Block building help

[Hadley4000]

I am trying to get into Roux (DON'T post in here saying nothing but I shouldn't even try it and stick to Fridrich. I want to give it a shot!) But I am terrible at block building. I really don't know where to start, and if I get it, getting the other 1x2x3 block really kills me.

So. Do you have any tips on blockbuilding?

 

[MistArts]

Look for c/e pairs and connect to an edge that's matching with at least 1 center then connect another. Or make a 1x1x3 block for Edge-center-edge and corner-edge-corner. I personally don't use Roux but from experience at Heise, try to make a few pairs and treat them as units. Try the FMC thread too.

 

[fanwuq]

Watch example solutions at fmc.mustcube.net

 

[MistArts]

Watch example solutions at fmc.mustcube.net

I knew you'd come. Most people their don't use Roux, except for Roux (duh..).

 

[fanwuq]

Watch example solutions at fmc.mustcube.net

I knew you'd come. Most people their don't use Roux, except for Roux (duh..).

Well for the first 2x2x1 block. The rest is very similar. However I suck at making the 2nd block total for me is usually about 20 moves, which is worse than for Petrus 2x2x3+EO

 

[MistArts]

Watch example solutions at fmc.mustcube.net

I knew you'd come. Most people their don't use Roux, except for Roux (duh..).

Well for the first 2x2x1 block. The rest is very similar. However I suck at making the 2nd block total for me is usually about 20 moves, which is worse than for Petrus 2x2x3+EO

What's your avg for F2L? Or do you do F2L? How about F2L+EO

 

[ErikJ]

practice. block building is not easy. once you figure out a few techniques and you see how stuff fits together it's easy.

 

[waffle=ijm]

i use roux...the easiest way to make a 1x2x2 block and extending into a 1x2x3 block. I still do this if I can't find a way to complete the whole 1x2x3 block in one go.

The second block is easy if you get used to using the M slice to connect to the corner you want and then attaching. Its like F2L using the M-slice

 

[Lotsofsloths]

For roux what I do is blockbuild the first block than fridrich the second xD

 

[pjk]

I'd recommend going over example solves. There are many posted around here and on some other sites. Let me know if you need help finding them.

When I go the second block, I typically find the edge that goes into DR, and place that in, then pair up the CE, and put them in.

 

[Kenneth]

I'm not using Roux, Or I can but I don't, I'm using something I named Kindaroux:

F2B:
1; Build half a cross at RD LD (don't mind the D centre, just R and L)
2; Place the four pairs, to build them place the edge at FD or BD, do U to move in the corner and then M to compleate the pair (for the first ones you can also use F or B to move in the corner. Do not bother to do first block second block, put the pairs in any order.

CMLL:
No explanation needed...

Edges and M slice:
1; Place B centre and BD edge (or F/FD and do y2). Build a pair of the centre and edge in the U-layer and do U M to place it.
2; Orient the last 5 edges using M' U M
3; Permute all 5 edges (there is a thread with algs somewhere) or place FD using M' U2 M and end in EPLL.

A variation is to place FD while doing the orientation, I think it was 9 cases totaly.

Maybe a little less effective than the original method but much easier to learn if you are used to do LBL.

I use the same method for big cubes (it's the only method I use for the big ones) but there you also have to do centres as additional steps and there I do ELL as the last step so I place FD edges while compleating the last two centres (there is no edge orientation step).

At first I actually created the method on 4x4x4 and then later I tried it for 3x3x3.