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Explanation of Sarah Advanced?

EventHorizon

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Hello, everyone.

I am an avid skewber and have been skewbing for a while now. I average about 8 seconds and would like to begin learning some of the Sarah Advanced method, but I don't understand the layout of the cases.
Help please!

Thanks!
 
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Have you tried this: http://sarah.cubing.net/skewb/advanced-variation-by-case.pdf, where the algs are organised based on the colour of the U centre and the arrangement of the corners.

I am not the most knowledgeable with skewb, but is it not possible to get a lot faster without learning Advanced? Fair enough if you're only going to learn a few easy cases, but would it not be better/easier to become more efficient elsewhere first?

E: symbolic 50th post.
 
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AlphaSheep

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I learned from Kennan L's videos, also when I was averaging about 8 seconds.


I went through them slowly and for each family of cases, I wrote down which angle to start from, whether to use sledge and hedge, and which case it would reduce to. Then I spent a couple of weeks doing only untimed solves, until I knew what to do for each case.
 
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TheSquareOne

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This might be a silly question, but are the 134 cases at Sarah’s site all of the possible last layer cases?

I was planning on generating my own algorithms for these cases (I don’t like doing sledge and hedge) but I wanted to be sure I’m only dealing with 134 of them before I even think about coding!

Thanks
:)
 
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