[Member Intro] Born again Cuber

[Foxed]

Hey y'all, recently new AGAIN to cubing. I discovered cubing way back in 2004. Quickly became bored with beginner/cfop and was intimidated with the agl set after i learned 2-look. Discovered Roux while looking for a more intuitive method and fell in love. I reached my maximum speed with the method not long after ~45 seconds. Since there wasnt a lot of literature on the method at the time i resigned my cube feeling i had reached my potential.

Fast forward 16 years and I'm rediscovering the cube with fresh eyes because of pandemic boredom. The advancements in roux are mind blowing and I'm working on getting a better intuitive understanding of the method.

Currently sub-38 ao5 and grinding that time down fast. Learned some new algs and really working on speeding up blocks and grasping eolr, though i still mostly use traditional lse for speed solves, my eolr recog is very slow at the moment. PB time is 23.06 so im confident i can get sub 20 sometime soon if i can cut my block building time in half.

To any other rouxers out there, how do you grip your cube for LSE? I invented my own ambidextrous grip using both pinkys for M' and M2 and can do U, U', U2 with both hands. Not sure how the tps compares to a standard grip like Kians since my tps isnt that high to begin with.

Cubes:
Weilong gts 2m
Yj mgc

anyway trying to find footing in the community again since i dont have any cubing friends haha

 

[Nmile7300]

Welcome back!

 

[BenChristman1]

Welcome! I don’t use Roux, but there are a lot of other people on the forums who use it, so they should be able to help!

 

[Deleted member 51471]

I do all Ms with my right hand, and all Us with my left hand.

 

[Kaneki Uchiha]

Do M2 flicks with ring to pinky ig
Anyway welcome to the forums

 

[Foxed]

I do all Ms with my right hand, and all Us with my left hand.

Im learning that grip as well, but i find my MUs are just so slow. I suppose it just takes a lot of muscle conditioning but right now i get maybe 2tps and i run into MUMUMU all the time...like way more than i see anyone else haha

 

[EngiNerdBrian]

Welcome! I'm also a born again cuber since i left the community for about 8 years then came back; it was the intuitive understanding and non-wca solving that got me back into things. Good luck with all your goals and progress. It seems pandemic boredom has us all cubing more than usual!

 

[Deleted member 51471]

Im learning that grip as well, but i find my MUs are just so slow. I suppose it just takes a lot of muscle conditioning but right now i get maybe 2tps and i run into MUMUMU all the time...like way more than i see anyone else haha

You should be able to avoid MUMUMU like all the time...
Also, 2 TPS is pretty good. With 2 TPS throughout your entire solve, you should be able to average sub-25 with roux (like 30 with 2-look CMLL)

 

[cuber314159]

Welcome back!

 

[Foxed]

You should be able to avoid MUMUMU like all the time...
Also, 2 TPS is pretty good. With 2 TPS throughout your entire solve, you should be able to average sub-25 with roux (like 30 with 2-look CMLL)

With my other grip i can get double or triple that speed. I know people say its easy to avoid MUs but i run into eolr cases that end up having the MUMU simply because its a mirror case or something like that. I havent quitw gotten to a place where i underatand eolr intuitively enough to avoid it. If i do normal 3-look LSE its not really a problem i run into since i know how to make an arrow intuitively from any position, it only pops up when im trying to insert LR while making the arrow

 

[Deleted member 51471]

With my other grip i can get double or triple that speed. I know people say its easy to avoid MUs but i run into eolr cases that end up having the MUMU simply because its a mirror case or something like that. I havent quitw gotten to a place where i underatand eolr intuitively enough to avoid it. If i do normal 3-look LSE its not really a problem i run into since i know how to make an arrow intuitively from any position, it only pops up when im trying to insert LR while making the arrow

According to kian, you should only start eolr when you're sub-15...

 

[Foxed]

According to kian, you should only start eolr when you're sub-15...

I dont use eolr in timed solves because my recog is too slow, but i have most of the cases under my belt, i like trying to ubderstand all the dynamics, makes the last step so much more fun and interesting. My main objective is cutting my block building time in half and strengthening my finger tricks and inspection. I dont think its ever too soon to start learning something new though.

 

[Kbeast]

I don’t use roux but I do M moves with my right hand and U moves with my left