Recent content by Lykos

Yes feel free to reuse some ideas from my code and let me know if I can help. I didn't expect you can just reuse it, it's quite specific to my application even in terms of what input it expects etc and I didn't write it with the expectation that it would be used by anyone else. But the strategy...

Oh my god, this is really amazing! I also dreamed about having something like this and I was considering doing something like that. I have a website that contains some tools that I use for blind training. It's not open to the public yet, but will be soon once I add a few important features. I...

C - L2 D' R2 F2 L2 U' R2 B2 decent I found a pretty cool way to execute this without regrips: r2 U' R2 B2 r2 U' R2 B2

Hello, I heard doing corner permutation with 2-gen algorithms on 2x2 is impossible. When I try it out, it seems intuitively impossible to permute corners of the top layer while preserving the bottom layer using 2-gen algs. But I still don't really see why. The fact that edge orientation with a...

Ok, thanks a lot. Since I am averaging around 1 minute now, I guess I am fine with my COLL (except sune/antisune) and EPLL (or PLL, if necessary). Maybe I will give it a try once I am getting close to 20. :D Ok, that makes sense. But I just took my splits and it seems that I am one of the rare...

I am currently averaging at a bit more than 1 minute for OH using the ZZ method and I am trying to get a sub 45 best of 2 in one week at the European Championship. Probably I am not going to make it, but I'll try. But since I am averaging around 22 seconds with both hands, I should technically...

For the first half centers, I solve 3 as well, nothing changes about that. For the second half, if you don't do the one that you left out in the first half (i.e. the orange one in my example), then you also solve 3. So it's the same in that case, the only difference is that you adjust the...

I recently found an improvement over the way I do Yau half centers for 4x4. I am not sure whether this is a novelty or whether everyone already does it this way, but I haven't seen it in any tutorials yet. The first 3 half centers are unchanged. You just do 3 half centers and put them next to...

Dealing with bad nerves during competitions. Somehow I always get super nervous during competitions and always screw up. The smaller the puzzle, the more I screw up and the more I practice, the more I screw up. The worst example is 2x2. At home, I usually have averages between 4.5 and 5.5. If...

I am by no means an expert on big cubes, I am not even sub 10 on 7x7, so take my observations with a grain of salt. But from what I observed in example solves is that good people often don't use any strict method. They use whatever is available and try to build a center as efficiently as...

First successful feet solve in 9:47! In my first attempt, I gave up after I finished the cross in 5 minutes. In my second attempt, I gave up after I finished the first slot in 5 minutes. In my third attempt, I gave up when I screwed up my last slot after 8:30. And now I switched to Petrus and...

Cool, thanks a lot. I really like the F R2 D R' U R D' U R D' R2 U' F' alg. I should have known myself about F sexy F' and F sexy2 F' because of the 2x2. :-) Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

Hello. I already know COLL and I use it for solves with the Fridrich and ZZ methods, but I started getting into Roux recently. For Roux Corners, I can use COLL for now, but I guess CMLL is slightly more optimized. Any ideas for which algorithms it is most useful to learn the CMLL version even...

I just counted the moves for 10 solves and got the following: 2, 7, 6, 10, 6, 5, 9, 3, 6, 10 average 5.9 But it felt like there were a lot of lucky cases here. I think normally it is worse. I think my problem why my layers are the following: - If I see a two adjacent corners which match on...

What is more beneficial to train? Eg-1 or one looking? I am currently averaging around 8 seconds with CLL and my problem is that my layers are inefficient and my CLL recognition is quite slow. I hoped that practicing a lot would fix this, but after a month of practice, I still get the same...