Advanced techniques for Roux

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= Blockbuilding =
There are a couple of techniques which come to mind for improving you blockbuilding and influencing later steps and such.

'''Influencing the second block'''

Influencing the second block during the first block may not sound very specific or important, but it's crucial to get your times as low as possible. Here are a few cases, experiment with them, then make some of your own:

'''Making the second block not too inefficient'''

The second block in Roux is usually where we all get frustrated with high movecount, and feel there's not much to do about it- some cases for the second block are really annoying. You can try to apply [[Multi-slotting]] to reduce cases. There also are many cases where it may look like it'll take many moves, but it won't. Here are some cases which may not be immediately apparent in solving.

= Corners =
KCLL is what coms to mind here. It is basically influencing edge orientation while solving the U corners. Notice it's not necessarily '''solving''' EO, but influencing it. Sometimes solving EO may be more trouble than just influencing, say, a 4 flip then simply doing M'UM'. This is why it helps to know multiple algs for each case.

You can change EO by just inserting a slice move before an alg. A very obvious case is if you got a Sune case with UF and UR flipped. If you insert the M' before it, to make r U R' U R U2 r', you flip the edges, with literally no extra moves. This comes in handy as some EO cases take many moves to execute, like 2 flips or the 6-flip.

[[OLLCP]] can be applied here too. And if DF and DB are oriented you can solve Eo easily during CMLL.

= LSE =
'''Non-matching centres'''

You were always told to orient your centres first before doing EO. But sometimes, it's useful NOT to, or to make centres free. You see, an edge that is not an L/R edge is oriented if it has the same orientation as the centres. Whilst the L/R edges will be oriented if you have your U/D colour on top/bottom. So this leads to some fun.

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Advanced techniques for Roux

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Advanced techniques for Roux

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Advanced techniques for Roux

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There are a couple of techniques which come to mind for improving you blockbuilding and influencing later steps and such.
==Influencing the second block==
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==Stuff to say that doesn't require rambling==
I'm a British speedcuber, averaging sub-12 with the Roux method, making me one of the
fastest solvers using the method. I hold the SpeedBLD UWR, with 9.18 seconds using the Roux method.

My username for both SS and Youtube is 5BLD, don't ask me why. I don't even do 4BLD.

I'm currently '''6th in the UK for 3x3''', and '''7th in the UK for one-handed'''.
==How I began==
The first time I saw a cube was back in 2008 when I saw my friend solving it in class.
In February 2011 I bought my first cube and started trying to solve it. I eventually did,
by writing down short algs and figuring out which pieces they affected, finding that
'break and restore' strategy, which I now know are commutators. I must've gotten lucky as
I didn't need to do anything to the edges.... and I worked out corners- only algorithms that didn't destroy the edges.

Of course, I couldn't do it again after that, and gave in to the temptation of the solution book, but still using the first steps of my 'method'.
==Methods==
'''The main methods I use are:
* 2x2 Speed: '''[[Guimond]]'''/'''[[Ortega]]'''/'''[[EG]]'''
* 2x2 Blind: '''[[Old Pochmann]]'''
* 3x3 Speed: '''[[Roux]]''' (Full CMLL)
* 3x3 Blind: '''[[M2]]/[[Old Pochmann]]'''
* 3x3 One handed: '''[[Roux]]'''
* 3x3 With Feet: '''[[Roux]]'''/ "'[[Petrus]]'''
* 3x3 FMC: '''[[Heise]]/Freestyle'''
* 4x4 Speed: ''''[[K4]]''/Meyer/Method of Methods (my own method, but I gave it a silly name.)'''
==My 4x4 method==
It's called Method of Methods just because my friend Josh suggested it. However! It's not based on any methods at all. Well it's loosely based around the Roux method and Stadler and Yau. I will explain in detail below if I can be bothered.

== Wiki Work ==
Main work on the wiki so far has been:
Nothing apart from this page. There will be work soon though.

== External Links ==
Click for my:
* [http://5bld.webs.com Website]
* [http://rouxtorial.webs.com Roux Method Tutorial]
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