AKQuaternion
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Hi guys!
I'm a 45 year old guy from Alaska. Been cubing since elementary school, where I figured out how to do two faces on my own, then learned a beginner solution from a book. Mostly interested in solving new puzzles, I was able to solve every other puzzle I came across on my own until recently (Pyraminx, Ivory Tower, Missing Link way back when, 4x4x4 in high school, Skewb and Square-One and Megaminx in college and grad school, etc.)
Recently I got back into cubing because of all the great new puzzles. (Well, not that I was ever really out of it...) I love and have solved the Helicopter cube and Curvy Copter and Mastermorphix, etc. Haven't quite wrapped my mind around the Master Skewb, Rex Cube, or Face Turning Octohedron yet, they don't seem to have enough room. But I'm getting there...
All of that is not very relevant to speed cubing though. I figured if I'm going to be able to do all of these, I should at least be sub 1:00 on the standard cube. So I started trying for speed about 10 days ago. I'm around 1:40 now, with PBs in the 1:10s and almost always under 2:00 using F2L, and bastardized 4LLL. (I know some of the one look OLLs just from familiarity, and I *don't* know some of the corner OLLs, so I occasionally end up doing beginner sune-sune-sune. And I have to do two A perms to get the E perm still, although I do know all the edge PLLs for two look.) Despite that, my F2L is by far the worst, usually over a minute. (Rough estimate: Cross 10s, F2L 1:10, OLL 20, PLL 10.) But I can see it improving and feel like there will be a jump there. (Minor question: I see a lot about getting good at the moves once the target edge and corner are on the top face [cross on bottom], but I'm slow at finding them and bringing them up, partly because I try to bring them up into "good" positions. Should I not bother with that?) Once I'm sub 1:00 I think I'll learn Roux, I have it feeling it will cater to my strengths. Not sure how fast I really want to get.
I guess that's it for the intro. As for the bad cross? This came up this morning, and I couldn't get anywhere close to a BLD solve: With white up, red forward the edge pieces were:
White left green front
White left orange down
White right blue front
White right red down.
Ugh. Any masters have a suggested cross solve?
I'm a 45 year old guy from Alaska. Been cubing since elementary school, where I figured out how to do two faces on my own, then learned a beginner solution from a book. Mostly interested in solving new puzzles, I was able to solve every other puzzle I came across on my own until recently (Pyraminx, Ivory Tower, Missing Link way back when, 4x4x4 in high school, Skewb and Square-One and Megaminx in college and grad school, etc.)
Recently I got back into cubing because of all the great new puzzles. (Well, not that I was ever really out of it...) I love and have solved the Helicopter cube and Curvy Copter and Mastermorphix, etc. Haven't quite wrapped my mind around the Master Skewb, Rex Cube, or Face Turning Octohedron yet, they don't seem to have enough room. But I'm getting there...
All of that is not very relevant to speed cubing though. I figured if I'm going to be able to do all of these, I should at least be sub 1:00 on the standard cube. So I started trying for speed about 10 days ago. I'm around 1:40 now, with PBs in the 1:10s and almost always under 2:00 using F2L, and bastardized 4LLL. (I know some of the one look OLLs just from familiarity, and I *don't* know some of the corner OLLs, so I occasionally end up doing beginner sune-sune-sune. And I have to do two A perms to get the E perm still, although I do know all the edge PLLs for two look.) Despite that, my F2L is by far the worst, usually over a minute. (Rough estimate: Cross 10s, F2L 1:10, OLL 20, PLL 10.) But I can see it improving and feel like there will be a jump there. (Minor question: I see a lot about getting good at the moves once the target edge and corner are on the top face [cross on bottom], but I'm slow at finding them and bringing them up, partly because I try to bring them up into "good" positions. Should I not bother with that?) Once I'm sub 1:00 I think I'll learn Roux, I have it feeling it will cater to my strengths. Not sure how fast I really want to get.
I guess that's it for the intro. As for the bad cross? This came up this morning, and I couldn't get anywhere close to a BLD solve: With white up, red forward the edge pieces were:
White left green front
White left orange down
White right blue front
White right red down.
Ugh. Any masters have a suggested cross solve?
