[Help Thread] Skewb Discussion

[AlphaCuber is awesome]

Hello there! I recently started skewb and I haven't come across too many good tutorials/guides to solving one. I can solve one at around 50 seconds right now using the beginners method posted by Z3 on his channel but I want to know what other methods people would recommend and also what the majority of people use. I assume it's quite similar to 2x2 with it's list of eg, eg 2, cll algorithms but I'm not sure where to start. If you could leave a reply on any suggestions that wound be great. Thanks!

Learn Sarah’s intermediate and polish sledge and hedge and then get sub 6. After that you can learn advanced and try to get sub 4.5/4 and then start looking into high level alg sets such as NS, EG2 and TCLL.

 

[Nathanael]

The SpeedSolving wiki is pretty good, here's the link for a list of Skewb methods on the wiki: https://www.speedsolving.com/wiki/index.php/List_of_Skewb_methods

Learn Sarah’s intermediate and polish sledge and hedge and then get sub 6. After that you can learn advanced and try to get sub 4.5/4 and then start looking into high level alg sets such as NS, EG2 and TCLL.

Thank you. Your answers are very useful!

 

[Cubingcubecuber]

Z3 Cubing has a video on Sarah’s intermediate, and there are algs at sarah.cubing.net

 

[Wish Lin]

Hello there! I recently started skewb and I haven't come across too many good tutorials/guides to solving one. I can solve one at around 50 seconds right now using the beginners method posted by Z3 on his channel but I want to know what other methods people would recommend and also what the majority of people use. I assume it's quite similar to 2x2 with it's list of eg, eg 2, cll algorithms but I'm not sure where to start. If you could leave a reply on any suggestions that wound be great. Thanks!

Z3cubing’s beginners method is basically Sarah’s beginner, and his intermediate is basically Sarah’s intermediate, finishing both of those videos will make you solve the skewb in AT LEAST 10 seconds.

In my case, my average is about 6~7 secs back then with only those two vids and a lot of practice.

You can learn Sarah’s advanced if you reallllllllllly like skewb, and I remember @u Cube has a great vid on it.

 

[Deleted member 51471]

Try to get sub-20 with your current method. It's super easy.
You can get like sub-4 and maybe even sub-3 with the intermediate method.

 

[AlphaCuber is awesome]

Try to get sub-20 with your current method. It's super easy.
You can get like sub-4 and maybe even sub-3 with the intermediate method.

You can’t get sub 3 with intermediate and I don’t advise trying to go further than sub 5 with it. Also the best advanced tutorial is Luigi Soriano’s

 

[CubingNewfie]

It is important to do Polish sledgehammers.

 

[I'm A Cuber]

It is important to do Polish sledgehammers.

What’s a polish sledgehammer?

 

[Cubingcubecuber]

What’s a polish sledgehammer?

According to google translate it is młot kowalski

 

[Nathanael]

It is important to do Polish sledgehammers.

I learnt that today... very fun to execute!

 

[TheSlykrCubr]

What method is most common for Skewb? Want to know

 

[Deleted member 51471]

Sarah Strong's methods.

 

[TheSlykrCubr]

Sarah Strong's methods.

Ok, and is that the one used by the world class solvers?

 

[Deleted member 51471]

Ok, and is that the one used by the world class solvers?

yup

 

[Josh_]

Want to know

Sarah’s beginner: Make a layer, orient opposite layer corners, solve opposite layer center, solve e layer centers.
Sarah’s intermediate: make a layer, solve opposite layer, solve e layer centers.
Sarah’s advanced: solve a layer, solve everything else in one alg with sledges and hedges.
NS: make a layer and solve everything else in one alg (same as Sarah’s advanced but most cases have a faster alg with no sledges/hedges)

I’m pretty sure Sarah’s intermediate is the most common.
World class solvers use ns or other alg sets that do the same thing as ns.

 

[SpeedCubing RDJ]

Hi, it’s been a long time since we have discussed about skewb.

What‘s the fastest and best method?

Feel free to post your thoughts and questions here.

 

[OreKehStrah]

My thoughts is that you should use the long established skewb discussion thread

 

[SpeedCubing RDJ]

Hey guys, I watched Carter Kucala’s tutorial on NS method for Skewb, and I have the pdf for the algs. How do I learn these? Is this worth learning? How about Sarah‘s advanced?

 

[GenTheSnail]

Given that Carter broke the two second barrier and set the world record, I'd say his algs are worth learning.

 

[Timona]

What notation is this and how do I interprete it?