Fridrich with early edges orientation

[mark49152]

could you mention the difference between them ?

as far as i know they are the same except vhf2l has less algs because the pair is already matched

VHLS is indeed a subset of ZBLS, but my point was that the OP is not talking about ZBLS. ZBLS is irrelevant.

 

[Jorghi]

Thought of this a hella long time ago. I checked and found out that since all the edges are oriented using the method, the f2l algorithms drop dramatically (no rotations or F/B moves). So multislotting is what makes this method desirable (the number of algorithms is pretty low ... 20 + 1 solved case?).

 

[mark49152]

Thought of this a hella long time ago. I checked and found out that since all the edges are oriented using the method, the f2l algorithms drop dramatically (no rotations or F/B moves). So multislotting is what makes this method desirable (the number of algorithms is pretty low).

I tried it for a while and found that although you can avoid rotations and F/B, some F2L cases are more awkward. Abandoned it because EO was taking me way longer before F2L than after.

 

[Jorghi]

Well.. You can at least orient the F2L edge(s) that you lookahead at while solving the cross. Just wondering but you don't need to orient the last layer edges.

 

[Pyjam]

I'm the OP (2 years ago). I'm not sure the merge of the two topics is relevant.

I defended the possibility to do cross then EO, not EO then cross.

Half cross (DF+DB) then EO is certainly a better idea than cross + EO. However, ZZ is an even better idea.

The only reason I see to do half cross then EO is for the 4x4.