A few thoughts I had the other day:
Scenario 1: Two users have the same average of 100. Their time breakdowns are also the same. In other words, their times for cross, F2L and LL are also the same. The only difference is that one is opposite color neutral while the other cuber is completely color neutral.
My analysis: The cuber who is only opposite color neutral is better Why? Because despite his limitation to two cross colors, he is still able to post equal times compared with the other cuber. The cuber who is completely color neutral has a much larger range of easier crosses to make. The disadvantaged cuber has more difficult cross cases, yet he is still able to compensate for this and post equal cross times.
Scenario 2: Two users have the same average of 100. One cuber uses Roux and the other uses CFOP.
My analysis: The CFOP cuber is better. Why? Because Roux is known to have a much lower movecount. And yet despite his move count advantage, the Roux cuber can still only post times equal to his CFOP counterpart.
So for example, Bill Wang should be considered a better cuber than Alex Lau, at least from their official times list. The interesting aspect is that both Bill and Alex had extremely high TPS, and yet, even with this, they still have approximately equal official times. Clearly, there is something difficult or inefficient with Roux, something that limits its efficacy. I suspect the use of M-slices is a permanent impediment and obstacle that offsets their lower movecount advantage. This will forever hinder Roux in my opinion, since it's so M-slice dependent.
Any thoughts on this?
Scenario 1: Two users have the same average of 100. Their time breakdowns are also the same. In other words, their times for cross, F2L and LL are also the same. The only difference is that one is opposite color neutral while the other cuber is completely color neutral.
My analysis: The cuber who is only opposite color neutral is better Why? Because despite his limitation to two cross colors, he is still able to post equal times compared with the other cuber. The cuber who is completely color neutral has a much larger range of easier crosses to make. The disadvantaged cuber has more difficult cross cases, yet he is still able to compensate for this and post equal cross times.
Scenario 2: Two users have the same average of 100. One cuber uses Roux and the other uses CFOP.
My analysis: The CFOP cuber is better. Why? Because Roux is known to have a much lower movecount. And yet despite his move count advantage, the Roux cuber can still only post times equal to his CFOP counterpart.
So for example, Bill Wang should be considered a better cuber than Alex Lau, at least from their official times list. The interesting aspect is that both Bill and Alex had extremely high TPS, and yet, even with this, they still have approximately equal official times. Clearly, there is something difficult or inefficient with Roux, something that limits its efficacy. I suspect the use of M-slices is a permanent impediment and obstacle that offsets their lower movecount advantage. This will forever hinder Roux in my opinion, since it's so M-slice dependent.
Any thoughts on this?