Hi all,
I'm new here.
tl;dr: I'm having trouble with the last stage of Peter Renzland's Elegant Rubik's Cube Solution Method. Has anyone tried it, and if so, can they given me any advice?
Longer version:
I tried cubing a bit at school, until someone popped my cube. I didn't realise it could be fixed at the time, so gave up, and have recently taken it up again as an adult.
I've got the beginner method down, and I don't have any intention of trying to improve my times - instead I like trying to reduce the number of moves (with as much looking and thinking time as I like). Since I'm now able to solve the cube using the beginner method, I thought I would try something different - I prefer the cube as something to fiddle with, so I thought I'd try Peter Renzland's Elegant Rubik's Cube Solution Method, as found at http://dancing.org/rubik/. It's not about reducing the number of moves, but about reducing the number of algorithms, and leaving the rest to intuition.
Basically, you solve all the corners, then try to fix the edges by using a few setup moves, then doing U2 R2 U2 R2 U2 R2, and then undoing the setup moves.
This is where I'm struggling, and wondered if anyone has tried this method and can give me any tips - google seems remarkably quiet on the method.
The method suggests to start with the white layer, then the middle and finish with yellow. I can manage the first layer fine, and then I struggle to get all the middle edges. It seems to say I should never need more than 3 or so setup moves. One time I got all the middle edges right except one was flipped in place. I couldn't work out how to unflip it, and scrambled the cube in the process of trying.
I put the current state of the cube into the online rubik's cube solver, and it gave me this solution:
R2 U' F' R2 D2 L2 B L2 D R2 F2 L2 U' L2 U R
If you scramble to the same point, you'll see I have one yellow cubie that I'm trying to get off the middle layer, but it's hard to do as the algorythm moves 4 pieces at once (UF swaps with UB and RF swaps with RB).
Using the above solution would be 'cheating', as I'm trying to solve the cube by repeating (up to four setup moves) U2 R2 U2 R2 U2 R2 (undo the setup moves).
Anyone else tried this method, and if so, any advice?
I'm new here.
tl;dr: I'm having trouble with the last stage of Peter Renzland's Elegant Rubik's Cube Solution Method. Has anyone tried it, and if so, can they given me any advice?
Longer version:
I tried cubing a bit at school, until someone popped my cube. I didn't realise it could be fixed at the time, so gave up, and have recently taken it up again as an adult.
I've got the beginner method down, and I don't have any intention of trying to improve my times - instead I like trying to reduce the number of moves (with as much looking and thinking time as I like). Since I'm now able to solve the cube using the beginner method, I thought I would try something different - I prefer the cube as something to fiddle with, so I thought I'd try Peter Renzland's Elegant Rubik's Cube Solution Method, as found at http://dancing.org/rubik/. It's not about reducing the number of moves, but about reducing the number of algorithms, and leaving the rest to intuition.
Basically, you solve all the corners, then try to fix the edges by using a few setup moves, then doing U2 R2 U2 R2 U2 R2, and then undoing the setup moves.
This is where I'm struggling, and wondered if anyone has tried this method and can give me any tips - google seems remarkably quiet on the method.
The method suggests to start with the white layer, then the middle and finish with yellow. I can manage the first layer fine, and then I struggle to get all the middle edges. It seems to say I should never need more than 3 or so setup moves. One time I got all the middle edges right except one was flipped in place. I couldn't work out how to unflip it, and scrambled the cube in the process of trying.
I put the current state of the cube into the online rubik's cube solver, and it gave me this solution:
R2 U' F' R2 D2 L2 B L2 D R2 F2 L2 U' L2 U R
If you scramble to the same point, you'll see I have one yellow cubie that I'm trying to get off the middle layer, but it's hard to do as the algorythm moves 4 pieces at once (UF swaps with UB and RF swaps with RB).
Using the above solution would be 'cheating', as I'm trying to solve the cube by repeating (up to four setup moves) U2 R2 U2 R2 U2 R2 (undo the setup moves).
Anyone else tried this method, and if so, any advice?