Older cubers discussions

[mark49152]

Edge comms are Easy and if you remember my 54 sec solution you see the difference. Im slow but i think i save at least 10 sec on every solve. Most of my comms are based on adv m2 and cacelations. I think it worth knowing.

I already us advanced M2 and cancellations and my edge exec is about 25 sec so comms would have to be very special to save 10 seconds

I sometimes think of learning comms for some cases that don't have good setups or cancellations. Like PL (speffz) or OC. Are there any easy comms with good move savings that you think are "must know" cases?

 

[Logiqx]

I'm sure plenty of people use these but I couldn't find any references for these alternates and figured I'd drop 'em here. I was digging around for smoother ways to do a few things in my personal F2L bootcamp and came up with some sledgehammer/hedgeslammer alternates that seem to flow really nicely, could be useful in some grip contexts:

l' U l F' // sledge alt
F l' U' l // hedge alt
r U' r' F // lefty sledge alt
F' r U r' // lefty hedge alt

I often use that lefty sledge execution in OH. It's awesome!

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[h2f]

Finally
http://m.cubecomps.com/competitions/1774/competitors/43

 

[newtonbase]

I already us advanced M2 and cancellations and my edge exec is about 25 sec so comms would have to be very special to save 10 seconds

I sometimes think of learning comms for some cases that don't have good setups or cancellations. Like PL (speffz) or OC. Are there any easy comms with good move savings that you think are "must know" cases?

How about
PL - E' L D' L' E L D L'
OC - U' S' U F2 U' S U F2 (a y' at the start might make it more comfortable with Ls and Ms).

 

[newtonbase]

Finally
http://m.cubecomps.com/competitions/1774/competitors/43

Well done

 

[muchacho]

Congrats Grzegorz for the sub-20... and that Skewb average is totally awesome!

edit: oh, that Skewb times are wrong, are them Jacub's ones? anyway 9.01 is still awesome

 

[mafergut]

Nice PBs Grzegorz @h2f. Well done! Another one that joins the sub-20 club of oldies.

By the way, I spoiled my promising Ao25 from yesterday, continuing to Ao50 with lots of bad lockups (trying to push too much?) and ending up with 18.55, which is not bad but a lost opportunity.

 

[mark49152]

Finally
http://m.cubecomps.com/competitions/1774/competitors/43

Congrats on that awesome 3BLD result too

 

[muchacho]

And @moralsh is doing well too,
http://cubecomps.com/live.php?cid=1753&compid=1

 

[Logiqx]

I've started documenting my LL algs before I forget them all.

My pages aren't meant to rival AlgDB as they are solely for my own algs; past, present and future.

Basic features:
- Different "views" group the cases in different ways, especially nice for OLL
- Bookmarks at the top of each view provide links to specific groups of cases
- 2H and OH algs are shown in separate columns
- Clicking on an LL image shows algs for the case along with the derivation(s) and comments
- Abbreviations (underlined) have basic tooltips when you hover over them (computers only)
- Relatively mobile friendly; tablets show everything and phones show a simplified view

It's all data driven (JSON) and the page is rendered in JavaScript. It's by no means perfect but it seems to work on my devices.

I thought it was worth sharing with you guys (see signature). Please let me know if you spot any errors.

I'll try to find some time to do my PLLs in the next few weeks.

 

[mafergut]

Very nice page. I might use it if I ever decide to learn COLL for OH and big cubes.

 

[Lid]

I've started documenting my LL algs before I forget them all.

Looks nice, one tip, make the image(s) background transparent.

 

[pglewis]

I often use that lefty sledge execution in OH. It's awesome!

I was working on F2L 23/24 (categorized as "Weird" on the wiki). The alg I like so far for F2L-23 is U (F R' F' R) U (R U R') (AUF, hedge setup, AUF, insert). I stumbled over the variant grip while working to make the lefty mirror flow well (I like doing lefty mirrors everywhere, half as much to memorize lol).

 

[pglewis]

I've started documenting my LL algs before I forget them all.

My pages aren't meant to rival AlgDB as they are solely for my own algs; past, present and future.

Basic features:
- Different "views" group the cases in different ways, especially nice for OLL
- Bookmarks at the top of each view provide links to specific groups of cases
- 2H and OH algs are shown in separate columns
- Clicking on an LL image shows algs for the case along with the derivation(s) and comments
- Abbreviations (underlined) have basic tooltips when you hover over them (computers only)
- Relatively mobile friendly; tablets show everything and phones show a simplified view

It's all data driven (JSON) and the page is rendered in JavaScript. It's by no means perfect but it seems to work on my devices.

