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I don't know if anyone needs to hear this but I use this all the damn time.

So when you're doing the cross you stick blue and green opposite each other, and red and orange opposite each other.

I find that I'm rubbish at the order they go in. I know it's Blue Red Green Orange but sometimes I'll go blue orange green red by accident.

As long as you have the opposite colours, well, opposite each other (blue-green, red-orange) and haven't royally fucked it up (Blue green red orange) then you can just do this.

Get your wrongly aligned middle slice and move it into the yellow layer with an M2, then spin them the opposite way around with a U2, then put them back with an M2.

Thing is, you don't have to do this immediately. You can actually do the whole of F2L first, then flip em afterwards. Meaning instead of getting in a bit of a panic about having done the cross wrong and trying to figure it out you can say to yourself "Oh yeah, better do that alg when I get a chance" and do it when there's only yellow edges in the M slice partway through F2L or leave it until you're done.

Also, you don't necessarily have to flip the bad 2 edges, you can flip the good 2 edges if you notice before you F2L and just realign your white slice so the cross matches.

TLDR: M2 U2 M2

I wonder if this puzzle will allow Tony Fisher to reclaim his world record for largest 3x3?

I'm currently learning full OLL slowly and also some PLL, but I'm picking and choosing the algs I'm learning. I recently saw the linked video for a fast U perm and it made my solves so much faster because I seem to use it in A LOT of solves.

So I thought I'd share it, and also ask what your most used algs are? Post links if possible, let's all get faster together.

Solve and reconstruction (4 moves) Invidious | Youtube

Hi everyone.

This is just an update about the speedcubing timer I've recently started developing. Refer to the previous post for more details.

First things first

The name has changed. As previously mentioned, I was still on the fence about the name and there happens to be a timer called Cubetime that already exists. For these reasons, I have decided to rename the project UnCube.

The old link qubetime.codelog.co.za still works, but in the coming months I will disable the subdomain and remove it's CORS entry.

The new domain is uncube.codelog.co.za.

New features

Account registration is now open! On the main page you'll notice a login button on large screen devices and a menu button with login and register buttons on small screen devices. Though registration and login is now possible, it is not yet possible to save your solves to the cloud. 😞

Also, even though sessions persist, I have not added the logic for checking if a session exists, so reloading the page returns the login/register buttons even though you are still 'logged in.'

Boo! I want to see the source code!

FINE!!! Here you go

As always, let me know if anyone has any suggestions/issues.

EDIT: Added link to GitHub repository

TL;DR Remember that new broken speedcubing timer? It just got a bit better!

So, I know that there are loads of great speedcubing timers out there, but I've always felt that these are half solutions that leave a lot of manual work for the user of the timer to do things like synchronising solves between devices.

As a Computer Scientist and hobbyist speedcuber, I felt that I am in a unique position to offer a solution to this problem.

Over the past few weeks, I've been developing a new speedcubing timer that (for now; open to suggestions) I am calling QubeTime. Although QubeTime is in BETA right now and most of the eventual functionality is still missing, I thought I should release it to the public so that I can get feedback as soon as possible.

With that in mind, please send me your suggestions and feel free to contact me using my business email.

The current list of planned features include:

• Multi-device cloud synchronisation
• In-depth solve statistics.
• Import/export to/from all major* speedcubing timers.
• Easy solve sharing with link previews. (Twitter cards, etc...)
• ?? Speedcubing news bulletins ??
• User solve comments.

TL;DR I'm building a new speedcubing timer, it'll have lots of cool features.

Hi everyone! Any exciting plans this week? Any new cubes or comps planned?

European Record, WR4

Invidious | Youtube

Memo: ~45s

Exec: ~1min25

Hi everyone! Any exciting plans this week? Any new cubes or comps planned?

youtube | invidious

Final solve + reaction on youtube | invidious

Some explanations on youtube / invidious