6x6x6 Speed Solving: How do I get to Sub-4?

[LNZ]

I was looking at Youtube videos for a while and I have found some real time saving parity buster algs. I have them all stores on a alg sheetand I have memorized every one of them to memory. The problem is the diagrams are hand drawn and cannot be shown on this site. So use the following algs on computer cube software like Gabbasoft, etc:


Swap two centres (of a parity pair)

r2 U2 r / U2 r2 U2 / r2 U2 r / U2 r2

Parity Pair buster alg (Adaptable for bigcubes like 6x6 and 7x7 and useful with adapting for all types of 7x7 parities too. For 4x4, only use the d slice.)

u' d / R U R' / U' F' U F / d' u

All cubes 3x3 and above.

(M' U)(x3) + (U M)(x3) + U2

Quick parity solver. Rotate cube 180 degrees before using for even better effect.

r2 B2 / r' U2 r' U2 / B2 r' B2 r B2 r' B2 r2 / B2

4x4 OLL Parity

(M U')(x2) M U2 (M U')(x2) M U2

7x7x7 Cube Parity algs (tested on a real V-Cube7)

A B B B A
B A A A B

R2 B2 U2....B2 R2, using 1/2 and 6/7 slices.

A A B A A
B B A B B

R2 B2 U2....B2 R2, using 1/2/3 and 5/6/7 slices.

A B A B A
B A B A B

R2 B2 U2....B2 R2, using 3 and 5 slices.





Void Cube Parities

x2 + (R U R' [Dd]')(x7)

r2 U' M' U / r2 U y' U / M U M' U

x' M2 U' / R U M'/ U' R' U / M' U' R / U M' U' / R' U x

Algs tested on real cubes from 1x1x1 to 7x7x7 and adaptions tested on Gabbasoft cubes from 4x4x4 to 19x19x19.

7x7x7 Cube Parity algs (tested on a real V-Cube 7)

 

[Shamah02]

Ohh okie, thanks.

I still can't find Arnaud's Center Idea. (SPAVG) Where would I find out about that? The search function returned nothing.

It's in this thread. I found it using the search function. :rolleyes:

 

[qqwref]

I'm going to suggest just using pure reduction... centers in 1x4 strips, 8 full edge groups with freeslice and then the last 4 sort of however looks best (I usually do inners then outers but I'll do other stuff if it looks more efficient), then 3x3. Once you do that getting faster is just a matter of fewer delays and better lookahead. I suggest doing a bunch of slow solves (just slow turning, though, try to have less pauses, even if it means doing a ton of cube rotations in order to find stuff) to work on lookahead, but other than that, just practice.

 

[Dene]

What are your breakdowns? They might give us an indication as to what you should work on.

For my solve it's really simple:

Centers: ~2 Minutes
Edges: ~2 Minutes
3x3 Solve: ~45 Seconds (With both paritys)

You should be able to cut a good 20-30 seconds of your centers. Just turn faster and lookahead. How do you do the last 2 centers?

 

[ChrisBird]

I do the center two 1x4s, then one full outer one, and 3 pieces of the last one.

I just use a little trick to get the last piece in there. (I can flesh this out if you would like me to)

 

[Dene]

No it sounds like you are doing it the "good" way. Just keep working on it.

 

[ChrisBird]

Do you find it more beneficial to do the first 8 edge pairs by pairing the center edges, then adding the outer ones? Or does it make little difference?

 

[Gurplex]

theres no method to improve your speed.
but playing on hi-games is a great way to practice your look ahead!

to improve, i just did at least one average of 12 a day.
i average about 3:30 in real life.

 

[Dene]

Do you find it more beneficial to do the first 8 edge pairs by pairing the center edges, then adding the outer ones? Or does it make little difference?

I do it freeslice, but both methods can be good.

 

[AvGalen]

Ohh okie, thanks.

I still can't find Arnaud's Center Idea. (SPAVG) Where would I find out about that? The search function returned nothing.

It's in this thread. I found it using the search function. :rolleyes:

Please, explain how you used the search function to return nothing. It is as easy as
* Clicking on the Search option on the top navigation
* type SPAVG
* Click Search

All results are actually related to SPAVG (except the link to this thread obviously)

 

[ChrisBird]

I'll try to attach a screen cap with my search results, but if it does not work I'll Photobucket it.

The screen cap is with all the omitted results included as well just to make sure I wasn't missing anything.
So I don't know why I am not getting anything besides this thread.

 

[Am1n-]

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/search.php