Headlights OLL Fingertrick

[teller]

The dreaded headlights! This is the "standard" algorithm, but tricked out with grips that make it fast and fun!

Here is the alg with overshoot/undershoot guides included:
R2+ D- (R'+ U'2-) (R- D'+ R'-) U2- R'

That first U'2 is tricky. Hint: Counterbalance the cube by briefly placing your left ring finger across BR and BRD.

Enjoy!

 

[blah]

I used to do that fingertrick for one of the A perms. R'2 U'2 R D R' U'2 R D' R. Entire thing done in one motion. Cool looking but useless for speed.

I do use that finger trick for my R perm though.

 

[brunson]

Joel van Noort does several of his algs like that. (I think he's faster than you) ;-)

 

[teller]

Joel van Noort does several of his algs like that. (I think he's faster than you) ;-)

Oh yes, Joël van Noort was a huge influence on me!

If anyone is interested, his fingertrick page is here: http://solvethecube.110mb.com/fingertricks.html

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

Youtube has the video as 6:08 but should be 1:00.

 

[teller]

Youtube has the video as 6:08 but should be 1:00.

I see that...weird.

 

[JLarsen]

That's quite odd...

Index push over lefty U2.

Edit: Righty U2 too. Hmmmm.....

 

[teller]

Ok...turns out there was a tiny clip of audio leftover at about 6:00 which made the video 5:00 too long...don't know how I missed it when I tested it. It just goes to show: Something almost always goes wrong with computers (I'm a software developer and I always have to fix bugs at least three times before they are truly fixed). Let this be a warning to all YouTube users: Garbage in, garbage out!

anyway...I re-uploaded it and it looks fine now.

 

[badmephisto]

Ah awesome! I like the way this looks I didnt know about it

 

[teller]

Ah awesome! I like the way this looks I didnt know about it

Thank you, teacher!

 

[Cuber1974]

That's a great trick and looks awesome as well!

LOVE IT!!!!

 

[Dylan]

It swaps three random corners for me?

 

[irontwig]

Far from random.

 

[Joël]

Oh yes, Joël van Noort was a huge influence on me!

If anyone is interested, his fingertrick page is here: http://solvethecube.110mb.com/fingertricks.html

Nice to hear I inspired someone, but everybody should also realise that my fingertricks page is quite old and out dated. There are quite a few things in there I don't agree with anymore, and the headlights is one of them. I do it much faster now .

 

[teller]

Nice to hear I inspired someone, but everybody should also realise that my fingertricks page is quite old and out dated. There are quite a few things in there I don't agree with anymore, and the headlights is one of them. I do it much faster now .

I would love it if you would share some of your thoughts about this...it's not the first time a fast cuber has said "I don't do x anymore" and I wonder what the thought process is behind the evolution...

 

[timeless]

Nice to hear I inspired someone, but everybody should also realise that my fingertricks page is quite old and out dated. There are quite a few things in there I don't agree with anymore, and the headlights is one of them. I do it much faster now .

http://solvethecube.110mb.com/fingertricks.html doesnt load for me
site down?