5BLD's And PandaCuber's Roux Tutorial
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Petro Leum
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do you actually always do LH block first and then right one with RrUM? because i didnt really think about that and now i noticed i mostly do RH block first 
5BLD
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do you actually always do LH block first and then right one with RrUM? because i didnt really think about that and now i noticed i mostly do RH block first
I always do it that way yes. There's no disadvantage to the way you suggested. Give it a go.
Petro Leum
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AbstractAlg
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Crazy thing happened.
Practicing CFOP then, "oh well, let's check the rouxy." After 10 solves with Roux I had better single than last 50 cfop solves but averages were +4 seconds worse. What should I do? Stick to Roux desperately trying to equal my solve times and lower the averages or hope that a bit lucky cfop solve will come? Help.
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Practicing CFOP then, "oh well, let's check the rouxy." After 10 solves with Roux I had better single than last 50 cfop solves but averages were +4 seconds worse. What should I do? Stick to Roux desperately trying to equal my solve times and lower the averages or hope that a bit lucky cfop solve will come? Help.
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PandaCuber
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Crazy thing happened.
Practicing CFOP then, "oh well, let's check the rouxy." After 10 solves with Roux I had better single than last 50 cfop solves but averages were +4 seconds worse. What should I do? Stick to Roux desperately trying to equal my solve times and lower the averages or hope that a bit lucky cfop solve will come? Help.
Flip a coin. Assign one of the faces Roux and the other CFOP. As you throw the coin in the air, you will most likely 'hope' for one of them to win. Thats your answer.
Ickathu
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Yeah, and when it lands with one of them and you go "Aw man!" then you know the answer. Or if you go "YES!" when you see one of them up, then you know. Your subconscious is quite helpful...
AbstractAlg
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No, I really have no clue which one to pick. Roux can be improved in means of efficient solving F2B and learning CMLL, while CFOP is somewhere reaching it's limits. UGH, hate this decision.
I'll probably do 50 solves of both methods and see which one I like more.
* coin flip would probably result in "aw man" for cfop, because I really like Roux while CFOP is just faster (currently).
I'll probably do 50 solves of both methods and see which one I like more.
* coin flip would probably result in "aw man" for cfop, because I really like Roux while CFOP is just faster (currently).
PandaCuber
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No, I really have no clue which one to pick. Roux can be improved in means of efficient solving F2B and learning CMLL, while CFOP is somewhere reaching it's limits. UGH, hate this decision.
I'll probably do 50 solves of both methods and see which one I like more.
* coin flip would probably result in "aw man" for cfop, because I really like Roux while CFOP is just faster (currently).
Only you can solve this problem my friend.
Cool Frog
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Roux? CFOP?
spyr0th3dr4g0n
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I have a question for roux users:
If you were given a scramble with a cross pre-solved, would you fill in two corners to make a block (or another trick) and proceed with roux, or would you CFOP the solve?
If you were given a scramble with a cross pre-solved, would you fill in two corners to make a block (or another trick) and proceed with roux, or would you CFOP the solve?
arcio1
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I would CFOP the solve, because I have similar times with CFOP and Roux now (CFOP even little better).
TanookiTrev
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I averaged about 21-22 with Fridrich (Two years using it, so I'm a slow progresser) and recently It started getting extremely tedious and my averages were slowing by about 2 seconds (which I attribute to not enjoying the method anymore) so two days ago I switched to roux. I realize it is REALLY early days and I probably shouldn't have timed myself until I really got the gist of the method but I got an average of 5 of about 1.16.xx . I'm not really sure if it's "normal" to be THAT much slower after switching to roux. I'll probably stick with it at least until the new year anyway because it is so much fun (I may switch back if I don't get to sub-30 by then) but I was just wondering what other people were averaging in their first few days and what is a reasonable time to hope to average in 4 months? Sorry for all the words but I figured too much information is better than too little
Endgame
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I averaged about 21-22 with Fridrich (Two years using it, so I'm a slow progresser) and recently It started getting extremely tedious and my averages were slowing by about 2 seconds (which I attribute to not enjoying the method anymore) so two days ago I switched to roux. I realize it is REALLY early days and I probably shouldn't have timed myself until I really got the gist of the method but I got an average of 5 of about 1.16.xx . I'm not really sure if it's "normal" to be THAT much slower after switching to roux. I'll probably stick with it at least until the new year anyway because it is so much fun (I may switch back if I don't get to sub-30 by then) but I was just wondering what other people were averaging in their first few days and what is a reasonable time to hope to average in 4 months? Sorry for all the words but I figured too much information is better than too little
See my signature for my progression. I've started ±3 weeks ago.
5BLD
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I would NOT solve the block that the cross entails as you described; I'd solve a block using fewer moves
Renslay
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Solve the corners to get a regular block and do Roux (since my CFOP is awful). Although, it is possible that building an other block is even easier (but with only a small chance).
5BLD
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AbstractAlg said:
just go with Roux. You will be happier.
TanookiTrev
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Ahh, cool! The more I think about my times the less I get hung up on it. I'll just see how I go with practice and hope I can improve my move count. I'm just not very efficient because I tend to use an f2l sort of style with blockbuilding. But I suppose good things take time!
Endgame
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Ahh, cool! The more I think about my times the less I get hung up on it. I'll just see how I go with practice and hope I can improve my move count. I'm just not very efficient because I tend to use an f2l sort of style with blockbuilding. But I suppose good things take time!
Just look at blockbuilding as F2L where the corner can never point to the top and where you use the M-slice to form corner-edgepairs.
PandaCuber
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I would continue with my usual Roux solve. No tricks.
I averaged about 21-22 with Fridrich (Two years using it, so I'm a slow progresser) and recently It started getting extremely tedious and my averages were slowing by about 2 seconds (which I attribute to not enjoying the method anymore) so two days ago I switched to roux. I realize it is REALLY early days and I probably shouldn't have timed myself until I really got the gist of the method but I got an average of 5 of about 1.16.xx . I'm not really sure if it's "normal" to be THAT much slower after switching to roux. I'll probably stick with it at least until the new year anyway because it is so much fun (I may switch back if I don't get to sub-30 by then) but I was just wondering what other people were averaging in their first few days and what is a reasonable time to hope to average in 4 months? Sorry for all the words but I figured too much information is better than too little
I remember I averaged around 27 with CFOP and I started playing with roux and my times went up a minute(so 1:30)
I continued with Roux because I hated the algs of CFOP. Just kept playing with it and within a few months, I was already faster than my cfop times.
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