Some Skewb Questions?

[cubefan4848]

1. Well I just got a QJ skewb and it is pretty good. I took all the ball bearings out because they were annoying me. But my first question is how do I stop the QJ from popping. I mean every solve the centres pop of about three times. So is there a way to at least reduce the pops?

2. Second question is about methods. I basically use the beginner method. I was just wondering what are all the methods out there. I have seen the acubist method and EG from Dan Cohen's video but just wondering if there was any more. The reason I ask is that I have came upn with a few ideas for methods and was just making sure that they weren't methods already?

3. This one is about EG. I can't seem to find anywhere that the algorithms for EG are posted. Can somenone help me with the finding of these Thanks

4. This one is about algorithms. With the method that I have thought of there are a few algorithms but I don't know how to figure out exactly how many. So basiclly what is the formula to work it out?

5. Last one. There is going to be a big number of algorithms that I will have to make and I was just wondering how you work out exactly what the cases are going to be. Like for an example someone trying to work out the PLL cases for the first time how would they have known what the cases were before they started.

I think thats it and thanks in advance to anyone with any help.

 

[Meep]

1. Round the pieces
2. Haven't gotten around to naming and releasing that 'EG' method yet ): It's by Kirjava and Meep
3. See 2.
4. It depends what the method is. Can use both intuition or math
5. Same as 4

 

[cubefan4848]

4. It depends what the method is. Can use both intuition or math

Could you tell me what the math for the number of algorithms for your method is just for an example Thanks

 

[Meep]

Could you tell me what the math for the number of algorithms for your method is just for an example Thanks

We intuitively thought of all the possible cases and counted them for the most part.

 

[Kirjava]

We actually worked out the raw number of cases with maths at first, but since most of the cases in the last step are conjugated versions of other cases it's better to count intuitivly.

If you want to learn how to work out the number of cases for things may I suggest going to Jaap's Puzzle Page and looking at examples until you work out how it works.

 

[cubefan4848]

Do either of you know when and where the method algorithms are going to be up

Oh yeah Thanks for all the help.

Last question what algorithm maker did you use to make your algorithms for the skewb

 

[deadalnix]

You can program your own pretty easily. It's very close to the pyraminc, you can inspire from that.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Last question what algorithm maker did you use to make your algorithms for the skewb

How about the acubist skewb solver?
www.acubist.com