vegascuber
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looking for a good beginners tutorial for the square one. thnkx
And I thought I had some special technique (luck) that always made me skip the orientation phases. Now I know betterArnaud, you forgot to tell him about the orientation steps !!!
It is important to first orient edges and corners.
However, on average, this step takes 0 moves
Sorry for reviving such an old thread, but it seemed tidier than creating a new one...
I've learned to solve the square-1 in the past couple of weeks, and am currently averaging around 2 minutes. I'm assuming that with practice this will get faster, but I'm wondering if the method I'm using is reasonable or if I should be transitioning to something more efficient. Here's what I do:
- Cube-shape: I get all the corners together intuitively, and I've memorised the moves for each of the five cases you can reach.
- Corner orientation: intuitive
- Edge orientation: I have two algorithms: 1,0/-1,-1/0,1 and a longer one for just swapping an edge on the top with an edge on the bottom
- Corner permutation: I use what I guess is a J-Perm until all the corners are oriented
- Edge permutation: I use an algorithm that swaps two adjacent edges on top and bottom or if I get a lucky case I use that edge orientation alg twice to swap two opposite edges on top and bottom
- Parity: Yuck.
I'm not aiming for Sub-10 or anything, but I'd like to make the hard-cut which seems to be around 1 minute. Should I stick with the method I'm using and just learn more algorithms? Or is there a fundamentally better approach?
Sorry for reviving such an old thread, but it seemed tidier than creating a new one...
I've learned to solve the square-1 in the past couple of weeks, and am currently averaging around 2 minutes. I'm assuming that with practice this will get faster, but I'm wondering if the method I'm using is reasonable or if I should be transitioning to something more efficient. Here's what I do:
- Cube-shape: I get all the corners together intuitively, and I've memorised the moves for each of the five cases you can reach.
- Corner orientation: intuitive
- Edge orientation: I have two algorithms: 1,0/-1,-1/0,1 and a longer one for just swapping an edge on the top with an edge on the bottom
- Corner permutation: I use what I guess is a J-Perm until all the corners are oriented
- Edge permutation: I use an algorithm that swaps two adjacent edges on top and bottom or if I get a lucky case I use that edge orientation alg twice to swap two opposite edges on top and bottom
- Parity: Yuck.
I'm not aiming for Sub-10 or anything, but I'd like to make the hard-cut which seems to be around 1 minute. Should I stick with the method I'm using and just learn more algorithms? Or is there a fundamentally better approach?
Randomno: Thanks! Very helpful.
Berd: can you provide that alg? Sounds useful...
Sorry for reviving such an old thread, but it seemed tidier than creating a new one...
I've learned to solve the square-1 in the past couple of weeks, and am currently averaging around 2 minutes. I'm assuming that with practice this will get faster, but I'm wondering if the method I'm using is reasonable or if I should be transitioning to something more efficient. Here's what I do:
- Cube-shape: I get all the corners together intuitively, and I've memorised the moves for each of the five cases you can reach.
- Corner orientation: intuitive
- Edge orientation: I have two algorithms: 1,0/-1,-1/0,1 and a longer one for just swapping an edge on the top with an edge on the bottom
- Corner permutation: I use what I guess is a J-Perm until all the corners are oriented
- Edge permutation: I use an algorithm that swaps two adjacent edges on top and bottom or if I get a lucky case I use that edge orientation alg twice to swap two opposite edges on top and bottom
- Parity: Yuck.
I'm not aiming for Sub-10 or anything, but I'd like to make the hard-cut which seems to be around 1 minute. Should I stick with the method I'm using and just learn more algorithms? Or is there a fundamentally better approach?