How Do Algorithms Work???

But have you guys actually ever thought about this?

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[runby]

thanks to algorithms, we can get the title of "genius" among our classmates

[voihanviineri]

My friend discovered how to solve the 3x3 by himself. I've never seen those algs before and it takes him like 15 minutes to solve it but hey, at least he CAN solve it!

[joaomenegalebarbi]

That's actually something I think about all the time. I can solve the cube in less than 30 seconds, but only because I memorized stuff. The F2L is actually intuitive, but I don't know if I'd be able to go much further on my own.

(I did discovered how to solve the skewb and am close to solving the square-1 without help, though)

[ethos]

I can tell you're style and voice and the way you say things is these animations have changed a little bit. Kinda reminds me of TheOdd1sOut

[alyzsnyzs]

From the way I see it, algorithms (especially PLL ones) are essentially ways of taking blocks of cubies (like f2l pairs and so on), and moving them to specific places, so a commutator or something like that can move all the pieces that need to be moved to their correct destination, without taking apart the blocks. The last couple of moves just put the blocks back into their respective place.

[HulkHoganBrother]

I googled Gilles Roux with labeled for reuse like you said, and I was not disappointed.

[nomerah]

Blue:get this lady a cookie she is a genius


Me:I will question Mother Nature for the rest of my life

[unfixedjimbob]

I want to say that I just love your videos. I've probably been watching them for about an hour and a half and this is the first time I've ever even heard about your channel. Your the best and this is the honest truth

[YouCubeParadigm]

The T-perm consists of 2 OLL algorithms that are easy to explain. First part is R U R' U' R' F R F', which is basically taking an F2L pair out of it's "socket" using a reverse sledgehammer, and then putting it back in using a hedgeslammer. Then comes the: F R U' R' U' R U R' F', which is another OLL case where you take out the same F2L pair out of it's socket with a reversed hedgeslammer. During this hedgeslammer-F2L-pair extraction, the cube is in a state where the top layer is free to turn without messing up any of the F2L components of the hedgeslammer, this is where you do a U' to re-align the top, before backtracking the hedgeslammer to re-insert the F2L pair. I have always understood the logic behind the T-perm and the Y-perm, but to be fair, those are the only PLL algorithms that I can actually make sense of

[haykg]

I'm just running out of life stories.

*insert the amount of videos theodd1sout and jaidenanimation made these past few years*

[NDPuzzles]

THIS is exactly why I never really got into speedcubing. I just couldn't stand the idea to be great at solving a puzzle without really knowing how to. Non-cubers think that cubers are ingenious but in reality, most cubers just have a good memory and are fast turners. That is nothing bad and I totally get the desire to be faster but in the end, for me, speedcubing is kind of a "turn-a-puzzle-hobby". In most cases, no or only little thinking is required to solve a puzzle. You just solve it. So two years ago, I started to question this method and asked myself the same you did. I felt like tricking other people (and obviously myself) into thinking I was clever and "cheating" on those puzzles. So I stopped to use online algorithms and started to develope my own ones. Now, I know haw to solve a 2x2, square-1 and Pyraminx crystal WITH MY OWN METHOD. I haven't really used my own 3x3 method cause it is hard to forget the far more efficient one I knew before. In the end, I can't really tell you what those fancy algorithms do but could tell you what MY algorithms do or develop an algorithm that works as well as the ones you showed. The only issue of course is that my algorithms are much longer, harder to learn and in the end sloooow.
So if you want to compete in speedcubing there is almost no way of using a completely self-constructed method and be somehow decent at it. But if you are interested in some other non-WCA puzzles I'd totally recommend you to try to solve them on your own before you look up algs!

[josueamaya]

Happy algorithim appreciation day guys.😁

[Tahirallen]

I don’t even plan on cubing your voice and content is so satisfying and entertaining

[valerie]

When you’ve made fan art and sent it to blue and it doesn’t get featured :(

[arinray]

Love the channel especially these life stories and the animation... want more of them... PLEASE!

[Torok.Agoston]

Well, when I started cubing I had no idea how algorithms worked. Now I understand many of my algs. With F2L it's easy: you need to understand them all to figure them out by your own, but now I do understand quite a lot of my LL algs too (but ofc. I use a lot where I have no idea how it actually "works"). :P

[Dark-noso]

0:13

Isnt that algorithm the one after you solve the yellow?

[pauljmorton]

That's why I'd like to call it FIXING the cube. Just doing whatever it takes to get the sides to be the same color is fixing the cube. Solving it means figuring it all out on your own and understanding how you did it.

I learned to fix the Pyraminx all on my own. I came up with my own algorithms. But I don't know what my algorithms actually do but they just work, so I still have a hard time saying that I've solved it. :D

[georgepelham]

Nice been looking forward to this for a while!

[godzilla]

I really can't tell you step by step a T perm, I don't know a T perm...