The state of speedcubing

[qqwref]

I think the evidence is pretty convincing that Yau is a little faster than other methods, although you can still get decent (if perhaps not Weyer level) times with Hoya and Redux. Personally, I'm a little faster with Yau, and I haven't even been using it all that long, compared to Reduction which I learned before CFOP.

 

[cmhardw]

I think the evidence is pretty convincing that Yau is a little faster than other methods, although you can still get decent (if perhaps not Weyer level) times with Hoya and Redux. Personally, I'm a little faster with Yau, and I haven't even been using it all that long, compared to Reduction which I learned before CFOP.

It's time for me to learn Yau. I of course knew of it, and I knew roughly how it works. I've not really speedsolved the 4x4 seriously since 2005. Now's as good a time as any to learn something new I think.

 

[hawkmp4]

Glad to see some familiar names cmhardw, qqwref, Dene...it's like I never left. Thanks for the updates. I started college (applied mathematics) then dropped out to take a position at a startup doing software development. Worked behind the scenes on a machine learning and NLP problem. I moved recently and the gigaminx made its way out of a box...I'm hooked again!

 

[cmhardw]

Nice to have you back hawkmp4! Welcome back

 

[hawkmp4]

Yarrrrr the difference is, I was around way back in the day when Mr. hawkmp4 was.

It's actually "Ms." now

Nice to have you back hawkmp4! Welcome back

Thanks ) I missed this community. I'm excited to look at the theory again after some education in abstract algebra.

 

[AlexTheEmperor]

Mats' WR solve used OLS or something to get an OLL skip.

If you look at the reconstruction, you will see that the insertion of the last F2L pair barely counts as VLS. Everyone would insert the pair like that and no special algorithm was needed to skip OLL. It wasn't the other branch of OLS , RLS either where the pair is joinable and insertable with R U R', hence it was an OLL skip.

 

[adimare]

Glad to see some familiar names cmhardw, qqwref, Dene...it's like I never left.

It's only a matter of time before Stefan nitpicks one of your posts implying that you wrote something incomprehensible even though everyone could perfectly tell what you meant!

 

[hawkmp4]

Stefan and I understand each other pretty well, I think it's y'alls fault for not being precise enough!