Oh yeah that's another thing I wanted to mention, that I have found this T perm alg:
R2 U' R2 U R2 D' R2 U R2 U R2 U' R2 U' R2 U2
I guess it's good because it's regripless.
Also I forgot to mention, the A/- alg that I posted also works as a Jb perm, and it's actually surprisingly easy to...
So, in short, I wanted to learn to solve my 3x3x2 faster, since all those adjacent and opposite edge swaps were really tiring. Building of the first layer was also very tedious.
The method I've decided to start using is similar to the one used for Sq1: Separate U and D layer pieces, then CP...
I just found an article on the speedsolving wiki about Guo-jia: https://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Haiyan%27s_Cube#Haiyan
Apparently, it was the first brand to appear after Rubik's, and manufactured 5 different cubes all called "Alpha", hence the name "Type A".
Since the Zhanchi was the first speedcube I got and I've been keeping track of the cubing market ever since, I'm sort of interested in the cubes that came before that. Let's exclude anything from the Rubik's brand, I'm interested in cubes that have started to appear after the patent for the...