I’m just relaxing today watching some movies and spamming these algs. By next weekend, I ought to have them down well enough to confidently be using M2 for edges.
Yeah I agree with Grzegorz. I have no idea why people make such a big deal out of these algs. They'll happily learn dozens of CFOP algs, but recoil at the thought of learning these two M2 algs that are about as difficult as an easy OLL and so similar to each other that it's really only like learning 1.5 algs.
I'll take a shot at it. Learning BLD is a daunting task for most. Adding algs to learn plus the odd/even switch just adds to the difficulty (even if it's not all that much more), when that's just less you have to worry about with OP. So you can learn the stuff necessary to do what seems like an overwhelming task at first, or you can learn all of that stuff AND learn some algs plus the odd/even swap thing. Some people will choose the first option. Simple as that, I think.
My personal experience: I very rarely practise BLD, so I'm not super motivated to learn any "fancy" stuff for it; I couldn't be bothered to learn any algs for M2, so I just did TuRBo instead. (I think I understand how to use M2 now, but there's no reason for me to go from 3-cycles to M2.)
I think that's the reason. I remember me learning it - they both seems easy now but both seemed very strange and like a twins.
As for me, there were a few reasons why I never learned them:
I just thought they where hard to learn.
I hate learning algs. It took me a year to learn full OLL.
I’m still a little confused, so let me see if I got this straight. You solve your V then you recognize your L4E case and solve with one alg. Something like 29 cases? And after I solve my V, I solve the back edge. Which makes it a top first method even though I always do a V first.
im not in a hurry with 3BLD either. Part of why I started with OP/OP was to systematically work through it all so I could best understand what I was doing. In retrospect, M2 wasn’t difficult to understand. At the start, however, it was easier for me to learn the BLD solving process by doing so without any need to learn a new Alg—that’s just how my brain works. I tend to take things slow and methodically through my own process. That said, at the beginning of the year my goal was to get a success in 3BLD by the end of 2018. Sooooooo.... that’s come and gone. Lol
Lol, Drew cracks me up... here’s my summary of the video:
That's kinda what I got as well
