Efficient way for Ms?

[Chapuunka]

I'm fine with my M's, those are easy. But for Ms, the fastest way I can seem to do it is an R r', but even that is slow. Is there some magic way to do them?

 

[jms_gears1]

I'm fine with my M's, those are easy. But for Ms, the fastest way I can seem to do it is an R r', but even that is slow. Is there some magic way to do them?

yep

F2 R F2 L' R U2 R' U2

 

[Googlrr]

I'm fine with my M's, those are easy. But for Ms, the fastest way I can seem to do it is an R r', but even that is slow. Is there some magic way to do them?

That's usually how I do my Ms. (r'R, but same thing)

 

[iSpinz]

I pull my ring finger up and push M down.

 

[eastamazonantidote]

r' R is usually faster than R r'. I flick upwards with my left fourth finger. It takes a little to get used to but it is really fast.

 

[Chapuunka]

I'm fine with my M's, those are easy. But for Ms, the fastest way I can seem to do it is an R r', but even that is slow. Is there some magic way to do them?

yep

F2 R F2 L' R U2 R' U2

I can't believe I never thought of that. I'm definitely using that from now on.

 

[jms_gears1]

I'm fine with my M's, those are easy. But for Ms, the fastest way I can seem to do it is an R r', but even that is slow. Is there some magic way to do them?

yep

F2 R F2 L' R U2 R' U2

I can't believe I never thought of that. I'm definitely using that from now on.

lol im glad you took that well xP

anyway, i generally do:
(L'l)

 

[teller]

Watching Erik Akkersdijk, I see he often pulls the M from BU to UF with his index finger over the top. I love how it looks, and he's obviously blazingly fast with it...but...it seems like the cube needs to be really well aligned in order for this work. Now that I think about it, this might be one of those times where it only works correctly at high speed (I imagine the cube expands and goes into some weird relativistic state where the cubes can pass through each other because of volume compression--but that's probably just because I ate too much)...and if that's true, how does one leap across this chasm?

 

[Daniel Wu]

I put my right ring finger on the DB sticker and push it up to the BU sticker.

 

[Feryll]

M' is easy, just kick the bottom of the middle layer with your right middle finger.

M, I usually use my right index finger to push it down, and since many of the algs in my head have U' following M, I use the left index to do that

 

[miniGOINGS]

BigGreen uses his index on BU (at least some of the time). I go between this and r'R.

 

[Chapuunka]

Okay thanks, I'll probably just switch around between the things mentioned here as is appropriate for the alg.

 

[miniGOINGS]

Okay thanks, I'll probably just switch around between the things mentioned here as is appropriate for the alg.

Good call.

It really depends on the case.

 

[Rook]

For an algorithm like M' U M U2 M' U M (an adjacent edge orienter), I use my left ring finger for both M's and Ms. I push the BD sticker towards me for M' and push upwards somewhere between the D centre sticker and the DB to do M. For any other algorithm, I'd just use one of my index fingers to grab the BU sticker towards me.

 

[waffle=ijm]

y2 M' y2

 

[BigGreen]

BigGreen uses his index on BU (at least some of the time)

meh. most of the time i was r'R.
i only use my index finger on occasion like when i cant get a good grip on the r'

 

[TioMario]

I'm fine with my M's, those are easy. But for Ms, the fastest way I can seem to do it is an R r', but even that is slow. Is there some magic way to do them?

yep

F2 R F2 L' R U2 R' U2

You missed an x' there

 

[miniGOINGS]

LSE

 

[Daniel Wu]

y2 M' y2

That. Is. Awesome.