The One-Answer Question Thread [closed]

[~Phoenix Death~]

:fp The V2b is not comp legal. The V7 is comp legal because it is the only (legal) 7x7 available, and it would not be as practical to make a puzzle with that many pieces cubic.

X Cube 7

 

[kprox1994]

X Cube 7

Vcube was the first 7x7 though.

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

Vcube was the first 7x7 though.

My point was that it IS practical to make a puzzle with that many pieces cubic.

 

[emolover]

MTGjumper posted in the Accomplishment thread that he had solved a 25x25 nonogram. Does anyone have a link to this?

 

[thackernerd]

I want to buy about 5 non cubic puzzles what should i get?

 

[cuberkid10]

Megaminx, Pyraminx, Master Magic, YJ Apple Cube, Skewb. (I know skewb is cubic, but it is totally different from other cubic puzzles.)

 

[emolover]

I want to buy about 5 non cubic puzzles what should i get?

Shims master pyraminx, mefferts professor pyraminx, shims royal pyraminx, coldayar's void petaminx and oscars big boulder.

 

[Akash Rupela]

Hi, i just got my shengshou 5 yesterday and started solving 5x5. I have done around 10 solves, my last solve(best) was 9:09 . That was roughly 2:15-2:30 for centers (intuitive, first white, then yellow, then red, then green, and then i use center switching algorithm that robh0629 showed on his youtube channel to swap a single center piece). around 5 minute for edge(i just do basic pairing, pair one edge, take it out of way, and bring another one), around 20-30 seconds for parity, i have to look up the alg and apply it(not learnt yet). and finally around 1 minute for the 3x3 part(my fingers arent used to this much plus its not supersmooth guhong that will do rough cutting so a little bit more).
I want your suggestions on, How much do my centers need improvement? Should i just keep them intuitive at this stage? Or any tutorials you have for me?
Also please give a good tutorial for edges, i dont mind if its tough, but i will be more comfortable if it has less algorithms
Thankyou in advance

 

[Akash Rupela]

Sorry for bumping in 5 hours, but please reply, my college will start in a week, i wont have much time to learn then. Found no links in the wiki

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

Sorry for bumping in 5 hours, but please reply, my college will start in a week, i wont have much time to learn then. Found no links in the wiki

I would look into freeslicing for the edges and also work on your 3x3 stage

 

[Godmil]

Sorry for bumping in 5 hours, but please reply, my college will start in a week, i wont have much time to learn then. Found no links in the wiki

Check out Dan Cohen's youTube channel for great example solves.

For good non-cubic Puzzles, I find 3x3x2 and 3x3x4 to be really fun.

 

[aminayuko]

first 4 centers: http://www.youtube.com/user/monkeydude1313#p/search/3/YLBjceIa5yE
last 2 centers: http://www.youtube.com/user/monkeydude1313#p/search/6/xdNo6g31Bj0
most of the edges: http://www.youtube.com/user/monkeydude1313#p/search/4/F-PEZXGcRq4
last 2 edges: http://www.youtube.com/user/MeMyselfAndPi#p/search/21/AKnhclWxMTM
for 3x3, turn neater and slow down.

 

[da25centz]

What grit sandpaper is recommended for the AV mod?

doesn't really matter, but relatively fine. I went with 150ish i think

 

[MoRpHiiNe]

What do I need to improve most?
My breakdown is something like;
Cross: 4-5
F2l: 18-20
OLL: 4-6
PLL: 4-6

I'm still using 4LLL too.

I'm thinking I'd either need to keep practicing f2l, learn pll or just work on finger tricks?
I'm unsure of what to do first though and the time it'll take, so if anyone's able to offer advice it'd be appreciated .

 

[thackernerd]

Hi, i just got my shengshou 5 yesterday and started solving 5x5. I have done around 10 solves, my last solve(best) was 9:09 . That was roughly 2:15-2:30 for centers (intuitive, first white, then yellow, then red, then green, and then i use center switching algorithm that robh0629 showed on his youtube channel to swap a single center piece). around 5 minute for edge(i just do basic pairing, pair one edge, take it out of way, and bring another one), around 20-30 seconds for parity, i have to look up the alg and apply it(not learnt yet). and finally around 1 minute for the 3x3 part(my fingers arent used to this much plus its not supersmooth guhong that will do rough cutting so a little bit more).
I want your suggestions on, How much do my centers need improvement? Should i just keep them intuitive at this stage? Or any tutorials you have for me?
Also please give a good tutorial for edges, i dont mind if its tough, but i will be more comfortable if it has less algorithms
Thankyou in advance

Bigcubes.com is the way to go.

 

[kprox1994]

What do I need to improve most?
My breakdown is something like;
Cross: 4-5
F2l: 18-20
OLL: 4-6
PLL: 4-6

I'm still using 4LLL too.

I'm thinking I'd either need to keep practicing f2l, learn pll or just work on finger tricks?
I'm unsure of what to do first though and the time it'll take, so if anyone's able to offer advice it'd be appreciated .

Def F2L, Get your Cross+F2L at least sub 20 before you start working on PLL imo.

 

[Ltsurge]

id say the same
im doing about the same time but my f2l is 10-15
i average 33 ish but i know almost no Last layer algs

 

[Godmil]

Really you should be working on all of them, and F2L is certainly the most important as it's the longest part of a CFOP solve... but I'd try to get PLL out of the way soon, then when you're working on everything else you'll also be getting used to recognition and execution of the PLL's. If you just learn one alg a day you could have them all done in a couple of weeks.

 

[Raiz]

what is that card thingy that comes with the dayan zanchi used for?

 

[blue7777100]

When doing PLL do you do the algorithm and then orient the top layer so the cube is solved or do you orient the top layer first so when you preform the algoritm the final result is a solved cube? just wondering becuase i learn all my PLL algoritms and started to try to use them while speedsolving and relaized i do not know which method above to use? or does it matter? thanks