If Fridrich weren't invented, what method would you use?

[ZincK_NOVA]

How can anyone honestly answer the question in the poll? There is no way to know.

If the question was 'If you could retroactively pick your main method, without the option of CFOP, what would it be?' then I would go for Petrus.

I agree, and I will also choose to respond as if the poll was asking your question, as it seems like a more reasonable question to answer. Maybe the question should be revised to something which doesn't rely on a major event in cubing history not happening, such as CFOP "not being invented". We'll never know what cubing would be like if Fridrich didn't publish a method, so phrasing this question like this seems rather unhelpful (in my opinion).

 

[Bapao]

I'd be using the Peel Off Stickers method aka POS. Did not get on well with ROUX or Petrus.

 

[BlueDevil]

So you're basically saying that no LBL method was invented (which is funny since your poll has LBL), because the odds of an LBL method being invented without the idea to create faster way to build layers is highly unlikely.
Even so, in your near impossible alternate world, I would have learned whichever method was most accessible for a beginner cuber.

The poll doesn't apply to me.

 

[markthema3]

No entry for Heise method makes me sad. After Heise, it'd be a tossup between Petrus and ZZ.

 

[scotzbhoy]

I imagine Petrus, since started learning it before I learned CFOP. However I don't see why I mightn't have then learnt Roux, since the fastest non-CFOP solvers use it. I probably would have seen that that's the method the fastest people use and tried to upgrade. I also came up with what I thought was a new F2L method before learning CFOP which was to solve the 4 F2L slots and then insert the cross pieces. Not sure if or how I would have developed that for the LL without CFOP though.

 

[Eleredo]

Petrus

 

[emolover]

Roux because I am switching to it anyway.

 

[Rpotts]

Roux is cancer, everybody is switching to it nowadays. Imma use Triangular Fransisco, you've probably never heard of it.

 

[mati1242]

Probably Roux because I really want to learn it and I think it have potential.

 

[Tristan97tfj]

Roux because it is the only other method I know aside from beginners.

 

[Daniel Wu]

I'd use Petrus seeing as it was the first method I learned. Good old lar5.com/cube.

 

[Jaycee]

Too much Roux these days xD I've lost emolover to the clutches of it anyway :'(

 

[emolover]

Too much Roux these days xD I've lost emolover to the clutches of it anyway :'(

I dropped off the CFOP team because I literally get worse as I practice. Also, it is so boring.

But don't worry, I am still for bigcubes and OH so I actually go both ways(giggity).

 

[MalusDB]

I actually go both ways(giggity).

dats wut she sed hurr durr.
But seriously, I would probably wanna switch to roux too. 5BLD has really shed light on its potential with his insane progress rate. Although its not because he uses roux he progressed so fast, he has undoubtedly highlighted that the advantages aren't blown out of the water by rediculous TPS CFOPers. Also moo-ing is fun

 

[Czery]

Roux is wayyyy overrated.

ZZ - C all the way.

 

[RaresB]

i would be using CFOP

 

[Georgeanderre]

Already use another method.

 

[Ickathu]

But don't worry, I am still for bigcubes and OH so I actually go both ways(giggity).

Me too. M slices are a pain when it comes to big cubes. OH is okay, but not great.