cross
- there nothing to it you just need to practice practice practice
- do your cross on the bottom, much easier transaction to f2l


f2l
-train yourself to do it really really slowly without pausing this will improve your lookahead thus you time.
-learn fingertrick might help abit



offtopic; hay darren we when same school in form 1.chempaka was it?haha

rubiks discussion should be full with videos. i post mine first fresh from today. haha







could get better time . if wasnt for the flimsy cube.

This post has been edited by Mr.Ace: Oct 16 2008, 10:44 PM

its okay averybody slow at first. just come on contribute ! we need more video from the pros of lowyat

This post has been edited by Mr.Ace: Oct 16 2008, 11:40 PM

that was my type A - D hybird. with JSK cubicle its a bit flimsy haha. In next vid i use the white one.

lol i really suck at R U`x63 in the first 5 turn will definitely lockup or mix it up end up doing R U`x63 for half an hour just to found out its messed up.

here an awesome example of R U`x 63
Syuhei Omura R U` x 63
i bet since Neutral from speedsloving you must at least watched it

yea . if my friend didnt bother to ask me i would still be doing it untill reach KL haha. One hell of a way to spent itime on a trip


lol i just noticed i started cubing exactly 2 month after you haha 25/7/2008

you can buy it Toy R Us One utama ,KLcc.midvalley ,subang parade.for Rm 34.90

if you wanna buy 444 or 555 you can buy it at ActionCity @ OneUtama for 49.90 and 59.90?(cant remember price for 555)

chinese DIY can set the tension either you want it loose or tight its you choice.

while rubiks storebought(rubiks at toy r us) the tension vary from cube to cube and you cannot adjust the tension of it,at most of the time you get it quite stiff but if your lucky you get a good loose one .Its like cherry picking.

but if you would like to buy the chinese Diy i recommend Type C. Type C its actually replica of rubiks DIY the Rm 84.90 at toy r Us. It use the same mold as rubiks Diy 2006?or was it 2007( i forgot which year , but they say the best rubiks DIY batch was the 2006 mold, idontknow never got one for myself)

This post has been edited by Mr.Ace: Oct 17 2008, 09:40 PM

yea i guess so.
type A cut corners well but pop o so damn much.once i was solving it was doing the Z perm it all when smooth untill M2 U M2 U M U2 M2 U2[ M U2] sent the whole damn LL flying .well it wasnt all 2 edge piece and corner piece.

the old type D i heard was insane.the old core and screws. they said is on par with type A and it doesnt pop as much as type A

the new one. sucks max if you have the new screw .it will make you decapitated yourself.
DEE JA VOO (from speedsloving ) found away to make the screw intact anyone tried?

i tried. it the same result as the new type D screws. but i was lucky have couple of spare of old type D screw



made a couple of hybird out it.

its the old one. here i show a comparison




the old screw head is bit thicker so it fit the core nicely while then new one is thinner + the new core (black ,the old one was transparent-ish white)it tend to drill inside the core making the hole bigger. .Making it loose averytime you solved it.

This post has been edited by Mr.Ace: Oct 17 2008, 11:19 PM

should gotten myself My type As and Ds black. since white cube arent alllow to cube in competition? i cant remember , its quite vague since i red WCA regulation long time ago.

just the F2l? or the whole cube solve?
have you seen any video F2l video yet? petrus ,fridrich?


if havent here are some awesome tutorials.

Badmephisto F2l tutorial

i learnt Fridrich F2l from the video. Took me while to get F2L sub -20
F2l you just need to practice practice practice alot. Improve your look ahead
while inserting F2l pair track other corner and edge piece that need to pair up.It might be slow at first but, the more you practice you get comfortable with it. the more easier to spot the next F2l pair.

to spot F2l pair need lot and lots of practice with fridrich you wont become fast overnight,nor do any other method.it just constant practice ,while practicing you spot new way to slot your F2l pair , new way to pair you edge & corner, find the algos that suit you best. that why practice is needed. not like 5 ~ 8 hours a day just couple of solves ,25 ~35 is already okay to improve your F2l if your busy.

maybe you could make average out of 3 solve video. and post it here let ppl like neutral or any other veteran cuber to give advice



corner first since it easier to spot white on a corner (since my cross is always white, depends on what your cross is if its green then corner with green is easier to spot then an edge piece).





you can unscrew it and compare with picture i post on page at. the comparison. the old on the neck is larger while the new one is thinner.

This post has been edited by Mr.Ace: Oct 18 2008, 02:20 PM

well you gotto to ditch you LBL for good if you want to improve on fridrich F2l that what i did. suffer the whole week around 1m12s but gradually decreasing by 15 second on the second weeks that before i learn 3 look OLL (that time using 4LLL)


now averaging around 24~27 on a good day ,normal day around 26 ~ 29 , bad day can reach mid 30s

woah this took awhile to get used to.
i just practiced slotting F2l pair from any position , to reduce regripping took awhile get better with it.


Neutrals you know any rubiks competition? i m bored playing all slone

This post has been edited by Mr.Ace: Oct 20 2008, 07:09 PM

25 oct ? awesome i gonna come.


yea but mainly i used F ` F move if B i do cube rotation haha your using 2look Oll & Pll?

no wonder. haha i thought your still using 2look OLL &PLL getting 25s average is awesome.

learnning the G perm is a pain : . maybe after exam start memo all PLL

i `ll make it simple as you know CFOP stand for
Cross
First two layer (f2l)
Orient last layer(OLL)
Permute last layer(PLL)
or it widely know as Fridrich . In PLL ,you have 21 different cases that you need to memorise in this 21 cases their in group consists of
Edge Permutations(4 cases)
Corner Permutations(3 cases)
R Permutations(2 cases)
J Permutations(2 cases)
N Permutations(2 cases)
G Permutations(4cases)
Other permutations (4cases) you can look up here Dan Harris PLL algo for references. I hate G perms because the algo are long to memorise but Neutral manage to memorise them all

@Laliloo . lol is not hard i just hate long algo to memorise. but i like excecuting OLL & Pll algo thou. haha.
you need both the OLL and PLL to finish the last step of Fridrich. think of it as Two part sequence
. good luck on your F2l


executing Pll & OLL

This post has been edited by Mr.Ace: Oct 25 2008, 12:11 PM