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.