The One-Answer Question Thread [closed]

[Edward]

Have you tried Ryan Heise's site? http://www.ryanheise.com/cube/commutators.html

Well now I did. Same thing as with the thread. This is probably due to my lack of smarts in cube stuff.

I want to learn BH D:
EDIT: This is why I love youtube.

 

[vcuber13]

do you mean on 3x3?
because there is some good videos on youtube for 4x4, like fallofshadows and mine

 

[amostay2004]

Have you tried Ryan Heise's site? http://www.ryanheise.com/cube/commutators.html

Well now I did. Same thing as with the thread. This is probably due to my lack of smarts in cube stuff.

I want to learn BH D:
EDIT: This is why I love youtube.

Try byu's BH tutorial?
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12268

I never bothered to watch the videos, just read the text, and experiment and practise a lot. It takes time.

 

[Edward]

Have you tried Ryan Heise's site? http://www.ryanheise.com/cube/commutators.html

Well now I did. Same thing as with the thread. This is probably due to my lack of smarts in cube stuff.

I want to learn BH D:
EDIT: This is why I love youtube.

Try byu's BH tutorial?
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12268

I never bothered to watch the videos, just read the text, and experiment and practise a lot. It takes time.

Yeah what I meant was, I want to understand commutators so I can learn BH better, instead of going from BH to commutators. I'm getting there. I found a really good youtube tut (darn me for not searching there first)

 

[cincyaviation]

Have you tried Ryan Heise's site? http://www.ryanheise.com/cube/commutators.html

Well now I did. Same thing as with the thread. This is probably due to my lack of smarts in cube stuff.

I want to learn BH D:
EDIT: This is why I love youtube.

Try byu's BH tutorial?
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12268

I never bothered to watch the videos, just read the text, and experiment and practise a lot. It takes time.

Yeah what I meant was, I want to understand commutators so I can learn BH better, instead of going from BH to commutators. I'm getting there. I found a really good youtube tut (darn me for not searching there first)

link to good tutorial please

 

[Edward]

Have you tried Ryan Heise's site? http://www.ryanheise.com/cube/commutators.html

Well now I did. Same thing as with the thread. This is probably due to my lack of smarts in cube stuff.

I want to learn BH D:
EDIT: This is why I love youtube.

Try byu's BH tutorial?
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12268

I never bothered to watch the videos, just read the text, and experiment and practise a lot. It takes time.

Yeah what I meant was, I want to understand commutators so I can learn BH better, instead of going from BH to commutators. I'm getting there. I found a really good youtube tut (darn me for not searching there first)

link to good tutorial please

This dude's channel
whop whop

 

[Khartaras]

I'm averaging very high 20s. My lookahead stinks and practice doesn't seem to improve my times much. Tips?

 

[uberCuber]

I'm averaging low 30s. My lookahead stinks and practice doesn't seem to improve my times much. Tips?

practice without a timer and purposely go slower to practice lookahead

 

[Khartaras]

Ok, thanks for the answer. Also, does anyone know where you can find a SpeedStacks timer with the mat on Lightake or PopBuying?

 

[TheMachanga]

Ok, thanks for the answer. Also, does anyone know where you can find a SpeedStacks timer with the mat on Lightake or PopBuying?

I bought mine from speedstacks.com

 

[James Ludlow]

My majic clock has many scratches and is taped together after I lubed it. Is it competition legal?

Mine was a disgrace. Really badly scratched and taped with masking tape. It should be fine.

 

[amostay2004]

Have you tried Ryan Heise's site? http://www.ryanheise.com/cube/commutators.html

Well now I did. Same thing as with the thread. This is probably due to my lack of smarts in cube stuff.

I want to learn BH D:
EDIT: This is why I love youtube.

Try byu's BH tutorial?
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12268

I never bothered to watch the videos, just read the text, and experiment and practise a lot. It takes time.

Yeah what I meant was, I want to understand commutators so I can learn BH better, instead of going from BH to commutators. I'm getting there. I found a really good youtube tut (darn me for not searching there first)

In the BH tutorial, you start by learning about pure commutators, and that's pretty much all you need to know about commutators before progressing onto more complicated BH cases.

 

[TheMachanga]

Another clock question:

How do I keep the pins from staying where they are meant? If I tilt it every pin that is pushed up goes down.

 

[That70sShowDude]

if you stick a screwdriver into the screw and try to push the core back into place

Nope.
Anything else?

(This is about the misaligned core on my Maru 4x4 btw. If anybody else sees this)

 

[musicninja17]

How long does it take to break in a mini qj 4x4? I have one, just starting to really get into 4x4, i'm impatient, and I don't like its corner cutting.

 

[Metallor]

Does anyone know of a good webpage which has the chance of each orientation on it? Im wanting to learn all but want to start with the most common ones. Thanks

 

[ben1996123]

Does anyone know of a good webpage which has the chance of each orientation on it? Im wanting to learn all but want to start with the most common ones. Thanks

website with chance of each oll

good olls

 

[Godmil]

Wee algorithm question... I've recently started relearning the cube after a 7 year break, I'm taking it easy with a slow F2L, 2 look OLL and 2 look PLL, but there is one stage in the PLL that slows me down a lot. I know a nice algorithm for swapping two adjacent corners, but I don't know how to swap two opposite corners. I could do the one I know twice, but I've got a slow cube so I'm trying to minimise repetition as much as possible.

So can anyone recommend a good algorithm for swapping two opposite corners without messing up the OLL. It's State 2 on this page if my description wasn't clear: http://www.learn2cube.com/beginners/step6

Thanks.

 

[CubesOfTheWorld]

Wee algorithm question... I've recently started relearning the cube after a 7 year break, I'm taking it easy with a slow F2L, 2 look OLL and 2 look PLL, but there is one stage in the PLL that slows me down a lot. I know a nice algorithm for swapping two adjacent corners, but I don't know how to swap two opposite corners. I could do the one I know twice, but I've got a slow cube so I'm trying to minimise repetition as much as possible.

So can anyone recommend a good algorithm for swapping two opposite corners without messing up the OLL. It's State 2 on this page if my description wasn't clear: http://www.learn2cube.com/beginners/step6

Thanks.

It's impossible to switch 2 opposite corners without switching edges along with it.

 

[Godmil]

It's impossible to switch 2 opposite corners without switching edges along with it.

Yes you're right sorry, I should have said I don't mind what it does to the edges, as long as it keeps them with the same colour pointed up.