cross on left/ bottom?

[chue.hsien]

i know this must been brought up a couple of times, but pls tell me where i shld put my cross when doing f2l.. i'm more inclined towards finger tricks, but when i try cross on left my delays in between each c/e get massive. but if cross on bottom, theres less finger tricks but more vision...

 

[TimMc]

You can still do finger tricks with the cross on the bottom... I just found that you've to use the fingers on both hands to do it efficiently.

 

[badmephisto]

i always used to do cross on top so i developed a wide array of finger tricks for it... mainly since U and U' are really fast as opposed to D and D'. End result being that when I make crosses now I usually start with cross on U, and mid-way i switch to cross on D while solving the last or 1 or 2 edges to get the look-ahead. Maybe that's an alternative you might wanna explore as well
Between Left and Bottom though, I'd put it on the bottom... There's a couple of people I know though that do it on the left and are quite satisfied, but all the best speed-cubers do it on the bottom... maybe its not a coincidence

 

[ExoCorsair]

Between Left and Bottom though, I'd put it on the bottom... There's a couple of people I know though that do it on the left and are quite satisfied, but all the best speed-cubers do it on the bottom... maybe its not a coincidence

I am pretty certain Ryan Patricio and Lars Vandenbergh solve on left, Leyan Lo definitely solves on left...

 

[AlexandertheGreat]

yeah...the main reason I decided to start doing cross on left was b/c of Leyan's success

cross on left perfectly satisfies me, looking ahead is helped by some double layer turns and looking at edges in the right layer. I do however do some cross on left for one handed, as some of the finger tricks are better for certain situations. I even switch between left and bottom in the middle of an algorithm sometimes, just b/c it's more comfortable.

 

[chue.hsien]

the problem is my left fingers are not very agile... those doing cross on left, do u have problems looking ahead?

 

[chue.hsien]

sht man i juz took 2 average of 12 f2ls only for cross left / bot. heres the result:
left : 11.92 and 11.80 = 11.86 average
bottom:11.12 and 11.76 = 11.44 average

the diff is juz 0.4 seconds leh. HOW

 

[hdskull]

on the left is the more "natural way"(i heard this somewhere), obviously u can get fast either on the left or on the bottom, it shouldn't matter too much.

 

[LarsN]

I've just yesterday decided to change my cross on the F2L from left to buttom. The reason being that I took up the advice to practise using a metronome and quickly found out that when looking ahead my right hand kept getting in the way. It might work for others with the cross on the left but I don't think I can find a better way to look ahead than doing F2l with the cross on the buttom.

 

[CorwinShiu]

I am pretty certain Ryan Patricio and Lars Vandenbergh solve on left, Leyan Lo definitely solves on left...

I heard Jessica Fridich prefers left. Go figure.

 

[pjk]

I do cross on bottom since that was how I learned. Although there are tons of cubers that are very quick with cross on left.