5.97 Reconstructions + Commentary

How can I improve my f2l

Hey Nomaan - it depends how fast you are! Check out the Intermediate cross and F2L tutorials for plenty of advice.

Congrats on all the world records Feliks - especially this one!
Fantastic work and well deserved :) 

Hi Feliks,

Congratulations on the first sub 6 average!

For the second pair in your final solve, there is a connected pair but you did another pair and broke it up. Is this a mistake?

@Yixao Shen, yep it was a mistake, as he says in the description "After this, there was a connected pair staring me in the face… so obviously I chose to break it up and insert the green-yellow pair. I was in a bit of a hurry – no time to stop and think!"

Congratulation!!

This is really good content..i really enjoy walkthrough solves and reconstructions of better cubers as to see how they do their entire solves and get ideas for different techniques..great job on you sub-6 average feliks! YOU DA MAN!

 *Your

What does STM stands for?

Cool, thanks a lot. I tried the scrambles first and then I looked at the reconstruction. Even though I made slightly worse choices, I still got a very good average for my standards. And after doing the scramble myself, it was much more interesting to see what you did instead. (For the second scramble, I actually still prefer my solution since I preserved the pair during the X Cross)

However, one thing slightly bothers me. We always get to see reconstructions of very good Scrambles. World record, PBs, CRs, NRs, XX Crosses etc get reconstructed a lot. But nobody ever reconstructs bad scrambles. I mean, these Scrambles are not insane or anything, but they are good Scrambles with reasonably easy F2L.

What I would like to see slightly more of is reconstructions of Scrambles where lots of bad things happen. Everything is misoriented, pieces are in awkward positions in wrong slots, all crosses are bad etc. I would love to see how pros deal with such scrambles.

Yixiao - thanks, and yes I would view that as a mistake in the solve! :)

Cheers Bob!

Arin - Slice Turn Metric

Bernhard - Sounds like an idea for an extras video on YouTube. I'll add it to the list, I think it could be quite interesting!

great content, and good job with the WR! I tried the scrambles and did basically average by my standards, 24.72. I was wondering if there are any good ways to go about learning full LL algs or if I should just grind through 

Feliks,

Cubeskills is a very good website and i love it. 

Here's a question, Can you do tutorials on other events like skewb and 2x2? It would be really Nice.

Thanks :)

By the Way, You are really fast!

Compared to me, my PB is 18.86

Can you do Solve Critiques?

 Cuberious- I think he does that, just email him the video and ask him to.

Emile- 2x2 would be fun, but skewb is less interesting, I use the 1 alg. method, not very good.

Speaking of ZBLL, would you mind doing an algorithm sheet for the ZB method?

Thanks for all you have done for us.

Liam

Great reconstruction, and simply insane lol

Emile - I think 2x2 and skewb tutorials will come eventually, but I'm not an expert in either of those events, and have higher priorities for tutorials right now.

Cuberious - I generally only do those for the premium members, because it requires quite a bit of time to review and critique solve videos.

Liam - Check out algdb.net for ZBLL algorithms.

Feliks- Ok thanks a lot, Keep going, Cubeskills is a really Nice website.

Liam- That's beacause i want to get sub 5 in skewb and 2x2 and i use Sarah intermediate for skewb.

Feliks- How often do You upload livestream per month?

Feliks- And finally, when do You think i should start learning full PLL? (I am currently around 28 seconds on average and i began to learn some PLL's -Edge PLL's, Corner PLL's, And some other PLL's Like JA, JB, Y, T...

Hi Feliks I am a sub 40 and I am having a hard time getting faster I use the beginners method with F2L.Any suggestions?

When the gans air SM will be available?

Feliks Gans cube give to you free cubes?

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That was a lot of fun thank you Feliks and Brestcubing! Really helped me see other ways of building and inserting F2L. ZBLL is still like chinese to me though.

Though now I know the difference between x,y and z :)

I still can't comprehend how you see all of this in such a short time and please don't say practice haha

I was averaging 23 or so when I started cubeskills but thanks to you, yesterday at the beach, I casually did a 15, 16 and 17 seconds in front of the family :)

I admire you Fekiks

Emile - It's up to you, I started learning full PLL at around that speed though.

Nathan - All my advice on getting faster is in the tutorial videos and resources on this site :)

Tiago - Not sure, perhaps in about a month's time.

Nico - Merci! Glad you enjoyed it :)

Congratulations on a brilliant average; I can't imagine anyone will beat it for some time; I discovered a couple of easy ZBLL's and a very nice Winter variation recently through experimentation and thought I'd ask I these are known to you already (RUR'URUR'U2LRU'R'UL' and RU2R'U'RU2R'U2LRU'R'UL' plus (U')R'F2RF2UL'UL for WV) and if not what you thought. In addition I have to ask out of pure curiosity: how much of ZBLL do you know and will you be learning all of it? Congratulations once again on the average!

Feliks, thanks for this most informative of videos. I have never been to a competition and I picked up a few things from cyotheking's video "WCA Competitor Tutorial" on Youtube, but I still haven't figured something out that seems like a really obvious and fundamental question, despite searching extensively for the answer.

Does each competitor receive the same scramble?

I suspect so as I saw a reference to not discussing scrambles until the round is over.

Thanks, 

Rick

How do you recognize algorithms so fast?

What is the Gans Air SM? How is it different from the UM?

 Thanks

Should you start practicing not resting your arms on the table while solving before you start competing?

By my looks this website is growing fast :) Nice commentary on the reconstructions, I like this style of blog!

Karli - I do plan to continue slowly learning ZBLL cases over the coming months and years, but it's not a huge priority. :)

Rick - Correct, each competitor in each group is given the same set of scrambles. In earlier rounds of competition, there are multiple groups, so multiple sets of scrambles are required. 

Tien - Recognition time is developed through many years of practice :p

Liam - It's an upgraded version of the UM, and to the best of my knowledge, is faster and lighter. I don't know much about the internal design.

Cuberious - Yeah, most people don't rest their arms on the surface when solving.

How do you practice? Should I practice for hours every day or can I practice for example only at the weekend?  

 Hi feliks! I just want to learn how to solve a 3x3 blindfolded?can you help me pls...thanks

anyway congratulations feliks!!!!!

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What subsets do you use?

Sorry but someone can explain me what should be UF colors to execute scrambles and what inspection move mean?

Thanks in advance

Hey Paulo, 

Standard scrambling convention is to start with the white face on U, and the green face on F. Here is a good summary of the notation used, but it's also taught in tutorial videos along the way.