Recent content by Brouxt Force

Just note that there important things missing in a reconstruction that would be present in a video, like for example fingertricks and pauses. Your reconstruction doesn't seem to lead to a solved cube, so I can't comment too much on the reconstruction past the first block. Comments on FB: When...

Context: I average around 9 seconds with Roux. If you post a video recording of some of your solves, I can definitely give more specific advice. For now, I'll just give a few general tips: Pauses are slow; try to keep your turning fluid. This is especially important between first and second...

I've been getting back into 4x4 lately (Meyer method), and I'd like to be smarter about which orientation I'm using OLL parity in. Are there any resources on the optimal way to solve CMLL with OLL parity?

Here's Kian Mansour's video on Roux finger tricks (timestamped for when he covers M moves): You may want to check out Kian Mansour's other videos; his channel is a gold mine for the Roux method. I don't know of any case where M3' would be faster than M, because M3' must be done with three...

https://alpha.twizzle.net/edit/?setup-alg=R2+U+B2+U+F2+L2+B2+D%27+R2+D%27+B%27+L+R2+F%27+R%27+U+F+D+B2+L2+R%27&alg=x+y%27+%2F%2F+inspection%0AU%27+F2+D+Rw+D2+R+D+%2F%2F+FB%0AU%27+R+U%27+R+M+U2+Rw%27+U%27+Rw2+U%27+Rw%27+%2F%2F+SB%0AU%27+R+U2%27+R%27+U%27+R+U%27+R%27+%2F%2F+CMLL%0AU%27+M%27+U%27+M%...

https://alpha.twizzle.net/edit/?setup-alg=U+L%27+R2+U2+L2+F%27+D2+R2+F%27+U2+B2+U2+R2+B%27+D%27+F%27+D2+R+U+L2+B&alg=z%27+%2F%2F+inspection%0AU%27+B+R%27+D2+F2+%2F%2F+FB%0AU+R+U%27+R%27+r%27+U%27+r+U+r+M%27+U%27+r%27+%2F%2F+SB%0AR+U2+R%27+U%27+R+U%27+R2%27+U2+R+U+R%27+U+R+%2F%2F+CMLL%0AU%27+M%27+...

Set Option -> Global -> Show Difference Label to None. It should be the last setting in the global section.

The 2x2 has 3,674,160 possible states (7! * 3^6). One of those states is the solved state, so 3,674,159 possible scrambles that are at least one move from the solved state. Of course, a four move scramble is the shortest that you can get at a competition. I am too lazy to figure out how many...

Fahmi, Kian, Tymon

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If you plan on doing anything bigger than 3BLD (bigBLD or MBLD) in the future, it's definitely a good idea to make a list of letter pairs. Even just for 3BLD, it is very useful when you run into difficult letter pairs, as those are hard to come up with on the fly. I personally have compiled my...

Today I did 100 3x3 solves on stackmat, getting a 9.60 ao100. This was pretty good, so I decided to do some OH, and then proceeded to get a 13.47 stackmat ao100! This is actually insane, one day later and I'm almost 1 second faster. Hopefully today isn't an exception and my times don't go back up.

44 STM: y2 // inspection Rw D' Rw D' Rw D' B2 // FB R' U' M2 U2 R' U R2 U' R' M' U2 R U' Rw' // SB R U2' R' U' R U' R2' U2' R U R' U R // CMLL U' M' U2 M' U M2 U M' U2 M // LSE Next: R U L2 F2 D L2 D F2 U R2 F' U L' D B2 L2 B' U L2

It's been a while since I posted in this thread. Since then, I've been cubing a decent amount, trying to do some deliberate practice with a block trainer and planning FB+DR in inspection. I've been practicing the push R' fingertrick to see if it is faster than the normal R' by doing a bunch of...

34 STM: x2 // inspection R B U R' B2 F' // FB (6) U Rw U' R' U' R' U2 Rw // SB (8) U2 R' U' Rw' F R F' // cancel into CMLL (7) M' U2 M' U2 M U M' U' M2 U M' U2 M' // LSE (13) Next: R D2 L U2 F2 R' U2 F2 D2 L F' U' B' F' U L F R2 U