This is a general discussion thread. Anything is welcome!
Any exciting plans for the week? Any new PBs? New interesting puzzles?
I need to decide if the weekly thread should start on Sunday or Monday haha. I keep forgetting!
Trying to set up some kind of bot to make sure it’s posted on time
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.
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:
- Set up with
D' U'
- Do the insertion
R D' R'
- Do the interchange
U2
- Undo the insertion with
R D R'
- Undo the interchange with
U2
- Undo the setup with
U D
- Set up with
- In English:
- Elliott’s notation:
D': U' / R D' R'
- In English:
- Set up with
D'
- Do the pseudo-interchange
U'
- Do the insertion
R D' R'
- Do the pseudo-interchange twice
U2
- Undo the insertion
R D R'
- Do the pseudo-interchange again
U'
- Undo the setup with
D'
- Set up with
- In English:
- 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 ;)Posts from this community still don’t show up on the mobile app I use :s
That’s strange. What app do you use?
I figured it out! It was because I was sorting by “top 12 hours”. I didn’t realize it would filter posts from only past 12 hours.
Thunder on Android.
- Standard notation: