[Help Thread] Skewb Discussion

[uberCuber]

kclejeune and ubercuber, pay good attention to the answer below and post something like that. Stefan has been asking for it for pages now, you two are just being silly and evading his point.

I already gave a specific answer for average, and as for single I agree with Ranzha's comment about it always being silly.

 

[Carrot]

Are there nice algs for the 2 Pi-U cases that have dashes instead of algs on Sarah's page? I end up doing double sledge then Z perm, which is awful.

why are you even solving skewb?? O.o

 

[kcl]

So OH WR average is silly?

Honestly? Yeah. You could beat it. You beat it at home all the time. I'm 90% sure this frustrates you, which would indicate that you think the current OH WR is "silly" (can we use a different word?)

 

[Izanagi]

why are you even solving skewb?? O.o

haha just what I was gonna say too lol xDD Honestly tho I still havent found that H perm hack you talked about previously ;A;

 

[Carrot]

haha just what I was gonna say too lol xDD Honestly tho I still havent found that H perm hack you talked about previously ;A;

it's not that hard. It's also more fun to find it yourself.

 

[mangocuber]

What is currently the fastest method for skewb?

 

[Ranzha]

What is currently the fastest method for skewb?

Methods don't have speeds~

 

[kcl]

What is currently the fastest method for skewb?

Rhanzas method or Sarah's method (intermediate or advanced)

 

[Akash Rupela]

I need a damage control alg for the case where two opposite centers and all corners are solved, but corners are swapped diagonally on each layer. Other 4 centers may or may not be affected . I should not be getting here in first place but just in case

 

[Ranzha]

Rhanzas method or Sarah's method (intermediate or advanced)

Current WR holder uses KirMeep

 

[kcl]

Current WR holder uses KirMeep

Forgot about that. Edited.

 

[Tim Major]

Skewb methods seem bad right now. The movecount is high as hell. I guess optimal algs for Sarah's advanced method could get it down, but that's a lot to learn.

6 move first layer, 10 move algs. At 4 tps that's roughly 4 seconds.

And extensions on Kirmeep are promising. Face->all 8 corners->L5C?

Or maybe a face except for the centre, then all 8 corners then all 6 centres?

 

[Ranzha]

Skewb methods seem bad right now. The movecount is high as hell. I guess optimal algs for Sarah's advanced method could get it down, but that's a lot to learn.

6 move first layer, 10 move algs. At 4 tps that's roughly 4 seconds.

And extensions on Kirmeep are promising. Face->all 8 corners->L5C?

Or maybe a face except for the centre, then all 8 corners then all 6 centres?

My average movecount is 20 or so, if that means anything.

 

[Sa967St]

Skewb methods seem bad right now. The movecount is high as hell. I guess optimal algs for Sarah's advanced method could get it down, but that's a lot to learn.

Hideki Niina's method is pretty epic. It's layer + U center -> rest (L4C + CLL). There are only 27 cases for the last step, and they're all here. Is anyone else practising using his method? I've never tried layer + U center, but there aren't too many cases to learn.

 

[Ranzha]

Hideki Niina's method is pretty epic. It's layer + U center -> rest (L4C + CLL). There are only 27 cases for the last step, and they're all here. Is anyone else practising using his method? I've never tried layer + U center, but there aren't too many cases to learn.

Even starting with a layer, the U centre takes on average 3.2 moves to build (sledge/hedge or solved). The method really is a fantastic idea.

 

[Izanagi]

it's not that hard. It's also more fun to find it yourself.

Found it! Or should I say, found them ^_^ Awesome.

 

[Robert-Y]

Seeing as Hideki's method only requires 27 algs, you could expand the idea and solve a face+opposite centre, then EG+L4C which is "only" 55 algs.

 

[TheDubDubJr]

Current WR holder uses KirMeep

^Truth

Hideki Niina's method is pretty epic. It's layer + U center -> rest (L4C + CLL). There are only 27 cases for the last step, and they're all here. Is anyone else practising using his method? I've never tried layer + U center, but there aren't too many cases to learn.

This actually seems like an intriguing method.

Seeing as Hideki's method only requires 27 algs, you could expand the idea and solve a face+opposite centre, then EG+L4C which is "only" 55 algs.

This is the first thing that I thought of after I read about Hideki's method.

 

[ScottTheCuber]

Hmm in about a day or two i got my first sub 20 single.

 

[Kirjava]

So I sanded all corners and edges, removed ball bearings and changed the springs to be much tighter and set the tolerance higher.

Turns kind of amazing, doesn't really pop. Adding anchors I made with plastic coke bottle screw on tops now so it never pops.

EDIT: Just added anchors, leaving it to dry overnight. Whole thing took 6 hours.

Spoiler

aww yea