nalralz
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Being able to 2-look Ortega is really handy. Try to accurately predict OLL for about 30% of your solves. Then try to bring it up to 40% or 50%. It has taken me about 8 months to get to 50-70% which can get you to sub-5 easily.
I learned enough PBLs that I don't have to flip the cube upside down and I don't have to do y2, although I still sometimes do U2 or D2 to align before PBL. It's not many extra cases, and I'm sure it has helped my times.Is it really worth it to learn algs for other cases (like bar on bottom and diag swap on top) and for different orientations?
I started learning Ortega 2 weeks ago and I can predict OLL at least in easy cases like when the face already has 3 pieces and can be done with R U R', R U2 R' or similar and, of course, when you already have two bars or "almost" (face goes like R2, U R2 or U2 R2 or just U R', U2 R'...). It is really useful to be able to predict OLL. I will keep practising to do it in other more complex cases.
My main question is: I am still using a minimal set of algs (just the 3 basic PBLs), so I always leave the bar on bottom in the front before OLL and I need to do a z2 if I then get diag swap on top, or whenever I get a solved layer on top (and then do standard 3x3 T/Y-perm). Is it really worth it to learn algs for other cases (like bar on bottom and diag swap on top) and for different orientations? I'm now averaging between high 6 and low 8 seconds.
Being able to 2-look Ortega is really handy. Try to accurately predict OLL for about 30% of your solves. Then try to bring it up to 40% or 50%. It has taken me about 8 months to get to 50-70% which can get you to sub-5 easily.
I learned enough PBLs that I don't have to flip the cube upside down and I don't have to do y2, although I still sometimes do U2 or D2 to align before PBL. It's not many extra cases, and I'm sure it has helped my times.
it certainly helps to know as many cases as you can, and they're all easy enough to learn!
i use most of these (i don't use the fourth adj-adj case or the last 3 diag-adj algs)
Hold the bar on the top face, facing you and then perform this alg: (R U' R) F2 (R' U R').So, I want to get into 2x2 but I keep on messing up my solves because of the bar 'L' case with the adjacent swap on one layer and an diagonal swap on the other. I just cannot get it righ. How do I recognise it? Thanks in advance,
~IaS.