Pyraminx Keyhole Method Tutorial

TIMESTAMPS AND ALGORITHMS ARE BELOW
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TIMESTAMPS:
Introduction to Keyhole: 0:13
First Block/Top: 1:41
Centers: 6:14
Last Top Edge: 9:16
Last 3 Edges/Bottom Layer: 13:43
Walkthrough Solves: 19:16
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ALGORITHMS:
2-Flip:
(R' L R L') (U L' U' L) or
(L R' L' R) (U' R U R')
Last Edge to the Right:
L' R' L R
Last Edge to the Left:
R L R' L'
All Bottom Color Facing You:
(R' L R L') (L' U L U') and
(L R' L' R) (R U' R' U)
Sledge:
R' L R L'
Lefty Sledge:
L R' L' R
Almost Righty Sledge:
R U' R' U
Almost Lefty Sledge:
L' U L U'
Bar on Bottom:
U L' U' L and
U' R U R'
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Walkthrough Solve Scrambles:
#1: U L' B' R U L' B' L' B l b' u'
#2: U' L B L' U' R B' U' R b u
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[RossieHoorn]

Best tutorial I have watched on Keyhole so far. In fact I think I finally get it now :) Thanks.

[awawpogi]

This is the first video on internet to make me understand keyhole

[nicholasdemkowicz]

At first I was so confused and I was like "this guy stinks" then you said now I'm going to teach you how to use this method and it all made sense

[masonsanders]

This is literally the only tutorial on keyhole method that actually helps

[raymondwong]

Saw many keyhole tutorials and they were all so complicated but with this video, i was finally able to understand it without problems. Thank You :D

[tobyayres]

Omg I can not speak more highly about this tutorial I have been looking for an hour and. Now I can do it thx

[despacitonice]

okay so i'm stuck with a 2 flip thingy thing, and i dont know how to do it. Did i miss somewhere where i explained it please help. 19:15

[fejfo]

I first learned how to solve a pyraminx on my own an this is almost exactly the method I came up with. But I only use 1 algorithm ( L R' L' R). The algorithm swaps all the edges of the plane your facing counter clockwise and flips the bottom one and the left one.

1) I would orient the tips
2) solve the centers
3) I would use the algorithm to solve 2 edges of the first layer (they are automatically one the same top)
4) I would use the algorithm to solve the back edge (aka the final edge of the top)
5) an then I could use the algorithm once to solve the last 3 edges.
the last 3 edges are not that straightforward but they are always solvable by using the algorithm max twice with a different rotation of the cube

I quickly improved upon the method by learning that : (all of these steps aren't necessary)
-R' L R L' = (L R' L' R) (L R' L' R)
-you could skip 4 when : it is already solved or when an other edge is already solved and you use a T or T' then doing step 5 and then reversing the T/T'
-in a lot of case you can do 3 by doing 2 in a smart way (color neutral + correct order of orienting centers)
-an other optimization for 3 is you can use R T' R' or L' T L
-I'm currently learning the L R' L R equivalents when you rotate the cube so I don't have to rotate the cube :
C' R' L R L' C = L' T L T'
C' L R' L' R C = T L' T' L
C R' L R L' C' = T' R T R'
C L R' L' R C' = R T' R' T
(C = rotate cube clockwise, C' = C C)
(a lot of the time you can leave out the C or C' at the end since the cube is already solved)

other optimizations would be:
- turn the tips when your hand is close to them
- Learning the combined algorithms :
2 flip : (L R' L' R) (T' R T R')
2 flip when not next to each other : R' L R' L' R T' R T (= R' (L R' L' R) (T' R T R') R )
rotate 3 edges counter clockwise : L' T L T R T R' ( = (L' T L T') (T' R T R') )
rotate 3 edges clockwise : R T' R' T' L' T' L (= ( R T' R' T) ( T L' T' L) )
- Learning faster algorithms for 4 (the ones show in the video)


If you do all the optimizations:
1) takes 8/3 moves
2) takes 11/3 moves
3) around 2 moves
4) 45/16 moves
5) 5.4 moves
total = 16.54... moves average

If you do no optimizations:
1) 8/3
2) 8/3
3) 229/30
4) 10/3
5) 7.7
total = 24 move average

So there is around an 7.5 move improvement. You can see that taking 2 and 3 together saves roughly 4.5 moves so this is clearly the most important

[arjunkhurana]

thank you so much helped me alot but i am still slow any tips to improve

[KimKongKun]

I have only learned the LBL metrod, and i heard that there was a lot of methods to Pyraminx. Then i tried to firgure out a method. And I tried something like this. So I actually learned keyhole by myself

[suryathapa]

I did it first time and got a pll skip

[cadenrogers]

This is the best tutorial I have ever seen for anything!! Great job!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[andrew_li]

Very well made tutorial eddievak, well done.

[madnessblow]

confusing at first but once you watch it a couple times its a great tutorial!

[abrahamjh]

feels like this tutorial is now a technique to build efficient Vs

[morganvance]

what if you only have two edges left but the are in the right places and flipped

[monkeycuber]

what happens if when you are filling in the keyhole it is in the right spot but orientated incorresctly?

[nathankutscher]

Amazing video, but it kinda took a while to explain some of the things which made me a bit bored but it also helped make my times better!

[rachitsoni]

when are u uploading tutorials of okra and 1 flip

[Will-ysbi]

what if for the last step, there is only 2 edges messed up and one of the edges is solved already?