[Help Thread] Redi Cube Discussion and Help

[fabdabs1234]

I'm averaging around 16-17 seconds with a quite basic method me and Rob Yau came up with. It involves solving the first layer as normal and then reducing it down to 2 gen.

 

[EntireTV]

I'm averaging around 16-17 seconds with a quite basic method me and Rob Yau came up with. It involves solving the first layer as normal and then reducing it down to 2 gen.

I was just about to point out that you have the UWR on speedsolving.com

 

[ShooboppyWhiteGuy]

Well, to be fair, I basically answered your question in my response to EntireTV.
Yes, I strongly recommend the puzzle.

Fair point.

 

[DGCubes]

I'm averaging around 16-17 seconds with a quite basic method me and Rob Yau came up with. It involves solving the first layer as normal and then reducing it down to 2 gen.

Oooh, nice. Care to explain further, or give an example solve or two?

 

[fabdabs1234]

Oooh, nice. Care to explain further, or give an example solve or two?

Here's a more in-depth explanation: first you make the first layer as normal. Then you would solve one of the corners + the E layer edge that would go beneath it. Then you would solve the same pieces for an adjacent corner + the U edge that goes between that corner and the previously solved corner. At this point you should have two sides solved. To solve the remaining 2 corners and 5 edges you match up an edge to each corner and then you end up with a 3 cycle, which you then solve. A lot of the time a few pieces of the last step will already be solved and you can just solve it intuitively. A lot of the time it is very beneficial to preserve blocks so that the last two layers can be solved very quickly.

 

[DGCubes]

Here's a more in-depth explanation: first you make the first layer as normal. Then you would solve one of the corners + the E layer edge that would go beneath it. Then you would solve the same pieces for an adjacent corner + the U edge that goes between that corner and the previously solved corner. At this point you should have two sides solved. To solve the remaining 2 corners and 5 edges you match up an edge to each corner and then you end up with a 3 cycle, which you then solve. A lot of the time a few pieces of the last step will already be solved and you can just solve it intuitively. A lot of the time it is very beneficial to preserve blocks so that the last two layers can be solved very quickly.

Very cool. Pretty similar to my method; I just solve all E-layer edges and U-layer corners before moving onto the last layer. Seems like yours is better though; I think I'll try it out. Thanks for sharing!

 

[techieAgnostic]

How're people fingertricking this? Any tips / setup?

 

[DGCubes]

How're people fingertricking this? Any tips / setup?

I'm fingertricking it pretty similarly to the way I fingertrick Pyraminx. Very few actual flicks, and more wrist turns (but not the bad kind). Since a lot of the solve incorporates some form of sledgehammer or another, I generally fingertrick those by just holding the two corners that are being turned and rotating in the appropriate direction.

 

[DGCubes]

Hate to double post, but this is pretty unrelated to my last post. Just got a 9.43 UWR single! The solve flowed really well and was decently lucky, but I didn't have any skips or anything. I'm averaging around 18 now.

 

[fabdabs1234]

Hate to double post, but this is pretty unrelated to my last post. Just got a 9.43 UWR single! The solve flowed really well and was decently lucky, but I didn't have any skips or anything. I'm averaging around 18 now.

Nice, beats my 9.89 from 2 minutes ago

 

[DGCubes]

Nice, beats my 9.89 from 2 minutes ago

Oooh, congrats on that though! Sub-10 feels good.

 

[fabdabs1234]

8.99 single and 12.99 ao5, sorry about the dodgy angle but i'm quite pleased I got the single on cam.

 

[EntireTV]

Got my redi cube! It's a fairly easy solve XD. I might start timing it soon. It's soo smooth. How are people scrambling it on Cs?

 

[xyzzy]

Use RubikSkewb notation?

If someone can explain this notation to me, I'll have a fast random-state scrambler written by tomorrow.

 

[Cale S]

If someone can explain this notation to me, I'll have a fast random-state scrambler written by tomorrow.

With rubikskewb, you hold a corner in front so on both layers you have a front, left, right, and back corner. Capital letters (F, L, R, and B) mean turning a top layer corner clockwise, and lower case letters are the bottom layer corners.

 

[xyzzy]

With rubikskewb, you hold a corner in front so on both layers you have a front, left, right, and back corner. Capital letters (F, L, R, and B) mean turning a top layer corner clockwise, and lower case letters are the bottom layer corners.

Cheers. I'll link it when I'm done.

E: Bummer, it's not as fast as I thought it'd be. Scrambles are also a lot longer than optimal (~20 moves).

E2: And here it is. (Average 16.5 moves, 0.15 second per scramble.)

 

[DGCubes]

Cheers. I'll link it when I'm done.

E: Bummer, it's not as fast as I thought it'd be. Scrambles are also a lot longer than optimal (~20 moves).

E2: And here it is. (Average 16.5 moves, 0.15 second per scramble.)

Yesssssssss, that's AMAZING. Definitely using that in the future.

 

[Dr_Detonation]

I don't have this yet, but obviously I need it.

 

[xyzzy]

10.067 L l' f r b' f' r' b B R B F R' F

PB, beats my second best time by 7 seconds, and about thrice as fast as my average. This thing is fun.

 

[I_<3_SCS]

Fun...