The One-Answer Question Thread [closed]

[Faz]

Y'know, just.. like... turn faster.

 

[franklooi96]

Practice fingertricks often.. like Double U and also, practice makes perfect and it needs patient..

 

[KConny]

I believe rubbing your belly with Rhode Island dressing while reciting PI, backwards, helps a lot.

Srlsy, pracise? R U R' U'....

 

[d4m4s74]

I just did a few RUR'U's as fast as possible and one smooth
the smooth one turned out to be faster because the cube didn't lock

so I'd say just try to turn smooth, speed will come on it's own

 

[bundat]

Turn faster.

But seriously...

1) Study your algs in slow motion.

For example, when doing R U R', upon further observation while doing it slow, you can cut the corner with U when the R turn exceeded the 90-degree turn by a bit, while you can cut the corner with the R' turn even before you complete 90-degrees with the U turn.

So if you put a lot of wrist force in the R turn (so as to always exceed 90-deg by a bit), and do the R' turn ASAP (even DURING the U turn if you wish), you will get virtually no lockups at all, even without being an accurate cuber.

I personally did this with Erik Akkersdijk's E-perm (among many other algs) when I was learning it, and I was easily doing no-lockup sub-2's just a few minutes after I first learned it.

2) Study your algs in slow motion, again.

This time, try to see which are the best grips and hand positions so as to minimize regrips. I personally did this with my V-perm. I use the CubeStation V-perm case #14 and I changed the "l R" into an R2 combined with a cube rotation such that it has no pauses. I've gotten comments and cube meets that my "transition" is so fast, which is because there is no regrip at that point.

...
Basically, both of those are just optimizing your algs.
Coupled with LOTS of practice, of course.

 

[a small kitten]

Bob Burton has a list of triggers. Do them.

 

[coinman]

Do my 100 moves challange a few times a day?
http://www.x.se/rcuc

 

[AJelsma]

put vicks on your feet

 

[AJelsma]

drink a lot of energy drinks

 

[Gparker]

llistin to very loud techno music, or hardcore screamo

 

[jcuber]

Try and play Billy Joel's "Angry young man" on piano

 

[Escher]

Ooh, I have one!

On a megaminx, if you scramble RU, after orienting the LL you can have both incorrectly permuted corners and edges, whereas on a 3x3, you only have incorrectly permuted edges?
This also means that megaminx LL can be 2 gen, right?

 

[jcuber]

Can mefferts 4x4's get too loose after a while? How long does it take?

 

[MTGjumper]

Are edges only scrambles available for 4x4 and 5x5 anywhere? I need to work on my edges a lot, compared to my centres.

 

[byu]

They are not available, but pretty easy to do.

Step 1. Scramble only outer layers
Step 2. Do r B' R' B r'
Step 3. Cube rotation
Step 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you think its good
Step 5. Stop

 

[firefox109]

If you do "M" with your middle finger how do you do " M' "

 

[Lord Voldemort]

How long does it take to resticker a 7x7x7?
(How long did it take for you?)

 

[fanwuq]

Ooh, I have one!

On a megaminx, if you scramble RU, after orienting the LL you can have both incorrectly permuted corners and edges, whereas on a 3x3, you only have incorrectly permuted edges?
This also means that megaminx LL can be 2 gen, right?

Yes. I actually had a thread a while ago about 2gLL for Megaminx. Because I use my index and thumb like the megaminx is some sort of video game controller, 2gen is really fast on megaminx (over 8 tps). However, I suck at megaminx. I forgot all the algs because I haven't practiced in almost a year. I don't even think I've solved the megaminx over 30 times ever.

Edit:

Chuber,

tropicalestore is the best.

 

[JustinJ]

If I know Ortega and CLL, would it be worthwhile to learn Guimond as well?

 

[gpt_kibutz]

If I know Ortega and CLL, would it be worthwhile to learn Guimond as well?

Absolutely, I think that Guimond is not too hard and there are some cases that Guimond would work better than ortega!