Twisty puzzles.

[Feek]

F2L
CFOP
OLL
PLL
What do these all stand for?

 

[thenewoc]

We had a Rubik's cube, can't recall who's it was but it taught us good disassembly and reassembly skills

 

[Zatoichi.uK]

F2L
CFOP
OLL
PLL
What do these all stand for?

CFOP = Cross - First Two Layers - Orientate last layer (Make yellow face upwards basically) - Permutation of the last layer (Make all the corners and edges orient correctly)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS5jByTX_pk

 

[kaiowas]

F2L
CFOP
OLL
PLL
What do these all stand for?

It’s all shorthand terminology relating to solving the cube. CFOP is name given to the main methodology used these days and is named after the steps involved:

Cross - Make a cross on one side by correctly placing 4 edge pieces

F2L (First 2 layers) - solve 2 layers of the cube by pairing up corners and edges then placing them correctly, usually done intuitively rather than by learning algorithms

OLL - (Orient last layer) - apply the correct pre-learned algorithm to get all of the pieces on the last face in the correct orientation, the hardcore way is to learn algorithms for all 50 odd possible cases, the easier (but slower/less efficient) option is to learn 2 algorithms that let you orient the edges and 7 to allow you to do the corners (known as 2-look OLL as you are doing it in 2 stages)

PLL (Position last layer) - get all the pieces on the last layer in the right place and finish the solve. 21 algorithms to learn if you want to do this optimally but you can do it by only learning 2 (One that cycles 3 corners and one that cycles 3 edges) and repeating them in various combinations.

 

[bainbridge]

We had a Rubik's cube, can't recall who's it was but it taught us good disassembly and reassembly skills

Haha I used to do this. Getting the last piece back in was really hard

 

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@Zatoichi.uK @kaiowas

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[**Pork Pie**]

For ages I've had a 4x4 Rubiks sat on the shelf, this thread inspired me to try and learn so got myself a GAN 356 M.

Didn't take long to learn, I think it's the CFOP method.

Times are around 2 - 3 mins, will try get down to under 1 min.

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[Zatoichi.uK]

Nice. Thats the one I have. GAN seem to be the go to for quality.

 

[Deleted member 68110]

I knew there's be an OCUK thread!

My boys have been lured into cubing by schoolmates and...

...by ↑that↑ documentary.

Max Park actually set a new world record last month...

Absolutely staggering!

Anyway, we have some Gans on the way for the boys and a Moyu for me. Watch out Max.