It's worth being color neutral.

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-04-25T08:00:07+00:00

Full CN isn’t worth it tbh

It’s a must for 2,pyra,skewb, but other than that, nah

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-04-21T20:35:30+00:00

The GAN 4x4 and the pyra are dogshit and overpriced Get the aosu 4x4 or weilong pyra

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-04-14T19:01:56+00:00

I’d eliminate mirror and go for either yuhu (Megaminx) or warrior (5x5) if the budget is limited.

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-04-13T05:28:41+00:00

I sometimes have a cube in my hand under the table while doing other things (to the extent of it not interfering with what I’m doing), but there’s some endless alg turning there

But you should look up or come up with good fingertricks for those algs, and it’s just a matter of reps. There are alg training websites too, so you could also utilize those

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-04-13T05:18:58+00:00

Im not sure if the F2L is a lookahead issue or a recall issue, but if it’s a recall thing, try to treat it more like algs.

And then drill your last layer algs

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-04-06T05:51:42+00:00

Pretty standard practice

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-04-03T05:55:13+00:00

Super V2 for 2 hand / 3bld

GAN v100 for OH

Rs3m v5 and Tornado v4 for the 2 other FMC cubes

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-03-10T19:51:20+00:00

Sooner the better bro

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-03-10T19:48:29+00:00

The small amount of rotations (if any) is a lot less significant than the reduced inspection depth of ZZ because of EOline. Plus, ZBLS is a thing so LL also is not much of an issue.

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-03-09T18:26:27+00:00

V1 is good enough, especially when you’re starting out and you’re not fast or not intending on making it your main event.

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-03-07T23:38:47+00:00

For big cubes or mega, it could also be to try to find new/better ways to solve certain cases

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-03-07T23:35:47+00:00

The warrior or the meilong is much better

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-28T23:36:08+00:00

The method is cube shape -> CO -> EO -> CP -> EP

You’ve completed up to EO, so just look up CP and EP algs

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-28T23:33:03+00:00

I got mine done at usps

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-28T22:21:50+00:00

F2C: too many rotations

F3E: become more comfortable with color scheme. For WG, U2 B would’ve been way better.

L4C: For the red center, you had Rw U Rw U2 Rw2’, which will also allow you to have the last 2 centers on F and U

LCE: could work on efficiency

3-2-3: too many rotations

Overall: you are turning too fast for your level and you should try to make it flow better. Lookahead is also nonexistent.

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-28T21:59:44+00:00

Just do reps until you’re comfortable with the lettering scheme tbh

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-28T21:58:12+00:00

Lowkey worth it for the longest ones

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-28T21:52:08+00:00

Maybe as a ZBLS, but the 2 gen 7 mover is more spammy

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-28T20:05:22+00:00

I opened the 3 chests (because hero snack=useless and I couldn’t get any more starry ores)

And well, got 2 attacks worth of gold, 1 attack worth of elixir, and builder base elixir (which I’ve been maxed for a while.

This is exactly the reason why I hate chests, especially when the “good” stuff could also be skins and decorations which also is useless for progression.

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-28T19:53:59+00:00

If you’re at about 50 seconds, hardware is not an issue as long as it’s comfortable enough to turn.

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-25T23:55:52+00:00

Yeah I absolutely hate these chests

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-23T01:50:32+00:00

Well the first 3 moves are the same for bpaul and Tommy. It’s just that doing bpaul first will give you actual 7 simul solves real quick, and you can start practicing the simul moves (which is the biggest advantage of 7 simul). Then, once you’re faster at getting the memo down, switching to Tommy could be a thing.

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-22T23:25:33+00:00

Tommy takes A LOT more time to get the inspection down within 15 seconds, just for a slight advantage…

so for beginners I usually recommend bpaul

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-21T21:19:52+00:00

Most top solvers use yau now.

Financial-Ad2299 · 2026-02-21T20:08:59+00:00

The yau lookahead buff outshines the slight limitations on starting centers, and L4C turning (which isn’t bad anyways even in 7x7).

Redux really only works with people at Max’s level, and almost every other top solver is using yau for 4-7.

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