Some different solving - R and U turns only!

[Ellis]

I like to do an F first, then scramble 2-gen. So you have to solve it with R U until the cube will be solved when you do an F' at the end.

Or... you could solve while holding a pen between your toes.

The Pochmann strikes again

7.70 11.70 11.06 8.18 7.38

Is that with or without the pen?

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

I like to do an F first, then scramble 2-gen. So you have to solve it with R U until the cube will be solved when you do an F' at the end.

Or... you could solve while holding a pen between your toes.

The Pochmann strikes again

7.70 11.70 11.06 8.18 7.38

Is that with or without the pen?

I don't know if that'd make such a big of a difference, but yes

 

[Ellis]

I always had a cross oriented on top, and so I just used at most 2 sunes (including reverse, double, and the bruno) to finish the oll, and I always had an edge permutation, which can always be solved with r and u turns

Whoa, are you serious? I had 5 G-perms and all OLLs with zero edges oriented. Luuuuuuckyyyy!

 

[Cride5]

Pretty cool if you're a ZZ'er, just two RH blocks and LL. Only problem is not all my OLL/PLLs are 2-gen

 

[mpohl100]

normaly I do not practice this.

(11.81), 6.92, 10.39, 8.09, (5.47)

=> 8.47 secs average

 

[Ellis]

I always had a cross oriented on top, and so I just used at most 2 sunes (including reverse, double, and the bruno) to finish the oll, and I always had an edge permutation, which can always be solved with r and u turns

Whoa, are you serious? I had 5 G-perms and all OLLs with zero edges oriented. Luuuuuuckyyyy!

not lucky, its my method i use to solve the two f2l slots

haha, what method is that... R and U moves only?

 

[Jai]

5.49, 6.05, (6.89), (4.13), 5.94 = 5.82
The 4 was a PLL skip. All U perms >_<
If I got any H or Z perms, it would've been slower.

 

[tim]

I always had a cross oriented on top, and so I just used at most 2 sunes (including reverse, double, and the bruno) to finish the oll, and I always had an edge permutation, which can always be solved with r and u turns

Whoa, are you serious? I had 5 G-perms and all OLLs with zero edges oriented. Luuuuuuckyyyy!

not lucky, its my method i use to solve the two f2l slots

haha, what method is that... R and U moves only?

yes, of course

I'll make a video of me doing an average and I'll put it on youtube

Epic .

 

[Sa967St]

Is this alg right?

chameleon/headlights
R U R' U R U R' U2 R U R' U2 R U R'

I always thought those were 2 different cases.

And I was trying to figure out what this alg was...

superman
R U' R' U2 R R' U2 R U' R' U' R U' R'

Isn't that just an anti-sune with the cancellations? But you already have anti-sune listed.

I just copied and pasted some of them :/ I should have checked them first...

 

[*LukeMayn*]

I always had a cross oriented on top, and so I just used at most 2 sunes (including reverse, double, and the bruno) to finish the oll, and I always had an edge permutation, which can always be solved with r and u turns

Whoa, are you serious? I had 5 G-perms and all OLLs with zero edges oriented. Luuuuuuckyyyy!

not lucky, its my method i use to solve the two f2l slots

haha, what method is that... R and U moves only?

yes, of course

I'll make a video of me doing an average and I'll put it on youtube

Epic .

hahahaha

 

[Ellis]

This should be fun :rolleyes:

 

[Ellis]

maybe I'm doing something wrong though, I scramble using the scrambler on the first page, which only does R and U turns, and I solve using only those as well, yes?

You're doing it correctly. I'm still trying to figure out what's special about your method though

 

[Escher]

Escher, did you learn/make new OLLs for some of the cases to achieve such speeds? Also, did this improve your F2L at all? I have a theory that lots of this could improve your FTL, but it's still a theory

I haven't got a cube around, so I can't do those scrambles til later.
I just spend as long as I can on inspection so that at least a 1x2x2 block is planned and I have a basic idea where the other two pieces will end up, and i turn pretty fast. I think sub 5 is quite easily possible if I practiced a lot more and got fast at the 2gen Z and H.
It probably contributed to the improvement of my f2l, but probably no more than if i just practiced normal f2l as much... Although it has helped with playing with ZZ
Like the other guy, I just use sunes to orient corners

 

[TimeFreeze]

For the first three I got this:

1. 16.49
2. 18.61
3. 16.98

Avg: 17.36

 

[Ellis]

I'll probably add on to the end of the vid some walk through solves, I'll link the vid here once my camera charges and I make the vid

WWSD?

Maybe you should think this through some more before you go through the trouble of making a video. If you still want to make a tutorial after, then by all means.

 

[qqwref]

Aah! That's fantastic!!! NIce scrambler!

Here are some scrambles, post your times:

1. U' R2 U2 R U' R' U R U R' U2 R U' R2 U2 R' U2 R2 U2 R U' R' U' R' U'
2. U' R U R' U R' U' R U2 R' U' R' U' R' U2 R U' R2 U2 R U2 R' U R' U
3. R U' R2 U R U2 R U' R U2 R U2 R U' R U' R2 U2 R' U' R' U2 R2 U R
4. U2 R' U R U R' U' R U R2 U2 R' U2 R' U R U R2 U' R' U R' U2 R' U
5. R' U R2 U2 R U R2 U' R' U2 R2 U' R' U' R2 U R2 U2 R' U' R U' R2 U' R2

Haha, if you like the scrambler, you should thank *me*, because I made it

With those scrambles 7.47 (9.57) 9.37 8.29 (5.94) = 8.38 average. The 5.94 was OLLskip I'm not the fastest turning cuber ever, but this is pretty OK for me.

There is also an AUWR category for this.

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

(8.72), 6.03, 7.50, 8.56, (5.91) = 7.36 avg

OLL skip on the last one.

 

[Dene]

Lol Ellis is beasting up this thread

 

[Ellis]

you can use R, R', R2, U, U', and U2 only, right?

Yup...

I dunno... if you're going to make a tutorial, it should be good quality. So maybe figure out how everyone else is doing it, see what it is that you're doing differently, and then be able to explain the difference clearly. That's all I'm saying, you know?

 

[CubingDuck]

what does 2-gen mean? and howcome all you guys get faster times solving with only R and U?