Recent content by Stini

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It looks quite promising that I will be able to participate, but it's still too early to say anything final. My suggestion for the name is Twente Slowcubing 2012. :) Alternatively sub-Twente Open 2012 if you want to go for a lame pun. :p

FMC: 28 HTM

I solve it like this as well. I find it useful to think of this case as a variation of A-perm. Compare: The most common A-perm alg: R2 [R U R', D2] R2 A-perm variation: R2 [R U2 R', D2] R2

Cubenovice: I just haven't felt like doing FMC lately, it feels more like chore atm. Btw pair commutators aren't that difficult really, first you have to notice that pairs can be interchangeable by a face turn or by a double layer turn. I guess face turn is more common in practice. So you must...

Pair commutators are pretty common in Heise, but I almost never remember to try those in FMC though. :p I tend to use pair commutators only when they solve the whole cube. Edit: Hmm, it just came to me that you could use pair commutators to solve some non-obvious cases with a setup move, for...

My speed solution would be this: 2x2x2: R2 B2 R D 2x2x3: U F R' F' R' I'm not actually a Petrus solver, but I tend to start with a 2x2x2 block if I have a CE-pair. In this case the extension to 2x2x3 is also easy to spot so I would use that as well instead of just solving rest of the cross and...

Okay, here's one approach to A9s. There are only four fundamentally different A9s (that is, non-isomorphic cases) and here's a list of these: A-perm: x R2 [R U R', D2] R2 Variation of A-perm x R2 [R U2 R', D2] R2 (notice the similarity with the case above) Headlights: R2 [D, R' U2 R] R2...

I'm not really into BLD, but commutators are cool so I checked your video about centers. Overall I liked the video, but your handling of the case with "two centers swapped" seemed a bit awkward to me. I would probably do something like [l', U r U'] instead (also same idea works for the opposite...

My 27-move solution from Helsinki Open 2011. Scramble: L F2 L2 D2 R U2 R B2 R' B2 D2 F' D L2 D U2 F R D U' L (Inverse scramble: L' U D' R' F' U2 D' L2 D' F D2 B2 R B2 R' U2 R' D2 L2 F2 L') For the inverse scramble: Double x-cross: B' U' B L D' R2 F' L F (9) F2L minus slot: U' B'* U2 B...

I'm afraid I cannot accommodate more cubers. There will be 9 cubers at my place so it's already very crowded.

You can't always even solve 5 corners with just two commutators, you need to have a pure 5-cycle to do that. If you have two 2-cycles and one twisted corner, you need at least 3 commutators or some other special tricks. Similarly you can only solve 6 corners with two commutators if you have two...

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I don't think it's necessary to learn full BH for FMC, knowing and recognizing the 8-movers is enough. For edges it's often best to just find a good spot to setup to M' U2 M U2 (or its inverse), which you can also do like L F2 L' R U2 R'. The BH algs I've seen for edges are supercube safe, so...

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