--- In [email protected], "thomkirjava"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll do an average later. I do know that F2B + CMLL for me is around
> 19 seconds.
I'll do an average for my F2B+C(O)LL later. My brain is thoroughly
fried after being up all night FMCing.
> I've got a good one for you, F (r U r' U')*3 F'. Try it :)
Simple algs like that make me smile. Unfortunately, I can't see that
one coming up in a solve very often. Do you use that one much?
> The problem with this is, You are constrainging yourself to the
> standard 1x2x2 + corner edge (or any other formula). I do this most
> often, but not all the time, so It may do more harm than good. Unsure
> though :)
You can use similar trick for placing edges last. And you don't
necessarily need to change the orientation. Often it's helpful to
influence the corners. Think of the difference between U'RUR' and R'FRF'.
> Yeah, I've used all sorts of different stratergies. Placing DB and DB,
> UF and UB, leaving out the final U2 from the placing the UR and UL
> pieces and doing the last bit a usually a shorter number of moves.
I'm pretty much placing DB while orienting edges almost all of the
time now. It seems like a lot of algs to start with, but they're not
so bad because they're short and mostly common sense. It feels great
to get DB or DF placed after step 3, and see an easy 3 edges on top
orientation. You can usually even work out the L5E step afterward to
be a nice case based on which direction you orient that one from.
> A thing I still use is if the ULB and ULF corners are solved after the
> first block, doing a z' and executing COLL (Not CMLL) on the corners
> and then shifting into the classic corners first senario. It's good to
> have little tricks like that under your sleeve for lucky cases.
I would try that, but my corners first times are all >30 on average. :(
> On last thing I still can't get right is the E2 M E2 alg. I can never
> get it under a second. What do you guys do and how do you perform it?
I avoid that one like the plague. It doesn't really come up very
often the way I solve the L6E. Only about 1/30 of the times I get an
O6E skip, which is about 1/32. 1 out of a little under 1,000 solves.
If I solve the normal Roux way, though, I hate getting that one. It
probably takes me >2 seconds on average. I used to do it as M'E2(push
with right thumb twice)M/M'E2(push twice again). Now I've switched to
doing it as M' and then double click the E' with my right index
finger. The trick is to adjust your right middle finger during the M'
turn, so that it's positioned on the B sticker of DBR (and right thumb
on the F sticker of DFR). I've also tried doing the E2 as a wrist
turn, but it's not as fast as the clicking once you get it down.
> ~ Thom
-Mike
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