Thanks a lot for the feedback. I will try that. What surprised me is how much of a difference it made half a turn of the screws for the Yuexiao compared to other cubes in terms of corner cutting.
That's the Y perm I've used for 3+ years. Its great. Originally posted by jskyler91, I think. When I learned BLD I found that I liked the regular Y perm just as much, and considered switching. The main reason I didn't switch is because I didn't want to confuse muscle memory and end up doing the training F' during BLD OP. I do use the regular Y perm on bigger cubes where muscle memory isn't as strong.I like this one. Will drill it some and see what the results are. Thanks for sharing
Back to practice it is.
I just learned the inverses and mirrors and, in fact, learned the 4 algs in one day. I don't think there's a risk of mixing them up but maybe there are better algs out there. I just learned those because at the time it felt convenient but now I'm stuck with them. Chris Olson has some alternative algs for some of the G-perms that you might want to check out in his "X-perm like a pro" series.The PLL videos you guys post here are really impressive! Hopefully I can get to similar tps with enough practice. I'm currently at 19/21 PLL algs learned, 2 G-perms missing. I tried doing a PLL attack with the 19 algs I know. After a few tries, and learning the order I wanted to execute them, I eventually got a 1:12. That's about 3.8 seconds per alg...
Do you all use the same alg in 4 different versions for the G-perms, or completely different algs for some cases? I learned R2 u R' U R' U' R u' R2 y' R' U R and the same backwards for Ga and Gb. I'm now considering if I should learn the inverses of those for Gc and Gd, with more risk of confusion between 4 very similar algs, or go for something completely different. I think D R2' U' R U' R U R' U R2 U D' R U' R' could also be pretty fast, for example.
But probably you're right and it's just that the "slope" of the screw is different. Bad thing is that properly adjusting the tensions and getting them even becomes much more difficult.
For the Gd perm, which he calls his favorite G perm, he uses the alg I'm considering. Except that I would maybe place the D' at the start instead of the end of the alg.
Once I complete that with ZZ, I might consider giving it a shot with CFOP as well. If I can learn to associate the CPEOLL algs I used earlier with the correct OLL case, I should already know about 20 OLL algs, including those with edges oriented.
Good stuff Raoul! Be sure to make a real jump in progress the next few months by practicing every day 3X3But this week something has happened, suddenly I have improved lookahead a lot. Monday I did my first sub 20 Mean of 100 (19.75) and yesterday my first sub 18 ao12 (17.90), all of a sudden I can sub 18 Ao5 at will.
I just don't understand how improving works, not at all
Regarding shifting interest to another event that's what I keep doing and now I have many more that got me interested so no problem there either.
I think it's a matter of balance between speed and slow. I've noticed that in my good solves like 15.xx or 16.xx I'm fast and my lookahead is good. In slower I lock up, lose lookahead, bad recognize olls and plls etc.
Happens to me as well. When slow solving I don't usually get any better than 17-18 seconds. It's only by combining good lookahead and a speedier TPS when I can get down to 13-15. Of course that's only in lucky solves. Most of the time trying to rush too much only ends up in bad lookahead and worse times.I must say one more thing - a lot of people in a recent time asked me why I have a slow tps. These voices came from young and fast cubers like Czapiewski, Tokarski etc. I was so focused on lookahead that I forgot about it. So I decided to speed up my tps cause I think my muscle memory includes almost all of f2l cases. That was the reason I've started back CFOP - just to see if it works. I think all these practice sessions which include slow turning etc. are imporatant but one cant forget that this is called speedsolving.
I had to learn an alg to deal with parity, though. Maybe I'll feature it in my planned unboxing video.
Had an amazing round in the Race to Sub-30. New Ao12 PB 25.43 and Ao5 PB 22.61. Now it's time to focus on the race to Sub-25.
They were quite good for ZZ yellow top, blue front as well. At least two scrambles with only 2 bad edges, if I recall correctly. Though there was indeed some scrambles that made me wish I was doing CFOP instead. Some very easy white crosses there.
