Recent content by PapaSmurf

Oh hello there, long time no see!

The token "this is a ZZ solve". But actually, insanity! I remember when sub 4 singles seemed just stupidly unlikely. Congratulations Xuanyi!

Just letting you all know that ZZ has its first official sub 5! The time is 4.96 by Krzysztof Bloch at Cube4fun Szansa Cubing Warsaw 2026. You can watch the video in the bottom right of the stream here. Congrats to him! Reconstruction...

EPLLs are 2GLLs, although not all 2GLLs are EPLLs...

We are! I don't think Xuanyi or other fast cubers will switch to ZZ, but it's cool to see them using it. Maybe they'll think more about EO at the start of their solves to force better F2L and ZBLS cases.

This would only be per thread. You can congratulate someone on WR, but you can't send 3 messages in a row to that one thread in the space of 5 minutes. You can go to a different thread within the 5 minutes and congratulate someone on a different world record.

It is just a simple CFOP variant that was not used but has been talked about since 2012, probably earlier.

Please, please add a cooldown timer for replying to a thread. Even if it's just 5 mins. It will mean people have to think a bit longer before they send things, or it will force them to go back and edit their posts instead. I'm beggin you @pjk !😭

https://mzrg.com/rubik/methods/col3/ You were beaten by probably more than a decade. I've done this already today and I'm very sorry everyone, but when you have a hobby this old, you are bound to have ideas that have already been had.

I think I'm always the bearer of bad news, but this definitely has been proposed before. I found this post from 2012. It mentions WV+COALL (what you're calling ZPLL). Another post, from 2019. I reply to it. This definitely reinforces the pattern of me being a bearer of bad news. I could keep...

If you have a diag or solved first layer, you don't need to rotate. If you have a bar, always solve it into the same place and learn algs from that angle. Chris Olson (shout out) explains this well in this very old video. Look around the 2:10 mark.

9.16. Chris Hardwick, Mike Hughey, Dan Harris and Anthony Brooks posting on the same thread on speedsolving was not on my 2026 bucket list, but I'm here for it.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but OLLCP being applied to Roux is not a new thing. It is called Pinkie Pie. Check here and also here, also this video here. People don't use it in favour of EOLR because it's just slightly worse.

R2 is a fun idea. It is, unfortunately, not very good. I learnt it several times (then promptly forgot it) not because it's good, but because it's fun.

Essentially the same as mine!