U2 vs U2'

When I'm doing 2-gen algs (R U), namely the Sune and Antisune, I always found that U2' is easier and faster to perform than U2. Similarly, I find U' faster than U. During U2' and U', I using my left hand performs it, so I can do it without pausing, but when I do U and U2, my right hand does it, so there's a tiny pause. For this reason, my Antisune is faster than my Sune. I find this is more pronounced is OH.

Does anyone else find that U' is faster than U is 2-gen algs? Or is it just me? Or is there a faster way of performing U and U2? Thanks.

For Sune and Antisune, I use U2' and U2 respectively. Otherwise, there isn't much difference for me. It is pretty subjective, and depends a lot on the alg.

It really depends on the alg, the grips and moves performed are different and thus lead to different kinds of executions of the moves

U2' is way easier because I can't double click very well with my right hand. I only use U2 in h perm and z perm because I can't do m2s with my right hand.

I can't do U2 double flick,so I use U2'.

Why not both?

Always U2' for me.

youSurname said:

Always U2' for me.

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for some reason I feel like you wanted my name

Well, why not both?
I have a (mild) preference for U2 but that's because I do LSE that way (Roux/SSC/RC FTW!)

I usually do U2', and I think I'm in the minority in doing so. I'm surprised most of the people in this thread also use their left hand for 180 degree U moves, and I think if the whole forum was polled, clockwise U2 would be the majority. There may be benefits to it; your left hand is doing something instead of your right hand, which is good since most algs are R heavy and most fancy F move fingertricks are done righthanded. It makes the right hand less overworked and the left hand less passive.

EDIT: there are plenty of exceptions, most notably my <M,U> EPLLs. I do M moves left handed, so every U move is done right handed.

same speed. i just do what ever doesn't need a regrip.

I use U2' when I can

i learned doing U2' doubleflick with my left hand when i was cubing for about 2 years. do for me it's kinda reverse; every time i doit with left, i lose stability, have weird pauses, not as good combos and it's just overall really hard to force myself to use the U2'.

I see why it's ideally better to be able to perform U2' though.

I do U2 for most of my algorithms, mainly because I can't double flick with my left hand. However, I do U2' for anti-sunes with my thumb on 2x2 and 3x3.

I almost always use a U2, since my left double flick is way slower.


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P.S. I'm left-handed.

Always U2. I can't do the U2' double flick, but instead U' U' wich is, of course, slower.

Whatever hand you do M with, you should do U2 with the opposite hand in my opinion. It'll help your H/Z perms or L6E with Roux.

DeeDubb said:

Whatever hand you do M with, you should do U2 with the opposite hand in my opinion. It'll help your H/Z perms or L6E with Roux.

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Yeah I am RH Ms and LH U2'

youSurname said:

Yeah I am RH Ms and LH U2'

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I am also a LH OHer, so U2' comes in very handy there.

U2's in OH are not as useful unless they are AUFs because you lose some fingers on the cube and it is making it unstable IMO, in regular OH solves I just use U' U'