mafergut
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@One Wheel I also tend to do 7x7 centers by complete 5x1 "lines", starting from center to one side, then the other side (especially for L2C).
That trick of saving a LL edge for the end and not fixing "edge parity" until after F2L is a very nice one. But I assume you need a second parity alg if you want to swap inners? The regular OLL parity alg I use swaps outers.
@Scruggsy13 I usually pair 1st the cross edges and put them down but then I just pair whatever I see. Anyway I'm planning on changing because, strangely as it might sound, it leads to bad crosses as it usually requires lots of double moves to take out an edge and put them back where it belongs. And any effort to try and do the cross at that stage (F4E) is spoiled later on while doing L4E. Any recommendations anyone?
@Octopanda Yeah, practice, practice, practice. But at least your times are quite balanced between the different cubes. My 7x7 for example is comparatively much slower than 5x5.
That trick of saving a LL edge for the end and not fixing "edge parity" until after F2L is a very nice one. But I assume you need a second parity alg if you want to swap inners? The regular OLL parity alg I use swaps outers.
@Scruggsy13 I usually pair 1st the cross edges and put them down but then I just pair whatever I see. Anyway I'm planning on changing because, strangely as it might sound, it leads to bad crosses as it usually requires lots of double moves to take out an edge and put them back where it belongs. And any effort to try and do the cross at that stage (F4E) is spoiled later on while doing L4E. Any recommendations anyone?
@Octopanda Yeah, practice, practice, practice. But at least your times are quite balanced between the different cubes. My 7x7 for example is comparatively much slower than 5x5.