amateurguy
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I have a few small questions to ask. I figured that they're not worthy of having their own posts so I decided to combine them into one.
1. I have a new store-bought cube and when it first came out of its wrappers it was really smooth and loose. But after doing a hundred or so solves for a week, I noticed it starts to take more effort to turn the layers. As if it tightened or something. I don't really like it. Does the spring/screw tension tighten overtime normally? If so, is it beneficial to speedcubing?
2. For the Superman OLL (Case#55 in Dan's page) I used a Sune-based alg that goes like R U R' U R U2 R2 U' R U' R' U2 R. But I thought it was a bit long and not optimal, so I switched to y2 R2 D' R U2 R' D R U2 R. It took slightly less time to do but I find it awkward for my hands, mostly because of D moves. Is there any other fingertrick-friendly alg for this case?
3. I just learnt opposite color solving from Chris Hardwick's site. Although I noticed that sometimes bad cross cases for one color have good cases on its opposite color, is it worth carrying it out? As in, if you notice you have a bad White-color cross case, within that 15-second inspection time, is it worth switching to Yellow half-way and figuring out a Yellow cross or continue building the White cross? Which one uses the 15 seconds more efficiently?
4. Just a suggestion, maybe there should be a Sticky topic like a help-line for short questions (not discussions) like these from beginners in this sub-forum?
Sorry if this has been asked before (I used the Search function!) or if I should have split up the questions into multiple topics. Cheers!
1. I have a new store-bought cube and when it first came out of its wrappers it was really smooth and loose. But after doing a hundred or so solves for a week, I noticed it starts to take more effort to turn the layers. As if it tightened or something. I don't really like it. Does the spring/screw tension tighten overtime normally? If so, is it beneficial to speedcubing?
2. For the Superman OLL (Case#55 in Dan's page) I used a Sune-based alg that goes like R U R' U R U2 R2 U' R U' R' U2 R. But I thought it was a bit long and not optimal, so I switched to y2 R2 D' R U2 R' D R U2 R. It took slightly less time to do but I find it awkward for my hands, mostly because of D moves. Is there any other fingertrick-friendly alg for this case?
3. I just learnt opposite color solving from Chris Hardwick's site. Although I noticed that sometimes bad cross cases for one color have good cases on its opposite color, is it worth carrying it out? As in, if you notice you have a bad White-color cross case, within that 15-second inspection time, is it worth switching to Yellow half-way and figuring out a Yellow cross or continue building the White cross? Which one uses the 15 seconds more efficiently?
4. Just a suggestion, maybe there should be a Sticky topic like a help-line for short questions (not discussions) like these from beginners in this sub-forum?
Sorry if this has been asked before (I used the Search function!) or if I should have split up the questions into multiple topics. Cheers!
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