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Logiqx said:
Nice. I don't think I've had a sub-30 with Roux... maybe untimed.

I timed a few Roux solves at lunchtime and the best I managed was 42s. Half of that time was spent looking for pieces. lol.

Mike
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My average of the session was 38.. But had some 50+ solves ;)
TDM said:
Nice solve! I especially like your square (U M U' R2// Very lucky 2X2X1); when I get this case I solve it a really inefficient wat. But can I suggest doing your last six edges (after EO) as solving UL/UR, and then the four remaining edges? Solving BD/BF and then the four remaining edges is slower and requires more moves. Here's what you did compared to what I would do:

You:
U2 M' U2 M2 U2 M' // fix red/white and orange/white (48)
M2' U M2' U M' U2 M2' U2 M' U2 // Z perm (58)
16 moves.
Me:
U' M2 // UL and UR
U M2 U2 // last four edges
5 moves.

It doesn't always make this much of a difference (this was quite lucky :p), but it's definitely much better than doing it by solving the D layer edges first.
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Thanks! I have yet to look into fixing bad edges. I just watched DeeDups beginner video. I have to watch to advanced video's now :) Or just practise a lot..
sneaklyfox said:
Wow, really nice. Like I said, you should totally switch, haha. I'm trying to get sub-25 on Roux. I spend a lot of time looking for pieces too.
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Yeah, remember on CFOP cross is made so you do not have to look for edges there. With Roux, you should plan first block in inspection. Then only hidden place after first block is DB. So if you can not spot your pair quickly look there..

Schmidt said:
I dont think z perms are allowed in Roux ;)
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Yeah I know, only G-perms are allowed.. :)
 
MarcelP said:
My average of the session was 38.. But had some 50+ solves ;)
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How many Roux solves do you think you've done so far over the past few weeks? I think I've done about 200 Roux solves ever (100 since you started talking about Roux in this thread) and only starting timing myself 2 days ago. I just got a 32.65 single... I think I'll try to push down to a sub-30 average alongside my other goals.

All of a sudden, I've gotten interested in a variety of things - 2x2x2, 4x4x4, 5x5x5, OH and Roux. I was even doing the 15 puzzle the other night. Time is even more of a problem than it was when I was just doing 3x3x3, lol.
 
Logiqx said:
How many Roux solves do you think you've done so far over the past few weeks? I think I've done about 200 Roux solves ever (100 since you started talking about Roux in this thread) and only starting timing myself 2 days ago. I just got a 32.65 single... I think I'll try to push down to a sub-30 average alongside my other goals.

All of a sudden, I've gotten interested in a variety of things - 2x2x2, 4x4x4, 5x5x5, OH and Roux. I was even doing the 15 puzzle the other night. Time is even more of a problem than it was when I was just doing 3x3x3, lol.
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LOL.. I know what you mean about 'Time'..

I think I have done maybe 20 - 50 solves per day. Yesterday I did an Ao12 timed and got a 38 again.. But I must say, when doing Timed Roux solves I am not really focussed yet but more paying attention doing things right. I have watched http://wafflelikescubes.webs.com/rouxmethod.htm step 4b and 4c.. Oh man.. I should have know that a month ago. This takes at least 10 moves of every solve.. :)
 
Logiqx said:
Have you seen the slow motion solves by Alex?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqHYnEj-60g

Running at 25% of the original speed it's a lot easier to see what he is doing. :)
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He's on such another level, it's really hard to process some of the things he's doing even for an intermediate Roux user like me. There's a few spots where he seems to do unnecessary moves, which could be mistakes, or it could be setting up a skip that I can't see....

Marcel, not sure if you saw my walk through solve videos, but they might help you get into a more "Roux" way of thinking. Here's the playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLajHGvYF36nRdhrzpH9bb9OwK10iYVQLG
 
Yeah I've seen your video on YouTube and it tells me a lot how to solve a Rubik's Cube in roux way. I've made about 1000 solves and stopped for 2 months and next I was back to roux and made about 500 solves to be around 33 seconds ao100.
 
DeeDubb said:
Marcel, not sure if you saw my walk through solve videos, but they might help you get into a more "Roux" way of thinking. Here's the playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLajHGvYF36nRdhrzpH9bb9OwK10iYVQLG
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Yeah, more than one time. Your video caused me to switch to the dark side.. :)

h2f said:
Yeah I've seen your video on YouTube and it tells me a lot how to solve a Rubik's Cube in roux way. I've made about 1000 solves and stopped for 2 months and next I was back to roux and made about 500 solves to be around 33 seconds ao100.
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33 sounds nice to me now ;) I am not there yet..
 
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sneaklyfox said:
Are you guys doing Sunday Contest? I just got 4 G-perms in a row while doing OH.

Edit: 7 G-perms in 12 solves.
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What is Sunday contest? Btw, G-perms statistically are the most appearing PLL's ;) At my last competition I spoke a guy who is sub 15 but does not know any of the G-perms.. LOL I feel so slow knowing all PLL's and OLL's and still averaging 20 secs..
 
I don't know if it was noticed earlier. I use your ALG trainer for practicing many things, but in the last time I've started to learn CMLLs. And some images in CMLL trainer are wrong. I found that C4 is instead of C5 , C2 instead of C3 and B6 instead of C1. If I am right how I can fix it?
 
h2f said:
I don't know if it was noticed earlier. I use your ALG trainer for practicing many things, but in the last time I've started to learn CMLLs. And some images in CMLL trainer are wrong. I found that C4 is instead of C5 , C2 instead of C3 and B6 instead of C1. If I am right how I can fix it?
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The program is a jar -file. If you rename the file to zip you can open it with Winzip. Then place all files of the zip in a folder. Then organise the pictures by renaming them to the correct name. The zip the files again and rename to jar. :) Btw I did an Ao100 40.98 Roux today. I suspect soon to be at your 33 now that I am using no CFOP elements anymore. I have to get used to the M slice pairing. That takes most of my time now.
 
MarcelP said:
The program is a jar -file. If you rename the file to zip you can open it with Winzip. Then place all files of the zip in a folder. Then organise the pictures by renaming them to the correct name. The zip the files again and rename to jar. :)
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Oh thanks. By the way - the trainer is a great help to practice algs.

Btw I did an Ao100 40.98 Roux today. I suspect soon to be at your 33 now that I am using no CFOP elements anymore. I have to get used to the M slice pairing. That takes most of my time now.
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I'm sure you will make Ao100 sub-30 soon. I've started to learn cmlls so my times are up now. And I returned to practice 3bld and 4bld and havent done Ao100 for a week.
 
sneaklyfox said:
Wow, I really have to step up my Roux now, haha.
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Ha.. I highly doubt it... Btw, you asked a while back what to make a video of.. How about a slow Roux walkthrough Sneakly-way?
h2f said:
Oh thanks. By the way - the trainer is a great help to practice algs.
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Thanks! Yeah it helped me a lot with OLL's and expert F2L cases.

h2f said:
I'm sure you will make Ao100 sub-30 soon. I've started to learn cmlls so my times are up now. And I returned to practice 3bld and 4bld and havent done Ao100 for a week.
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I hope so.. But I do not think it will go very fast.. One thing that nice is that I enjoy cubing 200% again.. CFOP was boring me finally.. I really do not care about the times now. :)
 
MarcelP said:
CFOP was boring me finally.. )
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It was the same with me. I stopped Roux for 2 months and practiced CFOP because my son said: practice and you will be sube-20. But after 2 months I was only sub-25 so I got back to Roux. And I found Roux is quite good to FM. BTW in weekly competition why dont you make relays?
 
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