2x2x2 Tips?

[Thuan Tran]

Hello guys, I just wanted to know if a 2x2x2 Ao5 of 12.09 is good or not. How can I get faster? I use CFOP.

 

[Prakhar]

FOR NOW, LEARN ORTEGA. WITH PRACTICE, YOU CAN BE AROUND 5 SECONDS WITH IT.

 

[TDM]

cfop is a 2x2 method?

Learning Ortega will help you a lot. There are three (correct me if I'm wrong) main things you can practise in 2x2: using inspection, reducing recognition time and TPS. At your stage, you should be trying to plan a face during inspection, but it's more important to focus on the other two imo, until you learn CLL or are getting fast with Ortega. Practise your algs and try to find the fastest ones you can (use as many websites as you need to find the best algs for you), and doing timed solves should force you to practise recognition.

 

[Bryan Chia]

cfop is a 2x2 method?

Learning Ortega will help you a lot. There are three (correct me if I'm wrong) main things you can practise in 2x2: using inspection, reducing recognition time and TPS. At your stage, you should be trying to plan a face during inspection, but it's more important to focus on the other two imo, until you learn CLL or are getting fast with Ortega. Practise your algs and try to find the fastest ones you can (use as many websites as you need to find the best algs for you), and doing timed solves should force you to practise recognition.

you could use CFOP on a 2x2, yes, just takes longer

 

[TDM]

you could use CFOP on a 2x2, yes, just takes longer

Surely you can't do a cross, and after F2L it would be done so there's no need for OLL/PLL? So it's just F2L... and isn't any 2x2 method F2L?

 

[Bryan Chia]

Surely you can't do a cross, and after F2L it would be done so there's no need for OLL/PLL? So it's just F2L... and isn't any 2x2 method F2L?

oh true, but its just something like this
solve the first layer
OLL
PLL

 

[obelisk477]

I guess it could just be FOP:
(F)irst layer
(O)rient LL
(P)ermute LL

 

[Randomno]

It's called LBL, layer by layer...

I suck at 2x2, don't feel like learning Ortega since I'll still be doing slow OLLs.

 

[Coolster01]

IF YOU WANT TO BE FAST LEARN FULL EG

 

[Randomno]

IF YOU WANT TO BE FAST LEARN FULL EG

Yeah, I'm gonna learn EG-3.

 

[Hssandwich]

I decided a while ago, screw EG, I'll just learn every single combination, still got 2069 to go...lol

 

[Deathranger999]

Not a tutorial exactly, but there's this anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klDk7Mkxelk&list=PLRZHt_6umybxomCRUVl7X17tfGOZLDNa9

 

[Thuan Tran]

So a 12.09 average is ok right?

 

[kcl]

So a 12.09 average is ok right?

Being totally honest it's definitely on the slow side. You'll be able to easily improve with some practice though.

 

[Nilsibert]

With ortega it's quite easy getting much faster than 12s. I never really practice 2x2(I really should learn CLL) and suck at it, but I somewhat quickly learned ortega, practiced a bit and got an official 6.57 average at my first comp.

 

[Fawn]

If you're looking for tips, then you should be doing pyraminx, not 2x2.

But like everyone says, Ortega is extremely helpful and extremely easy to learn. To get better with it, and with any method, really, a faster recognition is key. Obviously a fast recognition isn't going to come to you when you first learn. What's nice is that there are few cases that you actually need to recognize. I've been getting into 2x2 more than usual lately. I learned ortega within half an hour. I've improved it enough that I average ~3.8 seconds globally, as opposed to my previous 6 second global average.