Rubik's Cube: Setting up cases

[daggycat2011]

This is boring, I DONT GET IT

[morboris]

@daggycat2011 its like this reverse the order of the original algorithm and then change the R/L etc into the opposite that is R'/L'

[hhhkingofkings888]

your tutorials made my times go down from 2 minutes to 25 second average and i only watched your videos since september so in 3.5 months u made my times drop 1.5 minutes u rok my pb is 14.28 lucky and 21 nl

[jaibhakti]

NEVERMIND about the U2 question...

I figured it out:

Obviously there is no difference between making 2 clockwise or counter-clockwise turns: the face you turn twice ends up in the same position regardless of the direction of the turn.

OK...I actually DO have a high IQ...it's just that on occasion my brain forgets to remember that simple factoid. LOL

[jaibhakti]

I'm new to cubing (although I did have the Rubik's Cube when it first came out over here in the States...but I never solved it back then, so I'm back!)

Question: When you inverted the algorithms, why didn't you have to invert the U2? (Isn't the U2 the move where you spin 2 rows at once?)

Please forgive my ignorance. You are a great teacher, by the way!

[xxzmapl3rzxx]

LOL nice ending :D

[darthvaderyoda]

For PLLs I always remember the number of degrees in number of peices cycling around. The A perm has 3 peices cycling, so it has 3 degrees. The T perm has 2 peices cycling, so it has 2 degrees. However, the G perm has 6 peices cycling so you would think its 6 but its actually just 2, 3 piece cycles (Im pretty sure everyone knows that) so its degree is also 3.

Its an interesting concept.

[79bommer]

nice ending lol!

[ItayoMan]

Very good video. thank you.

[oprah62]

either way u do it twice it will end up the same

[mynameisdarthtater]

i dont even know if i could call it an alg, but R U has a degree of 105.

[lcdrdata]

@mynameisdarthtater it only has a degree of 63, count the repititions of the alg itself and not the total number of moves

[mackychloe]

makes sense!!! nice end trick.

[byorda]

hey, loved the end too

[SandbestF]

All PLL's have degrees 2 or 3?

PLL degrees:

A perms: 84

V perm: 12

F perm: 12

G perms: 4

So 8 of the 21 PLL's have a higher degree.

[badmephisto]

...I want some of whatever you are smoking.

[aaronthejuggler]

wat happened to the 2 look oll tutorial?

[byorda]

WTF

[mynameisdarthtater]

...no? you make no sense.

[ben1996123]

@SandbestF

correction: A perms: 3

V perm: 2

F perm: 2

G perms: 3

[AccurateGaming]

If you are still wondering why it looks like a fish, look at the cube from a 45 degree angle between the front and right side of the cube. The upper formation of the cube looks like a fish. (The 4 grouped yellow cubes being the body and the 2 individual ones being its tail)

[mable1201]

u r so good...

[Twister051]

What kind of stickers or tiles are those? I think I saw cubesmith, but what kind exactly.

[ParkourPelle]

Nice practice ^^

[Trininboy]

nice video, i was wondering if you could do a video on different cubes and witch ones are the best

[MyklSkeleton]

Great video as always

[kuzelnet]

At the last 20 sec of the vid ;) , btw Do you use C4Y Type A?

[tommii662]

And of course reversing the alg gets your cube "solved" :p

[tommii662]

I actually stumbled upon the alg of just keep doing U then turn the cube anti-clockwise then repeat everything lol.

[caphits]

If you really want a REALLY big degree:

R Z has a degree of about an hour haha.

(I think its Z. Its the one where you "roll" the whole cube to the right.)

If I remember correctly, It performs the same thing as: U R U' L' U R' U' L eventually. So if you are paying attention, you can catch it sometimes.

[ben1996123]

i once went through the entire degree cycle of R z. My hand hut=rt afterwards.

[Singul4r1ty]

Didn't this already came up in your awesome video where you explain how to make algorithms (the cycling of pieces). But yeah I just noticed that by hardwiring algorithms into my brain by repeating lol

[badmephisto]

how many people actually knew all of this stuff before? its the kind of thing that you stumble on, by accident.

[sakakabaka]

i just like applying algs over and over again and just mess with it oh thxs to u im down to sub 1 min ty ur the best at this

[Chaotischesneutrales]

I just wrote a program that tells you the number of degrees for any given set of moves.

Its in Perl though, not Python.

