Jokerman5656
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Both of those video's would help you a lot. the second is a bit tougher to understand for some people so if you don't understand it right away don't let yourself get frustrated
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[Help Thread] The "Square-1 Help / Alg Sharing" thread
Both of those video's would help you a lot. the second is a bit tougher to understand for some people so if you don't understand it right away don't let yourself get frustrated
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Just videos should be fine as long as you can make some sort of index page which would make it easier to search for vids. Looking forward to this.
I feel like people don't use U+adj as much as they should. For me every other solve I use it, it simplifies so many cases it's crazy.
Hmm so I stopped practicing square-1 a while ago and my time went back to around 20. I'm not sure what to start practicing...a lot of people have told me I have terrible cube shape but I don't see how to get better other than tons of practice. Can someone link me to the adj-adj alg that also flips middle layer? Also what cube do you guys use? I use my 4 year old mf8 1gen and it's great. Tried cubetwist but it pops too much for my liking. Have any of you guys modded your mf8 1gen?
I feel like people don't use U+adj as much as they should. For me every other solve I use it, it simplifies so many cases it's crazy.
Hmm so I stopped practicing square-1 a while ago and my time went back to around 20. I'm not sure what to start practicing...a lot of people have told me I have terrible cube shape but I don't see how to get better other than tons of practice. Can someone link me to the adj-adj alg that also flips middle layer? Also what cube do you guys use? I use my 4 year old mf8 1gen and it's great. Tried cubetwist but it pops too much for my liking. Have any of you guys modded your mf8 1gen?
Jokerman5656
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I really like the V1's but i take the spring out of them, same with the Calvin's Sq1 i just recieved. they are both the same mech but the calvin's one feel like it has already been broken in to a good spot. I'm not a fan of the ball core v2's.
And for the alg i just adjust the ending of the regular adj-adj algs
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Turning an alg whch doesn't flip middle layer into one which does, or conversely, is really easy. If the last moves (before adjusting faces) of the alg are (a,b) /, just do (a+6,b) / (6,0) / instead. I use that trick all the time.
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Me neither, v2 and cubetwist both felt horrible to me. Do they still sell v1s? I bought one a while ago as backup but comps here in Canada don't seem to sell them anymore. What is this Calvin's square-1 everyone's been talking about?
Yeah I know you just do /6,0/6,0/ to flip edge and it cancels, but I've seen algs posted elsewhere that has adj-adj from all angles and both flipping and not flipping middle edge, and the ones that flip are only one slash longer.
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-2/3/-1,-1/4,1/-6/
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The mf8 v1's can be bought at hknowstore. and the calvin's square-1 is the new square-1 that was produced by hknowstore.
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I recommend learning from here http://www.cubezone.be/square1.html
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What is the difference between face turn metric and twist metric on qqtimer and what are their uses? and I should use random state, right?
vcuber13
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face counts Us Ds and /s, twist counts /s, and you should use random state
sa11297
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ok, I am already faster with the second method than I was with my original method. What should I average for cubeshape if I want to average sub 40, sub 30, sub 20?
ok thanks.
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how do you guys do h-z?
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I use this one: / (-3,-3) / (-3,0) / (-5,1) / (4,-2) / (-2,1) / (3,3) / :: Z/H: / (-3,-3) / (3,0) / (5,-1) / (2,-4) / (-1,2) / (-3,-3) /
Jokerman5656
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i'd say 10 seconds is the max for cubeshape. i believe i average about 3-4. and i feel like i'm slow
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I use two: (0,-1)/(-3,0)/(1,1)/(-4,1)/(6,0)/ from the front, and (0,-1)/(0,3)/(0,6)/(1,-5)/(-1,2)/ from the back.
Opp/Opp to Opp/O. It's pretty fast, but Lid's alg looks nice, so I might learn that.
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Does a sq1 image generator exist?
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How come I never heard of this? Time to use these...
EDIT: How do you make a sticker gray?
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i was messing around after i posted that and found this
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