What is your "Signature Move"?

i cube left handed even though i write with my right hand...

other than that i have a J perm, that at F' for (R U R' F') i do a left handed F' (using my index finger) with my thumb on the F face at the same time.
im sure some people do this but i haven't seen any myself.

edit: i just remembered that for F perm, for the reverse angle i do a different alg (when no AUF)
F' l' M' U2 l' U l U2 r' L' U L U' l2 u
or for right handers it would be:
F r M' U2 r U' r' U2 l R U' R' U r2 u'

it's actually hilarious when i mess up that alg cause the entire cube scrambles.
 
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Smiles said:
other than that i have a J perm, that at F' for (R U R' F') i do a left handed F' with my thumb on the F face at the same time.
im sure some people do this but i haven't seen any myself.
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Do you do the F' with your left index? Because I've seen quite a few people doing that. I couldn't find a decent fingertrick for F' with my left thumb though.
edit: i just remembered that for F perm, for the reverse angle i do a different alg (when no AUF)
F' l' M' U2 l' U l U2 r' L' U L U' l2 u
or for right handers it would be:
F r M' U2 r U' r' U2 l R U' R' U r2 u'
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iirc this is Mats' F perm; I used it in my official PB single. Except I do F r2 R' U2 etc. I think it's HTM optimal. Unfortunately it isn't easy to do quickly...
And yes, when I was learning it I got it wrong so many times. It's really annoying.
 
TDM said:
Do you do the F' with your left index? Because I've seen quite a few people doing that. I couldn't find a decent fingertrick for F' with my left thumb though.
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Oh yes, I'll make an edit to clarify. i use my left index finger to push ULF to LDF. the only problem with that move (in general) is that it could accidentally turn the S slice. but in the F perm, after R U R', my right hand is touching the UR edge so the S slice can't move.
I do the same thing for Y perms with my right hand (since i'm lefty lol)
F' L' U L U L' U' L F
it makes for a super smooth Y perm. but the very last F turn of the alg is with my left thumb, because otherwise i'm messing with the S slice.

iirc this is Mats' F perm; I used it in my official PB single. Except I do F r2 R' U2 etc. I think it's HTM optimal. Unfortunately it isn't easy to do quickly...
And yes, when I was learning it I got it wrong so many times. It's really annoying.
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well r M' could be done at the same time, imo it almost saves a move.
and really? when i learned it i couldn't believe someone actually used this alg LOL. when i went to a competition i decided nope not doing this alg, i lock up with it under pressure ha

p.s. how can you get a pb single with that alg?
 
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MadaraMangekyou said:
There is a awkward case of F2L which i solve R U R' U2' ( R U R' U')2 ... A very elegant solution to a complicated problem IMO
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Yeah that's cool and I use it. (Remembering to drop the last U' though.) I also use U2 R2 U2 (R' U' R U') R2 because it translates well to other slots and - depending on the position of the pair - you can get a nice cancellation of the U2. Also depending on my hand position at the time...
 
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Smiles said:
i use my left index finger to push ULF to LDF. the only problem with that move (in general) is that it could accidentally turn the S slice.
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Interesting - I've never had this problem. I seem to be more consistent with this fingertrick than with my old one, which was using my right index to flick DFR to RUF.
and really? when i learned it i couldn't believe someone actually used this alg LOL. when i went to a competition i decided nope not doing this alg, i lock up with it under pressure ha
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I lock up with it all the time. In my official PB was pretty much the only time I executed it without locking up :p
p.s. how can you get a pb single with that alg?
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Official PB, not PB. Iirc the F2L was rotationless, or maybe with one rotation. I saw I needed to use F R U R' U' F' to orient edges (I use 2-look OLL about half the time), so I didn't even pause between F2L and OLL, and I saw as I was doing the OLL that it was actually the 1-look OLL case. So that helped a lot. I don't think I paused much recognising the F perm either. The F perm still took about three seconds to do...

LucidCuber said:
I'm going to make a Poll later, how many people do you know that do?

I only know Lars Vandenbergh, Me and Dmirtri Dobrjakov.
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He uses COL, and I think this guy uses it too.
E: oh yeah and Sergey Ryabko too, don't know how I forgot him
 
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LucidCuber said:
I'm going to make a Poll later, how many people do you know that do?

I only know Lars Vandenbergh, Me and Sergey Ryabko.
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*adds Lars Vandenbergh to list*

By memory and by scanning through the cross on left discussion thread (which is a really, really old thread) and such...

In order, by WCA average, fastest to slowest, I currently can list:

Sergey Ryabko (8.77), Phillip Espinoza (9.00), Tomasz Żołnowski (9.31), Daniil Lee (9.36), Krzysztof Rożałowski (10.90), David Woner (10.98), Theodore Chow (11.41), Leyan Lo (11.91), Greg Austin (13.54), Lars Vennike Nielsson (13.62), Lars Vandenbergh (14.04), Trevor Mahoney (14.07), Shelley Chang (15.18), Maxim Chechnev (17.67), Daniel Lo (17.78)

Plus Antoine (who sorta counts)

I'm sure I've missed people. (Does Nathaniel Knopf do COL?) I think I'll start keeping a list somewhere...
 
I don't entirely understand the concept of this thread so I hope I'm doing it right.

I have a modified version of H and Z perm. My friend finds it weird that I don't do M'. Also since I'm ambidextrous I use U' instead of U to do the M slices with my right middle and left ring finger.

I also do the last F' in T and Y perm with my left index finger, which I find a lot of people don't do.

I have a modified version of one of the U perms. M2 U' M' U2 M U' M2. Because I find that I can do M slices well and it has U' in it. The other one I do normally.

I made up my own algorithm for an F2L case. R2 U2 F R2 F' U2 R2. I'm not sure if it's faster but I seem to have it down.
 
To me, this thread is basically like: What special move(s) do you do in a solve that stands out from solves from other cubers? So it could be some algorithm, a weird method, or some crazy fingertrick etc.
 
l1nks said:
I don't like most of the L perms i found, so i've taken the J perm, mirrored it, and adapted it to use my right hand principally, so i ended up with a righty L perm cause i really suck at lefty algorithms and i don't rly want to practise them :P
x' r' U' r U r' U' L U r U' r2 F r (U)
I also have a little crush on Bruno and it's inverse <3
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that alg doesn't work, i think you mean x instead of x'
and i dont wanna be a party pooper, but that algorithm is exactly L' U' L F L' U' L U L F' L2 U L
it's a lefty algorithm in denial
 
For me it's probably doing the F' with my left index finger, love that move. An example is the finger trick I use when doing the F-perm (R' U' F' (R U R' U') (R' F) (R2 U') (R' U' R U) (R' U R)), where I do R' normally, U' with my left middle finger, and F' with my left index finger. It's really neat.
 
Doing a U2 after inserting a pair

Pausing for like 5 sec before first pair (sometimes)

Doing R U' with my thumb

Doing r2 after A (b) perm (I use the mirror of A (a))
 
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