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[Sujisan]

Hi, I'm Sujisan. I've been lurking for a bit, but decided to make an account. I've been speedsolving using CFOP off and on for about 3 years. I know 2-look OLL, and 8/21 Algorithms (H, Z, Aa, Ab, T, Y, Jb, and Rb) for PLL. I also have a bad habit of doing the cross on top.

Right now my personal best is 28.59 seconds, and an average solve is somewhere between 30 and 40 seconds. My thought is that my F2L will start to improve again, once I transition from doing the cross on top to the bottom.

I mainly solve the 3x3, but I can also do the 2x2, 4x4, 5x5 (with looking up algs for the last few tredges), Megaminx, and the Pyraminx.

 

[shadowslice e]

Welcome to the forums!

 

[cmhardw]

Welcome!

If you continue learning PLL, I would recommend to learn all 4 G perms as soon as possible. Together they account for 2/9 of the total probability for the PLL step.

If you like other fun puzzles, you may like the 4 layered pyraminx as well.

 

[Sujisan]

Welcome!

If you continue learning PLL, I would recommend to learn all 4 G perms as soon as possible. Together they account for 2/9 of the total probability for the PLL step.

I'll learn all of PLL eventually, but I'm intrigued by your reasoning on learning the G perms. I was browsing a while back and one of the users here made a video on the order that one should learn all the PLLs. The G perms were last.

Is there any particular order that I should learn them in?

 

[cmhardw]

I'll learn all of PLL eventually, but I'm intrigued by your reasoning on learning the G perms. I was browsing a while back and one of the users here made a video on the order that one should learn all the PLLs. The G perms were last.

Is there any particular order that I should learn them in?

I did not learn them in this order, but I've come to think that the best order is to learn U and A followed by G followed by the cases in decreasing order of likelihood of occurring. I've never understood why people say to learn G last. That one case (it's four versions) is by far the most common case to occur.

 

[Sujisan]

That would make sense, since you'd expect to see the G perms quite a bit in solving the cube (22.2% of the time). At least for me they look intimidating, and the algorithms themselves look daunting.

Looking at the Andy Klise PDF sheets, it looks like Ga and Gc are similar, and Gb and Gd are similar as well. Might have to shuffle them so their priority to learn is quite a bit higher. Would you recommend the algorithms on the Andy Klise PLL sheet for the G perms?

 

[cmhardw]

That would make sense, since you'd expect to see the G perms quite a bit in solving the cube (22.2% of the time). At least for me they look intimidating, and the algorithms themselves look daunting.

Looking at the Andy Klise PDF sheets, it looks like Ga and Gc are similar, and Gb and Gd are similar as well. Might have to shuffle them so their priority to learn is quite a bit higher. Would you recommend the algorithms on the Andy Klise PLL sheet for the G perms?

Yeah the Andy Klise algs are good ones. Learning them early will give you one look PLL cases more often while you're still learning PLL, that's the advantage. The algs look bad, but they have kind of a neat flow once you get used to them. They are also easy to track visually, so try to watch the blocks you're moving while you're learning the algs.

Good luck!