WhatDoIPutHere's Cubing Progression - Modding YS3M! Road to: Sub-20 3x3 - Learning PLL 11/21| Sub-5 2x2 - Ortega | Sub-3 Minute 5x5 - Yau5

[Garf]

What is the difference between Yau and Yau5?

Yau5 has you solve 2 F2L pairs before L4E. Jperm is an avid user of Yau5.
Yau is the Main dominant method for 4x4, which allows you to use sub-methods like half centers for l4c and 3-2-3 for the last eight edges.

 

[Cuber987]

What is the difference between Yau and Yau5?

I think Yau was originally proposed for 4x4 and Yau5 for 5x5. They pair edges differently (insert question mark here)

Yau5 has you solve 2 F2L pairs before L4E.

Oh, okay

 

[WhatDoIPutHere]

OK, thanks

 

[WhatDoIPutHere]

I've been learning Yau 5 and it feels so much faster, however my times have actually dipped initially. I think that I will get faster using this method.
I've also been working on modding my 5x5, which is a very cheap budget cube. I'm working on sanding down corners to make it able to turn if the layers are even slightly misaligned. I would magnetize it, but I don't know how

 

[d---]

I would magnetize it, but I don't know how

@Fukuoka Kengo James is the expert here

 

[a_cuber04]

To be honest, with the amount of time and effort (and the money for buying the magnets) that it would take to magnetize a 5x5, it would probably be cheaper and more worthwhile to just buy a pre-magnetized 5x5, such as the QiYi MS 5x5 which costs $14.95 at SCS. However, the YJ MGC 5x5 is generally considered to be better and is probably worth the extra $6, but the QiYi MS is still great.

Although, some may argue that the satisfaction of successfully magnetizing a 5x5 would be worth it. If so, then go right ahead! BTW, if you do go that route, try to get stronger magnets for the inner layers.

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

I've been learning Yau 5 and it feels so much faster, however my times have actually dipped initially. I think that I will get faster using this method.
I've also been working on modding my 5x5, which is a very cheap budget cube. I'm working on sanding down corners to make it able to turn if the layers are even slightly misaligned. I would magnetize it, but I don't know how

Actually I have just ordered a meilong 5x5 for backup last week. I’m going to magnetise it once it arrives and I can share with you on how I magnetise it. Regarding on sanding down the pieces, I would like to learn from you about how to do it.

@Fukuoka Kengo James is the expert here

To be honest, with the amount of time and effort (and the money for buying the magnets) that it would take to magnetize a 5x5, it would probably be cheaper and more worthwhile to just buy a pre-magnetized 5x5, such as the QiYi MS 5x5 which costs $14.95 at SCS. However, the YJ MGC 5x5 is generally considered to be better and is probably worth the extra $6, but the QiYi MS is still great.

Although, some may argue that the satisfaction of successfully magnetizing a 5x5 would be worth it. If so, then go right ahead! BTW, if you do go that route, try to get stronger magnets for the inner layers.

I don’t agree with you here as I think magnetising a 5x5 is very simple and would only take you just less than an hour if you are experienced enough in magnetising higher order puzzles like a yuxin gigaminx. Also if you always have like more than 2000 magnets at home like me, you wouldn’t have to buy any extra magnets for that. It only takes 96 magnets.

 

[a_cuber04]

I don’t agree with you here as I think magnetising a 5x5 is very simple and would only take you just less than an hour if you are experienced enough in magnetising higher order puzzles like a yuxin gigaminx. Also if you always have like more than 2000 magnets at home like me, you wouldn’t have to buy any extra magnets for that. It only takes 96 magnets.

That's a good point, and has made me reconsider my position. I personally have never magnetized a 5x5, so I'm obviously not the expert here. The only way to get the experience of magnetizing puzzles is to do it! The satisfaction of magnetizing your own puzzle would probably trump just buying a new one.

BTW, where do you buy your magnets? I'm asking because I'm considering magnetizing my QiYi 9x9, and I just need to get up the willpower to do it.

 

[SH03L4C3]

Hmm, something's fishy here...

