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  Welcome to Episode 1 of   Road to Sub 4 ! This could be the last episode. Let's hope it isn't. Throughout recent posts, I've mentioned sometimes that I really want a skewb podium. If I'm cubing, 99% of the time I'll be doing skewb. I have over 3,000 recorded solves in this one session since 10-20. When I'm bored, I used to default to YouTube where I would waste an unhealthy amount of time. I moved this habit into cubing and the results are coming in. Let's talk about the PBs in this list. All of these except for ao50 and ao100 are PBs which is kinda weird but like it's whatever. I had a sub 1 single. Literally the craziest thing, it's just shear luck lol.  http://cavs4tw.blogspot.com/2021/11/11-22-21-skewb-new-pb-single.html 0.91% of my solves were DNFs. Over 3,000 solves... this was by far the most I've grinded skewb. That's roughly 100 solves a day although it's been more than a month.  Here is the time trend graph. Just look at that

 So at the Halloween run this year, there was a flyer for the Turkey Trot run which they mentioned was lower budget without timing. I decided why not. It's another chance to find some pacemakers and potentially go for a PB. And that's exactly what happened. It cost like 5 dollars and the shirt was optional, another indicator that this race wasn't as serious. It was still legit, there were booths with cool stuff. Just no placing/podiums. This time it was the Ken Mercer Sports park. Still hosted by Pleasanton rotary.  This was the bib. And the optional shirt that I bought cuz why not it's a limited-edition souvenir. I actually saw some people I knew. A lot of the people on the Amador cross country team came out because they barely missed the state qualifying tournament thing. It's unfortunate. I also convinced josh, ashwin, and allen. Allen didn't come because he's sick :( And 3.2.1....GO Mile 1: I opened up Old Man and the Three and checked out the most recen

 Generated By csTimer on 2021-11-22 single: 0.940 Time List: 1. 0.940   U L B' R U L R' U R' DO THAT SCRAMBLE. ORANGE SIDE SOLVED. LITERLALY A SLEDGE, ROTATE TO THE LEFT....ANOTHER SLEDGE WOW this can be done in like sub 0.9 obviously but i had one attempt. THis was done in a 2500+ solve session (over the span of a month). My previous PB was 1.175. I have no idea when 0.94 will be broken.... I HAVE A SUB 1 SKEWB SINGLE NOW All this while listening to this:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvcl0FqI518 . I don't wanna talk about that tho, its so controversial.  Lyric(s) of the Post: I've been roadrunning Juice WRLD - Road ft. Lil Uzi Vert & XXXTENTACION (Music Video) Prod by Last Dude

 Every week there's a leetcode contest with 10,000 participants. It consists of interview-style questions and I do them when I can. Today, everything went right for me.  https://leetcode.com/contest/weekly-contest-267/ranking/2/ RANK 46. Completed the contest in 31 minutes with 0 bugs.  QUESTION 1: Oddly confusing problem statement for a question 1 but the constraints are always super loose so any sort of brute force will work and that's what I did. I should've done Q1 in Python like I always do but I forgot. That may have cost me some time. QUESTION 2: As soon as I see LinkedList I immediately know to code-golf this one. I immediately converted it to a list and manipulated it easily like that and converted it back. This is a contest where ranking > learning. Sorry! QUESTION 3: A pretty straightforward implementation String question. I was lucky to not make any stupid bugs and got AC first try.  QUESTION 4: After reading it, I immediately knew this was an easy UnionFind

 Is it too late for this? I should've done this earlier LOL. It's been around 2 seasons since the NBA season kicked off. Already we're questioning who will play first: Kyrie or Ben? Both are in very dramatic and quite passionate scenarios. I'm gonna skip All-nba predictions cuz I honestly don't care. PART 1: ALL-STARS EAST Coach: Erik Spoelstra  Captain: Giannis Antetokounmpo Starters: PG = Collin Sexton  Trae Young (if kyrie doesn't have a normal season) SG = James Harden SF = Kevin Durant PF = Giannis Antetokounmpo C = Joel Embiid Bench: Jimmy Butler Bam Adebayo DeMar DeRozan Bradley Beal Jayson Tatum Collin Sexton Kyrie Irving (if he doesnt play then Zach Lavine) WEST Coach: Quin Snyder Captain: LeBron James Starters: PG = Stephen Curry SG = Luka Doncic SF = LeBron James PF = Kawhi Leonard C = Nikola Jokic Reserves: Donovan Mitchell Ja Morant Devin Booker Paul George Russell Westbrook Anthony Davis Damian Lillard WINNER: Team LeBron All-star MVP: Stephen Curr

  SOOOOOO today I took the SAT. To talk about it briefly, I guessed on some reading questions and also had a huge time crunch (as expected). We booked a hotel for Friday night so I could get good sleep.  So after I finished the SAT, it was time to drive home. Driving for like 1+ hour is something new to me and although it's fun, the highway is really stressful when you enter. In the beginning, there were super tight turns and on top of that everything was downhill. I had to turn off the music because it was that intense. I was so scared because I was moving at like 75 MPH. Super glad I drove this route though because I have a lot of experience now with scenarios like this. But then the craziest thing happened. INCOMING ASCII ART: |               .               | |               .   truck    | |               .               | |               .               | |               .               | |               .   brawl   | |               .    KD      | |               .           

  I've had this google keep note for a while. Let's check off this box. Boxel Rebound  - Basically lower quality geometry dash. When clicking the icon it releases a small gameplay window embeded on google chrome meaning you can play the game conveniently on any tab. It's a great extension to have when waiting for something to load or when you don't want to pay attention in class Cloudy Calculator  - As described, this is a very versatile calculator. It has a ton of commands and it has the same convenient popup window embedded in Google Chrome just like boxel rebound. If you want a calculator extension, this is the one. Google Docs Quick Create  - With two buttons, you can create a new google doc instantly rather than going to google drive which sometimes takes a while to load. Alternatively you can type in doc.new as a URL. Stopwatch Tab  - Very simple extension that turns the title of ur tab to a stopwatch. I used to use this all the time for various things like monito