Easy / Lucky / Hard / Weird scrambles Thread

[Bingus cuber]

There are 5 1x2 pairs, and 1 2x2 block. xxxcross on yellow is very easy.

 

[That_slow_guy]

Probably getting an almost solved x-cross and an easy oll

 

[THE_V01DL0RD]

Generated By csTimer on 2024-01-13
single: 16.684

Time List:
1. 16.684 F L' U2 R' L' B' R' U' F B2 D2 B' D2 R2 F' U2 L2 U2

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

R2 D R2 D U2 B2 L2 D2 R2 U R2 L' D F L' R' U2 B F2 R2

there is a lot going on here, can someone good look at it for me

There may very well be something much better which I missed, but this seems pretty good:
x U' M F2 L D L' F R U2 R2 U Rw //F2L - cross edge, cancelled into the next bit
U' M U' M' U2 M // cross edge + eo
Antisune, J perm

There are 5 1x2 pairs, and 1 2x2 block. xxxcross on yellow is very easy.

I can't find any easy xxxcrosses, what did you find?

 

[Bingus cuber]

2 of the 1x2 pairs are on yellow, and the 2x2 block is on yellow or blue. I might have also done the scramble wrong. The xxxcross is also not really efficient, but it is possible.

 

[Bingus cuber]

It is easier to do a xxcross and not a xxxcross.

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

4.22 UR1+ DR1- DL5+ UL1+ U5- R0+ D4- L6+ ALL5- y2 U1+ R2- D2+ L1+ ALL5- UR DL
This should have most certainly been a sub 4 haha, I can easily downsolve it to low-sub 3. I really need to learn how to handle the pins when the 3rd letter pair is OO.

 

[Jorian Meeuse]

This has to be the best scramble I've ever had. Would have very probably been a PB, had the timer not malfunctioned and displayed 0.03...
R' U2 R2 U' D2 F' R D R2 U2 B2 R' U2 R U2 R D2 B2 D2
x2 y R U' R DU R U' R' D2U y' R U R' U2 R' U R' F R F' R // F2L
R' U' R2 U R2 U R2 U2 R' U R' U R //2GLL
Yep, there goes a potential low-4

 

[That_slow_guy]

I got a really lucky scramble where I did the cross and then got an F2L and ll skip

 

[Spencer131]

Not a super lucky scramble but I was proud of the roux block I found (yellow-green). I don't do solutions like this super often

D2 B2 R B2 U2 L2 B2 R' B2 L' D2 F2 U' B U F R' U' F2 R D'

Spoiler: First block solution

y x' R' D R U' B D'

 

[Celeritardum]

At my competition last weekend I was practicing Skewb after the 1st round on CubeTime and got one of the hardest Skewb scrambles I've ever seen. How would you solve it? Scramble: R L R' B' L U' B' L R L U

EDIT: I found the 5 move layer but the LL case still isn't good

 

[Meanjuice]

Every first center on this scramble is great and one is solved

R F' U2 D2 F D2 F D2 R2 U2 D2 B2 D F U B' L F2 R D2 Fw2 U' Uw2 R2 L F2 R' Fw2 L2 D' R2 Uw2 Rw2 Fw R2 B' Fw Rw B2 D2 Rw2 F2 B'

 

[TheSilverBeluga]

F' D2 F' D' F2 U R U2 L2 D F2 R2 D' R2 D F2 D2 B

someone smarter than me figure out how to take advantage of this scramble because this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen

 

[NebraskanSpeedsolver]

F' D2 F' D' F2 U R U2 L2 D F2 R2 D' R2 D F2 D2 B

someone smarter than me figure out how to take advantage of this scramble because this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen

Lol can't do a recon or anything, but I messed up the orange blue pair on yellow, but somehow in trying to fix it, I opened up the can of easiest F2L cases, and then 2-look OLL into PLL skip.

Insane.

 

[SkewbIsTheBestEvent]

F' D2 F' D' F2 U R U2 L2 D F2 R2 D' R2 D F2 D2 B

someone smarter than me figure out how to take advantage of this scramble because this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen

I don't have time to do reconstructions but basically i inserted the blue-red edge piece, which takes out the red-green pair, then i inserted that, the orange-green pair gets taken out, then I inserted that. The las two pairs were easy because I could do keyhole for a 9 move Last 2 pairs. Then I got an 8 move OLL into the good U Perm, which I did from the back with M moves, and got a 5.21.
I planned everything until the keyhole.

Its 42 moves but extremely ergonomic.

 

[NebraskanSpeedsolver]

D2 F2 L2 F2 L' F2 D' R2 F R U2 D L2 U F2 U L2 D F2 D' L2 D F2 L2


Here is the one Twitch Chat gave me that I got a 9.955 on.

 

[TheSilverBeluga]

I don't have time to do reconstructions but basically i inserted the blue-red edge piece, which takes out the red-green pair, then i inserted that, the orange-green pair gets taken out, then I inserted that. The las two pairs were easy because I could do keyhole for a 9 move Last 2 pairs. Then I got an 8 move OLL into the good U Perm, which I did from the back with M moves, and got a 5.21.
I planned everything until the keyhole.

Its 42 moves but extremely ergonomic.

I would never have thought to insert just the edge for a pseudoslot later, my instinct is to solve orange/blue first, because of the clear blue/red -> red/green -> green/orange sequence. Based on that idea though, I found this funny solution:

U2 R' U2 R // set up keyhole
y' U2 R' U R // F2L-1
y' U R' U' R // F2L-2
D R U' R' U R U R' D' // Pseudoslot last two pairs
L U L F' L' F U' L' U // 1LLL (normal OLL alg but lefty)

...rereading your post, this is probably exactly what your solution was, but you did the normal alg instead of the lefty version.

 

[SkewbIsTheBestEvent]

I would never have thought to insert just the edge for a pseudoslot later, my instinct is to solve orange/blue first, because of the clear blue/red -> red/green -> green/orange sequence. Based on that idea though, I found this funny solution:

U2 R' U2 R // set up keyhole
y' U2 R' U R // F2L-1
y' U R' U' R // F2L-2
D R U' R' U R U R' D' // Pseudoslot last two pairs
L U L F' L' F U' L' U // 1LLL (normal OLL alg but lefty)

...rereading your post, this is probably exactly what your solution was, but you did the normal alg instead of the lefty version.

That solution is definitely a better version of mine, but to setup keyhole, I just did U' R' U R

 

[SkewbIsTheBestEvent]

Basically I did the keyhole setup in the front, then got the three mover, then did U Fw' L' Fw (Easy way to insert a pair into the left/right slot).

Then I did R' U2 R, and then I got the two unsolved pairs in the front to do keyhole.

 

[TheSilverBeluga]

Generated By csTimer on 2024-03-06
single: 7.05

Time List:
1. 7.05 B' D U2 B2 F2 L D2 L2 D2 R' B2 F2 D2 U L U' L2 U' B' L'

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