What Algorithms are WORTH Learning?

The most important algorithm sets! You don't have to jump right into new algs after OLL and PLL, but when you feel like learning algs, choose from these sets!

Winter Variation and COLL are good sets to start with.

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[JPerm]

It's worth learning the good cases (but not necessarily all of the cases) of every algorithm set I mentioned! Except:

VHLS: don't learn this.
ZBLS: only if you plan to learn lots of ZBLL.

Any alg set not worth learning by today's standards has been left out of the video.

[tntfourty]

Me, who only knows 2 look OLL/PLL:

Nice

[EclipsedLuna-cxff]

just learn a couple quintillion algorithms to 1 look the whole cube instead

[xXFlojoXx]

Make a Video in which you give a tier to every Algorithm set

[RawDiscovery]

How 4 days of planning my first pair has changed cubing for me:


i have an interesting story about planning my first pair. I don't really know how to describe this phenomenon I had, but I will try my best.


about 4 days ago i actually tried to start planning my first pair, like actually trying. i have been stuck around 15 seconds for months now, and i decided to give it a try. i would take 2 minutes on each scramble just trying to plan out where every piece moved, once i knew where they would all go, i would add an extra move to see how far ahead i could look. I immediately saw a .5-1 second difference.


i woke up the next day, not expecting much, and i immediately came back where i left off. I could plan so much further ahead, but i needed about 30 seconds. I was surprised by this, one day made this much of a difference.

WHAT REALLY BLEW MY MIND:
I am duel color neutral (White and Yellow), but after 3 days of practicing my first pair, I am almost consistently behind 2 seconds on all crosses now. I tried for months to catch up on blue/green/orange/red, and these couple days "Unlocked" something where i can do different crosses easier (I have to attempt to plan first pair or they will be sub-par compared to W/Y.)


So in 4 days total, my times have dropped from 15 average to 13.5 average, i broke my pb twice (now 8.63), broke my AO5 with 11.30, broke my AO12 with 12.39, and broke my AO50 with 13.39.


If you've managed to read all this, PLEASE PLAN YOUR FIRST PAIR!!!! in DAYS it has improved my solves and i have a higher motivation to improve than ive ever had. I know its difficult, i put it off for so long, but i knew i would never make sub-10 without planning first pair. JUST DO IT!!!


bonus notes: acouple days ago i wouldnt even be able to track my second pair, and now i can plan it in my scramble on easy crosses, my biggest struggle is making all the solutions to the cross + 1st f2l into one fluid motion. I cant imagine where ill be months from now. Dont waste your time trying to improve by doing the same thing. PLAN 1ST PAIR. WORK ON 2 SIDED PLL RECOGNITION. BURN EVERY ALGORITHM INTO YOUR BRAIN. and something people dont realize is much easier than you think, LEARN FULL OLL. You will improve so much quicker


Thank you for reading

EDIT: I just got my first sub-10 average ever. previous best was 10.29 and i got 9.73 today. (July 30, 2021)

[rubikscubedude]

Soon, we will be memorizing algorithm sets for solving the whole cube in one algorithm.

[bodabodaguy]

Hearing winter variation gave me chills, cuz now I know all of cfop quite well, these are like secret bosses

[ShadyHero]

"Sexy Sledge" is honestly one of the weirdest cubing terms I've heard

[ehxtrem]

Imma start learning the 1L4ALAO set of algorithms
*1 Look For All Layers At Once*






A.K.A. ATPS
*All The Possible Scrambles*

[Cninder]

Agh why is you’re content so good it’s like I can’t stop watching it

[TinyMaths]

Absolutely fascinating. I got my first taste of cubing in 1982 when I was 10/11 years old and Rubix was huge back then. Then I got back into it in 2005 and learned a lot of the algorithms, and even competed here in the UK (in 2012). I've managed sub 30 average, but it has been on the back burner since 2013. I've watched a few of the bigger cubing channels out there in the last few years and I pick up my 3x3 every now and then and cube for a few hours. But lately I've been missing it and now (at 49 years old) I feel like picking it up again and going even deeper with the learning, and aiming for sub 20 at some point. Your video was very inspirational.

[suhaib]

Hey, J Perm! I literally did the algorithm at the time around 8:09 in the chapter ZB law. And it gave me a J perm! Amazing 😉

[williamrah]

Literally the Feliks Zemdegs of tutorials

[rotgutthebloated]

Unbelivable video! It explains all these last layer methods! I never knew anything about them but kept hearing about em all the time.

[hywoncha-music]

4:44 Here, I just use: (R' U') (R' U') (R' U) (R U R), which is part of one of the U-Perm algs.

[MC-nkwr]

9:57 look at the boy in the background.

[stepanvalerivich]

for BLE, an easy but probably slower alternative is to use an edge commutator, like a U perm.

You set up the edge you want to insert to the UF sticker, and bring its slot to the UR sticker, then you can do a u perm with an AUF prior to it, or

R2 U' R2 S R2 S' U R2

and undo the set ups

[Tom_Salmon]

For the second BLE case you showed (where all the OLL pieces are facing up), there's a much shorter alg you can use, although it uses E moves
With the slot to your left and edge in front (matching with the centre) do:
R' E R U' R' E' R
(E moves follow same direction as D moves)
You can optionally do u U' for the last E move if you find it suits you better

[GriffinK]

I’ve contemplated using ELL instead of OLLCP. If you get a regular OLL, just solve the corners and do ELL.

[hendy]

Also a great Subset of ZBLL which is definitely worth it would be 2GLL, so all the ZBLLs that only use R and U moves, and there are 82 Cases. I think it's the only Alg Set that's worth it to learn completely.