Athefre
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On August 12, 2003, we were introduced to the Roux method.
The Roux method has been one of the most successful and influential methods of all time. It is a true success story. There were just 3-4 users until around 2007-2008. But Gilles Roux was determined and practiced to prove the method, eventually becoming 2nd in the world unofficially. In those early years there were continued doubts about two things – that a method that is intuitive and uses a lot of M slice turns could be fast. Despite the doubts, the times achieved with the method continued to decrease, achieved most notably by Austin Moore (the first to achieve sub-10 and the start of the community changing their opinion of the method), Alex Lau (was the fastest in the world unofficially at one point), Kian Mansour (one-handed world record average), and Sean Patrick Villanueva (2nd place at world championships).
As for the method’s influence, you can see the starting 1x2x3 block step in many modern methods. It has proven to be a great step that reduces the moveset to mostly RrUM and is appealing for both two handed and one handed solving. The easily achieved low move count has also been influential within method development where many have made it their goal to develop methods that can match or beat the move count of Roux.
To celebrate this great method, let’s share our Roux stories and do a few solves.
I have been using Roux for 17.5 of the 20 years that it has been around. I started in early 2006 after trying out the other methods we had at the time. After I decided to main the Roux method, I spent some time speedsolving with the method and doing my 200 solves a day, but eventually found that I was more interested in method development. I started taking a look at the NMCMLL recognition problem where I completed Gilles’ original recognition table in 2006. Then in 2010 I found a better way to recognize and this solved the recognition problem to make it viable for speedsolving. That was followed by a recognition method for step 4c, development of EOLR, another 4c recognition method now called DFDB, ACMLL, ATCRM (along with tsmosher), and some CMLL prediction strategies. I credit the Roux method and my conversations with Gilles for me becoming so invested into method development. I have also interacted with a lot of great people from being in the Roux community. People like Gilles of course, as well as Thom Barlow and Joseph Briggs.
What’s your story?
The Roux method has been one of the most successful and influential methods of all time. It is a true success story. There were just 3-4 users until around 2007-2008. But Gilles Roux was determined and practiced to prove the method, eventually becoming 2nd in the world unofficially. In those early years there were continued doubts about two things – that a method that is intuitive and uses a lot of M slice turns could be fast. Despite the doubts, the times achieved with the method continued to decrease, achieved most notably by Austin Moore (the first to achieve sub-10 and the start of the community changing their opinion of the method), Alex Lau (was the fastest in the world unofficially at one point), Kian Mansour (one-handed world record average), and Sean Patrick Villanueva (2nd place at world championships).
As for the method’s influence, you can see the starting 1x2x3 block step in many modern methods. It has proven to be a great step that reduces the moveset to mostly RrUM and is appealing for both two handed and one handed solving. The easily achieved low move count has also been influential within method development where many have made it their goal to develop methods that can match or beat the move count of Roux.
To celebrate this great method, let’s share our Roux stories and do a few solves.
I have been using Roux for 17.5 of the 20 years that it has been around. I started in early 2006 after trying out the other methods we had at the time. After I decided to main the Roux method, I spent some time speedsolving with the method and doing my 200 solves a day, but eventually found that I was more interested in method development. I started taking a look at the NMCMLL recognition problem where I completed Gilles’ original recognition table in 2006. Then in 2010 I found a better way to recognize and this solved the recognition problem to make it viable for speedsolving. That was followed by a recognition method for step 4c, development of EOLR, another 4c recognition method now called DFDB, ACMLL, ATCRM (along with tsmosher), and some CMLL prediction strategies. I credit the Roux method and my conversations with Gilles for me becoming so invested into method development. I have also interacted with a lot of great people from being in the Roux community. People like Gilles of course, as well as Thom Barlow and Joseph Briggs.
What’s your story?
