Recent content by Zarxrax

So its the Yau-Jamison, AKA the YJ method. Seriously though, I just want to say that things don't necessarily have to be named after people who invented them or came up with the ideas. A lot of ideas are not entirely original, and everyone is building on the ideas of others. It's quite common...

I don't think there is a common name for that, but there is also HD-G which is similar and reduces the number of cases.

I didn't see this posted here yet, but it seems that Rubik's released a noodle cube last year.

This method has already been thought of and is called G-FASSST. Well over 500 orientation algorithms. It's the first 2 steps of Guimond combined, which is pretty pointless because with normal Guimond you can see that much in the inspection anyway.

If you are still trying to do Guimond and you havn't learned all of the OLLs yet, why? There aren't that many of them, so I would recommend just spend an hour or two knocking the rest of them out. Practice them over and over. Then do a bunch more solves to practice them.

Your premise seems to be that CFOP is fast because it uses algorithms, so a method that relies more on algorithms could be faster. But is that really the case? To me, it seems that the algorithms at the end of a CFOP solve are one of its main weaknesses, as you don't get much opportunity for...

Congrats on making it as far as you have! I think you can definitely get down to 30 seconds eventually if you keep on it. Just a few months ago I came back to cubing after about a 7 year break, and I have shaved my 30 second times down to about 22 seconds. I'm really close to my goal of 20...

If you have good H and Z perms, maybe you should use the MU U perms. They are some of my fastest PLLs. I agree you should learn full PLL, I've never understood people thinking that they can't learn something until they hit a certain time. I learned full PLL when I was around 60 seconds. It made...

You might want to check the new Moyu RS3M 2020. Lots of people have been mentioning it as a pretty great cube.

Really, just about any decent $20-$30 cube should be fine unless you are approaching 10 second times. Even a budget cube would be miles ahead of the Rubik's.

I'm going to be working from home starting next week due to the coronavirus, so I guess I can cube while I work now.

I would like to see master pyraminx, however, I would recommend not scrambling the tips! I think the tips are so trivial to solve, they don't do anything but add a luck factor into how fast your time will be.

I've got an original Guhong and Zhanchi, and another one that I think is Dayan LingYun. I might also still have a Type F-II. And in 4x4s I have a Maru and X-cube.

I think Anki is not ideal for learning algs for speedsolving, and I say this as someone who has been using Anki daily for about 15 years now. The purpose of spaced-repetition software such as Anki is to remind you about stuff just before you forget it. So it's great for just making sure that you...

Wow, that's amazing. My average is about the same, if the first digit was minutes.