F2L grips

[Kail]

Alright. I'm quite the slow solver. I've been fighting with myself on how to deal with "Turning" the cube. Should I use double column turns? Should I turn the cube itself? Should I use face moves? So let me give you a quick example.

Solved cube: R, U, R', U', F', U', F, U.

How would you tackle this case? I've been doing.

U', L', U, L, (turn to the right) U, R, U', R'

I could use faces moves, but i find it slower. I could use a d turn to turn the cube, also slower.

So the fast cubers out there. What do you do for these situations?

 

[Daniel Wu]

I do the same thing you do, but I'm not super fast at all.

 

[Kail]

I find that I can do a turn while doing a U or U' turn. But the regripping of the cube offers a slightly slowdown. I find it really hard to do F and B moves.

 

[teller]

I usually do this: (R' F' R U) (R U' R' F)

I like F turns if the algorithm permits a good flow, like this one does. It helps if your cube turns easily.

 

[Musturd]

The ability to avoid hard cases like these is the reason I (try to) use ZZ

 

[cmhardw]

Perhaps you would like 2-gen better?

R' U' R' U' R' U R U R

Chris

 

[endless_akatsuki]

Perhaps you would like 2-gen better?

R' U' R' U' R' U R U R

Chris

Whoa...That works really well. Thanks.

 

[Kail]

ZZ? 2-Gen? I got nothing on that. No idea what that is.

 

[blah]

Perhaps you would like 2-gen better?

R' U' R' U' R' U R U R

Chris

Whoa...That works really well. Thanks.

And it's intuitive.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

ZZ? 2-Gen? I got nothing on that. No idea what that is.

ZZ is a method.
2 gen is when you do something using only TWO faces of the cube, two adjacent faces. See how that alg only had R and U moves in it?

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Am I the only one that uses R U' R' U' R U' R' U R U R' ?
I can do it sub-1

 

[vvtopkar]

Am I the only one that uses R U' R' U' R U' R' U R U R' ?
I can do it sub-1

Woah, even better

 

[enigmahack]

Perhaps you would like 2-gen better?

R' U' R' U' R' U R U R

Chris

I prefer this one in the case that the corners are aligned (Because it doesn't mess up the corners at all, just the edges)