[Help Thread] Megaminx Discussion

[KPOACAH]

Hello, i want to ask you who method is pretty fast to solve Megaminx. You will help me if you put some links.

 

[Cuberstache]

Hello, i want to ask you who method is pretty fast to solve Megaminx. You will help me if you put some links.

It's hard to say what you should work on without knowing anything about how you solve or how fast you solve. However, the #1 thing at any level is lookahead. Make sure you're finding the next pieces while still solving the current ones. This means knowing which pieces you'll need without looking at centers. I would check out CubeSkills first; there's some great advice there no matter what speed you are. Especially check out the one on Westlund S2L in the Intermediate Techniques section. Having a structure of how you solve S2L helps massively with lookahead.

 

[KPOACAH]

It's hard to say what you should work on without knowing anything about how you solve or how fast you solve. However, the #1 thing at any level is lookahead. Make sure you're finding the next pieces while still solving the current ones. This means knowing which pieces you'll need without looking at centers. I would check out CubeSkills first; there's some great advice there no matter what speed you are. Especially check out the one on Westlund S2L in the Intermediate Techniques section. Having a structure of how you solve S2L helps massively with lookahead.

Thank you

 

[Nmile7300]

Hey guys, does anyone know a good setup for the Galaxy V2 M? Mine is feeling a bit slow.

 

[alexiscubing]

My galaxy v2lm is basically just dnm and it is quite good

 

[Nmile7300]

My galaxy v2lm is basically just dnm and it is quite good

Ok I might try that. Also did you see my critique on your sub 9 3x3 solve?

 

[alexiscubing]

Ok I might try that. Also did you see my critique on your sub 9 3x3 solve?

didn't will check
thanks btw

 

[Sub1Hour]

Anybody here use a black face on their mega?
I swapped my white for black

 

[alexiscubing]

Anybody here use a black face on their mega?
I swapped my white for black

I am planning to switch cream with grey and grey with black (i hate cream on megaminxes)

 

[Micah Morrison]

Anybody here use a black face on their mega?
I swapped my white for black

That is exactly what I did ad I'm never going to regret it because it looks so cool

Hey guys, does anyone know a good setup for the Galaxy V2 M? Mine is feeling a bit slow.

I like a little bit of traxxas 10 k on the tracks and silk (lubicle or cubicle labs) on the pieces. It gives mine a more controllable feel. If you want something where the cube is really fast and the pieces glide together I wouldn't use this setup, but this is my personal favorite setup.

 

[Sub1Hour]

I am planning to switch cream with grey and grey with black (i hate cream on megaminxes)

That's part of why I use black instead of white. They blend very easily and switching out white made the problem go away

 

[Cuberstache]

Anybody here use a black face on their mega?
I swapped my white for black

I swapped gray for black, instant and noticeable improvement in LL recognition. People complain all the time about white/cream recognition problems but it's really not that bad. I had problems with it for like a week after I first got a galaxy v2 but they went away after that. In low lighting, it can be difficult sometimes, but I really don't have any problems whatsoever in good lighting.

 

[KPOACAH]

Hey guys, does anyone know a good setup for the Galaxy V2 M? Mine is feeling a bit slow.

1. Lube it with the right lube
2. Remove all of the center caps and start trying to get the right for you setup
3. If you are brave look at the core and clean it
4. I need you tell me before how many time you have bought it

 

[Micah Morrison]

hey, does any one have any tips for improving efficiency on f2l and s2l? I average 1:15 and use the Westlund S2L method but I think my biggest weakness is efficiency and doing U3's and U'3's a lot

 

[KPOACAH]

Anybody here use a black face on their mega?
I swapped my white for black

I actually swap the gray with black because for me the gray is very bright.

 

[Nmile7300]

hey, does any one have any tips for improving efficiency on f2l and s2l? I average 1:15 and use the Westlund S2L method but I think my biggest weakness is efficiency and doing U3's and U'3's a lot

I average 1:20 and am not super efficient, but I know what helped me a lot was watching example solves. Feliks has really good ones on cubeskills, and there are loads of other ones from fast megaminxers.

 

[I'm A Cuber]

Any opinions on using Petrus eo on megaminx?

 

[Cuberstache]

Any opinions on using Petrus eo on megaminx?

Probably not worth it, at what point in the solve would you do EO?

 

[I'm A Cuber]

At what point in the solve would you do EO?

Here:

Edit: sorry it’s sideways

 

[Cuberstache]

Here

You could, but I still think it's not really worth it. It's really just too many wasted moves. Plus, with Petrus, ZBLL is an important benefit of doing EO, but obviously megaminx ZBLL is impractical. The EO step of LL normally is super fast so LL isn't helped that much. Doing the last side of S2L 2-gen is nice, but not really worth spending time thinking about and doing EO.