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I'll start with a warning: much of this post will be speculative and purely based on commonalities which appear to exist in all decent methods (in my experience anyway). As such, I will structure it in 3 parts: prerequisite ideas, reasonably concrete and immediate consequences and then blatant...

Someone got me to do a few 42 solves on stream but I got called for lunch. I was curious as to what sort of times I could get nowadays and got this on cam when I came back and decided to do a few more solve. I'm not 100% sure exactly how good this is because I got it pretty quickly but I...

Since there's no competitions and quarantine means I have a reasonable amount of free time, I've decided to try to properly learn and get fast with a method I proposed as an extension to roux a few years ago. I'm still using a 2-look variant of what should be a 1-look step (not to mention I'm...

So nowadays it's generally accepted that on 3x3, most "human developable" methods have been found and either are used or have been tossed out. So as an experiment, I made a genetic algorithm in python which works using a modified version of ksolve++ which generates methods for 2x2. Consider...

So some of you may have heard of the complex cube before but I thought it was an interesting concept so I decided to make a video on it. The footnotes should be published over the next week. Part 2: The HyperComplex Cube will be published at some point in the next few months.

Ever wanted to be able to do 1LLSLL with only 42 algs?

Making a series to combat a personal bugbear of mine. To quote the description: "I got tired of people only comparing pros of methods when comparing them so here's the antidote to that." So far I'm five videos in: And here's the playlist for the whole series Feel free to suggest music...

So some of you have probably heard something about this method before. I've been working on it for a while and I've spoken to a few people about it. Let's go through what this method is: [/Spoiler]

So this is something that I've been thinking about for a little bit in that the most popular methods (and some more obscure ones) can be classified into two different sorts: top down and bottom up due to what the core idea behind that method is. Bottom up: where the best step of the method is...

Why you shouldn't use cube you find at fetes.

I thought I would post this here. Scramble and recon in terms description. Not quite up to par with vincent's recent posts though

Just me talking about a thread I posted a while back. Feel free to correct anything I said and add your own models/opinions in the comments. It's sort of in a podcast style.

I decided to make a playlist because there seems to be a gap for videos on calculating cases for algs sets and stuff. So far there are two videos. Post if you have any queries or critique (which I'm sure there will be a load of :P). It assumes little to no prior knowledge on combinatorics. I...

I made a walkthrough/example solve thing for SSC. It's NOT a tutorial but gives some idea of the method. Hopefully it isn't too terrible. :)

Made a video because I got a new phone with an actually passable camera. Any tips (on anything not just Roux specific so stuff like turning- and yes I know I need new stickers). Always turn on captions.

Has anyone ever tried to write a program which starts out with random moves to solve a cube, then select the most "successful" (defined probably by efficiency or maybe ergonomics and efficiency) run the program a few million times and see what the method it comes out is like?