[Unofficial] 0.8x CCW U-perm average of 18

[blah]

YouTube messed with my video quality. PM me if you want my raw file - it's way better.

I didn't really count so I'm not sure if it's an average of 18 but it's something close to that. Read the video description before you sue me for puffery.

I REALLY hope this is gonna convince more people to try out these U perms. (My other U perm is slightly faster than this.) Don't reject it from the start because "I can't do M moves." That's BS. These U perms were my first MU algs and I started out averaging 3 seconds on them - so yes, it did take me practice to get really good with them and I became good at MU moves after practicing these U perms. I went on to do my H perm with MU after I got comfortable with my U perms.

 

[rubiks@s]

OMG! you're really fast!

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

I know this alg as well but I dont use it in speed solves, and without practice I am around 1.1-1.2 on it.
Its fast.

 

[xbrandationx]

whats the algorithm?

 

[endless_akatsuki]

Ridiculous.

 

[eastamazonantidote]

Could you do a few in slow mo? I want to see how you do M moves. I started by doing the index pulldown, but that was too slow. I tried r' R, which I still do if I'm feeling lazy. I tried out thumb pulling and R r', but what I like best for general M purposes is my left index finger pushing from DB to UB.

I can sub-1.4 these and love em!

 

[DavidWoner]

and the other http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoRJl3DsvNs&NR=1

 

[Dene]

Let's be realistic though, a lot of people suck with M moves. I think Erik made it clear that M = beastly a long time ago. I think it takes a touch though. One important factor is finger thickness. You really need skinny fingers to be able to do M moves effectively. Another factor is finger length; short fingers are no good for M moves.

Also, people avg sub1 with RU U perm. To do MU U perm takes a specific grip that isn't going to flow from OLL, but RU U perm will often flow very nicely.

The point of my post: I am not encouraging people to use RU U perm instead of MU. I'm just defending my use of it, and I hope that many others can use my points to defend their own use of it.

 

[Zava]

well, I'm pretty fast on the ccw RU (with R2 'U.. 0.69 on the border of a +2 ) but on the cw, I just can't sub1 the RU ones (well, sometimes the R'U.. is sub1) so for cw I'm also using MU, M2 U' M' U2 M U' M2, that alg is a beast (0.75)