irritating CE pair layout

[David Pritts]

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Is there a good way to build this pair?

I don't think it matters that the pieces are on the orange side, but I figured I'd include it anyway, in case there would be different ways of doing it depending on the side...

David

 

[Dyste]

If the Orange is the front then: F U' F' U R U R' or F' U2 F U' F U' F' or R U' R' U2 L' U' L

 

[David Pritts]

thanks, i like it.

 

[Dyste]

Or, here's another simple one I just found: R U' R' U F U' F'

 

[David Pritts]

5 minutes later I got the mirror case.

also, you've helped remind me that i need to work on my F2L efficiency... usually in cases like that, I'd remove the corner and remove the edge separately, building a pair. that's why these cases are so annoying for me. obviously, there's a better way.

thank you again

 

[Johannes91]

R U' R' U F U' F'

You can insert it, too: R U' R' U R' F U' F' R.

 

[Kenneth]

R' F R2 U' R f' U2 S
R' F R2 U' R (y) l' U2 M (same but diffrent notation)

I often use the trick where I put in the pair + destroy cross and then restore the cross again using MU-turns, sometimes those algs are much shorter than the face turns only algs you normaly use.

Next step from that is to use my style to remove a pair and then the normal to restore it again (or reverse order) to create shorter LL-algs than those you get from only face turns.