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Links and applications for the famous Rubik's cube.
Links
- Official
- Guides & Wiki
- speedsolving.com wiki
- Quel cube choisir pour le speedcubing 3x3x3
- Rubik's cube : aller plus vite avec la méthode débutant
- Cubers wiki on reddit
- Buy guides, solutions, (new) how to improve...
- (new) speedsolving.com FAQ (cubes, notation, timers, methods...)
- The Six Sides - Rubik's Cube (incl. a nicely sorted list of OLLs).
- Andy Klise's Rubik's Cube Guides (very well done guides and cheat sheets, including probabilities, blindfolded, badmephisto's guides)
- Badmephisto (often reported as the king of tutorials for the Rubik's Cube)
- Tip Videos
- Some cool finger tricks. Don't leave your finger from the cube most of the time.
- More nice exercices to do (RUR'U', L'U'LU, RUR'F...)
- What a speedcuber sees when he solves the Rubik's cube.
- Tutoriel : Améliorer la croix du 3x3 (méthode fridrich)
- Overshoot move: U' R' F R, swap an edge on the cross: R' u R' u'
- See #Tutorial section below
- See #Tutorial section below
- Video on how to move F2L to FR column.
- Cube rotation: y U' L' U L. Quite slow.
- Sledgehammer: F R' F' R (or see variants below).
- A bit faster, no cube rotation. Use it for inserting your last f2l pair for partial edge control of your OLL, or to avoid moving your next pair if you've spotted it using look ahead. Apparently the F' is done with the thumb, a bit before doing the R.
- Case Number 2: F' (r U r')
- Case Number 3: r' U' R U M' — What about B' R B R' ?
- Case Number 4: l U L' U' M' — What about B L' B' L ?
- When to use the sledgehammer (right-handed left variant): R' F R F' , or "RU" prime: U R U' R' (i.e. sexy move prime).
- The goal is to end up with 4 well-oriented edges in the OLL.
- http://cubesolv.es/ (reconstruction db for WR...), speedsolving.com forum and wiki, alg.cubing.net, wca, www.qqtimer.net
- F2L - The Jessica Fridrich Method - No algorithms needed.
- What a speedcuber sees when he solves the Rubik's cube.
- Insert a connected pair in wrong slot to get out a corner with white sticker to prepare next slot.
- Fast Sune/Anti-Sune Execution
- Sune: Second U by pushing with left index.
- Anti-sune: First U' with left index, then second U' with left middle finger.
- (new) F2L videos: FiDo's, BadMephisto
- Beginner - How to Learn Algorithms Faster
- Break algorithms into triggers (
R U R' U'
,R' F R F'
,R U2 R'
,R U R'
,R U' R'
, ...) - Track F2L pairs in algorithms.
- Cases of 2 algorithms put into one.
- Look for repeating patterns in algorithms.
- Learn more algorithms.
- Break algorithms into triggers (
- Blind-folded
- Good memory NOT needed
- Conjugates make small changes (A B A', with A called the setup move, and A' the undo setup). Setup move must not destroy the buffer or the adjacent corners/edges that are swapped along.
- All pieces are solved from the buffer
- Target is where the buffer needs to go (where we need to shoot).
- (NoahCubes) How to Improve Your Memo for 3BLD — Good memorization tricks
- Not seen yet:
- Tutorial: Solve the Rubik's Cube blind by Badmephisto
- (NoahCubes) How to Solve a Rubik's Cube Blindfolded (5 parts)
- Already seen: [1], [2]
- Solutions
- Bob Burton's CubeWhiz (CFOP, F2L...)
- F2L
- OLL
- OLL Cheat sheet (linked from speedsolving.com)
- Cheatsheets by Andy Klise
- Shops
- Sell the recommended lube lubix's lube, but oversee, so high shipping and custom cost.
- The Lubix silicone is made of a polydimethylsiloxane polymer. Note this is the same lubricant that Rubik's sell in their Rubik's Speedcube Pro Pack.
- Cubikon (Germany) (google translated)
- Does not sell lube in tube (only spray, reputed bad)
- Sell Zhanchi Dayan V (10.95€)
- King's Cube (France)
- Sell Maru lube (not recommended, see below), Calvin's lube high viscosity and Calvin's lube medium viscosity (seems very good).
- Sell Zhanchi's cube, but not black ones.
