Oh my...! A new record for me! 9-move solution! (To a 13-move scramble.)
The cancellation is really good with this one, and the original solution was already short (17 moves).
Oh my...! A new record for me! 9-move solution! (To a 13-move scramble.)
The cancellation is really good with this one, and the original solution was already short (17 moves).
Thanks! And this is a quite simple method I'm using. Solve the corners, then do edge-patterns (I only have a handful patterns: checkerboard, H, L, twisted H, twisted L, 3-perm, H-PLL; and I think that's all). Adjust individual algorithms (mirror, inverse, etc) in a way that at the borders there will be as many cancellations as possible.
Thanks! And this is a quite simple method I'm using. Solve the corners, then do edge-patterns (I only have a handful patterns: checkerboard, H, L, twisted H, twisted L, 3-perm, H-PLL; and I think that's all). Adjust individual algorithms (mirror, inverse, etc) in a way that at the borders there will be as many cancellations as possible.
Here is another nice solution with 11-STM / 12 HTM!
It took me literally less than a minute:
Most of the edges were misplaced, so I started with checkerboard. Then I noticed it's a combination of a twisted H-pattern (one of the worst edge patterns) and an L-pattern. I chose the orders in a way that there will be cancellation (E2 S2 M2 can be in any order, so M2 + R2 cancels to r2; and the L-pattern is either (F2 L2)3 or (L2 F2)3, it was an obvious choice). And that's it.
It took me literally less than a minute:
Most of the edges were misplaced, so I started with checkerboard. Then I noticed it's a combination of a twisted H-pattern (one of the worst edge patterns) and an L-pattern. I chose the orders in a way that there will be cancellation (E2 S2 M2 can be in any order, so M2 + R2 cancels to r2; and the L-pattern is either (F2 L2)3 or (L2 F2)3, it was an obvious choice). And that's it.