Your favorite skip?

[fcwy1]

Do you agree with this statement:

OLL case no.47, T shape has 1/54 chance of occuring.
That does not mean every 54 solves will have 1 that OLL. do 54 solves, u may get a few, say 5, or even none.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

ZBLL skip.

 

[Neutrals01]

Thanks, now more people can see that you might be full of crap.

Do you really think that me, Swordsman_Kirby, Lofty, qqwref2 and Hakan625 and are wrong and you are the only one who knows the real truth?

hmm, I don't have much cubing experience so can't comment on the last layer skip thing.. but I know that some ppl really have luck for getting nice solves.. I know some friends that have better pb single than me but their average are like 3~12 secs slower than mine..

 

[rachmaninovian]

the person who should get the most LL skips should be some petrus user i've been petrusing for a long time, but i have gotten no LL skips.

anyway, PLL skips are sweet, especially on big cubes

 

[KConny]

Do you agree with this statement:

OLL case no.47, T shape has 1/54 chance of occuring.
That does not mean every 54 solves will have 1 that OLL. do 54 solves, u may get a few, say 5, or even none.

Yes.(message to short)

 

[Kenneth]

Just had mine:

When you solve F2B and then place M centres and the BD edge you can in some rare cases end the whole solve in one alg like I just did, it was a Niklas CMLL and 1+3 unoriented edges and that you can solve in one go from using double layer turns in the first and last move of the Niklas = l' U R U' L U r'

And that also skiped the permutation of the last 5 edges (chance 1:60). did not even have to AUF

So the whole solve came out to be around 30 turns rendering one of my best lucky times 17.32 seconds.

 

[Sa967St]

No. Here is a break down on my solve:
Cross- 5sec
F2L- 6sec
LL- 5sec
Total- av.16

whoah, you gotta practice the cross, it will seriously improve your times

 

[fcwy1]

I have problem seeing the logic. Not sure about the number of moves i take.
maybe about 8-12 moves.

 

[hawkmp4]

I have problem seeing the logic. Not sure about the number of moves i take.
maybe about 8-12 moves.

Aw, you sad there aren't pages of algorithms for the cross?

 

[not_kevin]

I have problem seeing the logic. Not sure about the number of moves i take.
maybe about 8-12 moves.

Tried reading http://www.cubefreak.net/cross.html?

Aw, you sad there aren't pages of algorithms for the cross?

I'm personally sad about no pages of algs for Petrus blocks

 

[Brett]

it wouldn't be petrus blocks if there were algorithms for it.

my favorite skip I've ever gotten was after I build a 2x2x2 block, the 2x2x3 was already there.

I wouldn't mind a bad edges skip, it seems like it would be common but I've never gotten one x_X

 

[ScottKidder]

EO/Line Skip

 

[Kenneth]

it wouldn't be petrus blocks if there were algorithms for it.

my favorite skip I've ever gotten was after I build a 2x2x2 block, the 2x2x3 was already there.

I wouldn't mind a bad edges skip, it seems like it would be common but I've never gotten one x_X

Probabillity is 1 : 2^7 - 2^2 = 1 : 2^6 = 1:64 (seven edges, two positions for each, but a single edge can't be unoriented so it makes 6, at least one is always oriented). One out of 64 is a skip.

 

[Mozza314]

Definitely LL skip. I've only gotten one but I wasn't speedsolving at the time! How unlucky is that?

But in more common cases, I prefer PLL skip to OLL skip because I have a 2 step OLL but my PLL can take upto 4 steps and I'm slower at them aswell. I haven't been cubing for long though...

 

[mazei]

Well here are my favourites
3x3 - PLL skips or if possible 2 x-cross in under 10 moves(happened once but I scrambled it carelessly)
4x4 & 5x5 - edge pairing skips since it takes me quite some time to pair edges and also because its a pain in the a**
Magic - lol. jk.

 

[jackolanternsoup]

OLL skips on 3x3s,
PLL skips on 4x4s.

 

[somerandomkidmike]

I like it when the edges on a 4x4x4 last layer is just a 3 cycle of edges (using K4)

This has only happened once to me...

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

PLL skips are very exciting, but they are nothing compared to LL skips :]

my favorite [common] skip is accidental 4x4x4 edges during reduction.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Probabillity is 1 : 2^7 - 2^2 = 1 : 2^6 = 1:64 (seven edges, two positions for each, but a single edge can't be unoriented so it makes 6, at least one is always oriented). One out of 64 is a skip.

128-4=64???

Try (2^7)/2 = 1/64.

Cases:

0 bad edges: (6C0)=1
2 bad edges: (6C2)+(6C1)=15+6=21
4 bad edges: (6C3)+(6C4)=20+15=35
6 bad edges: (6C5)+(6C6)=6+1=7

So it seems you have an average of 3.5 edges to orient.

 

[Rabid]

Petrus LL skip.

My first “official” solve. I knew the F2L and just ground them out until it showed up. It took two weeks.
I don’t like orienting the edges either..it throws my grip off.