Your opinions on using mirrors?

[pcharles93]

This has been bothering me for a while. Why do people use two seperate algorithms for mirrors of pll cases? I'm not saying anything bad. Just wondering. I use mirrors because I'm too lazy to memorize. Are there any bad effects from using mirrors of pll's?

 

[Pedro]

well, you can find better algs if you don't use mirrors...

some mirrored ones may get awkward or hard to do fast (specially on OH)

 

[RobinBloehm]

Well, if you want to execute the mirror algorithm fast you have to group three or four moves together, but this will be completely different from the grouping in the original (non-mirrored) algorithm.
So you will have to memorize two algs anyway.

 

[badmephisto]

the reason I use 2 algs for 2 mirrors is the... (i'm afraid), obvious answer... they are just faster to perform.
And memorization is overrated. If you are lazy, you won't get faster, it's pretty simple. You always have to evaluate yourself, find cases where you are slow, and seek out better algorithms for them, repeating this process ad infinitum.

 

[Dene]

Well, I actually agree with you. I mirror a lot of algorithms. I actually think the main problem is that most people can't use both hands just as effectively as each other. I strongly recommend mirroring if both your hands can execute just as fast.

btw, you can use this for a lot of OLL's too

 

[Rama]

I also use mirrors, because I tought it was easier to remember algs by the patterns so I just mirrored eveything I know. I am still glad that I am ambidextrous if it comes with the cube.

 

[cmhardw]

I always just use mirrors, rather than separate algs. I am fairly ambidextrous when it comes to the cube, but only because I forced myself to be so. I've also found that my right hand is better at harder triggers that require a lot of force, and my left hand is better at more delicate finer movements. So for example I can do some triggers consistently faster right handed, like the Z, which for me uses harder trigger moves. But for algs like the T or J perms I can do them consistently faster left handed because they involve finer tuned hand movements. I would do any of these algs either right or left handed during a speedsolve, it's just that one way is consistently faster than the other for me.

I've always thought it was cool. I also cup stack better left handed than right handed.

For the record I am mostly ambidextrous in real life, but I do write with a pencil or pen in my right hand far better than in my left.

Chris

 

[Dene]

For the record I am mostly ambidextrous in real life, but I do write with a pencil or pen in my right hand far better than in my left.

Sounds like me . Except, I have worked a bit on getting my left hand writing better, it is very hard at such an "old" age (that sort of thing really needs to be learnt when younger than 10 years of age).