Wetten, dass..? vom 5. November
I started with these puzzles as a kid in the early 80s and now thanks to the
internet-sparked new cubing wave I became really serious about it.
News...
- October 23, 2011
- German beta version of my PDF page 3x3x3 beginner method uploaded. Goal is to provide minimal complete instructions without letter notation.
- July 20, 2011
- Short movie of me in the little TV competition Superdupermegahammerhesse (a bit about me and then a blindfolded solve, already got kicked out of the competition, though).
- March 12, 2010
- Repaired my stackmat (pictures and discussion).
- March 11, 2010
- Published cubeguide.com for searching in cubing sites.
- March 2, 2010
- Published the current version of my timer on ptimer.net. I'm not quite finished yet, but it's good enough to use (I hope... works fine for me).
- Feb 4, 2010
- My new site speedcubes.net went online. It's a database about speedcubes, showing different models, where to get them, etc. More to come.
- Jan 1, 2010
- Got an 11.11 seconds Rubik's Cube solve on video.
- Dec 15, 2009
- I'm done with the new WCA database export.
- Dec 3, 2009
- I'm working on a new tool to connect the stackmat to a computer.
- Dec 2, 2009
- After improving the code a lot, the WCA statistics are alive again. And I added a nice little analysis of 3x3x3 records at all ages.
- Nov 24, 2009
- Watch a demo of my new scrambler and timer for videos.
- Nov 19, 2009
- Wrote a simplistic scrambler and timer in Javascript.
- May 2, 2008
- My diploma thesis is finished and online. It's about Hume, my computer program for evaluating human solving methods for twisty puzzles.
- December 30, 2007
- Because of a recent case of apparent cheating (not in competition, but in a cube club meeting), I thought about better blindfolds.
- November 15, 2007
- Made a little page about my megaminx scrambler/notation, including a scramble generator giving you a few new scrambles each time you visit it.
- June 3, 2007
- I described my M2 and R2 blindsolving methods.
- March 30, 2007
- I'm selling some puzzles at ebay again.
- February 15, 2007
- Created my Tools page and added a new program to generate 3x3 scrambles for printing them.
- February 11, 2007
- Made a little tutorial video showing an easy to remember method for Square-1 PLL.
- February 10, 2007
- Geez, I forgot to mention the WCA results pages went public over a month ago. The Megaminx top 100 solves and Clock top 100 solves pages are my favourites (curse you, Ernesto!).
- October 21, 2006
- Won the German Championship, finally beating Michel (though by a tiny amount).
- October 15, 2006
- Third place in 3x3 at the Dutch Open, very happy about that. Also consistent with Megaminx, improving both single and average world record.
- October 3, 2006
- Described my experience of the European Rubik's Championships 2006.
- August 25, 2006
- Several people asked about speedsolving Megaminx so I decided to not repeat myself further and make a page about it.
- August 7, 2006
- With my last Magic world record gone, I retire from speedmagicing. Congrats to the guys, you're too fast for me now. At least you don't have flying ponies, either.
- July 31, 2006
- New Megaminx average record of 1 minute 28.69 seconds and a new megaminx video. Changed the style a bit on parts of the site, rest will follow when I have time (yeah I know, parts might be broken). Still no flying pony.
- April 20, 2006
- New Megaminx record of 1 minute 13.94 seconds. But no flying pony.
- April 18, 2006
- I want a flying pony
- March 30, 2006
- I finally finished the report etc about the Hungarian Championship 2005
- February 21, 2006
- I can't take it anymore, so I'm now hunting a girl. Gosh.
- January 27, 2006
- Started speedsolving Rubik's Domino and easily took the unofficial world record since nobody else is doing it. But 14.20 single (video) and 17.71 average are pretty good I think. I also wrote a few scramblers including one for the Domino. And I updated my unofficial records again.
- December 16, 2005
- Wrote and published my method for solving 4x4 centers.
- December 4, 2005
- Updated my official records list to include the results of the recent world championship. I lost the Magic world record to Quinn, but stole the Master Magic world record from Bob :-)
- October 18, 2005
- Updated my unofficial records list again, including my 1:18.72 Megaminx record. Also updated my official records list, I'm at six official world records now.
- August 5, 2005
- It's getting better and better, after some 1:34 averages I now got a 1:30.61 average-of-10 for Megaminx. Sub1:30 soon, and hopefully non-lucky sub1:20 single record as well...
