I think you have the mentality that I had "everyone is doing fridrich, I'll be the cool one who does something different". Which is fun, but less support is avaliable for roux. This is actually an advantage. You find out everything yourself and a lot of the time you invent looads of little tricks. basically you're gonna wanna go over his page time and time again and extract every single word you can from it, reading the archived versions of the page will help aswell. I've knocked off a second on average on the trip down here just by seeing a sentence on that page and having a different way of going about a step.
Mike Bennetts page is fun, too. It's worth reading his algs. Fast times with this method are entirly possable, as i've acheived a sub-20 average with it in under a year of cubing. probibly from about 4 - 5 months of roux. Don't worry about being at a minate right now, I went up to about 1:20 from 30 seconds (when i used petrus), and i belive Gilles went from under 20 to about 1:30 or something. Low times are entirly possable with this method, and apparently possable for sub-20's with a two look corners. You should learn a lot of tricks and shortcuts, here are the ones I use; CMLL ELL Apply the concept of multislotting, not using anything solidly learnt opposite block building (being able to choose to start on a white or a yellow block) inverted block building (being able to build those two sets of blocks upside-down) non-matching blocks (being able to build different blocks form each other) NMCMLL (solve teh top corners in one look when non-matching blocks are applyed - the big table under CMLL - about 30% done) simultaneous block building (looking after a corner edge while you build the first block) AWOL centres in the LSE (rare) Placing UF + UB instead of UL and UR (rare) This along with hundereds of special configurations during the second block that you'll find out yourself gave me a sub-20 average, but I don't advise using pretty much any of it, you should keep it simple untli you get to about 18, as I'm trying to use all thses at teh same time while working on my speed and it's given me slower overall progress. But, the final result will be muuch faster. That's all the juice I have for now :) ~Thom --- In [email protected], "athefre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I see his method and his 13.88 average and it just amazes me. I think > it's great that he was able to come up with a new method that is (or > seems to be) as fast as Fridrich. I don't really want to learn > Fridrich because there are so many people using it and I thought I > would try something else. Also, someone has to test his method. > > I also thought about learning Petrus (and using the algorithms Josef > Jelinek made) but it seems like it is slower. > > What kind of averages should I expect to get? I haven't seen anyone > have an average close to Lars with his method so is the same thing > going to happen with this and not many people are going to get sub 20? > > I've been working on it and I finally figured out how to use Gilles > corners table (after asking him how). My fastest time with it so far > is only 53 seconds. I am really slow in the beginning building the > blocks but in the end I am really fast. I haven't learned all of the > corners algorithms yet either. > > Hopefully I'll get more help here than I did on twistypuzzles. > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
