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I really like this "bag of tricks" concept for (LS)LL. Particularly the idea of collecting situations according to ease of recognition - that's a super-interesting avenue to my eyes. I bet there are some fairly novel or obvious patterns which could become usable sets. As regards the existing...

Go for it, exploring these side alleys can have great results. Not my intention to be discouraging, perhaps if you reverse the order of my sentences it reads less negatively.

In practice most of your corner options will be unattractive. I can see this being useful in tandem with techniques like pseudo-slotting (i.e. more neat 5-movers to (pseudo)solve 2 pairs).

Remembering to use inspection efficiently, economy of motion, few 'collisions' between your pairs (i.e. solving one pair doesn't make the subsequent pairs more difficult), predictable last layer with highly reliable cases.

Python + BeautifulSoup4 with cron jobs perhaps? Or if you'd rather set up a public Google Sheet and use JS, maybe you could try something similar to the getBlogPosts() function at the bottom of the Apps Scripting guide here...

I used to have a memo method for corners which is somewhat similar to this, I posted it ages ago but I can't find it now. Each piece has a consonant and each of the three orientations has a vowel sound. The consonants were something like: RLDBTKWS. Anyway the point was they had a fairly...

This is so COOL. I reckon Anki/SRS suits this kind of learning very well (it's not as if you have to generate new muscle memo), especially for loading a subset like ZBLL into your brain in a short span of time, which you can then optionally improve with specific algs...

I think what you said doesn't directly contradict preferring an order for f2l. Solving BL slot first means more of your f2l is gonna be in the <R, U, F> group. You're more likely to be able to solve with nicer execution/f2l tricks and without a rotation. Additionally, you reduce the number of...

I think if you've ever been fast enough to contest for the single, you want the average. I don't think it changes anything, if you really wanna be the best.

Yeah, I think it'll take a sea change in the younger generation to revitalise forums for all of us. I'm about halfway through Inadequate Equilibria. I'm not an economist or an AI researcher but I think the tl;dr is: markets in which every actor has collectively perfect information, but...

Yeah, it's a real shame to me that 'churn' is built so inseparably into Reddit, it's a black hole for content, at least from an exploration pov... People do need to go back to forums (including myself)! I've been reading something called 'Inadequate Equilibria' that's kinda related. I don't...

7 years... Wow! It's really heartening for me to see that people still put a 'Like' on this post every now and then, despite so many cubers predominantly using Reddit/YT/Discord nowadays. Currently I only do a few solves here and there for maintenance. Were I to start practicing properly...

https://sites.google.com/site/babbyandhunny/3x3x3/ols-fe This poor ole' site is need of some maintenance, pictures are broken, anyway I generated a bunch of algs for this set already, maybe you'd be interested in some of them! Never ended up learning more than the really easy cases, but it...

RH index finger push on RFU.

Quite literally goes without saying: I was including people who wouldn't otherwise be mentioned in the OPs scope.

A much more interesting list, I think, is to ask who the top 10 GOAT speedcubers are. Since '10 fastest right now' will depend on comp times + records of home times + 'consistency' or 'highest peaks' + some other metric like KinchRank. 10 GOAT requires historical context and argumentation...

I definitely agree with the idea that <4000 is plausible for some, but if we're talking to a general audience, and assume a normal distribution, I think it's smarter to push the estimate up quite a lot. Regarding the difference between purposeful practice and casual solving or play-solving...

About 4k-8k hours depending on person, I think that helps the most. I wrote this when I was high 8-9ish. Take steps to ensure f2l movecount is almost never >40. Learn algs constantly. Turn fast randomly without looking when watching TV. Turn slow and porpoisefully without a timer when pooping...

That's a smile I won't wipe off for a while :) Yeah I'm doing alright cheers, yourself? Studying again and doing my best to stay on-topic, never an easy task :P You'll definitely see me later this year, I just need some system that notifies me of local competition reg opening as I don't much...

Thanks Chris! I'm always grateful for your endorsements. I can't believe it was 6 years ago now... I'll not add to practice discussion itself, but say that I recommend introducing a bit of mindfulness to practice time. It seems to be good for other sports and I can't see how the more...