New site

[chiperten]

It is still not totally finished and I plan on adding a bunch but it's coming along nicely. I'm sorry that there's not really all that much new information on there. This site may not be as helpful as it could be but its a start. Criticism would be appreciated.

http://www.chip.gamingunited.com/rubiks/

 

[KJiptner]

it's nice! not a lot of content yet but i really like the design, good job.

 

[pjk]

It is a nice design, good work. Want to do a link exchange? I can place your link on my speedcubing page of my site, if you link to my beginners guide. Let me know.
Pat

 

[chiperten]

Oh yea, that'd be great... more traffic to both our sites. I'll link to your beginners guide and also to your site on my links page.

 

[pjk]

Sounds good. I will link to your page tonight or tomorrow. Thanks

 

[Athefre]

Yes, very nice design. Add some more content like informatoin on the different methods.

Some things:

"accross" on the main page should be "across"

OLL Page:
M'UMU2M'UM seems faster to me
In (R U R' U') (M U R U') r', the M should be M'

PLL Page:
M2 U' M' U2 M2 U2 M' U M2 is a little better than (M2 U) (M2 U) (M U2) (M2 U2) (M U2)
Try M2 U M U2 M' U M2 (and M2 U' M U2 M' U' M2) instead of (R2 U) y' (R L') B2 (R' L) U B2


Nice Black and White Snake btw

 

[chiperten]

Thanks, I worked hard on that site haha. And I'm working on more content... but I figure info on other methods can be found on those methods homepages... I guess I'll link to them. And thanks for pointing out the typos.

And the alg (R U R' U') (M' U R U') r' is different than the one you supplied. Do the alg in reverse to see what it is used for. And I really don't like M, E or S turns so any alg that can lower the count on those is great. But thanks for the suggestions.

 

[pjk]

I just fixed my internet connection, it was down all day, so I will add your site tomorrow. BTW, I will look over your site and give you suggestions later, I saw quite a few things I'd like to mention.

 

[Athefre]

Thanks, I worked hard on that site haha. And I'm working on more content... but I figure info on other methods can be found on those methods homepages... I guess I'll link to them. And thanks for pointing out the typos.

I mentioned method information because almost every cubing site only has tons of information about Fridrich solving. I remember searching the internet for other methods besides Fridrich, it was very difficult.

I don't mean that you should give a full list of algs and pictures, just a small description.

And the alg (R U R' U') (M' U R U') r' is different than the one you supplied. Do the alg in reverse to see what it is used for.

You had on your site an M instead of a M'. With an M it doesn't do what it's supposed to. I see you changed it, because I copied and pasted the alg from your site when I posted the message.

Originally posted by "Athefre"
In (R U R' U') (M U R U') r', the M should be M'

And I really don't like M, E or S turns so any alg that can lower the count on those is great. But thanks for the suggestions.

I only gave you better algs for the M based algs that you already use. What was wrong with that? (R2 U) y' (R L') B2 (R' L) U B2 is a slice based alg. Why do R' L when you can do M' easier?

Also, I didn't mean for my first (or this) post to sound mean if it did. Just suggestions.

 

[pjk]

I added your link here:
http://www40.brinkster.com/patjk/fast.html

Please link to me at:
http://www40.brinkster.com/patjk/beginners.html

Thanks

 

[chiperten]

yea, I see that you corrected that M to an M', and thanks again. I updated the site and fixed that.

But you said "OLL Page:
M'UMU2M'UM seems faster to me
In (R U R' U') (M U R U') r', the M should be M'"

and I thought you were comparing the two. So I was just pointing out that those two algs do different things. And once again it is pretty much an M' slice turn when I do the R and L' but I do one first then the other with the B turn as a finger trick. I could write it in notation as an M I suppose. The writing would be shorter but literally they are the same.


and PJK.. you'r page has been on my "How To" page since Sunday.

 

[Athefre]

yea, I see that you corrected that M to an M', and thanks again. I updated the site and fixed that.

But you said "OLL Page:
M'UMU2M'UM seems faster to me
In (R U R' U') (M U R U') r', the M should be M'"

and I thought you were comparing the two. So I was just pointing out that those two algs do different things.

Ooooh, lol. The first part when I said "M'UMU2M'UM", I was referring to the first alg on your OLL page, I was saying that it was a little faster than the one you have listed. The second part about RUR'U'M'URU'r' was about another one on the OLL page.

And once again it is pretty much an M' slice turn when I do the R and L' but I do one first then the other with the B turn as a finger trick. I could write it in notation as an M I suppose. The writing would be shorter but literally they are the same.

It doesn't really seem the same to me to do R' then L instead of doing M' with the ring finger. For that sequence since the "RL'" part leads into B2, it works nice, if you do it as a full M based sequence, the B2 is an even easier U2. But whatever, people have different opinions on what makes sense so do whatever is faster for you.

Good job on the site so far.

 

[tenderchkn]

If you don't like slice moves, then

(r U R' U') M (U R U' R') inverse of H orientation

is an improvement over what is listed. There's a slice turn but it's usually optimized as (r' R) anyway, and is pretty fast.