What algorithm do you use for this F2L pair?

[Cyrus C.]

I do (RUR'U')x3 RU'RF'U2F

It's really unefficient.

 

[teller]

Damn teller, that's slick!!!

All I have to say is, wtf? Some of your finger tricks seem unnecessarily complex, and showy.

They are designed for speed...and if they're pretty, well thank you! They're fun to execute too!

 

[Muesli]

Damn teller, that's slick!!!

All I have to say is, wtf? Some of your finger tricks seem unnecessarily complex, and showy.

They are designed for speed...and if they're pretty, well thank you! They're fun to execute too!

Showoff...

:rolleyes:

 

[4Chan]

FUUUUUUUdge.

Oh my, Teller, I saw one of your videos about the "headlights" OLL, or what I would call "U set", but I didn't see your other videos.

Simply amazing fingertrick for the edge flip. o_o

 

[HowSuneIsNow]

Damn teller, that's slick!!!

All I have to say is, wtf? Some of your finger tricks seem unnecessarily complex, and showy.

they seem fast. i'm cool with the flashyness, but I am concerned it woudl vbe harder to see the next pair with your hands infront of the cube.


I use R U' R' U F' U2 F U2 F' U F

if the right back pair is open
R U' R2 U2 R U' F' U F

 

[cmhardw]

I use it for that too ;-)

Chris

I figured that. Finally an algorithm for this case that's worth learning. I love it! (I don't have an algorithm for flipping two adjacent edges in BLD. Well, I didn't until now, anyway.) Thank you!

I can't remember where I learned that alg, I think from Acube when I was trying to learn ZBF2L. I love the alg as well, especially for BLD. For the same case on 5x5x5 though I use:
e' R2 e2 R' U' R e2 R2 e R U R'

which is just a cyclic shift on my usual alg for flipping two centrals. There might be an easier/faster way to do that on big cubes, but once I discovered the cyclic shift for this particular case I just stuck with that. I'll have to try and think about another way to do it sometime when I'm bored ;-)

Chris

 

[deadalnix]

Ok, is theyre any sympathic one for the case with only one last layer edge oriented ?

As long as having such a crapy F2L, I prefer prepare my LL.

Anyway, this F2L can be handled by putting a mixed pair in a custom slot by misaligning the cross. I'm not sure I am very clear, so I will put an exemple :

You got this crappy case in the slot FL. So you put the correct edge in the slot FR. Then, you misalign the cross using u. And insert the corner in his position, flipping the edge. For exemple, if the corner is fisrt layer on top, do :

uR'FRF'RU'R'u'

And you are done.

This technique combine very well with ZBF2L. So I plan to learn them for « high symetries cases » and especialy crappy ones with the edge in the wrong orientation in the slot.

 

[cmhardw]

Ok, is theyre any sympathic one for the case with only one last layer edge oriented ?

As long as having such a crapy F2L, I prefer prepare my LL.

Anyway, this F2L can be handled by putting a mixed pair in a custom slot by misaligning the cross. I'm not sure I am very clear, so I will put an exemple :

You got this crappy case in the slot FL. So you put the correct edge in the slot FR. Then, you misalign the cross using u. And insert the corner in his position, flipping the edge. For exemple, if the corner is fisrt layer on top, do :

uR'FRF'RU'R'u'

And you are done.

This technique combine very well with ZBF2L. So I plan to learn them for « high symetries cases » and especialy crappy ones with the edge in the wrong orientation in the slot.

Hi Amaury,

I like your idea to use an empty slot to do this. The only case where this would add extra moves is if the D layer sticker of the corner is on the U face, or if the corner is in the correct other slot but flipped.

The ZBF2L alg I use for this case you mention is: R U' M' U r' U' R U' M' U r'

To be honest I really don't like this alg though, it feels very awkward to me. I usually just use the other alg that flips only 2 edges and try to do an AUF before that to get an easy-ish OLL.

If you can make this ZBF2L alg fast let me know, as I would prefer to use ZBF2L in this case too.

Chris

 

[deadalnix]

Unhoppefully, this case has 4 edges to orient. For the moment, your solution is the les crappy I have.

You can try this one with the slot in BR :
R'URd'RU2'R'UR'FRF'

But that isn't better

I know some very fast cuber that use the misalignement of cross when two pieces in F2L are already solved to skip one slot. You can also use it to avoid some crappy cases

You seems to have some incredible algs for many ZBF2L cases that isn't on your website. Is there a source on the somewhere to have a look at it ?

 

[Zaxef]

R U' R' U (y') R' U2 R U2 R' U R

Not the best alg but I like it

Edit: Mine is the same as Escher's just with a cube rotation instead of a d move :/

 

[Edward]

R U' R d R' U2 R U2 R' U R

yesh, also try real fingertricks (teller)

 

[rubiknewbie]

The intuitive thing I use otherwise is: R U' R' d R' U2' R U R' U2' R which can be executed really nicely.

R U' R d R' U2 R U2 R' U R

yesh, also try real fingertricks (teller)

These are the algorithms that I have been using or bomber's R U R' U2 R U2 R' y'(d?) R' U' R.

But I should try out a couple of other suggested ones at least for a one night stand, maybe even adopt one .

 

[curious]

R, U, R', U2, R, U2, R', U, F', U', F.
It takes a lot of moves But is very fast.