Slow cuber but very interested.
CFOP 4-look LL (learning full PLL…)
PB Ao5 32s
[sorry for my english]

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  • I was wondering and this question was asked over there and he answered it:

    Thank you for that list :)
    Which ones are stealth and kites? Never heard those categories before

    Stealth = OLL-28, H = OLL-57, the all corners oriented cases.

    I separated out kites (OLL-9 & 10) and fishes (OLL-35 & 37) because although the wiki groups these together, they are distinctly different U patterns. Note that the kites can be solved by Sunes with M setup moves so are in the same “family” as the squares and small lightning bolts.

    The dots are also separated into those with 1/54 probability and those with <1/54 probability; the move savings for the latter are weighted by their probability which is why they are so low in the list. Although rare, when one actually arises you still save a lot of moves (8-10) so they’re good to learn anyway.











  • Cubing Competitions Near Me” tool

    Until yesterday, we could find the closest WCA competitions to our home (or any location and sorted by distance) with a tool on CubingApp.com. All we had to do was fill in the latitude and longitude.

    Today I contact Spencer Chubb (the owner of the website) about this, and few hours later he had improved it: now we just have to fill in the field with a city!
    It works perfectly and easier to use!

    Find a WCA competitions near you: cubingapp.com/competitions/

    Thanks to Spencer to listen to suggestions, and congratulations to him on his responsiveness.
    He’s a very nice guy.




  • I share your excitement and the serotonin addiction, like all cubers :)

    I just wonder how much faster you would be with all the algs in your head.

    I wonder too. You can also ask yourself how much faster you would be after learning some COLL or/and Winter Variations, or if you do x-crosses/cross+1 each solve. Learning is endless in cubing! I’ve decided to stop − for a moment − learning new algs and focus on inspection and F2Ls.

    May be I’ll take a look at few sexy/sledge OLL algorithms ;)



  • Thank you for your answer. It’s very interesting to know what knowledge cubers have and what techniques they use.

    It’s funny, we’re at the same place in our progression 🙂 I plan crosses and try x-crosses/cross+1 but I’m bad at this. As you, I do a lot of slow turning. I agree with you, it’s a very good practice.
    For F2L, I’m still discovering new tricks/algs that save me time.
    Actually, I know 20/21 PLLs and 2-look OLLs (+ 2 OLL-T). I don’t want learn full OLL, so, to skip dot cases I use sledge to insert the last pair or add M moves to a last 3-mover.

    I decided I would never learn all OLLs (too much for me). So, in parallel to CFOP, a few days ago I started practicing edges orientation (EO) of the ZZ method. Because after F2Ls, up-face edges are already oriented and so, there are only 8 cases (we already know). It’s a (long) test. I’ll see later if I definitively switch or not.