I thought it was worth sharing with you guys (see signature). Please let me know if you spot any errors.

I'll try to find some time to do my PLLs in the next few weeks.

We're gonna have to have a tech-geek session some time. I deal with JavaScript a fair bit in my day job (a free WordPress plugin). You just using a MySQL db in the backend?

 

[h2f]

Yhank you all for kind words. I'm very happy with my results. In the second round I got 16.52 single on Valk 3. The 2nd solve could be better but I messed OLL (11), had to redo last slot, did OLL 2 times and finished with 24.83. I must mention that 27.xx in the first round was made by edge pop - it could be sub20.

In skewb - in my round scrambles were pretty nice, I had no pressure and the result came. In one solve I was solving with my son - face to face. I'm very happy with this.

I already us advanced M2 and cancellations and my edge exec is about 25 sec so comms would have to be very special to save 10 seconds

I sometimes think of learning comms for some cases that don't have good setups or cancellations. Like PL (speffz) or OC. Are there any easy comms with good move savings that you think are "must know" cases?

Mark, here is my yesterday's 3bld. Splits are 26-20-25. I'm very slow but edges could be faster - there's 5 seconds memory lockup and it took me over 3 seconds to make flip. If you do it in 25 seconds you can really save around 8-10 seconds. When I'm practicing with @JanW trainer my average speed per pair is 2 seconds. If there's 7 pairs in average solve it gives 14 seconds for edges. I think it's worth knowing and using.

For OC (RD - UF) I use setup U2 but I must switch to direct insert y' [U M' U', R2]. For PL I do z' rotation because I dont like E/E' moves. It goes z' [M', U L' U']

 

[Logiqx]

Very nice page. I might use it if I ever decide to learn COLL for OH and big cubes.

Thanks. I hope it helps.

Do you guys like the grid views btw?

http://cubing.mikeg.me.uk/algs/oll.html#grid
http://cubing.mikeg.me.uk/algs/coll.html#grid

Looks nice, one tip, make the image(s) background transparent.

Oops. I forgot to check the transparency. What brought it to your attention?

Visualcube is semi-broken at the moment and only generating SVG. I used some online tools to convert to PNG, generate sprite sheets and finally optimise the compression. Somewhere along the line they must have lost the transparency.

We're gonna have to have a tech-geek session some time. I deal with JavaScript a fair bit in my day job (a free WordPress plugin). You just using a MySQL db in the backend?

I think this is the first JavaScript project that I've ever undertaken. The only other web stuff I've done in the past has been PHP, MySQL and Joomla. My day job is large volume data processing.

These pages are super simple and don't even have a database behind them. They are regular files which can be viewed on a desktop / laptop without stuff like an AMP server.

Each alg set has a separate JSON file which is hand edited. Each page is just an HTML file which pulls in the CSS (style and sprite sheets) and JavaScript files (code and data).

My .htaccess also ensures that resource files (css, sprites, js) are cached long-term by web browsers. The resource files have a version number to allow for this caching approach.

I'll upload it all to GitHub at some time in the future. I want to add some more features before my algs are completely documented.

 

[h2f]

Thanks. I hope it helps.

Yes it helps a lot. Will you do a single page to navigate? I mean - now I have an access to OLL's, COLLs etc by your singature but when I'm on page I cant navigate between them. Or can I?

 

[h2f]

oh, that Skewb times are wrong, are them Jacub's ones? anyway 9.01 is still awesome

Me and my son. Same scramble and we solve same face (the easiest) xd

 

[Logiqx]

Yes it helps a lot. Will you do a single page to navigate? I mean - now I have an access to OLL's, COLLs etc by your singature but when I'm on page I cant navigate between them. Or can I?

Yes, that's my intention. I want to do all of my LL algs plus F2L, F2B, Ortega and big cubes so I'll do a menu system.

I also know a number of intermediate (2-look) alg sets like CLL+ELL, CPEOLL+2GLL, LLEF+L4C which I plan to do after PLL since they are only small.

 

[muchacho]

I haven't done a 4x4 solve in 4 months, I guess it's time to try again. I forgot the OLL parity alg, but it was a bad one so no problem (this one looks better: Rw2' F2 Rw U2 Rw U2' x U2 Rw U2' Rw' U2 Rw U2' Rw2 U2' x' U2).