Teenage cubers discussion

[SolveThatCube]

Imagine Kevin doing a 6x6 ao1000 in one day...

 

[Matt11111]

Imagine Kevin doing a 6x6 ao1000 in one day...

Only if a day is more than 1,440 minutes.

 

[SolveThatCube]

Only if a day is more than 1,440 minutes.

Good point

 

[Tycubing]

Only if a day is more than 1,440 minutes.

Plus scrambles and breaks

 

[wir3sandfir3s]

Who else thinks CFOP is too mainstream??? Please tell me I'm not the only one.

 

[Matt11111]

Bingo!

Kevin buys a thousand 6x6s and scrambles them days in advance. At midnight on the Sunday when DST ends, he starts solving. Then at 11 p.m. that same day, he stops time and finishes whatever he has left.

 

[SolveThatCube]

Plus scrambles and breaks

Maybe in a few years?

 

[Tycubing]

Bingo!

Kevin buys a thousand 6x6s and scrambles them days in advance. At midnight on the Sunday when DST ends, he starts solving. Then at 11 p.m. that same day, he stops time and finishes whatever he has left.

All I can hear is "cha-ching"
Plus he would have to eat sleep and go to the bathroom

 

[Matt11111]

All I can hear is "cha-ching"
Plus he would have to eat sleep and go to the bathroom

Yeah, that's why I said stop time.

 

[Tycubing]

Who else thinks CFOP is too mainstream??? Please tell me I'm not the only one.

It is very simple to learn and easy to remember. That's why so many people use it

 

[turtwig]

Who else thinks CFOP is too mainstream??? Please tell me I'm not the only one.

It's also the closest method to LBL, which almost everyone learns as their first method. Since the other methods like Roux or ZZ aren't inherently better, most people don't bother to switch. There's also a lot more resources for CFOP (walkthrough solves, algs, sites and videos in general).

 

[Daniel Lin]

Who else thinks CFOP is too mainstream??? Please tell me I'm not the only one.

I've been using CFOP for the longest and I'm the fastest with it (16ish seconds)
But I mainly practice Roux now (low 20s)

I think Roux may be slightly better than CFOP, because it has a lower movecount, but pretty good lookahead as well. Using CFOP is too inefficient, but using something like Heise/Petrus is bad because you can't get TPS.

 

[Matt11111]

CFOP is my main method and I'm the fastest with it (16ish seconds)
But I mainly practice Roux now (low 20s)

Good luck.

 

[Tycubing]

I've been using CFOP for the longest and I'm the fastest with it (16ish seconds)
But I mainly practice Roux now (low 20s)

I think Roux may be slightly better than CFOP, because it has a lower movecount, but pretty good lookahead as well. Using CFOP is too inefficient, but using something like Heise/Petrus is bad because you can't get TPS.

I honestly think that a small decrease in moves wouldn't make me switch to Roux

 

[shadowslice e]

I honestly think that a small decrease in moves wouldn't make me switch to Roux

It's not actually that small and I think that unless you put a fair amount of work into ROLL or some similar recognition system then the lookahead is better and you have less algs and there are a fair few people who say that it is a lot more fun. If you think that I am not a credible enough source I refer you to the comparison of methods OP in the How to/Guides sections where some of the best in the world admit that if they weren't already committed to CFOP they would use Roux as it has a slight advantage in their opinion.

 

[turtwig]

CFOP's also good for big cubes and feet.

 

[shadowslice e]

CFOP's also good for big cubes and feet.

Alex says Roux is good for feet but I guess that's Alex. But I take your point for 5x5+

 

[Matt11111]

Alex says Roux is good for feet but I guess that's Alex. But I take your point for 5x5+

Roooouuuuxxxx? For feeeeeeet?

 

[turtwig]

Okay, I get that you can do that tabling thing for OH Roux, but I see no way for feet other than R' L for M' etc.

 

[shadowslice e]

Roooouuuuxxxx? For feeeeeeet?

It is Alex