Imsoosm's Progression Thread - learning eg1

Should I buy the MGC 4x4 or the Yuhu megaminx?

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I sent the link to Mike Hughey so maybe he did get banned.
This is what it looked like tho

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Where can you practice FMC? It seems like a cool event and I'm reading the "FMC Bible" (according to @IsThatA4x4). Cstimer doesn't have FMC, so are there any timers online that do have it? Or do I just get a random 3x3 scramble and set a timer for 1 hour?

Also what LL method should I use? OLL+PLL seems to be taking too many moves.
 
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Imsoosm said:
Also what LL method should I use?
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You really shouldn't use an LL method, unless there's a fast OLL and PLL skip.
Instead, during LSLL (as F2L-1 is quite a good stage to get to), you should try to simultaneously solve as many edges and corners as you can, and then be left with a skeleton, which is where you have a few pieces left to solve. Some common skeletons here are:
2 twisted corners
3 corners
4 corners
(5 corners - avoidable)
2 twisted edges
3 edges
4 edges
(Never 5 edges)
3 corners, 3 edges
2 corners, 2 edges
2 twisted corners, 3 edges
2 twisted edges, 3 corners

Where the above describes the pieces unsolved. Once you have a skeleton, go through the solution up to that point and perform insertions to solve the cube (you can read about that). Generally, you would use commutators for insertions, I made a table a while back for corners that shows number of commutators needed for each skeleton (don't worry about beyond 5 corners, unless you get a double 3 cycle):
Corner SkeletonNo. of commutators
2t2
3c1
3t2
2c2c (4)2
3c1t (4)2
4t3
5c2
2c2c1t (5)3
3c2t (5)3
5t4
3c3c (6)2
5c1t (6)3
2c2c2t(6)3
3c3t (6)3
6t4
7c3
3c3c1t (7)4
5c2t (7)4
2c2c3t (7)4
3c4t (7)5
7t5
5c3c (8)3
2c2c2c2c (8)4
7c1t (8)4
3c3c2t (8)4
5c3t (8)4
2c2c4t (8)5
3c5t (8)5
8t6
c = corner, t = corner twisted in place
 
Just went outside my compound for the first time in over two and a half months. The government says lockdown is "over", but by over they mean you can only ride bikes outside and you can only go out for 4 hours a day.

However, I finally got a breath of fresh air.
 
Generated By csTimer on 2022-05-30
single: 8.618

Time List:
1. 8.618[bruh] D' F2 U B2 L2 D R2 F2 U' L2 F' L B2 D B' L2 U2 L' D' R'

y2 z2 // inspection
R' F R2 B' L' u L' // cross (I know, I know, not the best cross, but the best I could find)
L' U L U y' L U' L' // first pair
U2 R U' R' // second pair
y U L U' L' // third pair
R U R' U2 R U R' // fourth pair
U2 M R U R' U R U2 R' U M' // OLL
U' R' D R U2 R' D' R U R' D R U R' D' R U' // PLL

57 STM in 8.618 sec // 6.61 tps
 
BRUH
Ridiculously easy scrams this week!
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almost pure sub-2 too!!
There were 2 two move layers, 1 permuted V, one OLL skip, and first scram was cancelled into the easiest sune CLL.
 
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Yes! I don't have school tomorrow! Which means cubing all day long
Maybe the government thought they were being too harsh on us these past two months, but people from kindergarten to 8th grade are going to have Childrens day off
 
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