My PLLs Broken Down w/ Fingertricks explained (WIP) (Video)

[jskyler91]

Hey Guys and Gals and everything inbetween,

So as the title says I am finally doing a video tutorial on all of my PLLs and OLLs. This section will be specifically for my PLLs. I have been asked to make this video for over a year now, but I honestly didn't really feel comfortable making it until I had truly settled on my algs, their execution and how many angles I do them from. As many of you know i update my algs as often as possible and alway try to have the most ergonomic and fastest executions I can and so it wasn't really until the last few months that all of my PLLs have really fully settled. Now that they have, at least for the present, I plan on making those videos!!

I will be splitting these into individual videos for each of my perms so that I can take appropriate time to fully explain my fingertricks and how/why I do them as well as give multiple examples. I think this will be far more useful than one long video with sparse explanation and only one execution. Let me know if you agree, but this is likely how they will go. I will be bunching a few algs together if they are just mirrors or very similar, but in general each separate alg will get its own video. Algs are in the description of the videos.

Here are the ones I have so far, more to come (some may still be processing at time of upload):

Spoiler: T-Perm

[youtubehd]h9WCA7LineY[/youtubehd]

Spoiler: Y-Perm

[youtubehd]R52VOcrphwI[/youtubehd]

Spoiler: A-Perms

[youtubehd]EFgVPrVVtRA[/youtubehd]

Spoiler: U-perms

Spoiler: U-Perm A Angle 1

[youtubehd]KKiL8uRI6OE[/youtubehd]

Spoiler: U-Perm A Angle 2

[youtubehd]-Yr-wnmkKNQ[/youtubehd]

Spoiler: U-Perm A Angle 3

[youtubehd]nreglvNeJ9E[/youtubehd]

Spoiler: U-Perm A Angle 4

[youtubehd]Ixdn6QZBiII[/youtubehd]

Spoiler: U-Perm B Angle 1

[youtubehd]9fX3dh6G1zY[/youtubehd]

Spoiler: Part 5: U- Perm B Angle 2

Spoiler: Part 5: U- Perm B Angle 3

Spoiler: Part 5: U-Perm B Angle 4

Spoiler: N-perm

Spoiler: Part 6: N-perm A

Spoiler: Part 7: N-Perm B

Spoiler: Part 8: H-Perm

Spoiler: Part 9: Z-Perm

Spoiler: Part 10: E-Perm

I messed up just as I thought I would, but luckily you get multiple examples lol.

 

[Escher]

Whoa, read the video posting rules - no more than 3 per page - otherwise people on slow bandwidths can't view it. Just re-edit your OP with links and not embeds

 

[MarcelP]

otherwise people on slow bandwidths can't view it. Just re-edit your OP with links and not embeds

I don't think people with slow internet connections are interested in Youtube video's anyway. I think he should leave it like this.

 

[Gordon]

That will be some videos I'll watch. I think this could help me. I'm especially waiting for the G and N perms.

You could put them all in a playlist on youtube, which would make finding them easier.

 

[Escher]

I don't think people with slow internet connections are interested in Youtube video's anyway. I think he should leave it like this.

Although I don't think that's necessarily true, regardless, it's part of the forum rules, and when you get posts in between the videos (like these) then it makes it harder to locate each one.

 

[Stefan]

Stopped watching after first minute of first video because I'm still not told how fast you are so I can't judge whether I might benefit from this and I don't want to waste my time.

 

[MarcelP]

I'm still not told how fast you are so I can't judge whether I might benefit from this and I don't want to waste my time.

His signature says 1/5/100 6.53(NL),9.43,11.14

That is pretty fast

 

[Kirjava]

I don't believe his times, never have ^_^

Watching his youtube channel and looking at his WCA times is what made me think this.

 

[A Leman]

Stopped watching after first minute of first video because I'm still not told how fast you are so I can't judge whether I might benefit from this and I don't want to waste my time.

