The Solve Critique Thread

[aznanimedude]

from waht i see, it looks like you do normal CFOP

my opinion from seeing that solve is you seem to take a bit of time to recognize the next F2L pair you're gonna do, which seems like the bulk of the time you can shave off your solve. For that i guess it's just a lot of playing around with the cube and practice to help with that.
when i was learning one good thing i read that was good was that after my cross, i would stop and look for the f2l pair i would do, then i would do my normal pair, and before i inserted it, i would stop and then look for the next pair i would do, and then insert the current one and pair the next one, and repeat until i was done with F2L. I found that helped me a lot in getting the idea of lookahead while i solved, and it also helped bring around the idea that slower actually makes faster sometimes when you do F2L, since it reduces the pauses you often make while you search for the next pair.

just my thoughts , good luck

[cubingawsumness]

He was talking to me. I turn too fast.

ooooooh. hehe. sorry.

aznanimedude- I think that I've heard that somewhere, or some variant of practicing lookahead. That's definitely something that I need to work on, huh. Thanks for you advice!

[aznanimedude]

it's nothing new, ahaha the tips i gave you are the ones i need doing myself anyway :P, but yeah when i read that i thought it was a really good idea of how you should be approaching lookahead

[Hunter]

Thanks aznanimedude!

I will try that and possibly post a video some time in the near future.

Another thing I have been working on is inserting the F2L pairs without turning the cube.

By the way, what does CFOP stand for? I see it all the time.

-Hunter

Edit - If that was 43 seconds...that's my new 3x3 PB!!

[BlueDevil]

By the way, what does CFOP stand for? I see it all the time.

Cross
F2L
OLL
PLL

[Hunter]

Thanks!

[Hunter]

Me again.

This time, I brought my 4x4.

Just after I solved the centers I got all screwed up on some of the first edge pieces.

Other than that, it was an OK solve and I would love any feedback that you guys might have.



Thank you, again,
Hunter

[Noahaha]

Me again.

This time, I brought my 4x4.

Just after I solved the centers I got all screwed up on some of the first edge pieces.

Other than that, it was an OK solve and I would love any feedback that you guys might have.



Thank you, again,
Hunter

video:

Loosen your cube and don't make a video with an alg sheet in it =P.

Centers can be really automatic and it's not hard to do them under 25 seconds. Never do a slice move during centers, just stick to wide turns. Also, the tightness of your cube is killing you. There are very few places that a center piece can be so it's easy to get lookahead for centers.

For edges try to do less cube rotations and learn to pair up 2, 4 or even 6 edges at a time using the E-slice. It's good to have a very structured system for edges. I personally use 6-4-2.

Overall, you just need to eliminate pauses and you can be sub 2 in no time.

[Hunter]

Can you loosen a LanLan?

[Noahaha]

Can you loosen a LanLan?

Just check for screws.