[Help Thread] Roux Discussion and Help

Yes, I changed the original green because I'm a bit colourblind. The red one was not really a problem, but black seemed to me to be a better one. Only the white and yellow are original stickers, the rest where also changed because I liked them more.
 
it's interesting how you split up your cmll. it's pretty much never too late to start learning full cmll.

your lse tps and lookahead is pretty good; i'm assuming you put a good amount of time to do it. but your FB and SB are lagging behind significantly. for first block, try to do the first square in inspection and at least track the last pair. other than that, just do a lot of f2b solves to increase lookahead (much more important that fingerspeed).
 
It may not look like that but I'm working in my FB block, it was much worse before haha. For now usually when I'm able to see a short FB during inspection I'm not able to lookahead if they require unusual moves. I was doing some solves with unlimited inspection, but I always complete the solve (and I don't practice just LSE, it must be that that part is easier), I'll try to do only the F2B sometimes if it's so bad.

I know like half of CMLL (I used one in the first solve), well more than half now, thanks to TDM who is doing a "Daily CMLL" at reddit (http://pastebin.com/raw/QCs71Ejz).
 
Most of what I'd say has been said already, but just one more thing: your last step of LSE (edge permutation). This step should take 5-6 moves at most. When you're doing untimed solves it may be useful to try to find shorter solutions. Try out different things, or possibly just look them up if you want.

muchacho said:
I know like half of CMLL (I used one in the first solve), well more than half now, thanks to TDM who is doing a "Daily CMLL" at reddit (http://pastebin.com/raw/QCs71Ejz).
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Someone's actually using them! :) By the way, are my recognition explanations good enough? Is there anything I could do to make anything else better? I'm trying to make the whole thing easy for people new to CMLL to learn, but I've not really asked for any feedback yet, so I don't know if I'm overcomplicating everything...
 
Maybe my LSE is not very efficient, but it's fast enough for now and it should be easier to improve my times more focusing in other parts, I'm not ready to search for shorcuts there.


Recognition of those CMLLs from the text and algdb images was difficult for me, maybe because I use a different color scheme and (being colorblind) I find difficult to distinguish some of the colors used at algdb images.

So everyday I just tried the new algs and learned and practiced the one it seemed to suit me, and only when the set was completed I tried to find a way to recognize them all. Now I'll start using them in untimed solves.

Something that helped me when I was learning other sets was creating a cheatsheet (see attached image) where I could see easily what stickers should be opposites or equal to others, it worked for me, at least for those sets I've learned so far.

cmll-cheatsheet.jpg
 
TDM said:
Most of what I'd say has been said already, but just one more thing: your last step of LSE (edge permutation). This step should take 5-6 moves at most. When you're doing untimed solves it may be useful to try to find shorter solutions. Try out different things, or possibly just look them up if you want.


Someone's actually using them! :) By the way, are my recognition explanations good enough? Is there anything I could do to make anything else better? I'm trying to make the whole thing easy for people new to CMLL to learn, but I've not really asked for any feedback yet, so I don't know if I'm overcomplicating everything...
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Could you possibly link the older CMLL of the days, I'm learning L next and I can't find the others.



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muchacho said:
Recognition of those CMLLs from the text and algdb images was difficult for me, maybe because I use a different color scheme and (being colorblind) I find difficult to distinguish some of the colors used at algdb images.

So everyday I just tried the new algs and learned and practiced the one it seemed to suit me, and only when the set was completed I tried to find a way to recognize them all. Now I'll start using them in untimed solves.

Something that helped me when I was learning other sets was creating a cheatsheet (see attached image) where I could see easily what stickers should be opposites or equal to others, it worked for me, at least for those sets I've learned so far.
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Okay, yes, I can see that being a problem. Do you think there would be any way in which I could make it more accessible to colourblind people? I've been adding arrows to the images for the past five or six days, but I'm not sure what would be a good colour for them to be. They're currently at the default grey, which perhaps isn't the best of choices.

dominugget said:
Could you possibly link the older CMLL of the days, I'm learning L next and I can't find the others.
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There's a full list here, which I update each day.
 
Oh, I didn't look at the images in last days... nice, with that arrows it's easier. Maybe (if recog is simple) using one image instead of two and arrows of different colors depending if the stickers must be the same or opposite... but it's good enough just like it is now, thanks!
 
muchacho said:
Oh, I didn't look at the images in last days... nice, with that arrows it's easier. Maybe (if recog is simple) using one image instead of two and arrows of different colors depending if the stickers must be the same or opposite... but it's good enough just like it is now, thanks!
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I'll go back over at some point in the next few days and add more arrows where there aren't any then, and maybe some single images. Thanks for the help!
 
I just started learning OLLCP and holy crap this is the future! the algs are all pretty fast, recognition is easy, forcing EO on bottom is usually 3 moves, and LSE is a joke (i've had like 4-5 three-movers and 2 skips)
 
Okay I have a problem. I'm nearly sub 10 with cfop but I really really wanna use roux as my main method (I'm sub 19 ish) but everytime I try to commit I go back to my old habits of using cfop. I'm not excited about cubing when I use cfop but roux is fun and I don't know how to make myself switch
 
TorbinRoux said:
Okay I have a problem. I'm nearly sub 10 with cfop but I really really wanna use roux as my main method (I'm sub 19 ish) but everytime I try to commit I go back to my old habits of using cfop. I'm not excited about cubing when I use cfop but roux is fun and I don't know how to make myself switch
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Oh, I always assumed you used roux :p

Just do some nice slow solves and keep trying to just solve. Don't pressure yourself with timing just yet.
 
5BLD said:
Told ya. A new era; a new world.
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oh ma gawd is so good!!!

GuRoux said:
wait, is it really that good? you save 5-6 moves on eo but you lose a couple moves to solve DF/DB eo, slower cmll, and no influencing UL/UR during eo.
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you save 3-4 moves in total, ULUR either end up bot on D, one on D and one solved/opposite, and in the rare case theres one on bottom one on top not solved or opposite or both on top (solved/opposite/adjacent). I think its worth the tradoff. sometimes LR edges are a little worse than if you had done cmll and eo separately, but the stupid cases you get are totally worth it. also the algs are really nice so far. the only alg ive learned that is significantly slower than my normal alg is oriented diag swap with 4 flip...
 
Ok, so what should I work on? I'm ~14.9 atm
FB: 3 (3)
SB: 5-6 (8-9)
CMLL: 1-2 (9-11)
LSE: 4-5 (13-16)

I'm gonna guess my SB sucks. Mega seems to be helping tho.

Also, OH. I don't really know what I average (sub-30 for sure. Maybe 25-30) but these are splits from an average Ao5 I did recently:
FB: 6-8
SB: 7-9
CMLL: 3-5
LSE: 4-6

Either way I aim to get to LSE by 20.

Thanks :)
 
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