His signature says 1/5/100 6.53(NL),9.43,11.14

That is pretty fast

His WCA profile says

Joseph Skyler
--------------- NR CR WR Single Average WR CR NR
Rubik's Cube 149 183 1006 11.41 14.74 1485 260 213

He has been cubing for years as his join date proves, but that last average was from Stanford 2012 less than 2 Months ago. 14.75 is probably too unremarkable to convince someone like Stefan to stop what he is doing and change his style(which is already very good).

I am very impressed by how dedicated Skyler is to basic CFOP though.

http://worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2011SKYL01

 

[mark49152]

I for one appreciate all the stuff he posts. Whether you like it or believe you can benefit from it, it's an impressive level of contribution and I enjoy reading and watching it. So far this year, we've had these PLL videos, the 1LLL thread, and (almost!) a video on avoiding cube rotations. That's impressive. Thanks Skyler, and keep it up!

 

[mostafa]

you shouldn't judge about someone like this.his style in cubing is special and I like it .

 

[Stefan]

Clarification: I don't care about solve times, as this thread is about PLL. I'm sure there are people who solve slower than me but turn PLL way faster than me, in which case I'm interested regardless of their solve times. So I'd find it helpful if Joseph listed his best/usual times for the PLLs. The alg in the Y-Perm video description is wrong, btw. Simply check your algs, especially for tutorials.

 

[Kirjava]

Ah, that wasn't clear. My statement now feels out of place.

 

[jskyler91]

His WCA profile says

Joseph Skyler
--------------- NR CR WR Single Average WR CR NR
Rubik's Cube 149 183 1006 11.41 14.74 1485 260 213

He has been cubing for years as his join date proves, but that last average was from Stanford 2012 less than 2 Months ago. 14.75 is probably too unremarkable to convince someone like Stefan to stop what he is doing and change his style(which is already very good).

I am very impressed by how dedicated Skyler is to basic CFOP though.

http://worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2011SKYL01

Yup those are my official averages but I am really bad in comps and I also judge/ help organize so I tend to be very stressed and don't perform well.

Stopped watching after first minute of first video because I'm still not told how fast you are so I can't judge whether I might benefit from this and I don't want to waste my time.

wow, lol straight to the point, i average around 10 to 11 seconds. But I can sub 1 most of my PLLs so why does my average matter? Also I do say how fast I average on all of them you have to wait more than a minute to hear it though because I spend time introducing each alg lol. O and my alg for the y perm is correct check again.

 

[Kirjava]

i average around 10 to 11 seconds

Can you make a 10.xx avg12 video?

 

[sneaklyfox]

T-Perm trick instead of U2 AUF is neat. But I wonder one thing about the T-perm fingertrick.
T-Perm Alg: R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' R U R' F'
There are 3 U' moves which I will refer to as #1, #2, #3. You use left middle finger instead of pulling the index finger back for #2. But isn't it better to pull back and use the left index for #2 and use middle finger for #3? #2 and #3 are only separated by one R' move while #1 and #2 are separated by three moves R' F R2?

 

[jskyler91]

T-Perm trick instead of U2 AUF is neat. But I wonder one thing about the T-perm fingertrick.
T-Perm Alg: R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' R U R' F'
There are 3 U' moves which I will refer to as #1, #2, #3. You use left middle finger instead of pulling the index finger back for #2. But isn't it better to pull back and use the left index for #2 and use middle finger for #3? #2 and #3 are only separated by one R' move while #1 and #2 are separated by three moves R' F R2?

Good point, lol I must have done it wrong in the vid because I was going too slow. I will remake it and upload again soon. Thanks for noticing.

Whoa, read the video posting rules - no more than 3 per page - otherwise people on slow bandwidths can't view it. Just re-edit your OP with links and not embeds

Should I still do this even after Brest updated it or is it fine now?

 

[Kirjava]

I like how he's straight up just ignoring me this time

 

[Mollerz]

Can you make a 10.xx avg12 video like Kirjava said, should be easy considering you have a low 11 avg100 and have all the time to make these videos.

 

[applemobile]

Stefan didn't mean your solving times, he meant the times to get on each alg. I once watched a youtube video about a certain OLL only to get to the end to see the guy 'sub 3' it.