The One-Answer Question Thread [closed]

[god of rubic 2]

Lol, i mean i already know how to magic, but my magic can't do that move.

You may be holding it the wrong way.

Try twisting it from different sides, but careful not to break it.

 

[Cubetastic]

Recently made this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxzPRfKYtPg and was wondering what camera angle I should use from now on to avoid that kind of video. Maybe having the camera on my stomach? Or should I try and hook up a sort of Badmephisto style head cam? Or would just having a tri-pod over my shoulder be good enough. Thanks

 

[god of rubic 2]

Recently made this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxzPRfKYtPg and was wondering what camera angle I should use from now on to avoid that kind of video. Maybe having the camera on my stomach? Or should I try and hook up a sort of Badmephisto style head cam? Or would just having a tri-pod over my shoulder be good enough. Thanks

Over the shoulder would probably be the best where the timer is also visible.

 

[riverchen]

You may be holding it the wrong way.

Try twisting it from different sides, but careful not to break it.

Eh maybe, but if i 180 it works as it should, I think its a problem with my magic.

 

[Yuxuibbs]

Eh maybe, but if i 180 it works as it should, I think its a problem with my magic.

Last resort: go on youtube for a restringing tutorial and restring your magic.

 

[Cubetastic]

And if I don't have a timer, would over the should camera still be the best?

 

[riverchen]

Lol yeah, thats the plan. It is possible to restring with a loop of string right?

 

[Carson]

And if I don't have a timer, would over the should camera still be the best?

Timer or not, viewers should see "roughly" the same view of the cube as you. When viewed from the other side, it is often hard to tell what is really going on. Over the shoulder, or just to the side of the upper arm tends to work best.

 

[Ickenicke]

I have started feet-solve. I am using my Rubik's brand beacuse it is my best cube for feet at the moment. (ZhanChis suck)
It looks like F1 and F2 are the most popular cubes. What do you recommend?

 

[applemobile]

I just did ao12 with the cross already solved in the scramble 16.18. Scramble without the cross solved ao12 22.36. This means my cross on adv takes 6.18 seconds! and is 27% of my solve. This is clearly diabolical, i knew it was bad, and i hate the cross the most. I have watched a few tutorials on it before, but does anyone have a decent training scheme, other than just solving the cross over and over again.

 

[Alvin Tan]

How should i set the tension on a ss 4x4? How should i gauge if the tension are right?

 

[god of rubic 2]

I just did ao12 with the cross already solved in the scramble 16.18. Scramble without the cross solved ao12 22.36. This means my cross on adv takes 6.18 seconds! and is 27% of my solve. This is clearly diabolical, i knew it was bad, and i hate the cross the most. I have watched a few tutorials on it before, but does anyone have a decent training scheme, other than just solving the cross over and over again.

I like to visualise how pieces move around when I do certain moves and adjust the cross with D's and fast fingertricks.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I have started feet-solve. I am using my Rubik's brand beacuse it is my best cube for feet at the moment. (ZhanChis suck)
It looks like F1 and F2 are the most popular cubes. What do you recommend?

I would think those would be good cubes for feet. I'm using a GhostHand now, which is somewhat similar in terms of solidity, and it's pretty nice. The key is to have something that feels fairly rigid, so it's not too spongy against the floor. I found that Alpha 5's were pretty good on a carpet, but they're terrible on a hard floor.

 

[bran]

I just did ao12 with the cross already solved in the scramble 16.18. Scramble without the cross solved ao12 22.36. This means my cross on adv takes 6.18 seconds! and is 27% of my solve. This is clearly diabolical, i knew it was bad, and i hate the cross the most. I have watched a few tutorials on it before, but does anyone have a decent training scheme, other than just solving the cross over and over again.

I think that it is your cross-f2l transition which is mainly slowing you down and IMO you should work on it by tracking some pieces

 

[applemobile]

I have started doing my cross much slower, and although my times are the same, I have much more flow. Cheers, I will just keep at it untill I can do it faster

 

[Cheese11]

Do you think it would be appropriate to make an "Is this cube legal?" thread?

EDIT: It would be for general use by everyone. I'm not saying I have that question.

 

[Noahaha]

Do you think it would be appropriate to make an "Is this cube legal?" thread?

Meh. It's just a subset of OAQs.

 

[Cheese11]

Meh. It's just a subset of OAQs.

I know. But there a quite a bit of the specific threads.

It's sort of like the time a was seriously considering making a 4x4 problem thread.

 

[drogg]

Not sure if this is the right place for this but here goes. I average 26s using CFOP.

I was wondering do most people execute the PLL without aligning it first (if that makes sense)? So for instance I always align my headlights in G perms before executing and I spot all of my PLLs by first aligning some part of the upper face.

Am I supposed to be able to recognise them all without doing this?

 

[robosariobo777]

So i have my tiled qj 4x4. And i loosened the screw in the center of the core and that helped a lot! But i still have grinding and locking up. Theres a lot less, but still some. I know there are some mods i do, but i heard something about my core coming out of alignment. What does that mean? is it a possible factor on why my cube locks? if so, how do i fix it?

(Sorry for posting this again guys)