The One-Answer Question Thread [closed]

[Methuselah96]

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?17-Forum-Competitions
This is where that would go

No, that is not where it goes. That is for forum competitions. There is no official sub-forum for unofficial competitions (it would be cool if there was). Unofficial competitions seem to be moved to here now: http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?43-Local-Cubing-Groups.

 

[Amress]

not sure if this has been asked before, but can someone give me a link to a tutorial that shows how to connect a stackmat v3 to my computer?

 

[yoinneroid]

I'm looking to be a competition organizer, but the CubingUSA competition guide seems to be lacking in a few places. If you're competition organizer, how do you set up things on CubeComps? Does the delegate handle that? Or do you get the CubeComps info after you tell CubingUSA and WCA that it's an official competition??? Slightly confused.

cubecomps isn't really a WCA official thing, so you need to contact them directly
scroll down at cubecomps.com you should see how to contact them

 

[TheGrayCuber]

not sure if this has been asked before, but can someone give me a link to a tutorial that shows how to connect a stackmat v3 to my computer?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE0OoUhP6pU

 

[Ninja Storm]

Does the v3 Stackmat work with cstimer?

 

[OliverTwist]

CAN someone explain this 4 by 4 solve issue?

I was onto 3 by 3 stage PLEASE HELP

 

[slinky773]

CAN someone explain this 4 by 4 solve issue?
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I was onto 3 by 3 stage PLEASE HELP

OLL parity. During reduction, when you are pairing up dedges, you can switch edges and consequently flip their orientation. As a result, you get this OLL that you can't get on a 3x3. You will also see something called PLL parity, where two dedges (and nothing else) are swapped. There are algorithms for both on the speedsolving wiki here, and youtube videos, like this.

Just for your information, I use these algorithms:

OLL: Rw U2 x Rw U2 Rw U2 Rw' U2 Lw U2 Rw' U2 Rw U2 Rw' U2 Rw' (flips corners and dedge)
PLL: Rw2 R2 U2 Rw2 R2 Uw2 Rw2 R2 Uw2 U2 (swaps front and back dedge)

 

[Cale S]

CAN someone explain this 4 by 4 solve issue?
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I was onto 3 by 3 stage PLEASE HELP

Your centers aren't in the correct places relative to each other, so you need to switch blue/green or red/orange.

 

[Tao Yu]

CAN someone explain this 4 by 4 solve issue?
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I was onto 3 by 3 stage PLEASE HELP

OLL parity. During reduction, when you are pairing up dedges, you can switch edges and consequently flip their orientation. As a result, you get this OLL that you can't get on a 3x3. You will also see something called PLL parity, where two dedges (and nothing else) are swapped. There are algorithms for both on the speedsolving wiki here, and youtube videos, like this.

Just for your information, I use these algorithms:

OLL: Rw U2 x Rw U2 Rw U2 Rw' U2 Lw U2 Rw' U2 Rw U2 Rw' U2 Rw' (flips corners and dedge)
PLL: Rw2 R2 U2 Rw2 R2 Uw2 Rw2 R2 Uw2 U2 (swaps front and back dedge)

As well as OLL parity, you have the centers wrong. Your need to either switch the green and blue centers or the red and orange centers.

To fix, without breaking up your edges, do u2 M2 u2 M2 (u2 moves the top two layers, M2 moves the inner two layers). This switches the F and B centers.

 

[slinky773]

Your centers aren't in the correct places relative to each other, so you need to switch blue/green or red/orange.

Oops, never mind, Cale is right.

 

[SolveThatCube]

If you stop the timer but the cube still needs an M or M' move to solve it, is it a +2 or a DNF?

 

[slinky773]

If you stop the timer but the cube still needs an M or M' move to solve it, is it a +2 or a DNF?

DNF. In HTM, Outer Block Metric, whatever the WCA uses (I believe they call it outer block metric but it's basically HTM if I recall correctly), slice moves are 2 moves.

 

[SolveThatCube]

DNF. In HTM, Outer Block Metric, whatever the WCA uses (I believe they call it outer block metric but it's basically HTM if I recall correctly), slice moves are 2 moves.

So if it needed a U2 it would be a DNF too?

 

[slinky773]

So if it needed a U2 it would be a DNF too?

No, a U2 is considered one move. Read the regulations, man... 12a3. FYI, by 12a3, the reason why M or M' is 2 moves is because it's R' L x or R L' x or Rw R' or Rw' R.

 

[Smiles]

In 3BLD using M2, how would I shoot from the buffer (DF) to BD to FU? Without doing EO separately afterwards.

 

[Antonie faz fan]

so yeah, my skewb broke while having my holiday in but my dad has less holiday and he already returned home. in the meanwhile when he was home my skewb broke and i couldnt fix it. i sended him a messege saying that after the progress i maid i didn't want to miss skewb at my next comp ( german nationals 6-7 september). so i sended in a different message a link to cubezz it would be the first time for me to get a cube from them. he cube shipped on 10th of august from sweden to the netherlands, does anyone know what the estimated arival would be?

 

[h2f]

In 3BLD using M2, how would I shoot from the buffer (DF) to BD to FU? Without doing EO separately afterwards.

There are special algorithms for these cases. Look here, Noah explains everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o49SnZhr2oM

 

[wesgtp]

I'm looking to bring my F2L time down (current best of 5 is 26 secs). I've always done F2L intuitively but I know there are certain moves that can be memorized for specific cases. My question is there a name for these? What are the easiest to start with? Thanks

 

[CriticalCubing]

Check the speedsolving wiki for all the f2l cases! You can find algs there!

I'm looking to bring my F2L time down (current best of 5 is 26 secs). I've always done F2L intuitively but I know there are certain moves that can be memorized for specific cases. My question is there a name for these? What are the easiest to start with? Thanks

 

[FailCuber]

so yeah, my skewb broke while having my holiday in but my dad has less holiday and he already returned home. in the meanwhile when he was home my skewb broke and i couldnt fix it. i sended him a messege saying that after the progress i maid i didn't want to miss skewb at my next comp ( german nationals 6-7 september). so i sended in a different message a link to cubezz it would be the first time for me to get a cube from them. he cube shipped on 10th of august from sweden to the netherlands, does anyone know what the estimated arival would be?

7 to 20 business days.


Also, I don't know how to solve a skewb yet. What method should I learn? Ranzha's or Sarah's?