Easy, yet very fast AND effective method

[Kemp_Drumsalot]

Hello all, I'm here to ask a question. With the millions of different ways to solve a cube, I was wondering what everyone else uses for Speedcubing. I current use a method I came up with, so I was wondering what another fast method would be. My fastest time is around 44 seconds, but I think it might be the method I'm using, so feel free to post suggestions and comments!

*My method*
1) Make white cross on top
2) Put corners in place
3) 2nd Layer (bottom middle opposite of where it needs to go, for right- FDF'D'R'D' or opposite directions for left.)
4) Make cross on bottom
5) Fix Middles (RU2R'U'RU'R' or L'U2LUL'UL)
6) Put coners in right spot (L'URU'LUR')
7a) Make corners face the right way(Both yellow stickers on same side) (RU2R'U'RU'R'+L'U2LUL'UL)<--This is one of the reasons I like my method, it uses few algorithms, and they can all be performed quickly.
7b)(Yellow stickes facing opposite way (L'U'LU'L'U2L+RUR'URU2)
And ta-daa, your done.

 

[Zaxol]

Isn't that the same method that comes with the cube...

 

[Rubiks Landon]

that is the same method that it comes with but yours has more steps

 

[Kemp_Drumsalot]

Hmmm....I'm not sure, I can go find the package upstairs, Hold on a sec...Ok here it is. Lets see...nope, they do a layer by layer method though, I see the basic similarities though. It looks like most of its the same besides the cross on the bottom, and the algorithms they use, hm, I might try their way now lol, anyway, the original question still stands.

 

[badmephisto]

yea this is an extremely slow way
look into fridrich method

 

[fanwuq]

what's your pb Kemp?

 

[AvGalen]

He already said that!

My fastest time is around 44 seconds

 

[Kemp_Drumsalot]

Yep its around 44 (Unlucky), I had a really lucky one today around 30 seconds, but I normally delete those anyway.

 

[Dyste]

But as Erik's signature says: "Being lucky is not a crime."

 

[Kemp_Drumsalot]

Haha I know, I just like my average to be more from myself solving it, not getting lucky =-P

 

[CorwinShiu]

Well you can't help being lucky. My first sub 17 average (I normally average low 18s) had my fastest non-lucky solve in it (12.66), and a lucky solve that was like 14.xx. The chances of that happening is low, but it still happens.

I just don't think that being lucky is so bad. Well there are reasons we have split sections on speedcubing about luckysolves and nonluckies. I think that nonlucky solves are actually more "lucky", as rows of easy cases come less then a step skip.

 

[Kemp_Drumsalot]

Hmm, maybe its because we use different methods, since I do my long way, I sometimes end up only having to do the first two layers and the third layer might finish on my last move and I'm done. I can see how if sometimes a "lucky" solve can slow you down, because you get out of your normal routine.

 

[Mike Hughey]

When you're using a beginner's method, a lucky solve can make a HUGE difference. My daughter had a lucky solve in last week's competition here that was 45 seconds, but her best non-lucky solve is 1:15 or so. She uses the method I taught her, which is similar to the method Tyson Mao teaches, and she got to skip the last 3 of 8 steps. (All she needed to do for the last layer was F U R U' R' F'.) So a case like that almost shouldn't even count, as Kemp_Drumsalot is saying.

 

[Kemp_Drumsalot]

Exactly, now as I said, I can see how this is almost the opposite for and advanced method.

 

[Kemp_Drumsalot]

Well, today I am sick so I decided to start practicing F2L and The new last layer algorithms, and I can see why this will be faster once I get it down, Its A LOT last moves, though sometimes, I get alot of time taken off for solving the last spot in F2L, so I have been either taking the time to figure it out, or just using my old method to solve those two cubes (which probley does take longer, I haven't actually compared both times, I'll actually do that now). Will update on this another time. Happy Cubing!

 

[mng1994]

In my opinion I would have to say you are using a very basic beginners method you might want to look in intermediate methods then advanced like fridrich, petrus, Roux.

 

[Kemp_Drumsalot]

I actually think I'm already learning fridrich, but I'm not sure, I'm learing F2L and a last layer where you solve for the last layer's top, fix corners then mids.