GodCubing
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I know that Alex Lau was a big promoter of this, but did he learn the whole thing (OLLCP)? And how many other people have tried?
Who has used Pinkie Pie?
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Lord_Oscar
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What's pinky pie?
Discomantis
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Copy and pasted from the speedsolving wiki:
it involves orienting the UL/UR edges on the D layer while using an OLLCP algorithm to orient the remaining edges and solving the remaining corners. The user then will get a 4a skip and a very easy 4b step.
ProStar
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I was gonna make a “just google it” joke but then I looked up pinkie pie Rubik’s cube and now both my browser history and I are permanently scarred
zzcuberman
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It's supposedly according to Alex the future of roux but it's harder to use then eolr. It's more efficient by 1-3 moves I believe. And that's using mismatched centers for the easiest ulur placement in the d layer
Is mismatched centers even good?
Discomantis
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The main premise of pinky pie is that you save a few moves compared to ULUR, and you avoid the awful dots case.
However, you lose a lot of time due to the fact that you also have to recognize centers, along with edges in the method.
Saving only a few moves does not seem worth it with the recognition that comes with it, as well as the shear number of algorithms.
I would say pinky pie is, at best, slightly worse than ULUR, and at best, is only slightly better in the rare chance that you get a skip.
However, you lose a lot of time due to the fact that you also have to recognize centers, along with edges in the method.
Saving only a few moves does not seem worth it with the recognition that comes with it, as well as the shear number of algorithms.
I would say pinky pie is, at best, slightly worse than ULUR, and at best, is only slightly better in the rare chance that you get a skip.
Celeritardum
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Misoriented centers is good and recognition is pretty easy for the EO, but I would agree that pinkie pie isn't worth it due to the alg count and the questionable ergonomics and recognition. However being able to recognize EO with misoriented centers during LSE and CMLL is definitely very useful.
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