What do you do when you have parity on bottom?

[Eli Apperson]

So I've been getting into squan, and I've noticed one thing that is slowing me down a lot is having to either flip the cube or do M2 U2 M2 whenever I have pairity on the bottom layer. What should I do instead?

 

[White KB]

Learn a parity alg for it, or just switch top and bottom in the alg you currently use. (For example, if the alg were all on top, change it to all on bottom.)

 

[Eli Apperson]

Learn a parity alg for it, or just switch top and bottom in the alg you currently use. (For example, if the alg were all on top, change it to all on bottom.)

Do you know where I can find a parity alg?

 

[ruffleduck]

So I've been getting into squan, and I've noticed one thing that is slowing me down a lot is having to either flip the cube or do M2 U2 M2 whenever I have pairity on the bottom layer. What should I do instead?

CubeDB - Online Reconstruction Tool

 

[Deleted member 36445]

What do you do when you have parity on bottom?

I just peel the stickers lol

 

[Thom S.]

I always put bottom on top and flip at the end but that is costing you a second.

Adj Adj and then Parity is very fast and only adds 4 slices.
Otherwise, just learn the Adj Parity on bottom, it's essentially the same algorithm (actually it IS the same algorithm)

CPP(quite bad) or CSP (hard and big) if you plan to get very serious with Sq1

 

[White KB]

I just peel the stickers lol

Literally exactly what I do for cubeshape

 

[Eli Apperson]

I always put bottom on top and flip at the end but that is costing you a second.

Adj Adj and then Parity is very fast and only adds 4 slices.
Otherwise, just learn the Adj Parity on bottom, it's essentially the same algorithm (actually it IS the same algorithm)

CPP(quite bad) or CSP (hard and big) if you plan to get very serious with Sq1

K thanks!

 

[BenChristman1]

Obviously, learning an alg is the best way to do it, but I do a setup move to put the parity on top, do the parity alg, then undo the setup.

 

[stwert]

I'm just beginning with squan myself, but are you talking about parity as the last step? I learned you can do parity before pbl, which is a shorter alg, and I assume you can do it on the top no matter what.

 

[Eli Apperson]

I'm just beginning with squan myself, but are you talking about parity as the last step? I learned you can do parity before pbl, which is a shorter alg, and I assume you can do it on the top no matter what.

I generally do parity right before ep. The alg is a little bit longer, but it is easier to recognize.

 

[OreKehStrah]

You can also just use Lin and never get parity on bottom lol

 

[Thom S.]

You can also just use Lin and never get parity on bottom lol

Lin is, if you do PLL+1, a viable contender. What I don't like about it is the CS-FB transition, which is harder to efficiently lookahead to than Vandenberghs CS-CO

 

[White KB]

Lin is, if you do PLL+1, a viable contender. What I don't like about it is the CS-FB transition, which is harder to efficiently lookahead to than Vandenberghs CS-CO

So, is CSP (Cubeshape Parity) or Lin easier?

EDIT: Sorry, just read your post.
I guess the question would really be which is faster...

 

[Thom S.]

So, is CSP (Cubeshape Parity) or Lin easier?

EDIT: Sorry, just read your post.
I guess the question would really be which is faster...

Lin is easier. Full algorithmic CSP (which only few people know) is 360 algorithms.
Keep in mind that with Lin, you still get Parity, you just won't get the same cases.