The Speedcubing Method We All Invented...

I've taught the beginner method on this channel and then how to move on to advanced speed solving methods like C fop Roo Z Z and I've mentioned Petrus no tutorial maybe in the future but perhaps a method even more well-known than these that have never mentioned before that's right it's the belt method if you're thinking to yourself I've never heard of the belt method you've actually thought of this method you just didn't know it had a name to better understand belt let's look at C FOP with C FOP after you finish the cross you've move on to F to L which for a lot of beginners is the most challenging step in this step you find corners and edges that go in the same spots and then you do some moves to set them up in a correct position so that when you insert one the other one goes in with it so you can solve two pieces at once once you finish the first two layers the last layer is actually pretty simple in concept during this step you don't have to think and you just memorize algorithms which means you can turn really fast and have pre memorized sequences of moves ready to go the idea for the belt method is this why do we have to think during the first two layers why can't we just use ol o and PL o on the top layer and the bottom layer so all you have to do is make a belt around the middle in the beginning then you can solve the last layer flip the cube over and solve the other last layer wouldn't that be less thinking and probably faster now who is the genius that invented the belt method actually fun fact you probably didn't know I invented the belt method and so did you is my guess and so has every other speed Cubert the belt method often gets made fun of for people inventing it over and over and because it's just not a good method that you'll find out the moment you try it if you've invented the belt method this is how you might imagine it would go first you do a few moves to make the belt around the middle and then you do all L on one side and then PLL and then you flip the cube over and do all L on this side and PLL now I'll actually scramble up the cube and show you what really happens when you try this method so first we make the belt here are these pieces and then these two next oh no we have white on the yellow side who could have guessed so I guess we have to add an extra step here which is where we separate the pieces to their correct size so let's do that I can put this with these two to make three white pieces in a row and then move them to the bottom while keeping the belt preserved all right now looking at the top oh no three edges are Mis rated and that's not an old case alright that's fine I'll just do another step where I orient some edges so I could just like flip two of them alright now this corner or some corner is twisted and this is not an okay Olo case alright that's fine I'll just do in a corner twist case now if do oh oh and oh no that's not a PLL case okay let me do that now that's PLL there we go and then flip over to the other side and to the side is just solo album PLL so what looks to be like five steps has turned into nine steps I remember back in the day of the speed solving forums this method used to get suggested a lot it also got made fun of a lot and of course it's never good to make fun of beginners for not having enough knowledge but I don't think that's what's going on here what makes the belt method unique is it seems good when you think about it but if you actually try it just once you will instantly notice how bad it is so chances are anybody who does pitch this as a serious method that they believe they have invented has not even tried it because again if you try it once you'll notice how bad it is even if you just add up the move count of o ll PLL and the other oil and PLL that's almost as much as the full-si flops all obviously not as much but then you have all these steps in between so no matter how you look at it it's not a good method but a few days ago I tried to get sub one on 4x4 with layer by layer yes it was painful and I think it was two years ago that I tried to get sub ten couldn't do it but got sub eleven average with four look last layer which is the first version of all out and PLL that you end up learning so I actually practiced with the belt method thinking back that was actually such a dumb thing to do but that's what I did so I'll talk about this traumatic experience first of all I did not try to be color neutral even though it would be pretty easy because I'm not trying to be optimal but even having said that I did come up with a few Aleks for this they're not new Alex just ones I happened already know and I repurposed it for the belt method so after some of these solves I'll show you what I was actually doing some of the more advanced things you could do again I have not tried to optimize this so I'm sure there's better things this is just like the things I've come up with in the first five minutes anyway my first solve was 40 seconds which is so much worse than I thought it was going to be after some practice I was averaging low 20s and by the end I managed to get a 16 second solve and decided to call it a day just kidding I kept going which I regret and I wasn't able to beat 16 turns out during inspection I have a tough time trying to plan the belt it's also for pieces like the cross and technically it should be easier because they interact with each other less I think it should be easier but this is just