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Wrongway.org was one of the first websites I saw when I began cubing. (Includes the code for a 4x4x4 solver that used to run on the site.) Speaking of 4x4x4 solvers, I provide some details about @cuBerBruce's solver and @clement's solvers in this post. Also, Ben Whitmore's KSolve++, which has...

Rubix may be one that most people don't know of. (Gabbasoft and ultimate magic cube were the popular ones.)

Not sure how this can be fit in, but one of the main reasons the 4x4x4 parity algorithms speedsolving wiki page exists (doesn't just consist of a short list of algorithms like Lucas' Parity, 2 PLL parity algs, etc.) is to preserve that part of cubing history (roughly the time period from 2004 -...

With Gil's kindness to add a parameter for Old WCA notation support, I have switched the cube applet that the 4x4x4 parity algorithms page uses to cubedb.net. (And 100K bytes of SiGN notation translations have been removed.) (I have written a notification at the very top of the page.) All...

The length of the url is a "part" of the issue, yes, as it's part of the template code.

window.location.search.replace('?','') Are you suggesting that a search-replace function be implemented in speedsolving wiki? For example, with code lines like the following (which are a part of the template pages)...

Hi Morgan, Well, if the goal is to truly go with the fewest (core) algorithms, in this video, I show how to use variations of the Niklas commutator to solve the entire 3x3x3 (and meddle with pieces of big cubes towards the end). (Orienting the corners and edges requires knowing which...

Hi Gil. The other main "issue" is that Lucas' simulator uses lowercase letters for M, E, S turns, where as yours uses uppercase. In my video about SiGN notation, I too mentioned that uppercase represents those turns, as Michael Gottlieb (who invented SiGN notation independently of Lucas...

This was from 4 months ago (so maybe you know about it). He had the constraint that no more than 2 colors are on each face though (which is more strict than the restriction stated in this thread). (And noobs who think that it's against the rules to bump old threads... don't dirty this thread up...

Np. And you can conjugate one of these (all move-optimal in STM) U2 B2 D2 M D2 B2 U2 M' U2 M U2 B2 D2 M' D2 B2 F2 D2 B2 M' B2 D2 F2 M F2 M' F2 D2 B2 M B2 D2 D2 F2 M' F2 D2 B2 M B2 D2 B2 U2 M U2 B2 D2 M' D2 B2 M' B2 D2 F2 M F2 D2 M D2 B2 U2 M' U2 B2 B2 U2 M U2 B2 D2 M' D2 B2 D2 F2 M' F2 D2 B2 M...

These are LONG, but they are different (no inner slice turns + short repeated sequence). l' (R U R' U)5 l r (R U R' U)5 r' Or l' (R U' R' U')5 l r (R U' R' U')5 r' And you can conjugate this opposite center swap r2 (m2 U2 F2 U2)2 r2 with the classic non-pure adj center swap (in beginner 4x4x4...

Just as you put a disclaimer, I will put that this is just my opinion, but: If a hobby allows you to relieve stress in a way that nothing else can (due to how your mind is currently wired, due to past habits), as long as you give it the time and attention required to relieve that stress (and no...

I admit, when I saw the thread title, I thought of the real PI algorithm! (But okay, it's just about fingertricking a specific alg for the PI OLL case.)

Yes, I have used it for nxnxn parity state analysis. This paper shows usage of algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and some discrete math. Although I develop a (two variable) quadratic expression in that paper, I later used the actual quadratic formula itself (not in that paper, but in a book I...

Although I may sound like a bot by saying this, you may enjoy Pseudo 3x3 shorter than 3x3?.

For those really into math, note that this thread exists. Have you ever played with Geogebra? You can make all kinds of animations in there.

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I'm not sure if it counts, but NASCAR? (That article was written in 2010, but I don't see why more constant improvements aren't being made to the cars every year.)

Kind of sounds like what I mentioned about such methods (probably a little too strongly) in the past. But I also emphasized (from that old post) that ... You will certainly encounter some form of parity in the process of doing that. Maybe not the single edge flip variation, but some form of...

Because Thom Barlow ( @Kirjava ) is very particular himself about what is considered K4, I'm pretty sure he would not consider Jules' solves K4. In this video at least (edit. And also in his most-recent average of 5 video), Jules completed all centers first and then made the 1x3x4 block. But...