first 4x4 comp was almost 4 years ago and it was 1:30 ish average
I still don’t know full OLL for 3x3, but I got bored learning algs and decided to try other puzzles :)
