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this run undoubtedly has many imperfections and can surely be improved, but i feel like im mostly struggling in the first section (within first split) because of the randomness in the stone cycles. found a way to get decent cycles somewhat consistently (eg grabbing the clock when the first 2 stones are almost overlapping, with the first one going to the left and second to the right) but i still never managed to get a first split lower than 7:7x. i obviously watched wr runs attentively and tried to emulate them as precisely as possible but the randomness of the stones prevented me from succeeding. any tips? are these cycles too unpredictable ?