suhas2112
Regular
Since I'm still a COMPLETE noob at look ahead, I have to literally force myself to concentrate on an f2l pair... I'm just starting to practice look ahead and hopefully, it will come unconsiously...
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Since I'm still a COMPLETE noob at look ahead, I have to literally force myself to concentrate on an f2l pair... I'm just starting to practice look ahead and hopefully, it will come unconsiously...
IamWEB
Legend
A lot of my F2L pairing and insertions are not some of the best ways to solve them, so I look into Dan's F2L algorithms:
http://www.cubestation.co.uk/cs2/index.php?page=3x3x3/cfop/f2l/f2l
I still use intuitive F2L, and in no way do I learn these like I do OLL's and PLL's: these tend to be much shorter and 2G.
What I do is think of how I will start on the case based on the color positions of the given case. And then I make up little stories or plots that are happening while solving the pair, to help me remember how to solve it.**I'll post examples later*
Practice a case several times, and on each color to help recognition, and go through all of the cases for each sections x amount of times, where x is the number of cases in the section. Everytime you learn a new section, go back and review all previous sections in a random order.
It also helps to compare how you would solve a pair intuitively with what you chose to learn from the page; you see how your intuitive process works against what you're learning. Doing this enough might even help your intuition to the point that you see the best solution yourself w/o looking it up, when you originally used a much longer solving process.
This works in example with mirror cases. When you use a bunch of R's and U's for one case, just make all the (R')'s L's, and the all of the R's (L's), and invert the U's. This makes your mirror case, where you reflect the red side over to the green with Dan's cases. Although solving the mirror cases like this isn't always the best, it still offers a temporary solution. Come back to learn these cases last, because you'll already, temporarily, have nice solution. This also trains your left hand, well helps your with awkward insertions.
Advanced: Come back and start performing your case again, and start performing them from different angles. You should also learn to identify them from different angles, so that you can begin to solve it that way. If it's just too overwhelming to learn some cases from all angles, study the algorithms done, and see if that helps.
This is a lot easier than learning LL algorithms at different angles (who does that?), as these sequences of moves are much shorter than those.
http://www.cubestation.co.uk/cs2/index.php?page=3x3x3/cfop/f2l/f2l
I still use intuitive F2L, and in no way do I learn these like I do OLL's and PLL's: these tend to be much shorter and 2G.
What I do is think of how I will start on the case based on the color positions of the given case. And then I make up little stories or plots that are happening while solving the pair, to help me remember how to solve it.**I'll post examples later*
Practice a case several times, and on each color to help recognition, and go through all of the cases for each sections x amount of times, where x is the number of cases in the section. Everytime you learn a new section, go back and review all previous sections in a random order.
It also helps to compare how you would solve a pair intuitively with what you chose to learn from the page; you see how your intuitive process works against what you're learning. Doing this enough might even help your intuition to the point that you see the best solution yourself w/o looking it up, when you originally used a much longer solving process.
This works in example with mirror cases. When you use a bunch of R's and U's for one case, just make all the (R')'s L's, and the all of the R's (L's), and invert the U's. This makes your mirror case, where you reflect the red side over to the green with Dan's cases. Although solving the mirror cases like this isn't always the best, it still offers a temporary solution. Come back to learn these cases last, because you'll already, temporarily, have nice solution. This also trains your left hand, well helps your with awkward insertions.
Advanced: Come back and start performing your case again, and start performing them from different angles. You should also learn to identify them from different angles, so that you can begin to solve it that way. If it's just too overwhelming to learn some cases from all angles, study the algorithms done, and see if that helps.
This is a lot easier than learning LL algorithms at different angles (who does that?), as these sequences of moves are much shorter than those.
suhas2112
Regular
Thanks for the help!! I already know a few algorithms from badmephisto's F2L fingertricks and I'm pretty comfortable with those... I'll learn these and I'll let you know how it goes!!
