Random Cubing Discussion

[Renslay]

If you solve UF+UB first you just solve it an U away from a solved cube:
Example (without misoriented centers)

Aaah, now I see it. Thanks!

 

[5BLD]

even with UF+UB edge position?

I guess you use a lot of LSE Tricks. Are there more non MU ones like RU'r'U'M'UrUr'?

Yes. And yes I use em all. Other than 2 flip weird ones.
I think of the UFUB one in a different way.

 

[Kirjava]

Where the hell did this come from.

 

[qqwref]

Are there any full solves in there?

 

[mark49152]

They made it look like hard work!

 

[ben1996123]

okso qqwref came up with a silly idea about how to make a sim for blind people

so I just threw this together

 

[antoineccantin]

Random cool R-perm: R' F R F' U R U R' U2 r U R' U' M

 

[Renslay]

Funny, but I find F2B in Roux easier than inserting the F2L-pairs (excluding the cross) in CFOP. At least in color/case recognition.

 

[qqwref]

A nice little 5x5x5 pattern:
[r2 U2: r] U2 [r2 U2: r]
[L U' R: 2U2] [R U' L: 2U2]
[L' U R': 2U2] [R' U L': 2U2]
[F R B F' L F: 2U 3U2 4U']
d D u U

 

[Smiles]

Funny, but I find F2B in Roux easier than inserting the F2L-pairs (excluding the cross) in CFOP. At least in color/case recognition.

yeah even though im a cfop i find F2B very natural and all the pieces just present themselves. F2L has so many rules.

on a slightly related note, when i replace my stickers i peel off just enough to give myself a challenge like solving 1 side or 2 sides.
and as a reference, i can solve the cube on average in about 12.5 seconds.

2 opposite sides takes me about 16 - 20 seconds.
1 side takes me around 6 - 8 seconds, which is how long my F2L takes.
3 sides takes too long for me to even bother.

just goes to show how accustomed we are to our methods.

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and just slightly related to that,
i can recognize and complete the first block while inspecting while being full colour neutral (normally for Roux i restrict my U colour to white/yellow) and then i slow down a bit for the second block, CMLL is completely normal, then LSE becomes a huge pain.

i am fully colour neutral for CFOP, and some people claim that by being colour neutral they can magically start to visualize piece relationships instead of colour patterns (and they couldn't do that before)
well when i change methods i'm no longer the same; for Roux i had to train my white/yellow for U/D, just to have something familiar in every solve to ease up on my brain.
when learning, i learned how Roux piece relationships work. but could i be colour neutral right there?
i can still do full colour neutral, but it takes so much brain work because my brain is trying to relate all that stuff to CFOP. if i had magically developed an eye for piece relationships, i'd breeze through that no problem. the only reason i can do CMLL normally is because i remember all those patterns from COLL.

further evidence that my brain has simply stored 6 times as many color patterns:
sometimes when i'm solving and my brain goes lolwat for a second i end up inserting an F2L pair with the corner and edge both flipped, resulting in a terrible reslot. and it always looks the same. i wouldn't get the edge in right or the corner in right, both would be flipped.
the reason is because for a second i totally forgot what my cross colour was and i would start assuming it was one of the other 2 colours on the corner piece. then when recognizing the F2L case by looking at 1 sticker on the edge piece, i'd assume everything is normal and just insert it normally as if my cross colour were different.
the result is the wrong colour on the D face (obviously) and the edge flipped.

this happens about once every 50 - 100 solves and had never happened before i became comfortably colour neutral.

methods, methods, methods

 

[Kirjava]

just goes to show how accustomed we are to our methods.

or how bad you are at finding shortcuts for less stickers

 

[Smiles]

or how bad you are at finding shortcuts for less stickers

well give me a day with it and i'd be doing it as fast as i should be, but just a few solves and i'm even slower than doing a fully stickered cube.

 

[Kirjava]

my brain has simply stored 6 times as many color patterns

Thumbs up. Many CN solvers don't realise this.

 

[Kirjava]

I think that M'U2MU2MUM' is better than M'U2M'U2MUM'.

This isn't the first time switching from M' to M made something faster.

 

[Lchu613]

How do you do Ms faster than M's?

 

[Kirjava]

with fingertricks

not exclusively, but it fits better in that sequence

 

[Owen]

I just realized that 'Feliks' and 'Rubiks' often both suffer from the same spelling error.

 

[Noahaha]

I just realized that 'Feliks' and 'Rubiks' often both suffer from the same spelling error.

That's awesome =D

 

[already1329]

I just realized that 'Feliks' and 'Rubiks' often both suffer from the same spelling error.

It's "Rubik's".

 

[Stefan]

That awesome moment... when you were certain you had forgotten that alg but then your hands do it anyway and you just watch and are like "wow" (for me it just was R U2 R2 u' R' u R for the FR F2L pair).