The Guimond Method is Genius!

[FrankLZ]

So I just found and figured out the Guimond Method for the 2x2x2 (on Erik's page) and I am just amazed at how brilliant it is!

Its simple elegance is exactly what I love about the Rubik's cube

I say Guimond has to be a genius for figuring that out and should be given some sort of award.

 

[rahulkadukar]

I totally agree it is basically a 3 Look solve and yes the algs are brilliant

 

[Mike Hughey]

I agree too - it is truly amazingly brilliant. It's a pity it seems to have driven an alienstranger insane.

 

[Feanaro]

I'm having trouble understanding what he means by putting the 4th sticker on BLD and the rest on D. It's the second step.

 

[rahulkadukar]

I'm having trouble understanding what he means by putting the 4th sticker on BLD and the rest on D. It's the second step.

It means if you have three opposite colors on any one face then hold that face as your down face and the incomplete or the fourth piece should be held at BLD i.e Back Left Down Position

 

[Feanaro]

I get it now, thanks

 

[rahulkadukar]

I agree too - it is truly amazingly brilliant. It's a pity it seems to have driven an alienstranger insane.

What does this mean

 

[Mike Hughey]

I agree too - it is truly amazingly brilliant. It's a pity it seems to have driven an alienstranger insane.

What does this mean

Alienstranger was the nickname on the Yahoo! group of a person who created a bunch of, shall we say, unusual videos. This is a good example of them, although perhaps it is a bit more coherent than some of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVuFxAjYw1Q

It appears that alienstranger is actually Guimond himself, although I guess that's never been conclusively proven.

 

[ShadenSmith]

I totally agree it is basically a 3 Look solve and yes the algs are brilliant

If you know what you're doing it's a 2 look solve the majority of the time

That's why I use Guimond.

 

[royzabeast]

It confuses the Bologna out of me!

 

[Ron]

It's a pity it seems to have driven an alienstranger insane.

He uses a picture of Ton's late mother in some of his videos. When asking kindly to remove it, he takes no action.

 

[fanwuq]

I agree too - it is truly amazingly brilliant. It's a pity it seems to have driven an alienstranger insane.

What does this mean

Alienstranger was the nickname on the Yahoo! group of a person who created a bunch of, shall we say, unusual videos. This is a good example of them, although perhaps it is a bit more coherent than some of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVuFxAjYw1Q

It appears that alienstranger is actually Guimond himself, although I guess that's never been conclusively proven.

That's a crazy video!
See 5:50
Rubik's Drug addict
See 6:30
It shows an example solve while some random people are fighting, then
"Wery nice, Gaetan! Your method is cruel!"
--Kenneth.
The peoples fighting moves did kind of resemble cube turns!

It's quite funny. I enjoyed. Nice WTF2L sense of humor.

Who is this?

(turn off your sound)

This channel is mentioned in one of Guimond's videos.

 

[4Chan]

Hmmm, you link to the same pages as "themancube".
I wonder if you're the same person... forum sockpuppet perhaps?

 

[Muesli]

I prefer Ortega.

 

[Weston]

I prefer CLL

 

[Cyrus C.]

Although guimond sounds very interesting, I don't see how it could be much faster than ortega, yet it has more algorithms to learn. I'll stick with ortega.

 

[Weston]

Although guimond sounds very interesting, I don't see how it could be much faster than ortega, yet it has more algorithms to learn. I'll stick with ortega.

It all depends on the scramble. Ideally, both methods should be 2-look but Guimond generally has a lower move count.

 

[MistArts]

Although guimond sounds very interesting, I don't see how it could be much faster than ortega, yet it has more algorithms to learn. I'll stick with ortega.

It all depends on the scramble. Ideally, both methods should be 2-look but Guimond generally has a lower move count.

I believe that Guimond uses more half turns and is harder to inspect far into the solve than Ortega.

 

[Micael]

It is not Guimond in the video and it is backwards, I can see it when he does U' or U2'.

 

[DavidWoner]

Although guimond sounds very interesting, I don't see how it could be much faster than ortega, yet it has more algorithms to learn. I'll stick with ortega.

It all depends on the scramble. Ideally, both methods should be 2-look but Guimond generally has a lower move count.

I believe that Guimond uses more half turns and is harder to inspect far into the solve than Ortega.

I think you guys should spend a while actually using guimond before you make judgments about the method.