The One-Answer Question Thread [closed]

[ThomasJE]

question bump, i really want to make a website and i dont want to start a thread on something that belongs in the one answer question thread just to get the one answer (PS im not making a threat, i just really want some help with this).

Microsoft Word is a good place to start. I used that to design a website for my coursework.

 

[samkli]

Is there any LL scrambler for the megaminx?

 

[ottozing]

Microsoft Word is a good place to start. I used that to design a website for my coursework.

thanks

 

[Ninja Storm]

Rapid change in times?

I think it's been three days since I cubed with more than 20 solves a day, and my times just spiked by about five seconds...

How do I prevent this kind of stuff?

 

[emolover]

Is there a program I could use to generate scrambles for a solve that is reconstructed but there is no scramble for? I want to do something that could top brest.

 

[Specs112]

I want to do something that could top brest.

Impossible.

 

[cubernya]

Is there a program I could use to generate scrambles for a solve that is reconstructed but there is no scramble for? I want to do something that could top brest.

Inverse the solution then use Cube Explorer

 

[ottozing]

did ville quit cubing?

 

[GlowingSausage]

how much could I improve my 3x3 times until next worlds if I practice about 2-3 hours 3x3 a day? (my current avg is around 14-15 and I started cubing nearly exactly 7 months ago [start of september 2011] )
thanks in advance!!!

 

[drewsopchak]

how much could I improve my 3x3 times until next worlds if I practice about 2-3 hours 3x3 a day? (my current avg is around 14-15 and I started cubing nearly exactly 7 months ago [start of september 2011] )
thanks in advance!!!

You could be high 9 in six months or so.

 

[brandbest1]

Meffert's tracking seems pretty weird. If I paid for registered shipping, when would i receive my tracking number?

Speaking of Meffert's, I am finally getting a new pyraminx!

 

[GlowingSausage]

how much could I improve my 3x3 times until next worlds if I practice about 2-3 hours 3x3 a day? (my current avg is around 14-15 and I started cubing nearly exactly 7 months ago [start of september 2011] )
thanks in advance!!!

You could be high 9 in six months or so.

my goal was/is to be sub 10 in 5 months ( 1 year after starting to cube )
who else has already achieved this? I only know of 5BLD (it took him about 11,5 - 12 months).

 

[drewsopchak]

my goal was/is to be sub 10 in 5 months ( 1 year after starting to cube )
who else has already achieved this? I only know of 5BLD (it took him about 11,5 - 12 months).

At three hours/ day, It would be pathetic for him not to get sub 10.

 

[Reprobate]

Maybe I'm just blind and can't find it, but is there somewhere I can find the notation for big cubes? For example, does "Rw" mean turn both right layers, or just the second inside layer?

 

[Olji]

Rw refers to wide turn = Both R-layers.
r refers to the inner R-slice.

You may come across some sites that uses r for wide turns too, but they're not that common in my experience.

On the 4x4x4 and larger puzzles, single-layer turns are not enough to fully scramble or solve the puzzle. Thus there are notations to describe turns of multiple layers on the same face. A double-layer turn, for instance, might include both the outside layer and the parallel layer touching it.

Double-layer turns are also popular in algorithms for the 3x3x3. There are two main ways to write this, using the U face as an example:

Uw - this notation is widely used by Japanese cubers and was recently adopted by the WCA.
u - this notation is often preferred by English-speaking cubers, and originally appeared for writing down 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 moves.
For turns of more than two layers, it is impossible to use single letters to write down turns, but a popular proposal is to use numbers to show the number of layers that are being turned. There are several ways to write these turns, using the U face as an example and 3 as an example number of layers, but the best is either 3U or 3u, because putting the number after the letter can cause confusion when there is a half turn (giving it the suffix 2).

 

[5BLD]

At three hours/ day, It would be pathetic for him not to get sub 10.

Huh what. Since when did i do 3 hours a day other than this month?

 

[emolover]

Inverse the solution then use Cube Explorer

I was going to do a 7x7 reconstruction(dont tell brest) but I dont know how the scrambles would be generated.

 

[Brest]

I was going to do a 7x7 reconstruction(dont tell brest) but I dont know how the scrambles would be generated.

At this stage there are no programs that generate scrambles for big cubes. This is one of the reasons that makes reconstructing big cubes difficult, along with scrambles being executed incorrectly.

 

[ZeeK]

which method was used on 5x5 for the world record and where could i learn it?

 

[antoineccantin]

which method was used on 5x5 for the world record and where could i learn it?

Redux with freeslice. (E-slice).