What is the coolest Algorithm

[AJT17]

I was wondering, what would be a cool algorithm to execute, or what algorithm would look the coolest when a non-cuber sees it being used.

 

[Filipe Teixeira]

I like the execution of the plls Z, E and F (T conjugate)

 

[AJT17]

I like the execution of the plls Z, E and F (T conjugate)

Those ones are very fun to execute, and I think that they look cool.

 

[IsThatA4x4]

RUS Ua is probably the coolest, but some honourable mentions are:
RUD G/V
E
rUDF Nb (If you can execute it fast)
RUSf OLL 32 / 40 (S sexy sledge S' and inverse)
MU U/H/Z

 

[qwr]

M E M' E'

also some of the funky G perms or RUS U perms

 

[AJT17]

M E M' E'

also some of the funky G perms or RUS U perms

M E M' E' unironically makes a cool pattern.

 

[qwr]

M E M' E' unironically makes a cool pattern.

yeah why would it not

 

[OreKehStrah]

My biased take:

 

[Silky]

I love almost all of Winter Variation and huge fan of E-Perm. The coolest part of WV is that it's completely intuitive while also not being intuitive. I love the fact that it blurs the line of what and Algorithm is. E-perm is also like that. I'm not sure if it is quite a conjugate but it certainly feels like one and feels like something that I could reasonable come up with. I just love how clever the algs are.

 

[AJT17]

My biased take:

I think that is a cool trick, but I can hardly do E and S moves quickly, so it is cool but not for me.

 

[qwr]

Also there's this totally unhinged F and S together V perm

 

[Filipe Teixeira]

Also there's this totally unhinged F and S together V perm

standard V-perm in 6666 AD:

V V' V

 

[bulkocuber]

I was asking myself the exact same question 1 or 2 months ago. Remember that a non cuber sees only the back of the cube so take that into consideration when you're looking for the best non-cuber POV alg.

A perms are quite nice in my opinion, they're fast and elegant. I also asked my family, a proud group of non-cubers, and they said that A perms were the best ones. But I'm not sure if they said that because they really mean it or because it was the first alg I showed them

 

[ruffleduck]

100% non biased take

 

[Christopher Mowla]

For 4x4x4, how about one which flips a single dedge . . . but literally looks like a complete scramble of the cube half way through.

First half (Pause and show them it at this point . . . and make sure that they were aware that a single dedge was flipped before applying), Second half.

This was one of the algorithms from this list. (AKA, the "Holy Grail".) There's a shorter one, the (18,18), but this one scrambles the cube more during execution.

 

[Thom S.]

Sq-1 Adj Parity. If you do it sub 4 your hands are flying just graceously.

 

[AJT17]

Sq-1 Adj Parity. If you do it sub 4 your hands are flying just graceously.

I would like to be able to do squan, but I currently can not, and also that parity really does look amazing when done fast.

 

[Kaiju_cube]

PLL's with M slices seems to wow people. (ime)

 

[NigelTheCuber]

Aperms if you can do them fast RUS u perm and rudf nb perm

 

[Thom S.]

Aperms if you can do them fast RUS u perm and rudf nb perm

Standard A perms look perfectly cool, but a fast execution of the RUDB A Perms just looks so nice.