Assorted Fingertricks for F2L "Stoplight" Case

[teller]

One of these turns up almost every solve. Here is not an exhaustive list, but it shows several different approaches to the case:

M U' R' F R U M'

R B L U' L' B' R'

M' U R U' r' U' R U R'

r U R B' R' U' r'

R U' R' r U' r' U2 r U r'

L' U L (F R U2' R' F')

R' U2 M (U R U' R' U' r)

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[Dennis]

Wow, amazing. I really like your videos Teller. Must try when I get home from work.

 

[peterbone]

Yeah, I do most of those. Although for the 5th one why not just do the mirror of the 6th and save 2 turns?
Also, if you have algs that aren't on the F2L wiki page, can you add them? Thanks.

 

[Godmil]

Damn it Teller, you've done it again.
Now I need to go and learn more awesome algs

 

[Dacuba]

Great work!
keep doing this stuff

 

[whauk]

not specifically a "finger trick". but i sometimes prefer this completely 2gen (R,U-gen) algo:
R' U2 R' U R' U' R U2 R

 

[TheMachanga]

For the second case, I do

y' R' U R U2 y R U R'

 

[teller]

Wow, amazing. I really like your videos Teller. Must try when I get home from work.

Thanks! Interesting blog you've got there...I looked at your F2L permutation diagrams but I couldn't quite follow them. I like the idea though--promoting "know-ahead" over "look-ahead."

not specifically a "finger trick". but i sometimes prefer this completely 2gen (R,U-gen) algo:
R' U2 R' U R' U' R U2 R

That's pretty neat. Watching what it does gives me a headache--the whole right side comes out, cross piece and all! Waaaah!!!

For the second case, I do

y' R' U R U2 y R U R'

Two cube rotations for one case, very expensive!

Here are a couple of interesting outtakes:

F (R U R' U') S R' f'

F2 (R U R' U') F' U F'

I didn't shoot these because I don't use them. I mean, I started using them, but they didn't stick. I like the sexy move in there, and I had high hopes for the S turn, but it's just in a bad spot. Unfinished cases...

 

[TheMachanga]

Two cube rotations for one case, very expensive!

Well, its only one, because the first one is in the beginning.

 

[Thorsten]

I never learned Algorithms for F2l, but these "stoplight" cases are my worst cases, because i need at least one cube rotation and many moves to put them in.
So i will learn these algorithms, thanks!

 

[Goosly]

Well, its only one, because the first one is in the beginning.

That doesn't make sense. If you get the second case with blue on front, and you really do y' R' U R U2 y R U R', then you did two rotations for 1 case.