As someone who has spent waaaay too much time combining methods, hybriding them, and just screwing around with the accepted steps, I can say this is, hands down, a bad idea.
Yes, in practice, you might use it a few times. But it's a bad idea, in general. It takes the strengths of Roux and...
Preorient thread? You rang?
And the answer is that you mix a little of both. If you work at it, you begin to be able to do the cross as you orient, and it's only a couple of extra turns (under 10 total). Some cases, though, are just really hard to set up, or there's an amazing nonoriented...
But purposely forcing yourself to learn to look ahead is silly.
Learning something more complicated or different to what you're used to will have the byproduct of bettering your look ahead, AND it will teach you something new that will also help your cube understanding. Learn something that...
Quite a few people use K4 for the 4x4 to success.
I actually use a method I came up with I like to call Roux by 4. My best competition time is a 1:12 with it.
I only recently came up with a different way to finish some of the steps that eliminates most of my parity troubles, and fixes many...
I don't use a single method to solve the cube. I just use a mixture of lots of them, switching to whatever seems appropriate at the time. Roux, COLL, PLL, Petrus, Heise, etc. That's the joke.
Nope. It's natural enough now that it's pretty fluid. Generally, I do it without really thinking about it. When you first start, you'll probably notice a pause as you learn to switch over thought patterns and get into the other method's mindset.
Eventually, they all just meld into one, and...
I'm a fan of learning as much as you can from as many methods as possible. It's a good way to get cube understanding for free, and you learn new and helpful algs and shortcuts as you do it.
Then again, perhaps I'm the wrong person to ask about this...
I use a lot of different methods, but I suppose I'll just list what I can.
1) *orient edges/start my cross or block (I restrict F and B quarter turns, so that my whole F2L is RUL[D])
2) finish cross or block, and get a good idea for my first pair (I usually attempt to spot and follow an edge...
I've done it. It's fun. The trick is getting forcing yourself to keep to a strict method on each solve. If you're used to swapping back and forth, you'll start swapping midsolve a lot. It's useful, because you can accidentally solve things early and get a lot of skips, then be able to deal...
Since I haven't weighed in yet, I feel like one last hijacking point is in order:
English's vocabulary is, at current count, one million words. Compare that to something like 200,000 for Spanish. Chinese, in all its dialects, has something like 50,000. English is an ugly language, cobbled...
I would learn COLL instead just for being able to see your orientation case early.
Plus, some of us like to work toward EO skips, or all easy cases. COLL is great for that.
CMLL and COLL overlap for most algs.
Learn COLL first. You can apply it to every solve, regardless of method, so you'll get good with it faster, and learn to recognize the corners in a variety of configurations (F2L, F2L with oriented LL edges, Roux blocks, corners first, etc.). If you want...
I also forgot to mention that I really like the fact that you're using the phonemes the letters create rather than the strict letters. The J sound is almost impossible to end words with, unless you allow things like dge (dodge, hedge, rage).
As I'm doing only 3x3, I only have to deal with T...
I've been experimenting with something similar for a while now, too. I tried different vowels, negating sentences, and different ways of using connecting words.
This works for everything from knowing which way to rotate the cube to start new cycles to remembering obscure setup turns, to using...
Chris, I'm using a similar system for my memo right now. The only difference is that you're making a set list, where I adjust on the fly. Your way takes less thinking, but mine takes less memo. Yours will probably be faster; I'm just lazy.
What I do right now is when I see my cycle, I give...
Yes, some of us use the tricks here a lot.
Personally, I orient edges before or during my cross. Sometimes, it's a block instead. Depends on the solve. Sometimes it's opposite cross.
Then, I finish most of my F2L. If it's a case I just did normal cross on, I use the first few pairs to...