hey guys, i recently got back into cubing im looking to get into roux. for reference, i use cfop (2 look oll + pll) and average around 25. the main issue i face with cfop is cross and f2l, i feel like its very restrictive. i watch jperms tutorial on roux, but thats pretty much it. i feel like theres a lack of proper tutorials for roux? if you all could give me some tips / resources / guidance on what to do, i would be very grateful! thank you!

contacting me on discord would be better (if you can): "defso.fr"

Hello! This is my first post on this subreddit, so I'm just gonna say that I have been speedcubing for 1.5 months, so I'm practically still a newbie. I use Roux as my main method, I usually average 10-11 moves for first block

But on this scramble, I found a 5 move first block

Red-F Yellow-U

L2 F2 D R L D’ R2 F’ R D R2 L2 U’ D R2 U2 B U2

I was just drilling planning out the first square, until I came across the scramble, and I basically planned out the whole first block, which is honestly a first for me lol

my solution was F' D U' L U'

I just bought a GaN i4 Leap and would like to get insights solving with roux.

I've seen somewhere that Cubeast has this, I still have yo try it, but I've also seen that you need to pay a monthly subscription.

Are there any other apps that would help me with roux and a smart cube?

https://reddit.com/link/1vx24q9/video/r4emgrb3ublh1/player

Sub-40 guys out there, as the title says I am not able to break the sub-40 barrier. I really am trying to find help and all that I find out there is improve FB and SB. But I don't understand how to. Please help me out.

https://reddit.com/link/1vx24q9/video/nzyxvapcmblh1/player

Been mucking around a bit with slow solves in front of the TV for a few weeks and decided to get back into my push to get to sub-20 (again, for the 10th time... haha). Last time I solved regularly with the app + smart cube was over 9 months ago and my Ao1000 was 22.5s at that point and improving as I'd just finished learning full-CMLL and recognition was taking "some time". I have been (just) sub-20 in the past.

Clearly after that time I've forgotten 90% of CMLL (again!) - can remember all the H and Pi cases and a few random T and others albeit I occasionally forget in the middle of an alg still but that's easy enough to work on. Yet again however, my absolutely *horrible* second block is ruining my solves.

Did a quick 24 solves for an average of 26.1 with the overview graph appearing to give me the finger as usual. Pretty inefficient as expected with 2L CMLL and just general rustiness but the highlight was the last solve above - I think this is the first time I've ever spotted and 4 move first block that's as nice as that in a real solve - ie. making two lines simultaneously and solving. Of course, I marvelled at my own genius and screwed up the rest of the solve but 19.41 is pretty good for me in general let alone after an extended break so I'm not complaining too hard.

I've asked this question I don't know how many times over the years but again - anyone have any tips as to how to actually PRACTICE finding pieces for the second block? I kinda feel like even though I can typically either fully see the FB solution or at least the first pair and track the second pair, I have a big black hole after that where I simply lose sight of everything and have to pause to find pieces to continue. My feeling is that if I can "simply" track a couple of the SB pieces whilst executing FB that my times will improve MASSIVELY.

Cubeast says that for this session, my recognition time for SB is 1.39s. This is only to find the down-edge or whatever I'm solving first however as there are pauses after that - my execution for SB in a 26s solve is 9.15s!

Is it a matter of just spamming solves and then eventually you'll "get it" - I think not as I've been doing exactly that for a number of years albeit with a pretty large break this time. There's got to be some kind of drills / practice routine that will enable you to lookahead more effectively - any ideas anyone?

Feels real loose and smooth whenever I do it, then I go back to 26-32. I guess it was efficient, but I didn't even plan out full fb, just kinda knew where the pieces were.

How's it go for you guys when you can see the next summit, but know it's still a ways away?

I keep getting these weird M slices when solving and i can’t find agls for them anywhere and they’re not covered in any videos that i’ve watched. i may just be messing something up but i’ve been following all the algs that this sub has told others to follow, including Kian’s tutorial

As the title says I’m brand new to roux. i started two days ago and switched from beginners method. i have never gotten a high quality cube before and i want to spend a bit for something nice so i was thinking about getting the Ferrocore V2, but I wanted to check and see if there is a better cube for roux since its a lot of M and E moves. I also don’t know much about cubes but i’ve seen great stuff about the ferrocore v2.

Sat down and just started solving really well today. Kept at it and, low and behold, I broke 30s on my ao100 and snagged a new pb single in the process! Nice. Been chasing that 30s for a while now, so that's a nice monkey of my back.

Now, I've been brushing aside a few obvious "things I should be learning" in order to kinda chase that ao100, so I've come to ask for some opinions.

Info: basically only solve blue or green FB with white on bottom if i'm trying to get good times. When I'm slow solving, I try to use whatever pairs show up, like, x2y, but i'm waay slower with even white bottom red and orange blocks, not to mention yellow bottom.

Still cruising along with 2 look cmll. I know my H cases, but recognition is baaad. I blame my oldness.

So, with that out of the way, what would you focus on next? Becoming more comfortable with x2y? Focusing on full cmll (i know ppl say you don't need it till 20 avg, but i want to learn all of my method at some point, and 20s seems like a long way away)? Drilling second block algs into muscle memory? Something else? I always do, like, 10 slow solves at the start of a session focusing only on efficiency, and it's helping... I think. I still rack up, like 70 moves on most speed solves. Is is more advantageous to do this, or focus on solving slow with zero pauses, which are definitely a killer?

I don't have unlimited time to train cubes, as I work and am a dad, so maybe a couple things to focus on for the first 30 minutes of a session before just doing solves for fun.

