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Primary method: EoCoL8 (related to Guimond or SSC) Secondary method(s): Roux, CFOP Number of algs you know: CFOP=16 ... Roux=14 ... EoCoL8=15 ... TOTAL = around 50 Your main cube: Giiker I3S When you started cubing: 2015 (CFOP, then 2016: Solvexio app... 2017: CF... 2018: Roux... 2019...

I have a cheapo mini star wars picture cube. I solved it once, and that was enough.

You might also like this one for the L case, but the starting position is a U away from your picture: F' (R U R' U') (R' F R)

Why yes, I can :) L U L' B2 L B' L U L2 B2 R’ U’ R B2 R’ B R’ U’ R2 B2 F’ U’ F R2 F’ R F’ U’ F2 R2 (duh) Thanks!

Is there a short 2x2 alg like this one to swap UFR <--> DBL while keeping all other corners in place? L U L' B2 L B' L U L2 B2 but with (mostly) R U and F instead of L U and B? thanks, -= Solvador Cubi

All good points, thank you all for taking a look. I suppose to me, the beginner SSC variant seemed a little complex for a true beginner, so I started down other paths. One that had defined steps that focused on a few pieces at a time. There was also a request for an example solve, so here is...

My initial goals (for EoCoL8) were: around 55 moves fewer than 20 algorithms short steps some intuitiveness and that is how the beginner variant was settled on. I then wanted to lower the move count, so I looked into different steps and assembled the other variants. Those also have low...

I agree, and I now see that there are general similarities to SSC, since both have EO, Columns and L8E. ha! :) But here the EO is plain and the middle column steps have some differences. Perhaps these are better classified as SSC variants, That's fine with me. I'll try to get some example...

(I previously posted a little about this on a few different threads, but I wanted to expand on that and let it have its own place now.) The EoCoL8 Method solves the 3x3 cube in the following order of these 3 general steps: Eo - Orient 12 Edges Co - Build the 4 Columns L8 - Permute Last 8 Edges...

Thanks for feedback, Yes, I thought the "L5C - Orient and Permute" step could use the 42 algs for Conjugated CxLL. ( I edited the original post to note that one oriented corner is needed on U. The numbers next to each line were estimating an average move count for that step, not the number of...

Does it seem feasible to achieve fast times by using these steps? Are the estimated move counts valid? Am I missing anything? 4 EO 6 Three white corners in place on D, at least One oriented corner on U 10 L5C - Orient and Permute, but preserve EO (126? cases, 42 conjugated C*LL algs)...

I see some similarities between this and a .pdf I put together named: MiniTowerCuboid (though I oriented it with an M layer instead of an E layer) http://tinyurl.com/solvexio I'll check out your algs and dig out my 2x2x3 again! Thanks! I am also interested in a low count one-look set of algs...

Realistically, what are the attributes of the "most reasonable efficient method" for the most folks? minimal # steps (no more than 6?) max # algs (around 100?) low move count (around 50?) good look ahead anything else? or different numbers? -= Solvador Cubi

another option: R U’ R F2 R’ U R F2 R2 This can be useful in some 3x3 scenarios too since it preserves L and R blocks

That site is back again. My solvexio.cf domain expired and the host did that! sorry about that.

When I've taught complete beginners that aren't really interested in getting fast or learning a bunch of algs, they just want to solve a cube periodically... I put together this 3x3 beginner method and called it DSEF (Daisy Sledgehammer Easy Fishing). It takes known algs and steps and...

Don't these discussions around "Z-Cell" remind me of the steps of 42 method: https://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/42 I'm not familiar enough with either, but wanted to throw out that comment. :)

Since it's been a few days since opening the poll, (as of 9/3 there has been 65+ votes.) I guess it's time for some extrapolation speculation. :) It is interesting that the results so far are showing some fairly equal distributions across 4 of the segments. It's not difficult to see how...

I converted the text descriptions of these 8 steps into graphical PDFs at this URL: http://tinyurl.com/solvexio Look for the files named: "EoCol8" There is a concise 1-page version with algs and examples and a 2-page version with more details about: Edge Orientation, Corner Separation and...

Let's start with just 3x3....