Haven't logged onto this website in ages but was just reminded that this weekly competition still exists! Perhaps a good motivator to start off the new year :)
You can honestly learn full CS while you learn CSP, but yeah just learning how to do each case (regardless of parity) helps tremendously in learning CSP later down the road.
So recently I've been creating some resources about how to learn CSP for Square-1. Here are some of the things I've made:
Video Tutorial
You can find the full playlist detailing all the cases here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIO0D-fz-pRyBr3rnNX4eG_Hy13tsTdlA
Text Tutorial
I also...
Times: 9.74, (10.31), (7.92), 8.76, 9.90
Thanks so much to Daniel Karnaukh (Derpy Cuber) for footage of solves 2-5!
Pretty good scrambles; hopefully this average will be harder to beat :)
The 8.76 could've been easily WR single, but I messed up :(
Done at Fantastic Manhattan Competition 2016.
Lol the only reason I didn't use CP parity is because I can't look ahead to CP during EO. (also there's no point switching now since I've finished full parity EP :P )
Which is why Cubeshape parity should eventually come in handy...
FMC PB!!! Sub-30 we're getting there...
Scramble: U2 D2 R L2 U2 D F' U L' R2 B2 U L2 U D R2 D L2 R'
U' R D' B D L2 B' U2 // 2x2x3 (8)
D' L2 D // stuff (3)
(inverse) D' L2 D2 F2 D' L F L2 // all but 5 corners (8)
Skeleton: U' R D' B D L2 B' U2 D' L2 D L2 F' L' D * F2 ^ D2 L2 D (19)
Insert at...