Athefre
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I often think about how great of a discovery this method is. It is simple and symmetrical. It is parallel Waterman in appearance and solves the look-ahead problem of corners first methods. The first block solves all of the pieces where your left hand holds the cube and would normally be blocking your view of that area. After the first block, almost everything is in view with a great moveset. This freedom means that second block doesn't take many moves. Then CMLL only requires the solver to learn 42 algorithms to be competitive at the top level.
Not only did Gilles find this simple method, he found an amazing way to finish. Anyone else might have decided that it was enough to have FB+SB+CMLL and just used any of the various LSE methods that already existed for corners first methods. Initially the Roux method was using those older LSE methods. Then what is used now was found. I think the Roux LSE method is an even greater discovery than the 3x3 method itself. The iterative process of orienting the edges was a new concept that turned out to be the best way to do it. Even further, it was found that the UL+UR edges can be solved during this EO process and the M-Slice edges can be influenced during the final turns of solving UL+UR. Each substep melts together to form a single step.
It is a great thing to see that this method has grown to have such a large community of solvers.
Not only did Gilles find this simple method, he found an amazing way to finish. Anyone else might have decided that it was enough to have FB+SB+CMLL and just used any of the various LSE methods that already existed for corners first methods. Initially the Roux method was using those older LSE methods. Then what is used now was found. I think the Roux LSE method is an even greater discovery than the 3x3 method itself. The iterative process of orienting the edges was a new concept that turned out to be the best way to do it. Even further, it was found that the UL+UR edges can be solved during this EO process and the M-Slice edges can be influenced during the final turns of solving UL+UR. Each substep melts together to form a single step.
It is a great thing to see that this method has grown to have such a large community of solvers.