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[MayurAK]

My F2L look ahead is not very good. Should I improve my look ahead first or directly become colour neutral?

 

[cubecraze1]

My F2L look ahead is not very good. Should I improve my look ahead first or directly become colour neutral?

I would probably improve look ahead as people can still be fast non cn

 

[pkvk9122]

Hi,

Im not completely sure about roux, but I think Fridrich method is fast enough... Although there are a couple roux cubers out there that still do quite well.
I think that if you have already put alot of time and effort into Fridrich, I dont really see the point in changing...

Although if you still insist on going for roux, well go for it! see which method suits you best and go for it! but make sure that its the method that you like,
not one that your friend uses... and remember to be consistent! dont suddently change back to Fridrich!

pkvk9122

 

[GlowingSausage]

My F2L look ahead is not very good. Should I improve my look ahead first or directly become colour neutral?

I would probably improve look ahead as people can still be fast non cn

start being cn AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!

I think THIS is a good way to start.

 

[jonlin]

Unable to register for Competition

Hi. I was trying to register for a competition, and put in my WCA ID, and then it said,
Sorry, we do not have a record of your ID. If your competition was fairly recent, we may not have you in the database yet.
It's been over a month since my first competition (I'm trying to register for my second) and I'm pretty sure that my name is already in the database.
What happened?

 

[Goosly]

You are in the database.
You should type in your name when registering, then it will search for you in the database so you can indicate the right one (If there's more than one person with your name)

 

[PandaCuber]

I need help changing to roux I am currently sub 25 using Fridrich.
if someone would give me links to good tutorials i will be happy

Tutorials for Roux
Waffle
PandaCuber and 5BLD
Donovan
Gilles Roux

 

[DYGH.Tjen]

Here under Shipping and Handling, they exclude pretty much nearly all countries. What exactly does it mean? They don't ship to the countries listed, or what? Thanks.

 

[5BLD]

Is it normal for my completely new WitTwo to be 'sanding itself apart'?
With every solve there's sawdust all over the table...

 

[ThomasJE]

Is it normal for my completely new WitTwo to be 'sanding itself apart'?
With every solve there's sawdust all over the table...

Picture?

 

[Divineskulls]

Is it normal for my completely new WitTwo to be 'sanding itself apart'?
With every solve there's sawdust all over the table...

I know my old V2 used to do that, but I don't think I've ever heard of a Wittwo doing that. I'm assuming you lubed it? Because before I lubed mine, it was extremely stiff, and I could see something like that happening with all that friction.

 

[tozies24]

It seems as though I am relatively bad with all puzzles when comparing to 3x3 (on the most recent weekly competition on odderen.dk, (at time of post) I was 13th in 3x3 but 27th and 30th in 2x2 and 4x4 respectively.)

Is this because I just devote so much time to 3x3? Or is it that I just suck at other cubes and should spend time getting better at those?

 

[Sahid Velji]

I have been learning square-1 from this tutorial by Emile, I average 6 minutes with it. Is that normal? I mean, I know it's a beginners solution that he explained but do I just practice this to get faster or do I learn more algs for CP and EO? (EP has way too many). I'm not expecting much from square-1, if I can get sub-2 averages consistently, then I'm happy.

 

[mullemeckmannen]

For wittwo, you have to tighten it. It happend to me once

 

[Schmidt]

I have been learning square-1 from this tutorial by Emile, I average 6 minutes with it. Is that normal? I mean, I know it's a beginners solution that he explained but do I just practice this to get faster or do I learn more algs for CP and EO? (EP has way too many). I'm not expecting much from square-1, if I can get sub-2 averages consistently, then I'm happy.

These are my results from weekly competition on odderen.dk

Spoiler

Square-1 19th place [2:12.53] 2:13.21, 2:14.46, 2:03.43, 2:09.93, 2:19.18
Square-1 11th place [1:52.93] 1:51.83, 2:02.88, 1:59.31, 1:27.86, 1:47.66
Square-1 14th place [1:55.14] 1:54.16, 1:37.55, 1:52.90, 1:58.36, 2:20.46
Square-1 9th place [1:42.42] 3:06.46, 1:46.16, 1:36.11, 1:16.47, 1:45.00
Square-1 11th place [1:17.50] 1:39.61, 1:08.78, 1:35.15, 1:05.38, 1:08.58

using this and this.

 

[rlaven]

What does notation 1 mean in cube algorithms?

I just bought the book Speedsolving the Cube by Dan Harris and in many of the algorithms, he uses the number 1. The book does not explain what this number means. I can solve the cube the traditional method but have never see the number 1 in algorithms I have used. Does someone know what this means? Thank You.

 

[Cubenovice]

I just bought the book Speedsolving the Cube by Dan Harris and in many of the algorithms, he uses the number 1. The book does not explain what this number means. I can solve the cube the traditional method but have never see the number 1 in algorithms I have used. Does someone know what this means? Thank You.

Read Page 11, Table 3.2 more carefully

 

[rlaven]

Here is an example. On page 65 a corner permutation case #04 is "(x) R2 D2 R U R' D2 R U' 1" or page 65 case #08 "R U2' R' U2 R B' R' U' R U 1 U R2' F (x)". Not sure what the "1" means in these algorithms. I looked on page 11 table 3.2 but that did not help. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[A Leman]

what you think is a 1 is a lowercase L which denotes a wide turn. The number 1 is normally only used in the 3OP method for Blindfolded memorization.

 

[Titan]

Is it normal when first learning keyhole to get slower? :S