Recent content by porkynator

Reconstructions of my 21.33 NR mean, third place at Euros 2024. Plain text version: https://sebastiano.tronto.net/speedcubing/euros-2133.txt 1. Scramble: R' U' F L' B2 U D2 L' F2 L F L' B2 D L2 B2 D B2 U' R2 F2 R' U' F 2. Scramble: R' U' F L F' U2 B' R' U2 F2 U2 F2 R2 D2 B' D' U2 B2 F2 R' D...

It is how Kalindu wrote the reconstructions, the WDC discussed editing that part but in the end we decided to keep them as the original.

Thanks! No, there is nothing interactive in that page. Thanks for the heads up! I know about Twizzle, but I did not know the plan was to replace alg.cubing.net. In any case, I use the tool sufficiently often that I am going to notice and I can keep the links up to date, if needed. In my case...

Hello forum, long time since I posted a new thread here :) Today I managed to write something that I have had in mind for quite some time: a tutorial for beginners, aimed at people that want to figure out how to solve a cube by themselves rather than following a step-by-step guide. As such, it...

I have worked out how to insert 3 slice moves (like E E E2) to simplify a DR-sequence. I posted it on my website for ease of formatting and possible future updates: https://sebastiano.tronto.net/speedcubing/slice-theory

I started with CFOP in 2008, moved on to ZZ in 2011 and then to Roux in late 2017 - though I was not practicing much 3x3 then, and I only started using it officially in 2019. I have already broken my 3x3 and OH official records and I hope I can get a sub-8 3x3 average and a sub-13 OH average...

"My approach" is just the maze :) You said "I believe his method makes it seem like there's 35 cases but I could be wrong"; they are 34. I believe it offers some advantage over your classification, namely once you know the maze you exactly which other cases you can reach with setup moves + 1qt...

Thank you for sharing all your stuff! I have been doing (almost) 100% HTR since September last year, and I started right away by learning the maze. There are 34 cases, but the way I see it they are actually 17 (ignoring parity) and you need to learn at least one odd path and one even path for...

I have not posted here in a very long time, but I have a comp in a few weeks and I want to do well, so I am practicing a bit (first time in 4 years!). Today I had a good accuracy so I pushed it a bit to try and get an avg100 (at most 5 DNFs). I was fairly close: DNF on attempts 21, 46, 59...

Just got a "PB" (my best solve at home ever, still worse than my offical 16)

Update (2022-06-02): release 2.0.2 improves the generation of pruning tables, making installation faster without the need to download huge files. It still takes ~40 minutes on my laptop though. There is no other improvement in this release, so if you already have 2.0.1 you don't need to update.

Official 8.58 3x3 average (Roux)! I also got a 8.96 average in the previous round at the same comp.

Update (2022-02-22): bugfix release 2.0.1. Also, nissy has a website now: https://nissy.tronto.net

Hello everyone! I have just released version 2.0 of my cube-solving program, Nissy: https://nissy.tronto.net It is a command-line tool (no graphical interface like Cube Explorer for now, sorry) to solve the cube. It is quite fast: on my fairly old 4-core laptop it takes a minute on average to...