Freestyle Edges
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LarsN
Veteran
They are normal 3-cycles. The freestyle part is when have a cycle of 3 edges (stickers) placed around your cube. You then decide which of the edgecycling algs you know is best for the situation and then do setup moves to bring the edges (stickers) into the right position for the alg. Oh, and don't forget to undo the setup moves after you have performed the alg.
Example:
3-cycle: UF -> LB -> DF
Setup: B'
Alg: U2 M' U2 M
Undo setup B
Example:
3-cycle: UF -> LB -> DF
Setup: B'
Alg: U2 M' U2 M
Undo setup B
Lucas Garron
Premium Member
Well, what's not freestyle?
It's whenever you have a fixed system to regulate how you cycle pieces. In Pochmann, M2, or R2, it's a constant 2-swapping alg. In 3OP, you somewhat freestyle, but you orient first, so it's easier to figure out what goes where.
In pure freestyle, you simply resolve cycles:
"This goes there, goes there, that edge needs to be oriented, and that's it." You memorize everything you need to do in order to cycle pieces into their place, and cycle them with whatever means as efficiently as possible, frreestyle.
In practicality, this reduces to 3-cycling stickers + some miscellaneous stuff (2-cycles, orientation, parity).
It can also be with or without a simplifying buffer (which makes it faster but longer); I use UF, some use UR (as in old Pochmann), Chris Hardwick supposedly uses UB, and Rowe uses no fixed buffer...
(3OP has no buffer, but pre-orientation makes things much easier, so it's a significant choice in freestyle).
For more examples, look through this subforum...
It's whenever you have a fixed system to regulate how you cycle pieces. In Pochmann, M2, or R2, it's a constant 2-swapping alg. In 3OP, you somewhat freestyle, but you orient first, so it's easier to figure out what goes where.
In pure freestyle, you simply resolve cycles:
"This goes there, goes there, that edge needs to be oriented, and that's it." You memorize everything you need to do in order to cycle pieces into their place, and cycle them with whatever means as efficiently as possible, frreestyle.
In practicality, this reduces to 3-cycling stickers + some miscellaneous stuff (2-cycles, orientation, parity).
It can also be with or without a simplifying buffer (which makes it faster but longer); I use UF, some use UR (as in old Pochmann), Chris Hardwick supposedly uses UB, and Rowe uses no fixed buffer...
(3OP has no buffer, but pre-orientation makes things much easier, so it's a significant choice in freestyle).
For more examples, look through this subforum...
Marcell
Veteran
Sorry, but what does 3OP stand for?
joey
Member
3OP is 3-cycle orient-permute. (cubefreak.net)
joey
Member
TuRBo is kind of a restricted freestyle. (restricted doesn't necessarily mean bad!)
