jskyler91
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sounds cool.
Thanks, it should be up in an hour or so, I movie sucks sometimes.
sounds cool.
Please learn to solve the cross on the bottom. It is a very useful technique. Doing this gives you a better understanding of the cube, and gives you a much larger lookahead into F2L. You would have to do an x2 if you had to do it on top. Nuh-uh. No good. Do it on the bottom, force yourself to do it on the bottom.
I hear you say you tried a FEW times on the bottom. And you failed, that is very reasonable. Have you ever seen an astronaut who was in space for years, then be able to walk on land perfectly fine within "a few times" of trying? No. Have you seen a person who tried to memorize an algorithm with just trying it out a few times? No.
You need to do it a lot more than "a few times". I'd say many days of practice or even weeks of practice to get the "bottom cross" with ease.
And as for the inspection time problem, I have experienced this, I'm with you. I used to do the cross executing it with so many moves. Then, as you see, if you have a good edge piece, you can simply put it in the cross layer first, and align the other edge pieces in that color scheme. Then you can align the edge color scheme with the center piece's color scheme with "D-Turns". You need not match the edge piece with its corresponding center that takes a lot of time-unless you have an easy case.
Cross is a hard thing to learn, my friend. Playing with the cube more, understanding the cube more and improving in other qualities of your solve will let you ease in on the cross. It takes quite some time.
It's not something that you can be like "I want to learn this-----practice-----I mastered the cross.
Sorry, but No.
The answer to better cross solving is not do it on bottom.
Do you know how long a z2 takes? Do you really think that by removing that z2 that the cube times will change a lot? Maybe to somebody who solves in 10 seconds. But not to a beginner.
With cross on top you are able to actually see what you are doing and recognize mistakes/pieces. You can see what you are doing. And just because the cross is on top doesn't mean you can't see f2l pairs. I see them all the time. I do a 2 second cross on top, less than half a second z2, and just continue. There is nothing wrong with that.
Don't force stuff upon people that is debatable. Letting people try stuff out for themselves makes better times because when you are comfortable with something you do it quicker. Yes there are definitely some things that are undisputed but what would be the point of cube solving if you did it the same exact way as everyone else? Its not a puzzle if you solve like that. Doing stuff for yourself is essential to learning the cube. Letting people try stuff on their own is essential to teaching how to cube.
This person is not looking for advice like yours, they are looking for a better understanding to the cross.
Sorry, but No.
The answer to better cross solving is not do it on bottom.
Do you know how long a z2 takes? Do you really think that by removing that z2 that the cube times will change a lot? Maybe to somebody who solves in 10 seconds. But not to a beginner.
With cross on top you are able to actually see what you are doing and recognize mistakes/pieces. You can see what you are doing. And just because the cross is on top doesn't mean you can't see f2l pairs. I see them all the time. I do a 2 second cross on top, less than half a second z2, and just continue. There is nothing wrong with that.
Don't force stuff upon people that is debatable. Letting people try stuff out for themselves makes better times because when you are comfortable with something you do it quicker. Yes there are definitely some things that are undisputed but what would be the point of cube solving if you did it the same exact way as everyone else? Its not a puzzle if you solve like that. Doing stuff for yourself is essential to learning the cube. Letting people try stuff on their own is essential to teaching how to cube.
This person is not looking for advice like yours, they are looking for a better understanding to the cross.
What is your transition to f2l like?
Are you able to integrate fingertricks into your cross building? Moves like r U' r' are good for cross on D, and imo are much easier than r' D r for cross on top. The same for R' F R as opposed to R F' R' but I guess that fingertricks can develop with practice.
Skeletonboy said:I see your point there. I am not simply forcing him to do the cross on the bottom. He said that he tried to do it on the bottom and he failed in a few tries. I just wanted to let him know, it is more than a few tries. And if he is actually willing to do the cross on the bottom, I don't see why it would be a bad thing, unless of course, as you said, he still feels more comfortable with solving the cross on top. I agree a x2 doesn't so much time, but I'm just trying to note him, don;t debate on whether you are going to do a cross on top or bottom just with a few tries.
Yes, everyone has their own style/modifications/preferences to solving the cube in their own way, I am not trying to restrict him like a old strict teacher, I am telling him my opinion/advice on crosses.
anyway, thanks for telling me my post was somewhat "not useful", I will try to improve.
I'll do an Ao5 or Ao12 video later on, once I'm rid of this hangover.