Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Duncan Cube

Marae got me a new cube today. It is a Duncan speed cube. They are on sale at Staples for $5.00! Sweet!

My first impression? I like it. It is smooth right out of the box.

There is an FLCS student who has one. He wants to get together this week to see my collection and see if I have any tips on getting faster. He can solve the cube in 80 seconds. Did I mention he is only 6 years old?

Let's Try Corners First

In all my Eyes Closed Solving I have done edges first in every solve. Until today. I tried a solve but ended up with one corner swap needed at the end. After thinking about it I did the corners right off to see if I had it and did. Then I finished by doing all the edges. So it wasn't a "start to finish" eyes closed solve, but it gets me thinking. Maybe it would be easier to start with the corners because of the odd/even thing between corners and edges. Let's do a new scramble and see...

IVE = I've; WI = Why


D' L' R D U2 L2 U' L' B L F' R2 B L' R2 D' U2 R2 B' L2 F L2 U' B' R B F' L F U
I V EListened
JesusGaveAReason
KnowPurity
Flip B
StevebelievesVic
WI 4
twist J and L

I don't have to do it all in my head. I made the story in the night but wanted to go back to sleep so jotted it down. This morning I reviewed it and did the solve. Notice that I combined 3 letters into one word on this one. And used WI to mean why.