Radical Seal
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Hey I was wondering who uses the heise method and how fast it can get. I want to learn it, but I haven't really seen anyone solving with it.
It is "popular" for fewest moves, but not for speed.
About 1980.It is "popular" for fewest moves, but not for speed.
Since when was fewest moves "popular"?
I've been using it recently - learning the logic behind the conjugates and commutators has vastly improved my understanding of the cube. I'm also noticing that the more I practice, the more I "see" intuitive sequences of moves. It's more fun in my opinion as your not just solving the cube using a brain dump of memorized algorithms. You're solving it because you understand how to solve it.
It is "popular" for fewest moves, but not for speed.
Nope, you don't need to memorize any algs. You just need to understand the general idea of commutators.requires memorizing only a few algorithms - which Heise doesn't even call algorithms, but I guess they are, it's just that they're easy to learn and understand.
Most cubers are only speedcubers and aren't interested in thinking or getting low move counts. If solving for fewest moves was the main event, I'm sure Heise's method would be quite popular.Is there any particular reason why it isn't used more?
Nope, you don't need to memorize any algs. You just need to understand the general idea of commutators.requires memorizing only a few algorithms - which Heise doesn't even call algorithms, but I guess they are, it's just that they're easy to learn and understand.
Most cubers are only speedcubers and aren't interested in thinking or getting low move counts. If solving for fewest moves was the main event, I'm sure Heise's method would be quite popular.[/QUOTE]Is there any particular reason why it isn't used more?
Petrus, Fridrich, Roux, and most other methods have one or more steps (like PLL) where you use some algs you have memorized. Heise doesn't have any such steps; you only need to know some general principles, and not a single specific move sequence. If you practise it, you will of course start seeing same patterns again and again and remember how to solve them, but this is different from memorizing algs without understanding them.I'm speaking in the sense that even intuitive methods like Petrus are said to have intuitive "algorithms" - i.e. that you remember what to do every time you see a current case (hope I'm making sense)