Niklas

[HQ]

In what situation do you use niklas? Cause i dont understand how to use it...

 

[sam]

Niklas = Sune without cycling edges. I love this alg. Its useful when you have all the edges oriented and permuted, in most cases you can solve the cube using a double niklas or niklas and a 3 corner cycle (very fast permutation).

 

[Lofty]

Niklas cycles 3 corners instead of three edges. I use it OH when I see all my edges are oriented for a chance of a PLL skip or most likely just a A PLL which is pretty fast as mentioned above you could get an E which is not good but i never get it.

 

[sam]

Or you could get an H , Those are fun.

 

[TimMc]

Cross
F2L
Orient Edges - One algorithm (dunno it's name, whatever you want to use)
Orient Corners - Niklas
Permute Corners - J Perm
Permute Edges - U Perm or Z Perm or H Perm

You only need to use Niklas once or twice to orient all the corners. You'll have to figure out exactly when to use Niklas but it's pretty simple once you play around a bit...

Tim.

 

[Johannes91]

Niklas = Sune without cycling edges.

No, it's not. Niklas cycles corners, Sune doesn't.

You only need to use Niklas once or twice to orient all the corners.

In Petrus, you use it to *permute* corners (and then Sune for orienting). Of course you can do many things with it, but that's what it's usually used for.

 

[HQ]

wat algorithm orients the edges?

 

[abbracadiabra]

F U R U' R' F' and/or F R U R' U' F'

 

[HQ]

Is there any fluid movement to use F U R U' R' F'

like when i do F my hand needs to w/ my right hand, i have to twist it back to do U. Any trick to making it faster and fluid?

also this is a question in general. how do you guys use all your fingers to move a cube?!?

 

[mattman]

i do F R U R' U' F' by turning my right hand like i just did a R' and hitting F with my right index. then doing R U R' U' the normal way. you should be able to do that then just quickly hitting the F' with my thumb after doing the R' U'

 

[HQ]

um Matt im talking about another algorithm..

F U R U' R' F'

 

[Johannes91]

f R U R' U' f'

 

[HQ]

thanks for all your help guys, time seems to be faster

 

[hdskull]

What's the algorithm for Niklas?

 

[Johannes91]

Niklas is R U' L' U R' U' L.

 

[hdskull]

I see, thanks.

 

[pajodaep]

i use the niklas algo for my 5x5 last 2 centers. it's easier to execute compared to the sune.

 

[HQ]

sweet, i finally know how to use niklas lol

thanks for showing me guys

are there any finger tricks for performing niklas?