This is a general discussion thread. Anything is welcome!

Any exciting plans for the week? Any new PBs? New interesting puzzles?

  • SeerLite@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Posts from this community still don’t show up on the mobile app I use :s
    Fortunately I can still see them from desktop.

    So uni started and I’ve been a lot more busy, but I’m still trying to practice my 3-Style with Anki. I’ve switched from having 1 card per commutator to 1 card for both a commutator and its inverse. This will speed up my learning but very likely slow down my recognition for when I encounter a letter pair that corresponds to an inverse. I’ll try to practice that when I’ve finished learning all the algs first.

    The tool I was creating is a little simpler now. It only fetches a few sheets (an old one by Jack Cai and Elliott Kobelansky’s). I use Jack Cai’s algs mainly as that’s the one I found first, but since it has many typos, I replace (via code) the ones I dislike with Elliott’s. Then I generate the Anki cards (with both comm and inverse). Right now I’m learning 378 corner commutators via 189 cards.

    What I’ve really grown to like is a mix of Elliott Kobelansky’s notation and standard notation.

    • Standard notation: [D' U': [R D' R', U2]]
      • In English:
        1. Set up with D' U'
        2. Do the insertion R D' R'
        3. Do the interchange U2
        4. Undo the insertion with R D R'
        5. Undo the interchange with U2
        6. Undo the setup with U D
    • Elliott’s notation: D': U' / R D' R'
      • In English:
        1. Set up with D'
        2. Do the pseudo-interchange U'
        3. Do the insertion R D' R'
        4. Do the pseudo-interchange twice U2
        5. Undo the insertion R D R'
        6. Do the pseudo-interchange again U'
        7. Undo the setup with D'
    • The mix I like: [D': [U' / R D' R']]
      • Exactly the same as Elliott’s notation, but I find it easier to read.

    What I do is I have both the standard notation and my modified Elliott notation on each card. That way I can try both and use the one that’s easiest to learn (it’s not always one or the other).
    Parsing Elliott’s notation and generating the mix is all automated, of course ;)

  • captmrwill@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What was/is everyone’s favorite resource for intuitive F2L? I’m not looking to memorize hundreds of algorithms at this point. However, it seems inconsistent from source to source.

    I acknowledge there is personal taste here, so I’m just looking for good resources to sample first.

    • Narusite@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Green-yellow FB — 38stm

          y2 // inspection
          U2S'ru2rM2u' // FB (7)
          r2U2rRU'R2U'RU2r'U'RUr' // SB (14/21)
          U2 r'F2rU2 r U' r' F  // CMLL (9/30)
          U'M2U'MUM2U2M //LSE (8/38)
      

      view at CubeDB.net

      Orange-white FB — 36stm

          xy' // inspection
          M'ER'B'r'u  // FB (6)
          U'M2rUrUM2U'RUrU'r'M2U//R // SB (16-1/21)
          //R'
          F R F' r U R' // CMLL (6/27)
          M2UM'U'MU'MU'M2 //LSE (9/36)
      
      

      view at CubeDB.net

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I don’t time myself too often, so I don’t have any new PBs to report. I’ve ordered a couple Meilong 4x4s and a tetraminx, but they haven’t arrived yet. I’m currently working on (gradually) improving my 3BLD success rate.

    • Narusite@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I never really understood why there were turning tips on pyraminx…

      What method do you use for BLD? What’s your PB/avg/sucess rate?