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Do you know and use full COLL though? (PS: We hit a thousand messages!)

I myself use Petrus, and started learning almost immediately after I kinda mastered the beginner's method. I think that, besides the things others have already mentioned: - compared to the beginner's method it seems weird and hard (especially for the blockbuilding and EO) - most tutorials for...

Nice guide! Had I just read this earlier... The last section is only a bit messy. I'd separate 2x2x2 and 2x2x3 + "How to improve" from the "Inspection" and "common cases" sections. (I haven't read them yet, but having nested spoilers is not really nice). Also, don't forget the block trainer

Very lucky scramble: L2 U L2 F B' D' F' D B2 D' R2 D L2 U' L2 R B Though 48ish moves... in 15.29 seconds

Yessss!! Solved Square-1 without tutorials! Still not gonna look at them though: I wanna improve the parts of my "method" (that's really vague), which take forever and I don't quite understand how to do. Still pretty satisfying. Near the end it seemed I didn't solve properly what I was trying to...

Had I not done a U2, it would have been 38 HTM in speed… What (I think) I did (42 STM, 16.436s): L2 F' U' B2 U R2 B2 D F2 R2 U R2 U R B2 F D2 L2 B F' yz'x' U' R B' D' F2 y F R' r U r' y U2 F R U R' U' F' y' U2 R' U2 R U' R' U' R2 U R' U R U L' U R' U' L M2 U M2 U2 M2 U M2 What could have been...

In my opinion, if that's your main goal with this quest, knowing many methods isn't worth it. I think that getting your movecount really low with one method gives you a deeper understanding of the cube than knowing many (more speedsolving) methods. You should try to solve it in as fewest moves...

What could have been a 35 move solve was probably ~40-50 moves (16.594s!) D2 L2 F2 L F2 U2 R' B2 U2 R B2 R' F R B F R2 U B F y2 x' D B' D' U' F R2 F U' R2 L2 x' // 2x2x3 U L U' R' F' R y' z' // EO U L2 U2 L' U2 L U2 L' U2 L U' y' // F2L l' U' L U R U' r' U // L3C

D R' B R2 B R B2 U' D2 B D2 B U2 R2 B2 D2 B D2 F' U x'y L' D B2 R F D2 B2 U2 // very nice Heise-style yz U R U' R' // nice y' R2 U2 bla bla bla Time: 15.716

You meant conscrambled In all seriousness though, you can use the scramble to determine which orientation you do before the scramble. Example: Scramble: F’ U’ R D F2 U’ R2 U L2 R2 D’ R2 F2 B R’ F D’ F’ L2 D’ Since you have an F you could do an x so that F's on top. Then, the next scramble you...

Yes, you're now officially a scramble unscrambler!

Here's an idea: you take the scramble used to scramble up the scrambled cube to scramble the orientation so to scramble the cube in a scrambled scrambled state. (If you can't unscramble my scramble scrambling idea, just ask me to unscramble this scrambling scrambled poetry)