edward_9x
Veteran
Posting here because I just got my method petrus'd for the second time today in the most unexpected way (this story actually happened).
So, almost a month ago, I came up with this method. I'm still pretty proud of it. Fast forward to 2 days ago, and I look up a list of ZZ variants because I'm bored and want to learn some trivia. I then see a method that was fully 1:1 identical to what I described in my original forum post, that was already invented:
Now, I was browsing youtube today looking at LaZer0MonKey's reconstruction solves. I came across this video of Feliks Zemdeg's OH reconstruction. Wouldn't you know it, the funniest part of this story: Feliks theoretically used my method in his solve 2 years ago, before I even thought of it or even started cubing. The only thing that he kinda missed was the EO at the beginning, He literally just did a 223, followed by 2 squares and then the 4C step with commutators (4:58 timestamp in the video).
In the comments of that video, if you sort by newest, some guy says: "look up sledgehog method, it's what he did at the end". I looked the method up on the Speedsolving wiki (link). What stands out to me is this line (referring to the edges after solving the U layer square). The method is almost the same as the earlier version of my method before I switched to phasing:
So, almost a month ago, I came up with this method. I'm still pretty proud of it. Fast forward to 2 days ago, and I look up a list of ZZ variants because I'm bored and want to learn some trivia. I then see a method that was fully 1:1 identical to what I described in my original forum post, that was already invented:
So that sucks for me I guess. Except, that is acutally false. You see, judging by the forum post that introduced this "cardan reduction", the method changed a lot. This L4C variant seemed to be an early draft before the creator settled with algs. So, this is the first time I got petrus'd, (but not really, but it kind of counts) because the method I described is different from what is currently the meta for the other method. Though, it is the original version of that other method that I couldn't find posted anywhere on the Internet
Now, I was browsing youtube today looking at LaZer0MonKey's reconstruction solves. I came across this video of Feliks Zemdeg's OH reconstruction. Wouldn't you know it, the funniest part of this story: Feliks theoretically used my method in his solve 2 years ago, before I even thought of it or even started cubing. The only thing that he kinda missed was the EO at the beginning, He literally just did a 223, followed by 2 squares and then the 4C step with commutators (4:58 timestamp in the video).
In the comments of that video, if you sort by newest, some guy says: "look up sledgehog method, it's what he did at the end". I looked the method up on the Speedsolving wiki (link). What stands out to me is this line (referring to the edges after solving the U layer square). The method is almost the same as the earlier version of my method before I switched to phasing:
Before I implemented phasing, this is literally the exact same approach used to solve 2 edges in the U layer (and I even called it the same thing, "parity". I also explicitly mentioned you could use the J-perm, not T-perm or whatever). How does something like this even happen? How did I get petrus'd twice, and the second time by Feliks Zemdegs of all people?
