What's your favorite commutator?

[Rubiks560]

Im going to take a random guess and say that Cyrus told you to post this.

You have guessed correctly.

 

[Lucas Garron]

I'm pretty fond of [R U R2, R U R'], but not because I execute it as a commutator.

x U' R':[U2:R'DR]

y:[R':U]:[D2,[R:U']]

Is ambiguous notation fashionable these days?

I suppose the missing outer brackets are clear if you conjugate by only one move, but it's not quite as safe.

 

[Ranzha]

Is ambiguous notation fashionable these days?

I was just fooling around, don't worry xD

 

[qqwref]

The Niklas family, by so much.

There's the basic form of [L', U R U'], but so much can be done. The U/U' can be swapped; either of the L' and R moves can be done to any angle (clockwise, counterclockwise, or 180); and either of the L' and R moves can be done on any L and R slice, as long as the two slices aren't the same.

Oh yeah, and it also works on other puzzles such as minxes.

 

[5BLD]

[M' U M, E']

 

[aronpm]

The Niklas family, by so much.

There's the basic form of [L', U R U'], but so much can be done. The U/U' can be swapped; either of the L' and R moves can be done to any angle (clockwise, counterclockwise, or 180); and either of the L' and R moves can be done on any L and R slice, as long as the two slices aren't the same.

Oh yeah, and it also works on other puzzles such as minxes.

I might be wrong but I think you just described all the 8-move 3-cycle corner commutators

 

[Tim Major]

[R'UR,D']
I do a cool to execute fingertrick.

 

[irontwig]

[R2:[R F R', u2]]
You might want to AFF.

 

[Rpotts]

[R U2 R', E']

 

[Cubenovice]

I think you mean R U R' U' R U R' U' R U R' U' D2 U R U' R' U R U' R' U R U' R' D2 but it cancels to R U R' U' R U R' U' R U R' D2 R U' R' U R U' R' U R U' R' D2

Nono, I really mean R U R' U' R U R' U' R U R' U' D2 R U R' U' R U R' U' R U R' U' D2
I like how I can just keep spamming the Sexy move, no need to invert it.

It is my special Per Special

 

[qqwref]

I might be wrong but I think you just described all the 8-move 3-cycle corner commutators

And a whole bunch of center ones, and a whole bunch of bigcube edge ones ;D

 

[irontwig]

And a whole bunch of center ones, and a whole bunch of bigcube edge ones ;D

Well, they're basically the same thing just using different slices. imo corner comms are the most basic since they only use outer layers.

 

[Zane_C]

Some comms I enjoy are:
- x [R' D2 R, U] and [R' U R, D']
- I also like doing U2 and D2 simultaneously at the end of: U2 [R2 U R2 U' R2, D2]

- [R U' R', E]. It's fast, and something easy to use when explaining commutators.
- [U R U', M']

 

[Joël]

One of my favourites: [R' D R2 d' R, U2]

 

[porkynator]

Definetly [M', U2]

 

[TMOY]

The single corner twist.

Spoiler

[(twist the corner in place), (pop the corner and apply a x2 y rotation to it)]

 

[lucarubik]

niklas
I also like U R B' M2 B R' B' M2 B U'

 

[Kirjava]

I don't really have a favourite, but I like the construction X Y X' Z Y' Z' because of stuff like this;

[F2 r2: [R U R' U', M2]]
[l': [r l, R U R' U']]

on 4x4x4.

 

[Stefan]

[sexy, lexy] (cause Uperm for 3x3x3 and Aperm for megaminx)
[R' L' U2 R L, U] (first part "turns U upside down" so you're kinda doing U' twice)

 

[Mike Hughey]

I know this is a boring one, but I went for a long time doing commutators without knowing about one particular class of 8 move commutators, and once I discovered them, they became my favorite:
[M D M', U]

I find myself going out of my way to do commutators like this even when something better exists, just because for some strange reason they seem particularly elegant to me.