Random Cubing Discussion

[Veerexx]

1. Your signature should be changed to a 'stupid person', not a dumb person... Look up the definition of dumb one day.
2. There are a lot of methods that could become sub-15 with a lot of practice. The difference is that there are only a few that could be potential methods to gain consistent sub-7 like Feliks has proven with CFOP. (See his most recent average of 12 video).
3. Go for it buddy, I bid you good luck.

 

[JasonK]

1. Your signature should be changed to a 'stupid person', not a dumb person... Look up the definition of dumb one day.

Dumb is a synonym for stupid in most English dialects.

On topic: What you're describing is still Petrus. Most fast Petrus users don't use the beginner LL from Lars's website, they either do OCLL/PLL (what you described) or COLL/EPLL. You can definitely become sub-15 with this, there are quite a few sub-15 Petrus users.

 

[CubeRoots]

I was thinking of using Petrus for the first 2 layers and after that getting a cross on the last layer and then i could use a CFOP style last layer with one of the seven OLL's for the cross and then have the PLLs. Do you guys recon this can become at least sub 15 with practice?

From your wording, I think you might have misunderstood petrus a little. In petrus you don't do first two layers followed by getting a cross (i.e. Edge Orientation)... you do a 2x2x3 block, THEN do EO, THEN complete first two layers. If you want a simple-ish way to sub-15 then you can easily do that using CFOP with 2-look last layer (learn full OLL, or at least L and line cases).

 

[Stefan]

Twisting all LL pieces in place: ((F R U' R') (F' L' U L))2

 

[ninja cuber]

From your wording, I think you might have misunderstood petrus a little. In petrus you don't do first two layers followed by getting a cross (i.e. Edge Orientation)... you do a 2x2x3 block, THEN do EO, THEN complete first two layers. If you want a simple-ish way to sub-15 then you can easily do that using CFOP with 2-look last layer (learn full OLL, or at least L and line cases).

What i meant was after the 2x2x3 block you fix the bad edges and then complete the first two layers and as the bad edges were fixed you get a cross on the last layers and therefore you only require the 7 algorithms for the orientation of those cases, so its like the 2 look OLL but you dont actually spend more time to form a cross on the last layer thats what i was meaning

 

[JasonK]

What i meant was after the 2x2x3 block you fix the bad edges and then complete the first two layers and as the bad edges were fixed you get a cross on the last layers and therefore you only require the 7 algorithms for the orientation of those cases, so its like the 2 look OLL but you dont actually spend more time to form a cross on the last layer thats what i was meaning

Yeah, that's just Petrus.

 

[Noahaha]

What i meant was after the 2x2x3 block you fix the bad edges and then complete the first two layers and as the bad edges were fixed you get a cross on the last layers and therefore you only require the 7 algorithms for the orientation of those cases, so its like the 2 look OLL but you dont actually spend more time to form a cross on the last layer thats what i was meaning

OLL/PLL is good to start out, but the only good way to take advantage of the LL cross is to use COLL/EPLL. Otherwise, you might as well be using CFOP.

 

[aznanimedude]

You spelled ZBLL wrong

 

[qqwref]

OLL/PLL is good to start out, but the only good way to take advantage of the LL cross is to use COLL/EPLL. Otherwise, you might as well be using CFOP.

Honestly, I don't think COLL/EPLL saves much time unless you are way faster with the EPLLs than the rest of PLL. In general PLL is almost as fast as EPLL, and most OCLLs let you lookahead to figure out most of the PLL before you get there. It may not be worth giving that up if you consider the extra recognition + the time to actually learn and get comfortable with COLL.

 

[Noahaha]

...way faster with the EPLLs than the rest of PLL.

I think that accurately describes me.

 

[cmhardw]

Cracked.com is a humor site that lists articles about various things. Today the cube is mentioned pretty prominently in one of their articles!

clicky!

 

[Bhargav777]

I am sorry, I actually wanted cases that already had the corner solved, where we try to finish the edge insert and also the oll simultaneously

 

[Ollie]

Cracked.com is a humor site that lists articles about various things. Today the cube is mentioned pretty prominently in one of their articles!

clicky!

519 quintillion possible combinations, apparently!

 

[5BLD]

Solve a rubiks cube in minutes bahahahahaha

 

[qqwref]

Nothing particularly amusing about that to me. Sure, you could spend a lot of time and get much better at it, but you could also put hundreds of hours into speed reading or mental math and get ridiculous at those too. The article's specifically about things anyone can learn, relatively quickly, without all that much effort.

 

[Kirjava]

been solving on a cube with red and orange swapped

took 33 solves to notice

 

[Escher]

Lol bad f2l no rotations trix: R' F' U F U2 R

 

[5BLD]

I just got 2 (semi forced orientation but) CMLL skips in a row. I wasnt warmed up. OH.

4. 13.84 F' L B' L B U' D B R2 D2 F2 D2 R U2 F2 R2 F2 D2 B2
5. 14.33 L U2 R2 U2 B2 L' D2 L D2 R2 B2 D R U L B' R B' R' F

edit:
another cmll skip wtf. and another bad solve.
11. 11.98 B' R U2 D' F' R' F R L D F2 L2 B2 U' L2 D R2 U F2 B2

 

[Pheromone]

How to get faster psychologically on a 3x3

Ok, I don't know why, but this actually works.

Step one: Buy a rubiks 4x4 cube if you don't have one

Step two: Scramble, you don't need to solve it, maybe do some plls also.

Step three: Go back to your 3x3 and it will feel way different because of how stiff the 4x4 was.

PS. When you time yourself, don't look at the timer until your fully done, it slows you Down.

Also, I got my PB (23s, coming from 35, this is great) using this.

 

[Jakethedrummer]

Sweet I will try that!