Random Cubing Discussion

[ben1996123]

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).

there was this one time a few years ago when I got a headlights/chameleon 2gll case, I didnt know any 2gll, and somehow I just did an alg with a bunch of R and U moves in that I'd never done/seen before and it solved the cube

i was liek wut

 

[Wassili]

Happened the same for me with the R U H-Perm. Just did random R2 U2 R moves and it worked

 

[Wulf]

I don't know where else to put this so I'll throw it here

Was just casually solving without timing myself while playing dorf fort and got a LL skip. Would have been around 12 seconds ;A;

 

[Owen]

I've recently been addicted to solving a 4x4x2 cuboid in isocubesim. What are your favorite computer cuboids to solve?

 

[BrainOfSweden]

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).

It really is awesome. I was pretty sure now that I just got back into cubing again that I would have to relearn most algs, but after a few solves realized most of them still came naturally. Great feeling.

 

[Tim Major]

It really is awesome. I was pretty sure now that I just got back into cubing again that I would have to relearn most algs, but after a few solves realized most of them still came naturally. Great feeling.

I had two competitions after absolutely 0 solving for months (I haven't actively practised in a long time, but during this time I didn't even solve it once a week)

I messed up lots of algorithms, and I thought I'd forgotten the majority of my 2x2 CLLs and lots of other 3x3 niche algorithms like the one Stefan posted, but slowly some of these have just randomly come back to me.

I had a 3x3 ZBLL which I knew I used to know, I just let me hands turn the cube expecting to be wrong but I got it right. I've had this happen a few times since, but it seems some of my algorithms such as 2x2 CLL, Pyraminx algorithms especially are long gone. I was doing 2x2 and Pyraminx with simply layer by layer at the competitions.

 

[Noahaha]

I have an OLL that I can only do when it comes up in a solve.

 

[Renslay]

I have an OLL that I can only do when it comes up in a solve.

Once my friend asked me to show my V-perm. I couldn't. The very moment I tried to slow down and focus on the moves (to write them down), I forgot the algorithm. It took me about 10-15 minutes to recall the moves one by one...

 

[TDM]

What do you think is the fastest it's possible to get without looking ahead during F2L?

 

[antoineccantin]

What do you think is the fastest it's possible to get without looking ahead during F2L?

Sub-10 is possible.

 

[uberCuber]

What do you think is the fastest it's possible to get without looking ahead during F2L?

How exactly do you define 'not looking ahead'? Closing your eyes during cross, opening them to find the first pair, closing them again to actually solve the pair, and so on?

 

[qqwref]

Let Q = L' F L

(Q U' Q U)2 Q = J perm
(Q U2)4 Q = N perm

 

[Renslay]

I sneezed on my cube then I automatically said "sorry".

 

[Robert-Y]

Don't you just love it when your stackmat timer is low on power and goes mad?

 

[Stefan]

Don't you just love it when your stackmat timer is low on power and goes mad?

Have mercy and kill it already.

 

[Kirjava]

 

[Tao Yu]

Spoiler

Are you using the ksim keymap? I found the ksim layout hard to get used to.

I have tried using roux on the your sim using u/m (thats r/r') for M'/M and I like it. My fastest so far is 13.12 and I average 15 ish.

Also,I found using rR' and R'r on the standard heise layout is actually notbad surprisingly

 

[Kirjava]

Are you using the ksim keymap? I found the ksim layout hard to get used to.

Yeah, my fastest is like 11. I used to average like 22 with qcube.

when I get to LSE I switch and put my left and right middle and index fingers on FGHJ. I just practised LSE scrambles like this to get used to it.

heise isn't bad, but after getting used to it this is much better.

Totally at work right now.

 

[PeelingStickers]

My punishment for starting the timer with cube in hand is always a horrible PLL!

 

[qqwref]

For 3x3x3: Fw' L U2 R' U L2 U' R U2 L' Fw

or the mirror, Fw R' U2 L U' R2 U L' U2 R Fw'