VH method

VH method Information about the method Proposer(s): Lars Vandenbergh Dan Harris Proposed: unknown Alt Names: none Variants: ZB No. Steps: 5 No. Algs: unknown Avg Moves: unknown Purpose(s): Speedsolving

VH (short for Vandenbergh-Harris) is a variant of the Fridrich method invented by Lars Vandenbergh and Dan Harris. It orients the last-layer edges during insertion of the final F2L block. It has exactly the same effect as the ZBF2L stage of the ZB method, but uses much fewer algorithms - 32 as opposed to ZBF2L's 125 (excluding mirror's and inverses). It achieves this by restricting the LL orientation step to the moment before insertion of the final 1x1x2 block (in a similar manner to Winter Variation). With full ZBF2L, LL orientation is carried out from any F2L last slot case.

See Also

• ZB Method
• ZBF2L
• ZBLL
• Edge Orientation
• Partial Edge Control
• EOLine
• ELS

External Links

• Algorithms and Description for the VH method (warning, lots of applets!)
• Dan Harris's VH Description (on his new site, incomplete)
• speedsolving.com VH Method
• A well explained guide on VH can be found in the book Speedsolving the Cube by co-inventor of the method Dan Harris.