something I've never done before I think the hardest step to get flew into was the piece separation parts where you get the white and yellow each to their respective sides I think this was hard because I had to do look ahead across the entire top and bottom the actual concepts behind the moves I was doing was really really simple but just not being that used to this sort of look ahead it really messed me up here and when I got lucky it was usually lucky in this step and for the three possible parodies which are edge flip corner twist and PL parity those ones I could do just fine because I came up with Alex to use for them and I could recognize them pretty quickly so unlike 4x4 layer by layer where I could just turn really fast and keep going this was way less fun but then of course now I'll show you the method I was using if you want to try it for yourself as a challenge see how good you can make the belt method and see how fast you can get with it but even if you see what I have to show you I'm sure you can improve on some of those the first thing I do in the belt method is make the belt around here between the white and yellow centers so I can put this piece over here in this one here and this and this one here after the belt I do separation for edges so putting the white edges on there side here there's one white edge among the yellows and it's the yellow Center so this belongs on the other side so I find the edge that's yellow on the other side and then I put this one in here now if you want to be optimal you can do it like this put this one in here like this but I've mostly just been using rotates to the front and to M prime u2m just because I'm not fast enough to take advantage of optimal things next I do separation four corners so these two need to go to the other side this one needs to go where this yellow one is so I can put this one in using f2l which is just any f12 case that involves this edge staying here so I could do it like this for example and that puts this one here while the edge stays and this one usually go into here so I could do it like this next I'm on 200 and there are two edges so that's good I'll just show a case where it isn't if it was a case like this three or one correct edges then I would do a flip that involves the top and the bottom at the same time if you know any Alec for a to flip you can flip one top one bottom however you like the one that I choose is this one and this is just from blindfolded then instead of twisting any corners what I'll do is solve the Olo with one corner ignored so just whatever this ola looks like solve it and then I'll have one corner twist or zero if I'm lucky I put this corner on the front right and the yellow can face front or face right then I do one of two Alex I know again from blindfolded to twist this so if it's facing forward I would do this if it's facing right I would do this instead so it's the same thing but the D moves in different directions if I get an impossible PLL here then there's PLL parity and I do M 2 u 2 M 2 then it's a possible PLO then I go into the other side and do all alone PLO and this time it will all just be normal all alone PLL now if for some reason you wanted to improve on this method then there are a few ways you could do it the main problem with this method is I only move one piece at a time enduring the white and yellow separation to be more optimal you'd put in multiple pieces at once and this is something I never plan to do so if you want to beat me at belts just learn this and you'll be better instead depending on the case you can do one of many Alex a lot of which are intuitive in this example both of these white edges need to go to the bottom and I need to go to here so then it's swap here and swap here and you probably know an alec for this what you could do is like you two M 2 u 2 m 2 and that does put them there but if you wanted to be optimal you would do that from this angle which could look like this R 2 s 2 R 2 s 2 so for this I'd have to use an even number of double moves to move pieces around it that way I keep the - intact so in this case I can take this and these two and put them all in together so what I can do is move these here and then get these two and this all paired together like that and then just move them down in so the way you do this kind of depends because now I have like kind of a bad shape in here which means off to put in like one piece separately here and then I can put in this this and this all together so like that pairs them all up and then insert like this during edge orientation I'm sure there are some alleys you can do that can flip a lot of the edges at once that allow you to get better or little cases or to get zbl ELLs again not something I plan to think about I'm just gonna keep using my Alec that flips one edge from each side so that's about it for this installment of me solving with a method that really isn't that great I hope this was fun especially if you came up with the belt method before and now you can see your method come to fruition if you count a 16 second single as like the full potential of this method alright thanks for watching and I'll see you all next time

Channel: J Perm

Views: 1,246,096

Keywords: rubik's cube, tutorial, advanced, j perm, jperm, tips, tricks, speedcube, cubing, best, 3x3, budget, fast, faster, easy, easiest, intuitive, belt, cfop, roux, zz, petrus, rubix

Id: wty04nlHRo8

Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 30 2020