Roux Orientation Difficulties

[Tubrista]

I've been using Waffle's Roux tutorial to learn the method, and I've got most everything down to step 4a - the orientation of 'bad' edges. I can spot which ones are bad, but I just don't get what to do with the M' U M' algs, and what 'cycling' is. If anyone could explain this in simple terms... maybe give an example... I'd be eternally grateful.

TY

 

[5BLD]

Old nooby video. Should help though. If you want me to make new tutorials ask me. This should be fine though. Also go check the site PandaCuber and I made (in my signature).

Also have you even read Gilles' site? Just a thought. It honestly shocks me that people who learn Roux nowadays don't even know who Gilles Roux is, let alone his site :/

 

[Tubrista]

As a matter of fact, I know who Gilles Roux is, and I've also read his site. It's just I found it a bit hard to understand without a video example of it - which is my reasoning behind using wafflejim's.
Thx, btw, for the video. Informative! I liked it.

 

[Bestsimple]

Well personally I learn't of Gilles's site and found it pretty straight forward so i don't really know any other tutorials that i can link you. However I can give you an example.

Scramble: M2 U2 M U2 M' U' M' U' M U' M U2 M' U M2 U' M2 U M U2 M U2 M' U' M'

4a: U' M' U M' (This is the easiest case with 3 on top it's simply M' U M', however i should not that you can choose the last 2 moves. What i mean by that is the M' is mandatory because you have to bring the bad edge towards the 3 pieces on top but after that you can choose whether to do a U/U" and a M/M".

4b: U2 M2 (pretty self explanatory the UR and UL edges are already connected so just U2 to adjust the top face then insert the edges)

4c: U' M2 U2 M' U2 M (Adjust then 4c case then adjust M layer)

Cycling is basically where instead of solving the orientation directly with algs, that involve stuff other than M,U, you cycle through the cases , using M and U, till you get 3 on top then orientate it. The six flip is really probably the worst case but there are some really nifty tricks with misorientated centres that provide short cuts. On Gilles's website he tells you how to cycle through the orientation cases. So check it out and go to the Lse and if you don't understand anything tell me.

Edit:
Woops i just realized this was ages ago!! lol sorry you probably already know how Lse works by now. Lol sorry