- iCubik (Italy)
- Info
- List of recommended and non-recommended lubricant
- Maru lube not recommended. Dries out too quickly. ([3])
- Tools
- Tools on Rubik's cube (algorithm mirror, rotation remover)
- qcube v2 (cube simulator)
z = U p = z h / g = F / F' r = Lw', l q = z' i / k = R / R' t = x' j = U d / e = L / L' y = x2 m = r' j / f = U / U' u = Rw, r x = U' s / l = D / D' i = R v = l w / o = B / B' space = scramble a = y' n / b = x / x'
- alg.cubing.net — Great & clear cube visualizer, view your moves, simplify & mirror them.
- On GitHub. Installed locally at http://localhost/alg.cubing.net/index.html.
Videos
Victor Colin
3x3 - Exemples de résolutions avancés en Fridrich
Apps
More apps can be found at [4].
Android
- Games
- A rubik's cube game. A bit though to manipulate.
- Timers
- A simple speedcubing timer with scrambler algorithms support. Very nice design, all on one single page. Best out there.
- A timer for speed cubing. Some ads and no much features.
- A timer for speed cubing. Scramble algorithm. No graph.
- A timer for speed cubing. Scrambe algorithm. No graph. Compare cube brands. Too many pages.
- A timer for speed cubing. Scramble algorithm. Graph. Design not as good as Rubik's Stopwatch. Additional resources like algo, WCA regulations.
A simple, elegant timer with WCA scrambles for recording Rubik's cube solves. Graph and history by session (best, best AO5), scramble image, double touch inspection.
- Solvers, Algorithm database
- Solver (manual input or via camera). List of solving algorithms.
- A big database of all possible sequence for each category (PLL, OLL, F2L...). Support for 'favorite' flag, adding new category and new algorithms.
- Simply a big page with all solving algorithms, clear and well-designed. Must have.
PC
- BEST APP — Prisma Puzzle Timer (PPT), in java, from here (include graphs, history...] Including (partial) scramble view, graphs, tips with optimal cross algo...
- TNoodle Official WCA's scrambler, showing final cube state. Include a very nice timer application. Only drawback is that times are saved in the browser local storage. Download TNoodle:
- Timer
- Timer application is only available up to v0.8.7.
- Data for the javascript tnoodle-timer is stored in chromium local storage:
- On the disk
git clone https://github.com/cubing/tnoodle.git
./tmt graph --description # To get a list of available target
git checkout v0.8.7
./tmt make dist timer
sudo cp -r timer/dist /usr/local/bin/tnoodle-timer
chromium-browser /usr/local/bin/tnoodle-timer/tnt.html # To start the javascript timer
In old version, timer is available as a .jar file. For instance:
git checkout v0.7.14
vi tmt
# Comment line with
# args += [ '-Werror' ]
./tmt make dist timer
java -jar timer/dist/TNoodleTimer.jar
# Then visit http://127.0.0.1:8080/tnt/ or http://127.0.1.1:8080/tnt/ (or possibly port 2014)
~/.config/chromium/Default/Local Storage __0.localstorage __0.localstorage-journal chrome-extension_pafkbggdmjlpgkdkcbjmhmfcdpncadgh_0.localstorage chrome-extension_pafkbggdmjlpgkdkcbjmhmfcdpncadgh_0.localstorage-journal
- Or better, in chromium, open developer tools by pressing F12,then
- Export timing data — Go to Console tab, then type
localStorage.sessions
to get the content of the array, and save the results. - Import timing data — Go tot Console tab, then type
localStorage.sessions="XXX"
where the XXX is replaced by the result saved previously, but with all double-quotes escaped. These can be escaped for instance with
- Export timing data — Go to Console tab, then type
sed 's/"/\\"/g" sessions.txt > sessions-escaped.txt
- Sessions data is also available in the Ressources tab, but long values get truncated, and hence this is not suitable method for import / export.
- To install tnt in lighttpd (example on lacie-cloudbox):
vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
- Add the lines
## Added for rubik's WCA official scrambler / timer alias.url += ("/tnt" => "/opt/local/tnoodle-timer/tnt.html" )
- Copy all files to /opt/local/tnoodle-timer/
- Then open browser at http://lacie-cloudbox/tnt/ (Firefox or chromium works best it seems, Opera only works via file: access)
- Other TNoodle apps
- BLD
- scrambler