Multi-Slotting, should I use it?

[mizzle]

Multislotting is awesome for improving your cube understanding. Cube understanding leads to faster times. That said, it definitely helps to already have a really good F2L, because you can get way better than this without multislotting.

Anyway, I orient all my edges at the beginning of the solve, which gives me a restricted F2L. Multislotting on that is really a lot easier, and I can't recommend enough that people look into it. Especially paired with partial corner control. Gives amazing spike times, but screws with your averages pretty badly at the beginning.

 

[Lotsofsloths]

I'm willing to try it out.
But Harris says no, and mizzle says yes.
I'll look into it and discover about it, I might be able to make my F2l easier by using L' R U R' L than just R U R'.

 

[Lofty]

yea, I don't think it can really hurt to learn more even if you don't add it into your solve you can still add some tricks to your bag of things to do in f2l. I've looked into it tho I don't really use it (a little OH were I have more time but not much).
I am a big fan of all kinds of example solves tho. If anyone has example of this and Petrus let me know (I've viewed all the ones on the main sites)

 

[dh144498]

first off, if you don't already avg under 12 seconds, then multi slotting is useless. multi is only for the ppl who can no longer get faster. anyway, it's almost impossible to actually (multi slot) because there are millions of combinations of pieces. the best way to do f2l is when doing a pair, try to simplify the next pair for easy insertion. for example: when doing a regular 1st pair (around 6-8 moves), look for a way to simplify another c/e to only 3-5 moves. and do 3rd and simplify 4th.

 

[Brian Le]

I have tried applying multislotting to my solves, but it doesn't work out that well. Therefore, I concluded that I should get faster first. Then when I get sub-15 averages, I will apply multislotting. But when possible, I use it intuitively. Still gotta work on that F2L...

 

[mizzle]

first off, if you don't already avg under 12 seconds, then multi slotting is useless. multi is only for the ppl who can no longer get faster.

That's just silly. Multislotting is a perfectly good way for people to get faster, especially if they learn to do it intuitively. It's also good for those of us who are less concerned with speed than efficiency.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

first off, if you don't already avg under 12 seconds, then multi slotting is useless. multi is only for the ppl who can no longer get faster.

dh144498, what? That makes no sense whatsoever.

Why did people switch to Fridrich? I don't think anyone was at their limit for LBL when they switched.

 

[Lotsofsloths]

first off, if you don't already avg under 12 seconds, then multi slotting is useless. multi is only for the ppl who can no longer get faster.

dh144498, what? That makes no sense whatsoever.

Why did people switch to Fridrich? I don't think anyone was at their limit for LBL when they switched.

I know right!?!
I can get sub 40 with Lbl method, something which I though was IMPOSSIBLE earlier before.

 

[Ken Daganio]

I've looked at the algs, and I think it`s rather intuitive, but then again if you could execute and determine the case really quickly then go ahead. Good Luck!

 

[malcolm]

I only use the R'FRF' case to preserve a pair if it is already formed, or the L' if it makes a pair, so just the easy recognition ones

 

[Lotsofsloths]

Yea, I'll end up doing that.

 

[Sébastien Felix]

Hi there, i see many ideas there, i'll just try to explain my opinion:

1-DON'T LEARN MULTISLOTING!!! UNDERSTAND IT!

2-Multislotting is ALWAYS usefull, even if you're not sub12, I started to multislot maybe 3 years ago(even when i averaged 20s). It helps a lot to understand how the sequences move the pieces, the basic idea to work on Multislotting is first to introduce it in your training sessions, but only do it for speedsolving when you really do it intuitively and think like if it was a "basic" alg. It also force you to improve your looking ahead skills, then when you do basic fridrich solves, you do it really faster than before.
Conclusion:Learn how to deal with Multislotting as soon as you can understand it.

3-I used to play with orienting all edges or all F2L edges before solving F2L in order to rotate the cube, but to my mind it adds maybe 7-8 moves but dont simplify the solve, and I think it isn't so hard to do a cube rotation during F2L if you have a good fingertrick. So to my opinion it could be a good exercice to work Multislotting(like just scramble the cube with (R U) moves and try to solve the 2 missing pairs using the most "clever" sequence. The case "orient all edges before F2L is just like a RUL scramble that dont affect the cross.
Conclusion : very good exercice to work Multislotting but should stay an exercice


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Sébastien