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It's very difficult to get those pairs(F2L), will someone tell me a good way to find it other than (look ahead and sayin' the word practice). :-)
 
I average under 50 (STM) moves usually. I don't want to say 48 (although looking at reconstructions it kinds floats around there) because people will begin pointing out that sone solves don't have anywhere near 48.

I believe movecount should be kept low at any speed. For CFOP I reckon a sub-65 movecount shouldn't be too hard?

To reduce look at your F2L. If you average about 6-7 moves or less per pair a sub-30 F2L movecount should be possible. I dunno. Maybe aim for sub-35?
 
GlowingSausage said:
I average about 14-16 sec. and 65-70 moves to solve a 3x3.
How many moves du you avg and how can I reduce my move count?
Thanks in advance!
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First of all, it depends on what method you are using. With Fridrich(intuitive F2L + 2LOLL + full PLL), I usually get 60-65 moves. As for reducing move count, first of all look at each step individually and see what you can do to reduce move count there. Again, using Fridrich for example:
OLL/PLL: Learn full versions of these rather than the 2 look versions, making sure you choose the most efficient algorithms for each case.
F2L: Practice solving as efficiently as you can and learn algorithms at least for the most difficult cases
Cross: Again, just practice doing it as efficiently as possible. Take ass much inspection time as needed to find the best solution or even use software to find the optimal solutions for a particular case and learn from that.

From there, look into ways you can combine these individual steps such as x-crosses, partial edge control to avoid bad OLL cases etc.
 
GlowingSausage said:
I average about 14-16 sec. and 65-70 moves to solve a 3x3.
How many moves du you avg and how can I reduce my move count?
Thanks in advance!
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You can simply slow down your solve, (not timing yourself), and analyze what moves are neccesary only. Like for F2L, many people do an extra U3 or like turning U and U' again and again to inspect the cube for F2L. Try looking better in your lookahead, causing the ability to recognize F2L pairs and finding the best possible and fastest solution for it and again, whilst executing that, lookingahead again for the other F2L pair.

If you think that you have mastered that, learn some F2L techniques on Youtube such as multislotting or inserting a pair in an inefficient way, but ending up being efficient for the full solve.

(If you don't know what I mean by inserting the pair inefficiently but ending up being better, I mean like:
You have an easy pair to put in to the slot, say a 2-3 move insert. But instead of doing that, you may see an easy case on the other F2L pairs. So you do a weird insert for the current pair, say 4 moves, then by the time you are done inserting that pair, you have already paired up another F2L pair. Not sure if this is multislotting or not, I think it is a part of it, but just find out the techniques for it and you'll be good.

Good Luck :)

Hodari said:
First of all, it depends on what method you are using. With Fridrich(intuitive F2L + 2LOLL + full PLL), I usually get 60-65 moves. As for reducing move count, first of all look at each step individually and see what you can do to reduce move count there. Again, using Fridrich for example:
OLL/PLL: Learn full versions of these rather than the 2 look versions, making sure you choose the most efficient algorithms for each case.
F2L: Practice solving as efficiently as you can and learn algorithms at least for the most difficult cases
Cross: Again, just practice doing it as efficiently as possible. Take as much inspection time as needed to find the best solution or even use software to find the optimal solutions for a particular case and learn from that.

From there, look into ways you can combine these individual steps such as x-crosses, partial edge control to avoid bad OLL cases etc.
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I am trying to be color neutral and I don't think it's as hard as I heard. But the problem is, I am getting worse and worse on my main color solves the more I practice color neutral solves. Is this normal? I think this should be since you left the original color for a while doing other colors, but just making sure.
 
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I currently average 40 seconds with non color neutral cross intuitive f2l and 2 look oll and 2 look pll. Should I learn full pll or should I keep practicing 4lll until I'm like sub 30 or sub 35.
 
CheesePuffs said:
I currently average 40 seconds with non color neutral cross intuitive f2l and 2 look oll and 2 look pll. Should I learn full pll or should I keep practicing 4lll until I'm like sub 30 or sub 35.
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I'd keep practicing 4LLL until you are atleast sub-35 or sub-30.

skeletonboy said:
I am trying to be color neutral and I don't think it's as hard as I heard. But the problem is, I am getting worse and worse on my main color solves the more I practice color neutral solves. Is this normal? I think this should be since you left the original color for a while doing other colors, but just making sure.
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Yeah. Pretty much all your times will go up while trying to become full CN - but with practice for a few weeks you will overcome that and your times will start dropping.
 
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iEnjoyCubing said:
Yeah. Pretty much all your times will go down while trying to become full CN - but with practice for a few weeks you will overcome that and your times will start dropping.
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Thank you, I guessed that would happen, I guess it takes time. Now my friends will only look at my 40-50 second solves and not 25....

emolover said:
You mean up right?
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Well, he's saying it directly to "times". So time goes down....like decreasing. I'm 100% sure you two mean the same thing, different practice of English. :D
 
When referring to the cube, do I refer to it as "Rubik's cube" or "a Rubik's cube"?
Both of them seem correct to me but most people tend to use the latter from my experience.
 
DYGH.Tjen said:
Good set of OH COLL algs? I couldn't find any, even though I searched the forums *quite* thoroughly :P Or do you guys use algs from everywhere? Maybe I didn't look hard enough >_>
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Look at the ZBLL section and look for the alg you like most, since COLL is a subset of ZBLL.
 
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I'm very much confused with the ( x,x',y,y' notations), can someone tell me how to get it?
 
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