Speedsolving Methods ...?

[Cride5]

anyway... theres no good way to accurately rank all of those, besides LBL being at the bottom.

so if fridrich is just as good as everything else, why do 90% of speed cubers use it?

Because people erroneously reason that if the world record holder uses the method, then it must be the fastest method. They are not completely correct. Methods like ZZ and ZB have potential to become much faster, but, sadly, few cubers want to bother learning something unpopular. As a result, speedcubing has all but stagnated. The only changes to the Fridrich method were new OLL or PLL algorithms.

well put *thumbs up*

Reasons why ZZ has potential:

• R U L face turns improve F2L ergonomics
• No cube rotations improves ergonomics
• Oriented edges improves F2L lookahead
• Initial EOLine phase makes better use of inspection time (compared with Fridrich cross)
• Automatic orientation of U-Face edges means:
  • Fewer OLL algs required for OLL/PLL (comparing with Fridrich)
  • More options for LL including COLL/EPLL, WV etc
  • Not impossible to achieve 1LLL (although difficult)