recently i have actually been working very heavily on F2L. before now i was
going purely on intuition that i had developed from the petrus method but the
downside with that is that its not always optimal and fast so now i have
actually gone back and started memorizing the algorithms. What i recommend you
do is you print up a page and on pretty much every case look at the sheet and
see what it says for it. after that go through the alg and pay attention to
what it does. try and watch how the pieces pair up in each alg and how each
alg effects all the other pieces. some times you can use an algorithm to
solve a pair and move a piece or to out of the F2L or you can breakup pieces
that are matched incorrectly. experimentation can lead to understanding but
there are a lot of tricks that are alot easier learned than they are to figure
out
John,
David Pritts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: how fast do you guys solve
F2L? how does that compare to the total time it takes you to solve the cube?
right now i'm working on intuitive F2L, as indicated by my several posts
recently... I am starting to get the hang of it, and it is no longer difficult
for me.. HOWEVER, it's not fast. With my old method, I solved the first layer
and used 2 algs to solve the 4 pieces in the 2nd layer. WIth this method, a
good F2L takes about 45 seconds(for me). How much practice do you think it
will take me such that I can do F2L in less than 45 seconds? I just timed
myself 5 times and I did it in around:
2:25
2:20
1:55
2:12
1:50
Anyways, I can see that I'm getting much better with practice, but I'm
still anxious to get faster so I figured I'd ask.. plus, Craig B told me that
he got the hang of it in 3-4 days, and it's taken me longer than that, and I
think i've been doing a relatively heavy amount of cubing in the past few
days, so I figured I should get it down sooner ^^
Also - although I understand this method, do you think it makes a big
enough difference in time to justify memorizing the 41 algs? This method is
pretty good and i know it has a potential for being very fast, but assuming I
took it slowly (maybe 1 a day, or 4-5 a week or something), I could easily
memorize those algs after a month or two.. would that be noticeably faster? It
seems to me that having an alg for each case would be significantly faster.
Let me know.
David
ps--ordered cubesmith tiles, got them on today..very nice -_-
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