Goals Thread

[Nilxchaos]

Done =
4x4 Solve

Extending =
Learning all parity's. Way too long for now. :confused:

Maybe extending the PLL's... All that's left is the G-perms and N-perms. I would need to learn them all today.

Deadline: Same as Silicone Spray ^

Keeping =
Silicone Spray [got a nice 4x4 (YAY!) and 3x3, but i want to lube them, and i want to lube a friend's]

Learned all PLL's and got Spray.

Although i overdid the 3x3 by a bit, but i kinda like it.

But the 4x4 is WAY overdone. Darn.... At least it wears off in a month. (From what i have heard) Been trying to wipe it down, but i don't want to take it all apart. I will just take off the top layers.

 

[Deleted member 2864]

Goal
first sub 20 average of 5
Deadline
June 5 11:59 pm (june 5 is when my school year ends)


I plan to achieve this by getting my cross and f2l times sub 12. I find that ll takes me 6-8 seconds. That way, if I get 11 seconds f2l, I'll be below...

 

[byu]

New, Updated Goals List

Goals
Get sub-25 with Yu-Korick
Learn WV to use with Yu-Korick

Deadline
End of May

 

[ThatGuy]

Square 1 intuitive
4x4 ~2 min ...gotta cut off a minute
3x3 ~20 sub 25 ...about 5 sec, but i don't G perms and a few other PLLs
3x3 BLD eventually. I technically can right now, but.......
Deadline: June 8. Going to Ohio for summer and a few -people- graduating HS this year and.................let your minds wander why...................

 

[Chuberchuckee]

I am seriously considering switching to a less common method like Petrus, Roux, or ZZ. It seems that speedcubing has either stagnated or become rather dull because everyone is using Fridrich because "the world record holder uses it" and "everyone else uses it."

My goal right now is to decide what I should do: Stick with Fridrich or switch to other methods.

 

[byu]

I am seriously considering switching to a less common method like Petrus, Roux, or ZZ. It seems that speedcubing has either stagnated or become rather dull because everyone is using Fridrich because "the world record holder uses it" and "everyone else uses it."

My goal right now is to decide what I should do: Stick with Fridrich or switch to other methods.

Switch to Yu-Korick! It was invented today, and I'm using it and I average around 25 seconds with it. Here's the link

 

[Chuberchuckee]

I am seriously considering switching to a less common method like Petrus, Roux, or ZZ. It seems that speedcubing has either stagnated or become rather dull because everyone is using Fridrich because "the world record holder uses it" and "everyone else uses it."

My goal right now is to decide what I should do: Stick with Fridrich or switch to other methods.

Switch to Yu-Korick! It was invented today, and I'm using it and I average around 25 seconds with it. Here's the link

Interesting. So it's ZZ + Roux?

I, so far, have no idea what ZZ involves. I'll go read up on that and decide.

So it's Fridrich, Petrus, Roux, ZZ, or Yu-Korick. Hmmm... I'm leaning more towards the latter three because they are the least common.

 

[byu]

I am seriously considering switching to a less common method like Petrus, Roux, or ZZ. It seems that speedcubing has either stagnated or become rather dull because everyone is using Fridrich because "the world record holder uses it" and "everyone else uses it."

My goal right now is to decide what I should do: Stick with Fridrich or switch to other methods.

Switch to Yu-Korick! It was invented today, and I'm using it and I average around 25 seconds with it. Here's the link

Interesting. So it's ZZ + Roux?

I, so far, have no idea what ZZ involves. I'll go read up on that and decide.

So it's Fridrich, Petrus, Roux, ZZ, or Yu-Korick. Hmmm... I'm leaning more towards the latter three because they are the least common.

Yu-Korick is a 5 step method. Step 1 is based on ZZ. Step 2 is based on Roux. Step 3 is completely unused in main methods. Step 4 is based on Petrus/Winter Variation and possibly Fridrich if you're lazy. Step 5 is ZB, PLL, or OLL+PLL, or any other LL system. I got a sub-20 single with Yu-Korick, finally, in an average that was 25.xx

 

[Chuberchuckee]

Interesting. I couldn't understand half of what you said. See what I mean when I said the Fridrich method is stagnating speedcubing?

I'll go look into that method more by studying ZZ, Roux, and that WV thing and see how those all work. The more I think about Yu-Korick, the more I like it. Maybe that's because it's unconventional.

 

[byu]

Interesting. I couldn't understand half of what you said. See what I mean when I said the Fridrich method is stagnating speedcubing?

I'll go look into that method more by studying ZZ, Roux, and that WV thing and see how those all work. The more I think about Yu-Korick, the more I like it. Maybe that's because it's unconventional.

It's unconventional to be unconventional.

If you use this method, you'll be one of less than 5 people that are using this method (probably less than 3)

 

[Chuberchuckee]

Great! Now all I have to do now is understand how it works and practice it like crazy.

 

[Chuberchuckee]

I'm guessing a video tutorial is in the works to make it easier for people to learn this revolutionary new method?

 

[byu]

I'm guessing a video tutorial is in the works to make it easier for people to learn this revolutionary new method?

I didn't plan one, but I could make one.

 

[Chuberchuckee]

Okay, so I understand the ZZ method and EO, and I also watched some of Waffle's Roux tutorials.

So Yu-Korick is just ZZ except you make a 1x2x3 block instead of a line?

 

[byu]

Kind of, you make the line after the 1x2x3 block, blockbuild, possibly use WV and then solve the LL

 

[Chuberchuckee]

Ooh, I like it because it's mostly intuitive. I enjoy doing things intuitively.

It's a good thing I didn't learn full OLL yet! That would have been a waste...

So the only algs you need to learn (for YK BB at least) are WV + PLL?

 

[byu]

Yep, that's right 48 algorithms total (I think)

 

[Chuberchuckee]

27 + 21 = 48 (WV + PLL) (50 if you count the two simple algs to solve the line)
57 + 21 = 78 (OLL + PLL)

30 fewer algorithms. I like it.


I'm going to go finish restickering my storebought with the Japanese color scheme, then I will try this method. Thanks.

 

[Chuberchuckee]

What's the advantage of doing the line after the 1x2x3 block instead of doing the line during EO (EOline)?

EDIT: Your method is just the ZZ Method except with the line separated from EO, is that correct? o.O

 

[TMOY]

I am seriously considering switching to a less common method like Petrus, Roux, or ZZ. It seems that speedcubing has either stagnated or become rather dull because everyone is using Fridrich because "the world record holder uses it" and "everyone else uses it."

I 100% agree. And that's precisely why I definitely won't switch to the mainstream method (be it Fridrich or something else). I don't want the speedcubing world to become a world of mindless copycats just because "we have found out that this method must be the best one, now everyone must use it period", diversity and originality are important too, that's from where new interesting ideas arise.
It really amazes me too when people speak of Fridrich as a "modern method". Remember CFOP was invented in the early 80s, and has remained basically the same since then, the only improvements were finding better algs. I would really like to see someone break a WR with a really new, truly modern method. Unfortunately as long as everyone is focused on Fridrich it's very unlikely to happen...