- August 3, 2005
- Ha! Now I seriously practiced onehanded Megaminx solving and have beaten the onehanded record as well, 3:17.47 single and 3:49.39 average :-)
- August 2, 2005
- Today I freshly lubed my Megaminx and improved my unofficial world records: 1:23.05 single and 1:36.15 average. I just can't beat Grant one-handed yet...
- July 12, 2005
- My first sub19 average for 3x3: 18.90 seconds! And new best single nonlucky of 14.21 seconds. I'm feeling better with F2L. Did it with a "normal" 3x3 cause I wanted to prove to myself I don't need the tiles. It's the best rolling average in my newest average-of-100 of 20.64 seconds. Sub20 soon?
- July 3, 2005
- Yippie! I just got my first sub20 average for the 3x3. Achieved with my new deluxe cube (with blue/yellow not yet swapped, i.e. I'm not very used to its color scheme, and it's a bit too loose because I put too short springs into it, gotta add some washers). Updated my unofficial records page accordingly (also including my new (master) magic and one-handed 4x4/5x5 records).
- June 13, 2005
- New Master Magic unofficial world record of 2.91 seconds! Got it on video, too.
- May 2, 2005
- Updated my unofficial records page.
- April 26, 2005
- Updated my official achievements page to include the results of the German Open 2005.
- March 18, 2005
- I'm now the unofficial Megaminx world record holder for single (1:41.55) and average (1:49.68).
- February 15, 2005
- Today I solved the Super 5x5 blindfolded.
- February 2, 2005
- Finally added how I disassemble Rubik's Clock.
- January 28, 2005
- Created a page about my official achievements.
- December 11, 2004
- Added online shops to my (renamed) Puzzle Shops page.
- December 8, 2004
- I recently started the "2-generator"-like version of the 4x4, i.e. twisting only the UuRr slices. Watch it on my videos page.
- Novemver 15, 2004
- Last weekend I visited the Spanish Championship 2004.
- Novemver 10, 2004
- I updated my algorithms for 4x4 and 5x5 quite a bit (thanks go to Frederick, Per and Werner!). Also updated my records, I'm particularly happy with my onehanded 3x3 average.
- October 23, 2004
- I reformatted Lars's videos of me and put them on my videos page. Thanks again, Lars!
- October 22, 2004
- Completely new extensive description of my improved 3x3 Blindsolving Method is finally online! Anyone can do it! Trust me!
- October 21, 2004
- Thanks a lot to Lars Vandenbergh, who posted videos of my world records of Rubik's Clock and Rubik's Magic. You can also watch his great world record of Square-1!
- October 6, 2004
- Updated quite a few of my records. Currently I'm preparing for the upcoming Dutch Cube Day. Also, I'm working on describing my improved 3x3 blindsolving method, but it's not yet ready for publication.
- July 10, 2004
- New page about solving Rubik's Clock blindfolded. New layout of this main page (I like it much better now) and I used a different program to create all shrunken pictures. They looked a bit better before but the files were 2-3 times as large as they're now, so browsing my site should be much faster now.
- July 7, 2004
- I'm finally able to make videos. Main goal was to show my master magic method, but I got a clock solve and my fastest ever (unfortunately lucky) cube solve, too.
- June 20, 2004
- Long time no news, huh? Well... doesn't mean I was inactive cubing-wise. I got some new records (e.g. I'm #1 for the Magics now), attended the German Cube Day, updated my 3x3 blindsolving method a bit, uploaded my idea for a 7x7 mechanism, created a page for 4x4/5x5 algorithms and finished my Super 5x5.
- March 1, 2004
- Today I solved the Megaminx blindfolded.
- February 23, 2004
- Finally something new here... updated the Cool Stores and the Records sections and have a speedsolving picture.
- November 29, 2003
- I disassembled my Rainbow Cube. Getting closer to a clean structure, more content and fewer (?) dead links... ;-)
- November 3, 2003
- I made a page about Speedsolving Rubik's Clock.
- October 31, 2003
- Brought some more structure into this site. Not complete yet, though...
- October 30, 2003
- I just prepared my Rubik's Domino for speedsolving :-)
This is a large part of my collection (I've got quite a few new ones recently, on the picture are mainly the ones I've had for many years).