Random Cubing Discussion

mr. giggums said:

does any one know of a <U,D,R,r> OLL parity alg.

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Use r until someone finds something better.

<UDRr> sounds fun to play with, but I'm about to go to bed.

r U2 r U2 r U2 r U2 r + r' D U2 (U R2 U' r U R2 U' r') D' U2 r + U (D' R2 D r' D' R2 D r) U'
= r U2 r U2 r U2 r D U R2 U' r U R2 U' r' D' U2 r U D' R2 D r' D' R2 D r U'

A bit long, but hey, it should work.

Rw U2 Rw U2 Rw U R Rw U2 R2 U Rw U R Rw2 U Rw U' Rw

mr. giggums said:

I just tried with your method and found that OLL parity is possible. So does any one know of a <U,D,R,r> OLL parity alg.

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(U2 r)^5 preserves centers and changes wing parity.

Idea: Keyhole on left.

Step 1: FL minus one corner.
Step 2: Utilize open corner slot to finish 3/4 of MS.
Step 3: Finish slot.
Step 4: Rotate and LL of choice.

Fun and IMO faster than your basic keyhole.

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JonnyWhoopes said:

My apologies. I know it's not that different. Didn't mean to make it sound like I did anything like "ZOMG CHECK OUT MY ZOMGORZ NEW MEHTODS!!" Haha. I guess the only real difference is that I meant for FL to be blockbuilt. Maybe everybody does that already? I've always just done cross and then corners.

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You mean keyhole.

Yeah that's just basic keyhole, except you are doing it on left (no difference.)

What do you consider basic keyhole then?

My apologies. I know it's not that different. Didn't mean to make it sound like I did anything like "ZOMG CHECK OUT MY ZOMGORZ NEW MEHTODS!!" Haha. I guess the only real difference is that I meant for FL to be blockbuilt. Maybe everybody does that already? I've always just done cross and then corners.

mr. giggums said:

<U,D,R,r>

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Centres
DL 1x3x4 Block
RD 1x3x4 Block
<R,U,D> CLL
[r,RUR'U'], RU2R':[r,RUR'U'], <R,U>, etc ELL

JonnyWhoopes said:

My apologies. I know it's not that different. Didn't mean to make it sound like I did anything like "ZOMG CHECK OUT MY ZOMGORZ NEW MEHTODS!!" Haha. I guess the only real difference is that I meant for FL to be blockbuilt. Maybe everybody does that already? I've always just done cross and then corners.

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Yeah, I tried your way. Just did Roux block + pair, nice and efficient, but I'm crap at block building, I can do it efficiently, but not fast. Cross (or xcross) + 3 corners = 3-4s. Roux block + pair = 6s

Too bad, there are a lot of good and interesting ideas, that are going unseen or getting buried in this heap thread.

Alpha CC (was: Top Cube Gimmicks)

Alpha CC- i mean its worse than A5 and whats the point of the hollowed pieces (looks cool?) which makes it too light/fragile

It sucks because you don't have the other part of the edge that you are suppose to put in.

Lubix products.

@ianography: Ugg... I hate your avatar.

yah lubix is overpriced and overhyped

There are a lot of good ideas that would go unposted without this thread.

I usually post my ideas here first as a test for the response. If the response is good or if I feel there is potential, I'll continue developing it and repost in more detail in a more specific topic or create a new topic of my own if it is worthy.

Kirjava said:

D' with left ring finger

y/n?

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left finger? so like you push on BLD corner?

uberCuber said:

I love how he spent more than 15 seconds scrambling the cube and then had 2 opposite white edge pieces already solved.

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lol indeed solved-scramble ftw!

DaveyCow said:

left finger? so like you push on BLD corner?

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Well, the L sticker of that piece, so LBD.

Random thought:

On the speedsolving wiki, Roux is said to have a 48 movecount on average. Now, if someone had 10 turns/1 second turn speed, then it would take about 4.8 seconds (pauses not included) to solve the cube. Even if someone had 9 TPS, it would take about 5.33 (pauses not included).

CFOP is said to have 56 movecount on average. If someone had 10 TPS, 5.6 seconds would be the time.

My point is that in theory, Roux might be faster than CFOP. Pretty obvious actually.