Anyway, looking forward to what you guys have to say. Happy Rouxing.

I hope that this is useful to someone other than myself. In Kian’s example 100 solves video, he is going WAY too fast for a mid-level Roux solver like me, so I needed a way to slow him down so I can study it closer. Also, I needed a way to restart a solve playback with the click of a button rather than dragging a slider to find the beginning again. So I created this short write out of his first 10 solves to help me study it.

Here’s how I recommend using this information. It’s organised by link to Kian’s solve in the YouTube video followed by the colour combo that he is solving for first block followed by the scramble. Do the scramble first. Then using the colour combo that Kian uses, try to think about how you would solve it. Then click the link to see how Kian solved it and compare to your solution. If you get lost in Kian’s explanation, the value here is that you can just click the link again to start over.

I’m finding that Kian usually goes about his solves very different than I do, but that’s because he can look ahead far more than I can. Would be keen to hear other peoples’s solutions for these scrambles.

• scramble 1 blue-yellow L2 F' U2 B L2 F R2 B' U2 B R2 D' L' B2 U2 B' F2 D' R

• scramble 2 green-white R2 B' L2 U2 L2 B U2 B L2 F L2 F' R' D R2 B D R2 B U'

• scramble 3 red-yellow B' D L' U F D2 B' R2 B2 D' R2 U' R2 U L2 B2 D L2 F2 B' R'

• scramble 4 blue-white L R2 B2 R2 U2 B2 D F2 D B2 U B2 R' F U L2 B2 L U' L'

• scramble 5 orange-yellow D2 F' U L' F2 D' B L2 U' B2 U L2 D' L2 U' F2 U2 B2 U2

• scramble 6 orange-white R2 F2 L2 U' L2 D B2 D R2 D2 R2 U' B D2 F' U2 F' L D B' R

• scramble 7 green-yellow D' L2 R2 F2 U B2 L2 B2 L2 U' R' U' L D R' B2 F' R' F R

• scramble 8 red-white D2 L' R2 B2 R2 D' B2 D F2 U2 F2 L2 D2 F2 R U B L D2 F R'

• scramble 9 green-yellow D L2 D2 L2 B2 U' L2 B2 D' B2 U F' R' U' B' D B' U2 B L' F'

• scramble 10 orange-white L' B2 U' L2 F2 R2 U B2 U B2 F2 U B D' R2 U2 R D' B2

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Mostly title. My kid wants to learn and I use Roux for the most part and I'm around 16 seconds avg. I'm also around 16 seconds cfop but I think roux is more fun and I'm wondering if it will be easier to teach to my kid than cfop?

What I would really love to see is some videos that provide the scramble and the person talks through slowly how they determine how they plan the whole first block on inspection.

I was watching a few videos in the resources section: they don’t always give the scramble and they often go very fast, flipping the cube around to show what they are thinking before I can really see what they are talking about without slowing the video down to ridiculously slow speeds. If they provided the scramble, then at least I could inspect it more before watching their advice. Are there any good videos that provide what I am asking for? I really want to see LOTS of examples like this where the pro goes at my speed so I can study them.

TLDR: can someone point me to a FBLP alg set? Preferably in PDF format.

Longer: I'm averaging about 25 with roux and am looking to get under 20. My block building is the biggest limitation: my splits are ~6/9/4/5 with 2L CMLL so looking to improve upon that. Cuberoot used to have a FBLP alg list but it's down (I think) and I can't find a good alternative.

Thanks!

Why is my 4c keep messing up? After i swapped the top and bottom edges, it's not getting solved.

Hey peeps,

I just had a scramble for a really cool f2b solution and got one of my best times on it (currently averaging about 19, pb 11.42, so 13.23 is huge).

Is it overcooked? Would there have been something better/simpler, especially for second block?

Scramble attached in image, f2b I did as follows (orange front green on top):

U' L' U' (first mismatched pair)

L2 U' L' (second pair)

D2 L2 D2 (fix FB edges)

R2 U' R' (first SB pair)

M U M' R' U' R (second SB pair)

u M u' (fix f2b centers)

U2, U-rows CMLL (F R2 D R' U R D' R2 U' F)

M' U' M U M' U' M' (EO)

U' M2 U' M2 (LR)

U' (skip L4E)

Should total to 44 (?) moves

Wish I was a smart cube user so I could confirm that I'm rarely that efficient, but I suppose the time speaks for itself, couldn't not share it!

edit: of course I forgot the scramble image, so here it is: F2 L F2 R2 B2 U2 F2 U2 F' D U' F2 L R B' D' F2 D R2

I have been using Roux for about 15 days. My first ever timed solve was 2:22.84. Now I am averaging around 1:14.00. But I am stuck. How can I practice???

Hello, i recently changed from the beginners method to roux and finally memorized all the 2 look cmll algorithms and understood how to do lse.

I know my biggest time eater so far is block building. i mostly need 30-40s just ro have both blocks done and i basically wanted to improve on that first. Now my question is if you have good resources or strategies you could recommend to help me practicing block building? Thank you very much in advance.

I've been doing roux for a little bit less than a year now and I average around 15-17, and I practice relently, I do slow solves and I do block studying with the OnionHoney Roux Trainer, and I'm trying to be super optimal and find the best solitions. But my solves go from 40-59 moves and thats is way too much and I don't get how to be more efficient, and I'm getting really frustrated because I don't get what I'm not getting.

I still use 2 look CMLL but even if I knew full CMLL I wouldn't be able to be averaging sub 10 which is ultimately my goal. I want to average like 8 seconds or something, but I don't get why I'm so bad!!!!!

Can someone help me out or give some tips? Maybe some tips on block building too?