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

That's a good point, and has made me reconsider my position. I personally have never magnetized a 5x5, so I'm obviously not the expert here. The only way to get the experience of magnetizing puzzles is to do it! The satisfaction of magnetizing your own puzzle would probably trump just buying a new one.

BTW, where do you buy your magnets? I'm asking because I'm considering magnetizing my QiYi 9x9, and I just need to get up the willpower to do it.

Actually I'm planning on magnetising a QiYi big cube as well, the QiYi 8x8. For the QiYi 9x9, I have heard that you will have to do spring compression to make it great, but once you have compressed the springs by 2mm and add magnets into it, it becomes excellent.

 

[WhatDoIPutHere]

Hey guys, its been a while since I've posted on this.
First of, thank you to everyone who warned me to learn Ortega before CLL, there are actually only 6 algs that I have to learn for Ortega when coming from two-look OLL on 3x3, just 3 OLLs because the rest are identical, and there are only really 3 PBLs as the other two are just normal two look PLL on 3x3 cases. Maybe its technically 5 because one of the OLL cases is just the edge OLL from 3x3.
Secondly, I feel like my work on improving on 5x5 is really paying off. Learning Yau5 was relatively simple and it already feels faster (I haven't timed myself recently because I'm too lazy).
On 3x3, I learned the T Perm and my next algs I will learn are the Gd Perm and the Ab Perm.

 

[WhatDoIPutHere]

you gotta focus on getting sub 20 with lbl

I got a 6 second solve with 2x2 using 3x3 methods (two look oll and pll algs)

 

[lucazdoescubingstuff]

I got a 6 second solve with 2x2 using 3x3 methods (two look oll and pll algs)

you mean lbl? and sub 6 in lbl is good, but getting it globally will be challenging

 

[OldSwiss]

LBL with an easy first layer and T-Perm or Y-Perm is identical to ortega

So an average of 6s with LBL is good, a single is just a lucky case

 

[WhatDoIPutHere]

Yeah it was just a single with a PLL skip

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

I've been learning Yau 5 and it feels so much faster, however my times have actually dipped initially. I think that I will get faster using this method.
I've also been working on modding my 5x5, which is a very cheap budget cube. I'm working on sanding down corners to make it able to turn if the layers are even slightly misaligned. I would magnetize it, but I don't know how

Actually I have just ordered a meilong 5x5 for backup last week. I’m going to magnetise it once it arrives and I can share with you on how I magnetise it. Regarding on sanding down the pieces, I would like to learn from you about how to do it.



I don’t agree with you here as I think magnetising a 5x5 is very simple and would only take you just less than an hour if you are experienced enough in magnetising higher order puzzles like a yuxin gigaminx. Also if you always have like more than 2000 magnets at home like me, you wouldn’t have to buy any extra magnets for that. It only takes 96 magnets.

I have just magnetised my meilong 5x5, and I found that it is not that easy to find the right magnet strength even though I have over 3000 magnets of 15 different sizes to choose from. I ended up using 48 5*2 magnets, 24 5*1.5 magnets and 24 3*2 magnets. The magnets are on the stronger side with the inners just a bit stronger than the outers, but no where as insane as the magnets in the qiyi ms 5x5.

 

[WhatDoIPutHere]

Wow, nice! Do you magnetize just the outer pieces or the center pieces too (by center I mean the 3x3 in the middle)?

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

Wow, nice! Do you magnetize just the outer pieces or the center pieces too (by center I mean the 3x3 in the middle)?

Only the edges and corners

 

[Garf]

I have just magnetised my meilong 5x5, and I found that it is not that easy to find the right magnet strength even though I have over 3000 magnets of 15 different sizes to choose from. I ended up using 48 5*2 magnets, 24 5*1.5 magnets and 24 3*2 magnets. The magnets are on the stronger side with the inners just a bit stronger than the outers, but no where as insane as the magnets in the qiyi ms 5x5.

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If you have the Meilong 5x5 M, I think it would be easy to determine the magnet strength.

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

If you have the Meilong 5x5 M, I think it would be easy to determine the magnet strength.

If I have the Meilong 5x5 M, I don’t have to magnetise another Meilong 5x5
Also moyu factory magnetised big cubes always tend to have weaker magnets, so it may not be a perfect magnet strength for everyone.