Ortega First Layer

[nitrocan]

I have found some new algorithms for the first layer using the ortega method. I don't know if those have been found yet, so don't get angry It might help some people as well.

When we have 1 corner left to put in the first layer, here are the things that I found: (empty slot is DFR)

When the corner is at UFR, instead of doing R U2 R' U' R U R', why not do U R2 U' R2.

When the corner is in the right place, but not oriented correctly:
Corner needs to turn CW: y' R' U' R' U R2
Corner needs to turn CCW: R U R U' R2

I hope that helped some of you.

 

[Kenneth]

I don't think you shall learn algs for the first layer: Ok, it may seem good but you can't learn all cases, there are too many of them. Best thing would be to learn only the worst cases but those are pretty rare so it's a bit of waste too.

Practice intuitive solving instead, it's much better.

 

[alexc]

I pretty much knew these intuitively already and a shorter alg for the CW case is x F L U' R'. You can use the reflection for CCW case too.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

I pretty much knew these intuitively already and a shorter alg for the CW case is x F L U' R'. You can use the reflection for CCW case too.

This subset of SS is the easiest.