[Help Thread] Square-1 Discussion

[TMOY]

Can someone link me to the adj-adj alg that also flips middle layer?

Turning an alg whch doesn't flip middle layer into one which does, or conversely, is really easy. If the last moves (before adjusting faces) of the alg are (a,b) /, just do (a+6,b) / (6,0) / instead. I use that trick all the time.

 

[vcuber13]

-2/3/-1,-1/4,1/-6/

 

[brandbest1]

Me neither, v2 and cubetwist both felt horrible to me. Do they still sell v1s? I bought one a while ago as backup but comps here in Canada don't seem to sell them anymore. What is this Calvin's square-1 everyone's been talking about?

The mf8 v1's can be bought at hknowstore. and the calvin's square-1 is the new square-1 that was produced by hknowstore.

 

[Michael Womack]

I recommend learning from here http://www.cubezone.be/square1.html

 

[sa11297]

What is the difference between face turn metric and twist metric on qqtimer and what are their uses? and I should use random state, right?

 

[vcuber13]

face counts Us Ds and /s, twist counts /s, and you should use random state

 

[sa11297]

Both of those video's would help you a lot. the second is a bit tougher to understand for some people so if you don't understand it right away don't let yourself get frustrated

ok, I am already faster with the second method than I was with my original method. What should I average for cubeshape if I want to average sub 40, sub 30, sub 20?

face counts Us Ds and /s, twist counts /s, and you should use random state

ok thanks.

 

[vcuber13]

how do you guys do h-z?

 

[Lid]

how do you guys do h-z?

I use this one: / (-3,-3) / (-3,0) / (-5,1) / (4,-2) / (-2,1) / (3,3) / :: Z/H: / (-3,-3) / (3,0) / (5,-1) / (2,-4) / (-1,2) / (-3,-3) /

 

[Jokerman5656]

ok, I am already faster with the second method than I was with my original method. What should I average for cubeshape if I want to average sub 40, sub 30, sub 20?


ok thanks.

i'd say 10 seconds is the max for cubeshape. i believe i average about 3-4. and i feel like i'm slow

 

[blade740]

J Can someone link me to the adj-adj alg that also flips middle layer?

I use two: (0,-1)/(-3,0)/(1,1)/(-4,1)/(6,0)/ from the front, and (0,-1)/(0,3)/(0,6)/(1,-5)/(-1,2)/ from the back.

how do you guys do h-z?

Opp/Opp to Opp/O. It's pretty fast, but Lid's alg looks nice, so I might learn that.

 

[MTGjumper]

Does a sq1 image generator exist?

 

[blade740]

Does a sq1 image generator exist?

http://andrewknelson.com/imsq.php?s...kers=yywyyywwwwyywwywggrgoobbobrrggrgorobobrb

 

[brandbest1]

http://andrewknelson.com/imsq.php?s...kers=yywyyywwwwyywwywggrgoobbobrrggrgorobobrb

How come I never heard of this? Time to use these...

EDIT: How do you make a sticker gray?

 

[vcuber13]

I use two: (0,-1)/(-3,0)/(1,1)/(4,-1)/(6,0)/ from the front, and (0,-1)/(0,3)/(0,6)/(1,-5)/(-1,2)/ from the back.

should be (-4,1)

Opp/Opp to Opp/O. It's pretty fast, but Lid's alg looks nice, so I might learn that.

i was messing around after i posted that and found this

 

[blade740]

How come I never heard of this? Time to use these...

EDIT: How do you make a sticker gray?

x:

http://andrewknelson.com/imsq.php?s...kers=wwwwwwwwyyyyyyyyrgxgoxobxbrxrgxgoxobxbrx

 

[brandbest1]

x:

http://andrewknelson.com/imsq.php?s...kers=wwwwwwwwyyyyyyyyrgxgoxobxbrxrgxgoxobxbrx

Why thank you, Andrew.

 

[Outsmash]

So addicted to Sq-1.

On topic; http://www.cstimer.net/timer.php
There are three options for the scrambles. I've been using twist metric all this time. Someone said "random state" is the official way. But the cubeshapes that come from the random state scrambles seem very limited and easy :S

Am I correct or has it just been a coincidence?

 

[MTGjumper]

The official random state scrambler definitely gives "harder" cubeshapes more often. I haven't tried that timer so I don't know what it's like.

 

[vcuber13]

i did a few scrambles and there was one easy, normal, and hard. the menu looks the same as qqtimers, i would assume the code is copied, but i cant see the source for the scrambler.