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Yes. If the scramble was, say, R F, and you invert it so it becomes F’ R’, a solution to the inverted scramble is R F. To obtain a solution to the uninverted scramble you just invert your solution to the inverted scramble, which would be F’ R’. This clearly solves the uninverted scramble.

Again, I’m just asking for a rough time breakdown, I appreciate the advice but none of this is new to me. I’ve always progressed fastest when I spend time to specifically work on my weakest areas.

Yup I’ve seen probably all of them, now that I have a full-time job I have to budget my time and try to focus on my weak areas :)

Been out of cubing for a while so at one point I probably knew the answer to this, but: Could someone give (or link me to) an approximate breakdown of how fast I should be solving each stage to get sub-5:00 on 7x7? Currently I average around 6:00 and my breakdown is roughly first 2 centers...

I would strongly urge that June is too soon to start having WCA competitions again, especially not in countries that haven't been doing widespread testing and whose covid-19 cases are still significant. Infection risk is primary determined by the degree of exposure multiplied by time, and so...

I would assume that breakthroughs would occur, but then again, I don't know how much academic research is done on rubik's cubes and cube theory already. Either way, I think it's interesting to think about. When I say "world's best mathematicians," I mean those who are the best in the areas most...

Are complex numbers ever used in cube theory?

I'm curious as to the applications of doing calculus with these formulas, are there any particular reasons why one would want to compute the derivative of these formulas?

The bottom line is that everyone adapts to methods at different rates, and with enough practice I GUARANTEE you that using F2L/CFOP will pay off a ton. Just be patient and grind away at it.

In my calculus II course we have to do a project where we apply integration to some aspect of our lives. We've learned a whole bunch of different applications of integration, including area, volume, work, averages, centroids, moments, arc length, surface area, laminar flow, cardiac output...

PB single by a lot!!!!!! 8.34!!!!! compared to my previous PB from about 2 years ago, 9.48. Scramble:L F' R' U F2 U L F R F' R2 B2 D2 F R2 L2 D2 B' U2 D2 inspection: y cross+pair: U' R' f2l1: L' U L f2l2: U R U2 R' U' L U' L' f2l3: U2 y U R U' R' U R U' R' U2 y' R U' R' f2l4: y U' R U' R' y'...

What I do is I just do the R' U R' without regripping (have the cube gripped so your pointer finger is in the position to to a B move, and after doing R' just do the U with your pointer finger, then follow through with the R') then I quickly regrip so I can do a D2 with my right ring-middle...

I live in the Hudson Valley/Catskills area! However, I'm on the other side of poughkeepsie, so about 40 min away from lagrangeville. But I'd be willing to help, it just depends on whether the comp would conflict with finals week.

C C++ is very similar to Java, so I'd say learn C++ first.

When you're my age (almost 18), you realize that's completely false :p