[badmephisto]

yes i saw your post on speedsolving forums :) where is it

[gbbsc]

I always thought it was intuitive. Take for example the simplest algorithm: U. Do it a few times and you're back to normal. Still a useful video though; thanks for making it.

[badmephisto]

yea i always thought that too. but i still get many questions about it... so i was confused. In any case, there should not be a single person who doesnt know :)

[insaneguy999]

Yeah I stumbled upon it by accident.

Started experimenting and found something with degree 67 or 68 i can't remember. but it was just for fun.

Algorithm with that huge degree: R U

[CUB3FR34K]

it's 63 degree

[FlashEmperor]

I think that it's 63.

[eraggo]

I think there is 60/40 change that cubers know this at very very beginning; training to muscle memory needs repetaton of algs and cubers will eventually see this :)

[sakakabaka]

im the 32 comment lol yay but anyways this is a nice vid

[orca222]

duuuuude ur crazy fast. what kind of cubes are those?

[heymaxsup]

hahahhahah

[ThisIsWEB]

I think that you should add these degrees to your website, because they can be helpul for OLL cases someone may not know yet. What if one of the 'degrees' (OLLs between the solved state and the actual case) are ones that I don't know? Even though I know all of the algorithms of Sune's degrees, let's use this as an example:

I don't know the last 2 algorithms b3fore reaching the Sune case, so for now I could apply the Sune (being a fast alg.) 2 or 3 times.

[ThisIsWEB]

Because I know all of the cross cases, I would have to see whether it would be faster to do 2-Look OLL (for line or dot cases: which way to AUF) or do it by applying the algorithm X amount of times. I already do so on the T OLL with both triggers, doing it twice for a certain case.

Yea, trying to figure which of these many ways would be the best is just encouraging me to learn more cases, the real ones! Bottom Line: Put up the degress Mephisto! DX

[badmephisto]

its an interesting idea

[RookieN08]

looks like cubesmith sticker this a very interesting video hope you get sub15 soon

[123IOWNALL321]

This was interesting...it doesn't really help in cubing, but it's still interesting for showing people. I remember I used to want to show people different cases of the cube that I had to solve and figuring this out. It's kind of easy to find out, and I'm sure everyone's been curious at one point or another what an algorithm would do if you did it on a solved cube...

Thanks for the food for thought, your videos always interest me.

[badmephisto]

yes I'm sure its very easy for many people. But why do I always get so many questions on this then... meh

[suhas2112]

Nice video!! Is that cube you're using one of your 10 new type A's?

[casualcuber]

I originally discovered this "degrees" thing back when i used beginners method . Instead of doing an algorithm twice which had a degree of 3 i could just do the mirror image!

[badmephisto]

<3<3 ty ty. sub25 oh snap-- is the student going to beat the teacher anytime soon? will stay tuned :)

[Chaotischesneutrales]

Have you found a way to calculate the degrees of an algorithm?

R U' has 63 degrees and

R U has 105 degrees.

[badmephisto]

no not really. its an interesting question though... one that i dont have the answer to :(

[TheBloodyTalon]

you can beat the world record! two hand solve or even one hand solve! LOL

nice tutorial...

[DarkBeam]

OMG! I was right about to make the same tutorial! Except a little different! Darn you beat me to it! haha

[WeiseGuy91]

nice stuff man. its weird that i didn't know this at first. took me a week or two of solving before I realized it works =D

nice ending too :P

[joejoetube1]

hehe.. come on Meph.. it looks EXACTLY like a fish.

heh

[enoploskinimatografo]

that last part was gooodddd....

and it's good to have you back :)

[mmiskolc]

nice to see you back making videos! great tutorials! when is your "random cube tricks #2" video coming out?

[badmephisto]

yea i think i'll come and embarrass myself. I've now gone back up to 18 second average just for not practicing a few weeks. its sad

[Yalower]

Really? That's awesome! I'll need to get your autograph or something!

[abr71310]

Are you going to Toronto Open Winter???

Hope to see you there!! ^^

[Jaredishyper1414]

142 views???????????

[j2jpop]

Why is it call sune? I always just assumed that "sune" meant "fish," hahaha.

[Kowgan]

Excelent! :D Congratz!

[Callypsps]

lol I can do the editing you used for this "magical" trick in the end , but I can't do the advanced methods to solve the cube xDD

[Splatahking]

nice ending

[KhaDori]

ur paint skill r0x ;D

[baseballrg]

new video!!

[badmephisto]

i know! exciting! :D

[baseballrg]

yea because you make the best videos like ever