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I planned not to post any more averages but I'd like to keep this one on record: another lunchtime 12 at work where I got to exercise the new F-Perm and some of the G-Perms with which I occasionally make mistakes. To clarify: I've dropped cubing practice entirely for now and I don't plan to enter any more competitions for a while at least. This will allow me to focus on the Hackspace and my electronics projects.

In no hurry it seems! Lack of sleep and brain rewiring may be the reasons for sup-30 here.

A better average today following a one-day break! A standard deviation of 2.49 sec too. I employed the new F-Perm on a sub-30 and had a sub-30 with an N-Perm finish using the R'U'R (Jb(or 'L-Perm')) R'UR reinsert. So all in all quite nice. Using qqtimer too... http://www.speedsolving.com/timer/qqtimer.htm

Uninspired - did an average of 50 yesterday and same-old-same-old-slightly-sup-30!

Other than the two PLL skips that saved this average from sup-30, the results are all from leisurely solves. I'm enjoying this!

Today's average is slightly different: I decided in advance not to rush, not to panic, not care about the times and just do solves with smart moves and no mistakes. I might be onto something here because the average is up there with my recent speed solves but the process was much more enjoyable!

I'm getting rather bored with this lack of improvement and I think I'll take a break again - see what happens.

I'm posting a "meh!" for today's average. I clearly need to work on it but I'm not sure when I'll get time to do that, or if it will be of benefit. My plentiful practice is either not benficial or the wrong sort of practice. Perhaps I should work on more theory and learning algorithms?

Today's average of 12 Rubik's Cube solves continues the disappointing lack of progress I have come to expect :(

Late last night I returned home from the Rapid Dash Open 2012 - a speedcubing event in Guildford, UK. A new world record was set for the Blindfolded 5x5 event (well Done Daniel!), there were a number other national records set, and of course most people succeeded in improving their own competition records.