Random Cubing Discussion

guysensei1 said:
R2 u R2 u' R2 y R2 u' R2 u R2

10 move 5-cycle of corners.

Is there a shorter 5-cycle?
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I scrolled through a few hundred edge-preserving algs generated by Cube Explorer up to 9 moves and didn't see any 5-cycles, so 10 moves is probably the shortest for corner 5-cycles. There's (U2 R2 F2)3 for a 2-cycle + 4-cycle, though, which is 9 moves.
 
my left hand is kinda sore. wondering if i should I take a break from cubing. lol
my right hand is normal
 
Daniel Lin said:
my left hand is kinda sore. wondering if i should I take a break from cubing. lol
my right hand is normal
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I've gotten that too. It's my left hand because that's the hand I do U2 with, which is more fatiguing than R and L moves because you're using fingers, not wrists. Is that why your left hand is sore, or do you not know why?

Take it easy for a while. If you cube with sore hands, your turning style will change to avoid doing painful things and you'll have trouble reversing that. Cubing while injured is a great way to mess up your technique, so cube at your own risk for now;)
 
Was thinking today about how I should maybe try practicing cross BLD to get better, and had an idea for a challenge (I would be really bad at it so I'm leaving it to other people). Thought someone might find it interesting.

The idea is to solve in a certain number of looks (enforced with a blindfold) without pre-inspection, and there would be different rankings based on how many looks you choose to use. Kinda like speed-BLD, with more looks and with inspection being timed too. It seems like it should help with lookahead.

If it isn't clear here is an example in detail: a difficult version could be 3-looks, which for CFOP might be something like

0) Start timer
1a) Inspect cross + 1 pair
1b) Blindfold on and solve cross + 1 pair
2a) Blindfold off and inspect rest of F2L
2b) Blindfold on and solve F2L
2a) Blindfold off and inspect LL
2b) Blindfold on and solve LL
3) Stop timer
 
bobthegiraffemonkey said:
Was thinking today about how I should maybe try practicing cross BLD to get better, and had an idea for a challenge (I would be really bad at it so I'm leaving it to other people). Thought someone might find it interesting.

The idea is to solve in a certain number of looks (enforced with a blindfold) without pre-inspection, and there would be different rankings based on how many looks you choose to use. Kinda like speed-BLD, with more looks and with inspection being timed too. It seems like it should help with lookahead.

If it isn't clear here is an example in detail: a difficult version could be 3-looks, which for CFOP might be something like

0) Start timer
1a) Inspect cross + 1 pair
1b) Blindfold on and solve cross + 1 pair
2a) Blindfold off and inspect rest of F2L
2b) Blindfold on and solve F2L
2a) Blindfold off and inspect LL
2b) Blindfold on and solve LL
3) Stop timer
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interesting idea. 3 looks can't be too difficult. lots of people can do cross+1 in inspection. And it's easy to predict CP after OLL. Then you could track the edges to figure out the PLL

maybe you could make it so that each look you do multiplies your time? e.g. 4 looks with a total time of 30 seconds, would give you a time of 2 minutes
 
Interesting statistic:
So Lucas Etter is good at 3x3, but he first came into fame for being a world-class 2x2er. Faz is a 3x3 god, but basically couldn't care less about 2x2.
Current sum of single+average for 3x3: Lucas beats Faz.
Current sum of single+average for 3x3 plus 2x2: Faz beats Lucas.
Probably the only time in cubing history anyone ever cared about 2x2 single.
 
bobthegiraffemonkey said:
Was thinking today about how I should maybe try practicing cross BLD to get better, and had an idea for a challenge (I would be really bad at it so I'm leaving it to other people). Thought someone might find it interesting.

The idea is to solve in a certain number of looks (enforced with a blindfold) without pre-inspection, and there would be different rankings based on how many looks you choose to use. Kinda like speed-BLD, with more looks and with inspection being timed too. It seems like it should help with lookahead.

If it isn't clear here is an example in detail: a difficult version could be 3-looks, which for CFOP might be something like

0) Start timer
1a) Inspect cross + 1 pair
1b) Blindfold on and solve cross + 1 pair
2a) Blindfold off and inspect rest of F2L
2b) Blindfold on and solve F2L
2a) Blindfold off and inspect LL
2b) Blindfold on and solve LL
3) Stop timer
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I wasn't timing Myself but I did 3 once:
Look 1: X-cross + pairing 2nd pair
Look 2: finish Pair 2, do Pair 3
Look 3: TSLE (I don't use zzct but I knew the case), Sledge x3.
EDIT: I probably took me around 15 mins
 
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