L2 D' B F' U D L' D' L (R F' R') // (12)
Also, how can one not have paper around???
A look in the regulation could help:
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Why not? I'm unlikely to hit 80 moves anyway, and it's much quicker not to spend time trying to remove rotations. My first FMC attempt(I use CFOP, so I'm really bad) was 56 where I was trying to remove rotations. My second one where I didn't do that was a 47. I'm not sure if it's related, but it probably helped as I can struggle removing rotations from algs where I know the muscle memory.
It's easy to miss cancellations that way. Like you could have U x B' in your solution and not notice that you can skip them both.
At your skill level in FMC rotations don't really matter, the only downside is you might be more likely to write a rotation incorrectly resulting in a DNF. Generally speaking though avoiding rotations is better. Using rotations you could lose track of the orientation of the cube which could result in wasting time trying to figure it out, it also slows you down because it adds more "moves" to perform when following what you have written down, and the most important reason is it makes NISS and insertions a nightmare. If you use DR at a high level though rotations can be useful for easily inserting slice moves and doing center insertions, but that is usually only inserting a rotation in the final stages of finding the solution, which avoids most of the downsides I mentioned before.
congrats on saving one move lol
One move can matter a lot in FMC depending on where you are at.
Good to know, but since I'm not serious about FMC I think I'll keep rotating.
I didn't bother checking it because why would I, but 2c2c usually can be solved in +10 or better, which would make that a 28 (estimated). Sounds like a lot more than 1 move to me.
I have paper but it's in my closet and actually pretty hard to get
I had like 20 minutes left to find THREE insertions so I kinda had to rush to finish it
I remember I had the brilliant idea to make paper airplanes at my friends house once, and they didn't have paper of any kind. They weren't allowed to rip any out of their notebooks and they had a recycling bin for paper that you could only use "if it was important". That was quite interesting to me who probably destroyed about 10 trees a day with how much paper I used.
One trick when you have two insertions to do (okay, hold on, I know you said THREE) is to just pick whatever for your first insertion in order to make it 3c. 3c is much easier to insert optimally, so do that for your second insertion. Then go back and undo your first insertion, then do that optimally.
