match the scramble

[mkriegs]

anyone ever tried it before? IE: take two cubes, a solved one and a scrambled one, then try and match the solved one to the scrambled one.

I just tried it, I wasn't timing but I'm sure it was far past 10 minutes.

 

[Pedro]

yep, some people (including me) tried

there's even a category at speedcubing.com unofficial WRs
http://www.speedcubing.com/records/recs_fun_scramblecopy.html

 

[badmephisto]

yep, its very interesting I wonder what is the best approach for this though... What i do right now is do normal Fridrich F2L, and i do the last layer using BLD method, specifically the old Pochmann method that just solves piece by piece.

 

[FU]

i just tried it, took around 5 minutes. i solve by the cross, then 1st layer corners, then 2nd layer edges (i cant do fridrich f2l with the confusing orientation of the pieces), then i basically use the OLL PLL method for last layer, i see which pieces i have to flip then i perform the OLL, and the PLL part is easy.

 

[TheBB]

3:51!

Cross, corners of FL, edges of ML, corners of LL, edges of LL.

 

[TobiasDaneels]

I tried it to, some weeks ago.
After a couple of solves I managed to get sub-minutes.
Still crazy how some guys do it under 1 minute.

 

[mkriegs]

I don't have two similarly schemed cubes so I had to use the virtual one on rubiks site. LL took me forever because I kept looking at the wrong face on the virtual one and wondering why it didnt match my cube

I ended up using like a hybrid between blindfold method and fridrich method, I would get the corner pair into place and then orient them since I could never seem to get the right orientation using regular F2l. I'm sure if I tried again and had a real cube to look at I could do much faster.



EDIT - When I first learned how to solve a cube I used this method where you did the first layer, then the bottom layer, and did the middle layer last (it was a nice beginners method since there were only 3 algs) but I'm sure it would work excellently for this.

 

[Stefan]

a solved one and a scrambled one

I start with two scrambled cubes.

 

[Leo]

I also start with 2 scrambled cubes. I just tried this (didn't time myself), but it took awhile. I did cross corner (no way I'm doing f2l like this) edges, oriented top layer corners and edges correctly, then permutated them with 3 cycle edge and corner algs.

 

[AvGalen]

Too bad this category is never in a real competition. This (and fewest moves) is much more about figuring out how to solve the cube because pattern recognition is a much bigger part of the solve.

Starting with 2 scrambled cubes seems to be the way to go. Maybe we should do that for fewest moves also, start with one scramble (start) and another scramble (finish) and try to do that in fewest moves!