--- In [email protected], "zethusamphion"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I spent about an hour just moving sides around and
> seeing what changes and what doesn't change orientation, and noticed
> that if all 4 were fixed, sometimes after aligning the centers all 4
> would be wrong.
M-turns and U-turns with U/D center on top never change orientations.
Quarter-U-turns with F/B center on top change orientations of all four
edges in the U layer.
> One question though... how much faster is this than doing position
> first and just fixing the (usually only one) orientation problem
> with M'UM'UM'U2 MU'MU'MU2? One way or another you need to put the
> cubes in the right location, so that should take the same number of
> moves, but isn't it faster just to do the 12 move switch rather than
> having to keep chasing down sides and doing patterns that aren't
> always predictable?
What do you mean, not predictable?
Cheers!
Stefan
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