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Failing to improve on 5 without not using Heise... 5. 20 Moves: a. Pairs U' R U R' (4) b. Shuffle around U' R U' R' (4) c. Y Perm (12) Okay, that was a cop-out and not heise.... 28 Moves: a. Pairs U' R U R' (4) b.1. Solve 3 of 5 edges R U' R' U2 (4) b.2. Solve other 2 edges B R B' U B R'...

Figures, and yes, pretty much. Back to the drawing board...

Not totally sure what you mean exactly but: Suppose such a commutator exists, call it X. Doesn't need to be a commutator. By pigeonhole principle for some p, X^p = Solved state I, since the cube has a finite number of states you eventually have to cycle back. Let p* be the minimum of these...

Thanks for posting those examples Johannes91. But I disagree with you on it not needing further explanation. I find with intuitive methods it can be quite helpful to see some examples because sometimes it can make me go "what, you can do that!?" I see in your examples you seem to prefer...

Heise Method - Building Two Pairs I've noticed that my move count with Heise when building the two pairs is very inefficient - I tend to build the first pair Fridrich style and then spend too many moves trying to get the second pair. Unfortunately Heise's website...

I have a Rubik's Retooled and after breaking it in a lot so it's nice an loose and polished.... recommend not getting one, it is only good if you want RSI for whatever reason and for training wrist strength.

But I wrote that in the context of: ... sorry if that wasn't unclear. D'UR repeated over and over on a solved cube would eventually take the cube back to it's solved state.

Wacky: 2. any sequence of moves when repeated over and will eventually return the cube to a solved state because of the pigeonhole principle and all that. Stefan: Yes, that's what I meant with consequence vs definition. Oh and what you just wrote is not true. A cube away from solved by a D turn...

Tiles are different (and uglier looking), dimensions and weight are different, I suspect these are not the white versions of those two puzzles.

Thanks. I think I will order a V5 then!

Dumb question, I know, but... Just wondering, does V-cube packaging have a "made in ____" text and if so, could you please tell me what it says, greece, somewhere, china? I know people have said offhand it's made in Greece, but that might not be reliable (...Bump cubes are not made in...

A poster starts a thread to sell something with and it's only been like, 2 pages into the thread, geez... Moving on, the method sounds interesting and may offer a new approach to cube solving, but the move count in the video seems to be over 70, is that typical? I should point out that...

Ah, didn't know about that. I thought that the there was some kind of international treaty that allowed for it to apply around the world but I guess that's not the case. But on your list, it's patented in China which should mean that Verdes has the legal right to prevent production of copies...

http://www.faqs.org/rulings/rulings2006HQW480158.html AFAIK trademark is only over a 3x3x3 with the standard colour scheme, and so the knock-off cubes with random colour schemes are fine. However, that might imply that the people stickering their diys in the usual colour schemes or making...

That's only ~25% cheaper given current exchange rates with the Euro, don't understand why anyone would risk buying a knockoff... (except for particular spare parts or something)