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Headlights OLL Fingertrick

teller

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The dreaded headlights! This is the "standard" algorithm, but tricked out with grips that make it fast and fun!

Here is the alg with overshoot/undershoot guides included:
R2+ D- (R'+ U'2-) (R- D'+ R'-) U2- R'

That first U'2 is tricky. Hint: Counterbalance the cube by briefly placing your left ring finger across BR and BRD.

Enjoy!

 
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I used to do that fingertrick for one of the A perms. R'2 U'2 R D R' U'2 R D' R. Entire thing done in one motion. Cool looking but useless for speed.

I do use that finger trick for my R perm though.
 
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Ok...turns out there was a tiny clip of audio leftover at about 6:00 which made the video 5:00 too long...don't know how I missed it when I tested it. It just goes to show: Something almost always goes wrong with computers (I'm a software developer and I always have to fix bugs at least three times before they are truly fixed). Let this be a warning to all YouTube users: Garbage in, garbage out!

anyway...I re-uploaded it and it looks fine now.
 
badmephisto said:
Ah awesome! I like the way this looks I didnt know about it :D
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Thank you, teacher!
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teller said:
Oh yes, Joël van Noort was a huge influence on me!

If anyone is interested, his fingertrick page is here: http://solvethecube.110mb.com/fingertricks.html
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Nice to hear I inspired someone, but everybody should also realise that my fingertricks page is quite old and out dated. There are quite a few things in there I don't agree with anymore, and the headlights is one of them. I do it much faster now :).
 
Joël said:
Nice to hear I inspired someone, but everybody should also realise that my fingertricks page is quite old and out dated. There are quite a few things in there I don't agree with anymore, and the headlights is one of them. I do it much faster now :).
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I would love it if you would share some of your thoughts about this...it's not the first time a fast cuber has said "I don't do x anymore" and I wonder what the thought process is behind the evolution...
 
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