Recent content by Tao Yu

I think it originated from this exact forum post. It was common to call it "freestyle" when you used comms to do BLD. Three-style seems to be a pun on freestyle which stuck.

Tommy Cherry already uses this stuff sometimes. I watched a livestream where he got an ~18 (I think) with a block comm (not sure where to find it though). There's a few places it has been discussed. Andy Wong has this sheet of block comms for 3BLD and I think Elliott discusses them in this video:

Yifan's 16.99 was a misscramble. The scramble he got had no relationship with the actual scramble (it wasn't one move off for example) and had an arguably easier solution with 3style.

Sometimes you should do things that aren't fun, but only if the payoff in the end is worth it. For example I hated doing BLD solves for many months, but I stuck with it, and I'm glad that I did because of the official results it has allowed me to achieve. I think I found that most methods I...

good luck ! personally I found full oll quite difficult to learn btw pll is included in zbll, so it's really not as bad as people in this thread are making it out to be, you only need to learn around 1229 algs actually.

I've never heard of 3EF, but that sounds exactly the same as eka just with a URB buffer. It's a perfectly reasonable way to transition to 3-style, although UFR is usually considered to be a slightly better buffer than UBR It has nothing to do with BH however. To try and state it more clearly...

Okay, here's the crash course on BH for corners. Disclaimer: Most of the people reading this would probably better off watching a 3-style youtube tutorial from NoahCubes, J perm, Jack Cai or Timothy Goh than learning this stuff. I'm just putting the information out there so you can make your...

This is really cool! I had stumbled upon plover at some point and was somewhat interested in learning it, but never ended up doing so. I am just curious, have you seen Ben Whitmore's virtual Square-1 solves? I'm fairly sure his sim just uses the same controls as normal 3x3 sim controls for RUD...

Cool, thanks for letting me use your algs. I'll try and do it at some time during the next month or so.

I kind of like this method a lot. I'm a sucker for two things: methods that end with ZBLL, and algorithmic steps that feel intuitive... and this has both. I'd really like to add these algs to my trainer and play around with it. Unfortunately, my interest in cubing in general is pretty low these...

People no longer remember the truly legendary things that happened on this forum :'( Here are some things that I remember happened here: Countless barriers and UWRs broken Ville Seppanen getting UWRs 3-4 minutes below the bigBLD WRs at the time Alex Lau temporarily bringing the Roux UWR...

I'm a fan of block recognition. I think there is definitely more than one viable recognition method for ZBLL. If you find that a certain method works for you, you should consider that you might just be right and everyone else is wrong. However there are a couple of things I believe very...

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lol I forgot about this until now. Honestly I have nothing but sympathy for Silky. $160 is way too much to pay just for some people to get some times on unusual methods that we all knew were possible. Like I don't think anyone was ever in doubt that sub 12 Mehta and sub 11 ZBroux were...