Filipe Teixeira
Member
I didn't have any apps when I started speedsolving, so here is my learning process:
When I started, I printed badmephisto's algs for f2l and a list of scrambles. I would apply a scramble, solve the cross then look for a case and then apply the alg trying to understand what was going on. I learned the 42 cases this way. Then I started to understand that the algs overllaped and reduced to other basic cases.
With my discoveries I created this notation for f2l, based on reduction:
http://filipeteixeira.com.br/cube/?section=f2l
http://filipeteixeira.com.br/cube/f2l.pdf (PDF)
Next phase was to learn to reduce rotations, so I would scramble <R, U> by hand and try to solve it <R, U> again. I then found new algs by solving intuitively the f2l, then I learned full OLL and reached sub20.
Maybe you can use some of those ideas, mainly <R, U> and <L, U> when possible and scrambling whole cube to solve on 4 slots from every angle, because that's what is going to happen on real solves. not just solving DFR every time, that doesn't help, maybe leave that as an option.
When I started, I printed badmephisto's algs for f2l and a list of scrambles. I would apply a scramble, solve the cross then look for a case and then apply the alg trying to understand what was going on. I learned the 42 cases this way. Then I started to understand that the algs overllaped and reduced to other basic cases.
With my discoveries I created this notation for f2l, based on reduction:
http://filipeteixeira.com.br/cube/?section=f2l
http://filipeteixeira.com.br/cube/f2l.pdf (PDF)
Next phase was to learn to reduce rotations, so I would scramble <R, U> by hand and try to solve it <R, U> again. I then found new algs by solving intuitively the f2l, then I learned full OLL and reached sub20.
Maybe you can use some of those ideas, mainly <R, U> and <L, U> when possible and scrambling whole cube to solve on 4 slots from every angle, because that's what is going to happen on real solves. not just solving DFR every time, that doesn't help, maybe leave that as an option.
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