Waffle's Roux Tutorial

[Athefre]

I would like some critique on my block building.

Scramble: R' L2 B2 R' D' F' R B2 D R' L' F L U F B' L2 F'

(White on top, red on front for scramble and solve)


1st block:
Starting with M2 D' I get the blue/yellow piece in the correct spot.

This is fine. Finding an edge to start the 1x2x2 is usually a good strategy. But, that edge doesn't have to be the D-layer edge. You could have went with the edge that is already at FR and added to it.

then a R U' R2 U R

Try to get out of the CFOP slot habits. You could have simply done x U' R2 U.

Now I have the 1x2x2 block. To create the blue/red pair I start with a U2 L' to get them separated and positioned better. Then it is a M U' r U' R'

Not bad. Because you have so much freedom, you need to start thinking about both pieces at once instead it always being separate, rejoin, add. Also, M U' r U' R' could have been M U' L F'. Even shorter for this final pair would have been M' U2 F M2 F.

A better solution for this first block would have been M U M' U' x2 M2 U' M' F

You should never need 14 moves for the first block. Try to keep your average around 9 and set a max of maybe 11.

2nd block:

Nothing stands out, so I will do a U2 L2 to position the green/yellow piece.

Ok, but try to usually make a pair first.

Then to create the 1x2x2, M U' M' And to insert the pair, I do a U2 L U' L'

You could have done U2 M' U' l U' l'

I see the last two pieces in the U layer, so I do a M to separate them. Then a U2 M2 to pair them. And to finsih I do U2 L' U L

You could have done l' M' U2 M U' l.

My second block solution, if I was a left block last solver, may would have been L' U L' U2 L to make a first pair. The edge for the 1x2x2 happens to be in position. Just luck, I probably wouldn't have planned these moves over others to cause that. I see that the other corner is already joined and the edge is on U. So U' L U M' U' L.

[CJF2L 1]

how do you orient UF and DF
cause whenever i get that case i get stuck

[5BLD]

U2MUM auf MOOO

[Athefre]

Or UMUM. Do either depending on the location of the LR edges.

[PandaCuber]

Are you updating the site or something Waffo? Its seems to be crashing lately.

[Hunter]

Thanks Athefre! seems there is more to block building than I thought!

[jms_gears1]

So, I was solving and I had a bad FB so then I was like, darn I wish I had the scramble so that I could see what I could have done differently. So now im like, hey everyone what are your worst FB scrambles?

If possible, say which face for F and U when scrambled and what block you solve, it just makes things easier.

[Isaac Paurus]

"Keep Track of above - DO IT!" keep track how?

and " The best you can do for speedsolves for the first block is about 10 STM
" What's STM?

thanks im excited to get faster with this )

[JonnyWhoopes]

"Keep Track of above - DO IT!" keep track how?

and " The best you can do for speedsolves for the first block is about 10 STM
" What's STM?

thanks im excited to get faster with this )

STM as well as Metric

[Isaac Paurus]

STM as well as Metric

what?