How Algorithms ACTUALLY Work on the Rubik's Cube

There are little elves in the cube that rearrange the stickers when you do algorithms.

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[Pikachu-fwtz]

Lmao the only reason I learnt how to solve it was to impress people now I've fallen into the rabbit hole of speed cubing now lol

[raforsomething]

4:39 "doesn't give you a satisfying reason Y it works" I see what you did there

[carrotjuicecj]

Who else loves the fact he doesn’t do a minute long intro? He just jumps straight into the video 👍🏽

[voidzminer]

I’m actually very proud that I’ve successfully analyzed the T-perm before.

[StealthNinjaBricks]

Commutators: Do you trust me?
Dylan: With every cell of my body.

[tima]

When I first started speedcubing wayy back on 2009, I tried to 'understand' the algorithm instead of simply 'memorizing' them, just like what you said in this video. Funny enough my first intuition for understanding the OLL & PLL algorithm was 'Destroy & Repair' instead of Commutator or Conjugate, and I've been training my cubing solely based on destroy & repair for about a year. At the peak of my skill, I could impress most of my peers using unconventional algorithm and 'shortcuts'. (In other words, just showing off)

Sadly, I have stopped cubing for a very long time because I have lost my initial motivation of doing speedcubing, which was to 'Impress other people'. If there is anything you can take from my experience... When you learn something new, don't do it just to 'impress other people'.

[capabilitymaster]

"*In cubing we impress people with bigger words because just solviing a cube is not impressive enough*"-Jperm 2021

[arachnid-xvqm]

I will have to agree that this guy's video quality is the best on youtube right now.

[josephmansfield]

When I first started cubing the algorithms just seemed like magic.

[glitchyboi]

Whenever I spoke 2 myself about algorithms while solving a cube people were like "This dude is smarter than the entire human population!"

[_wetmath_]

hi dylan, i think i know why the 2 oll cases add up to a y perm. i imagine some years ago, when oll algs were being invented (with break and repair), someone noticed that if you do the first oll on a solved cube, you get the second oll. and once they solved the second oll, they noticed they had a different permutation of top layer pieces.

with a bit more experimenting, they learnt to use these 2 olls together to make one pll. i havent confirmed this anywhere but this history of y perm makes the most sense to me.

[DeJay]

I have analysed exactly what the U perm does because of how often I use it, and it is really impressive to see how intelligently the algorithm is made to swap 3 edges and nothing else.

[Wick]

“And a more appropriate word would be something like “sequence”, but in cubing we like to use big words to impress people because for some reason solving a cube is not impressive enough.” -A wise old man named Jay Permutation, 2021





*The truth hurts.*

[sh]

Interesting that I intuitively used break and repair + trial and error on both the Miniminx and the 4x4 before learning the actual algs. Unefficient, but very satisfying.

[_wetmath_]

I've thought about this subject for a long time, and here is how think the history of cfop algorithms progressed:

cross (intuitive)
f2l (intuitive)

on a solved cube, break one or more f2l pairs and repair them. see how this affects the top layer pieces. record down the algorithm and what it does. this gives you a lot of oll cases to play with.

next, someone noticed that oll 37 + oll 33 on a solved cube leads to what we now know as y perm. im gonna guess this is the first pll discovered that involves both edge and corner pieces (because all edge only or corner only algs can be solved with somewhat intuitive commutators).

from y perm, you can set up a bunch of other plls to it. some examples are j perm and t perm. with this new setup to _perm trick, you can explore many setups and get plls such as f perm and both n perms.

i think once these 'basic' plls (edge only perms, corner only perms, y j t f n perms) have been discovered, people have already started using computers to solve any of the olls and plls that have not had their algs discovered yet. this irons out all leftover oll and pll cases, and today we have access to multiple algs of the same cases

[josephmansfield]

These videos always make me feel special in an interesting sort of way.

[FPilotF]

Nobody:


Non cubers:
can you just do the same move over and over and it will solve it self

[PanjaRoseGold]

I never learned how it worked but I'm proud that I was able to figure out on my own that my 2-look alg was a Y-perm and then managed to figure out how to use it for 1-Look PLL.

[gayathrib]

What everyone understand:ah yes yes
What I understand with two brain cells: rurururururur

[cubeit]

Just wanted to say congrats on 600k! One step closer to 1 mil!