Roussell
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I started cubing around a year-and-a-half ago so I'm fairly new but I'm not the fastest or the slowest. I started solving with lbl move up to cfop pretty quickly. after a year I avarage sub 12 and then about 5 months ago I switch to Roux. During my year using cfop in I casually solved big cubes. one of the things that was holding me back from starting to use Roux earlier was big cubes. it is been said for the longest amount of time that Roux solvers will never be fast at Big cubes I am one of the people who think that is not true anymore.
After a month of using roux I sign up for a competition that offered 5 x 5 I already knew at that time that Roux was my main 3x3 method by far and I wanted to use it on 5x5 but I couldn't find any information. I found a video my kian mansour explaining meyer 4x4 and a web post about mayor for 4x4. so I kind of didn't have much to go off of with a competition approaching I decided to use what I like to call Rouxduction it's free slice into Roux 3x3 stage. I ended up geting 10th in 5x5.
so what really makes Roux a terrible method on the cubes. well first it's the M slices. turning multiple layers with one finger is extremely difficult to master. there is 3 things you can do to make those slices better
1 you can learn how to finger trick in slices properly it's really hard to explain but there are actual finger tricks you need to be using for big cubes with roux.
2 is over lubeing your puzzle it may sound weird to overlube the cube but it comes with a big dowside of you get tired faster.
3 the last option which is what I found in my opinion what makes roux is no longer terrible for big cubes. Its magnetic cubes there is miles of difference between non magnetic and magnetic cubes
so now you're in the slices are way more Stabler and you can fluently finger trick m slices now what is making you so terrible on big cubes now here's the 2nd thing. Roux uses more inspection on a standard 3x3 solve in my opinion which makes it harder on big cubes where there's an immediate transition between edges and 3x3 stage. Now this can be solved with look ahead and practice but, I think this problem solves itself in the wash because Roux uses less moves then cfop so if you are efficient it really doesn't matter that much
So I think if you want to switch to roux and big cubes is holding you back. you have no reason why not to switch because roux is in my opinion just as good as big cubes as cfop.
now over the past three months I have been casuly experimenting on 5x5 6x6 4x4 and have discovered some tips and little things that help make my roux 3x3 stage better and I'm willing to share if people want to hear about them like. I have a special algorithm I use for Dots I even came up with a new-old way of solving 5x5 called M5
I'm hoping this starts a discussion about roux on big cubes because it's an Avenue that people tend to avoid and I would like as much feedback as possible from all sorts of cubers and what your opinions are.
Thanks for reading
For refence I avarage 50 on 4x4 1:40 on 5x5 3:30 on 6x6 I'm not fast but I don't consider my self slow
After a month of using roux I sign up for a competition that offered 5 x 5 I already knew at that time that Roux was my main 3x3 method by far and I wanted to use it on 5x5 but I couldn't find any information. I found a video my kian mansour explaining meyer 4x4 and a web post about mayor for 4x4. so I kind of didn't have much to go off of with a competition approaching I decided to use what I like to call Rouxduction it's free slice into Roux 3x3 stage. I ended up geting 10th in 5x5.
so what really makes Roux a terrible method on the cubes. well first it's the M slices. turning multiple layers with one finger is extremely difficult to master. there is 3 things you can do to make those slices better
1 you can learn how to finger trick in slices properly it's really hard to explain but there are actual finger tricks you need to be using for big cubes with roux.
2 is over lubeing your puzzle it may sound weird to overlube the cube but it comes with a big dowside of you get tired faster.
3 the last option which is what I found in my opinion what makes roux is no longer terrible for big cubes. Its magnetic cubes there is miles of difference between non magnetic and magnetic cubes
so now you're in the slices are way more Stabler and you can fluently finger trick m slices now what is making you so terrible on big cubes now here's the 2nd thing. Roux uses more inspection on a standard 3x3 solve in my opinion which makes it harder on big cubes where there's an immediate transition between edges and 3x3 stage. Now this can be solved with look ahead and practice but, I think this problem solves itself in the wash because Roux uses less moves then cfop so if you are efficient it really doesn't matter that much
So I think if you want to switch to roux and big cubes is holding you back. you have no reason why not to switch because roux is in my opinion just as good as big cubes as cfop.
now over the past three months I have been casuly experimenting on 5x5 6x6 4x4 and have discovered some tips and little things that help make my roux 3x3 stage better and I'm willing to share if people want to hear about them like. I have a special algorithm I use for Dots I even came up with a new-old way of solving 5x5 called M5
I'm hoping this starts a discussion about roux on big cubes because it's an Avenue that people tend to avoid and I would like as much feedback as possible from all sorts of cubers and what your opinions are.
Thanks for reading
For refence I avarage 50 on 4x4 1:40 on 5x5 3:30 on 6x6 I'm not fast but I don't consider my self slow
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