fanwuq
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I've had my megaminx (cube4you $4 one) for almost a year and finally played with it for the first time today!
First it sucked really badly. Then, after playing for a day, it got nice. I can do (U'R'UR)*6 in 3.8 seconds. Then, I sanded the corners, so I can now do it about 3 seconds. (That's faster than a good 3x3 cube!) I think I have a unique turning style with it. For the "F2L" part, it's nothing special, I just grip the layer and turn slowly (it is slow, clumsy, and inconvenient). But for 2gen, I form a cup with my hand and just hold the megaminx kind of like some sort of video game controller, then I trigger crazily with my thumb and index finger. With this, I realized that a 2gen LL solution for megaminx would be super fast. I know it wound be one look, but making it as 2gen as possible would be great.
So far for LL, I've been using a beginner solution I came up with myself that I don't like much. First flip edges using Petrus or FURU'R'F'. Then permute edges using T and Y perm. Then using RUR'DRU'R'D' and such commutators to solve the corners 1 or 2 at a time. Then orient with the (R'D'RD)*2 commutator. It's here that I really get to utilize that fingertrick.
Would it be nice if I can just flip edges, prepare for 2gen, then finish?
I realized that 2gen for megaminx means something different from 2gen on the 3x3. I don't even think a 2 gen U perm is possible on the megaminx. So what can you do to prepare for the 2gen? How can you recognize it is 2gen-able?
(The 2gen part would probably be 2 look for convenience of look ahead and minimizing # of algs.)
First it sucked really badly. Then, after playing for a day, it got nice. I can do (U'R'UR)*6 in 3.8 seconds. Then, I sanded the corners, so I can now do it about 3 seconds. (That's faster than a good 3x3 cube!) I think I have a unique turning style with it. For the "F2L" part, it's nothing special, I just grip the layer and turn slowly (it is slow, clumsy, and inconvenient). But for 2gen, I form a cup with my hand and just hold the megaminx kind of like some sort of video game controller, then I trigger crazily with my thumb and index finger. With this, I realized that a 2gen LL solution for megaminx would be super fast. I know it wound be one look, but making it as 2gen as possible would be great.
So far for LL, I've been using a beginner solution I came up with myself that I don't like much. First flip edges using Petrus or FURU'R'F'. Then permute edges using T and Y perm. Then using RUR'DRU'R'D' and such commutators to solve the corners 1 or 2 at a time. Then orient with the (R'D'RD)*2 commutator. It's here that I really get to utilize that fingertrick.
Would it be nice if I can just flip edges, prepare for 2gen, then finish?
I realized that 2gen for megaminx means something different from 2gen on the 3x3. I don't even think a 2 gen U perm is possible on the megaminx. So what can you do to prepare for the 2gen? How can you recognize it is 2gen-able?
(The 2gen part would probably be 2 look for convenience of look ahead and minimizing # of algs.)