Winter Variation question

Aiminer357

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Winter Variation orients the corner, preserves edge orientation and inserts the last slot (F2L). There 28 algs and average 10-ish moves. Could they be faster without preserving edge orientation? If so, link me the alg set, please.

Thanks in advance.
 
There currently aren't any mainstream last slot methods that do this, usually because the only application of these algs would be for 2x2 or a method that used this alg set+ 1LLL for the 3 OLLs where the corners are oriented (or PLL). I'm sure that algs for 2x2 that oriented the corners while placing the last corner would be slightly more efficient, but only a handful of them, since they're already pretty short and for some the optimal alg is just a cancellation into the OLL alg for that case. Algs that preserve the F2L and cross edges would probably only be very slightly more efficient than the alg set for 2x2, so you might as well just use Winter variation in its regular form.

TL;DR: it probably doesnt exist and if it did it would only be marginally more efficient, with many algs staying the same.
 
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