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My Quest to Get Good (Week 2)|Looking for Thread Name Ideas

BenChristman1

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This is my personal progress thread where I will share all of my cubing achievements.

Progress:
N/A

Goals for next week:
- Learn a couple more dot OLLs
- Learn new Ja and V perms
- Do at least 2x2-5x5 and all of the side events in the Weekly Comp, just to get a little competition-like practice
Progress:
- Learned new Ja and V perms

Goals for next week:
- Learn 3 more dot OLLs
- Do at least 2x2-5x5 and all of the side events in the Weekly Comp, just to get a little competition-like practice
 
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BenChristman1

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Doing M2 U M2 U2 M2 U M2 is better unless you're a lefty



Do you have the solved side facing you?
Yes.
It depends on what fingers you use to do M’. I use my right hand, so to avoid regripping, U’ is better. If you use left hand for M’, U is better.
Yes, that is what I do.
 

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My hands are yet to be adult size, so when I reach down to do M’, I can’t quite stretch enough to perform a U smoothly.
Try using your middle finger instead of your ring finger, it's easier on the hands.
Actually that is what I do, but it’s still not enough :(. And M2 requires ring finger...
I use a GTS3M and it's eay to do m, m' and m2 and my hands arent big and it's really smooth to do u after
And then you've got me with hands so big I can't record from the side.
 

BenChristman1

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I am going to start posting weekly example solves on this thread for criticism. These solves would be pretty close to what I would do in a speedsolve. I know most PLLs (not E and the Gs) and I know about 1/3 of OLLs. I use intuitive F2L. Here is the first solve:

Scramble: R' B2 U2 R' B2 R2 F2 U2 L' D2 R2 B' U L' F L' F2 R B R'
Inspection: x2 y' (yellow top, orange front)
Cross: U' F L' D F' L2 R' (cancel into 1st pair)
1st Pair: U' R'
2nd Pair: y (yellow top, blue front) U' L U L'
3rd Pair: y (yellow top, red front) U' L' U' L
4th Pair: y (yellow top, green front) L' U L U y' (yellow top, red front) R U R'
OLL: U F U R U' R' F'
PLL: U R' U L' U2 R U' R' U2 R L U2
 
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First of all I would recommend doing real speedsolves and reconstruct those.
Cross: U' F L' D F' L2 R' (cancel into 1st pair)
z2 R2 F' D R' F is a much better cross, 2 moves less and better to finger trick and therefore a lot faster
(cancel into 1st pair)
1st Pair: U' R'
I seriously doubt you inspected the first pair so it is very impressive that you are able to see such things coming up, change your grip and insert it right away.
2nd Pair: y (yellow top, blue front) U' L U L'
3rd Pair: y (yellow top, red front) U' L' U' L
not much to say about 2nd and 3rd pair
4th Pair: y (yellow top, green front) L' U L U y' (yellow top, red front) R U R'
probably the weakest part of this solve
some better alternatives:
y L' U L U F U F' (avoiding the 2nd rotation+easy to cancel into OLL)
or
y L' U' L F' L F L' // 4th Pair
then U' L F' L' U' L U F U' L' Y-Perm or (if you don't like the 1st alg) U' F R U R' U' F' R' U' R U' R' U2 R Ja-Perm
or
U' F' U' F U' R U R' // 4th Pair
U' M U R U R' U' M' R' F R F' U // LL
or
R' F R F' U2 R U R' // 4th Pair
U2 R U2 R2 F R F' R U2 R' Rb-Perm
OLL: U F U R U' R' F'
PLL: U R' U L' U2 R U' R' U2 R L U2
LL is fine but it is kinda weird that you do R L U2 to end the J-Perm, L R U2 is what I do (better imo)
 
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I am going to start posting weekly example solves on this thread for criticism. These solves would be pretty close to what I would do in a speedsolve. I know most PLLs (not E and the Gs) and I know about 1/3 of OLLs. I use intuitive F2L. Here is the first solve:

Scramble: R' B2 U2 R' B2 R2 F2 U2 L' D2 R2 B' U L' F L' F2 R B R'
Inspection: x2 y' (yellow top, orange front)
Cross: U' F L' D F' L2 R' (cancel into 1st pair)
1st Pair: U' R'
2nd Pair: y (yellow top, blue front) U' L U L'
3rd Pair: y (yellow top, red front) U' L' U' L
4th Pair: y (yellow top, green front) L' U L U y' (yellow top, red front) R U R'
OLL: U F U R U' R' F'
PLL: U R' U L' U2 R U' R' U2 R L U2

I've got one thing to tell you: F moves aren't going to poison you. With decent finger tricks, doing F U F' is wayyy faster than y' R U R'. That's basically the only thing I have to say
 
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