Victor

So good 👌

I might do that if I find the time, yeah ❤️

That is definitely sad. Ah well, thanks anyway! 🙏

Using Thunder right now. Yet another app that doesn’t have properly functioning code formatting buttons for both inline code markup and code blocks. And it makes no distinction between single back ticks and triple back ticks. Ah well.

The rest of the features and design are pretty sick though, I’m trying to main it and I’m not feeling uncomfortable yet!

Does it block YouTube ads on a TV? 🥹

Ah, right! Yeah, I mean, I am using Sync, Boost and Thunder right now. Boost and Thunder don’t show ads (I paid the one-time fee on Boost) so it’s more like ⅓% that I see an ad, perhaps, if I used them all equally, which is probably sorta accurate. 😁 So it’s fine in my case.

I would however get a pihole if it worked in order to get rid of ads on YouTube on my TV. Because fuuuuuuu—…

Solution to what?

Sounds like someone has a pihole.

That’s the thing, I don’t 🤷‍♂️

Ads can be bad but Boost has a one-time small payment to remove ads, very good deal, and the ads on Sync don’t work (for me at least) 99% of the time, so I just see an empty space most of the time where the ads would be. 😁

That’s the beauty 🥰 And no corporate authority that says the apps have to be removed for any reason ✊

Tried Raccoon just now, uninstalled instantly. Not very polished compared to other apps. My personal opinion.

I’m trying it out right now, it doesn’t feel very polished compared to others I main, like Sync or Boost.

Jesus. That’s so obnoxiously mean. Sorry to hear you had this experience. I hope you don’t take it to heart when people say things like that to you. It’s hard not to, but please don’t think their words have any meaning.

🩵 All the best!

Check out AliExpress

Great tip! Although I prefer to support my local cube stores to be honest.

Megaminx is fun […] you just have to rethink how you apply the algos you know!

Interesting! I’ll have to look at a tutorial for that some day. 😊

I realised I was solving the 3x3 on pretty much muscle memory alone 😂

Definitely the case for a lot of my algorithms, especially the longer ones! It’s to the point where if I don’t do them fast enough I get confused and it breaks apart and I get lost. And that’s like 10 seconds of punishment just there, or at least can be. 😅

9x9!! I’ve not gone past my Moyu 4x4 yet. 😅 All my money so far has been on finding a great 3x3 🥲 But I have been eyeing a 5x5, so maybe I’ll give it a go! Megaminx just blows my mind, I’ve not even looked into that at all. 🫣

The fact we’re the same age might spur me on a bit again.

Yeah buddy! Let’s go. 💪

Drilling algos for muscle memory I’m fine with - I probably just need to dedicate a month to the cross, it was just so so much easier when I could sit for 4-5 hours straight with no real responsibility and drill cube lol.

I feel this. It wasn’t easy with two kids and work. Lots of late nights, and solving while in remote meetings at work; during working from home while I was supposed to be working 😅; at the office during breaks, lunch… Putting in a lot of YouTube hours on the topic. Ugh. There’s a cost other than money to a hobby, eh… 😁

I definitely hit a wall with my magnet-less cube trying to get sub-minute using beginner’s. It was just not going to happen.

Now I’m like 13 different cubes in and I got a flagship cube from Moyu which has helped me get these sub-half-minute times. The GAN 14 Pro was also quite instrumental.

But yeah, CFOP is a must if you want to get good times with reasonable ease (i.e. not brute forcing it using beginner’s).

I recommend practicing one thing at a time in order to get good at it. E.g. your cross. Sit and watch/listen to some YouTube or podcasts or something and just do white crosses for like 30 minutes at a time. You will improve very quickly, I promise. Use the fact that a cross is achievable in 8 moves or less from any scramble as a bar from which you can gauge your performance, and count the moves you make. Focus on different aspects at a time: number of moves until finished cross but take your time both with inspection and turning, only move efficiency; then try to do the cross faster but still unlimited inspection time; then finally limit your inspection time as well (if you care about competition rules).

Focusing on different things like this really helps. Same with the CFOP method. If you want to learn it, you’ll want to focus on the muscle memory of one algorithm at a time. Really grinding it until you feel like you know it. After that, try to use it in a solve. Next session, you will have forgotten it again, so repeat a little bit and refresh that muscle memory until it sticks after a while.

Also these things need to be kept fresh. Your hands will forget algs unless they continue to use them.

It’s a lot of work but a lot of fun if you enjoy improving. Nothing beats that feeling of setting a new personal best.

PS: I’m 38 now, and I started less than a year ago. It’s never too late IMO.

I got seriously into speed cubing about a year ago. I don’t even know where to begin giving tips. There’s so much to learn. 🙈

At least I’ve reached my goal for 2025 and am now averaging around 30-35 seconds. I was at about 3 minutes when I was using the beginner’s method. Now using CFOP.

Need to learn more OLL algorithms though.

Maybe it also depends on the topic. But there are always gonna be annoying people everywhere you go in life. 🥲

About the only thing I ever go back for

Honestly, I miss some subs. But I just cut my losses. The usability and UI of the site went to shit. The toxicity was horrible. The site policies went to shit. No third party apps. No point.

I only come back to answer necrobumps and one time to update my own post that was a support question where I managed to figure out the answer. I don’t want to leave behind those forum posts like in XKCD where they have the same issue but don’t answer anything. 😅

a community of people competing to be the most right in every comment section

I think this depends highly on the type of community. (Although clearly I’m doing it to you right now. Sorry.)

Highly political topics and such are the worst, probably. But others where people come because of a shared interest, like a sport or food or animal or something, a hobby, I think tend to be more chill and mellow.