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Sounds fun. I still don't completely understand commutators so I never learned 3-Style. What method did you use before and what were your times?
Strange. We did have a lot of issues at lemmy.world yesterday so maybe your post got caught up in that.
My PB is 3:07 with M2/OP. I'm going against the usual recommendation of "practice a lot of memo before learning 3-Style" but I've also read a few comments against doing that saying to just start with 3-Style immediately. Also knowing full 3-Style just sounds amazing.
Do you do BLD too? What are your times and method?
I don't do BLD. I learned it once a while back because I wanted to get an official time, and I managed to get a ~7 minute time at a comp. Since then I've never really practiced. I did OP I believe. I looked up 3-Style because I thought it was interesting but haven't spent any time on it, or on understanding commutators.
Some algs can be scary, but the mathematical principle is really easy: if you do X, and then X' the cube is back to its solve state. When there is a face where there is only a tiny bit of change, let’s say a corner twist, if you turn that face after X, by doing X' you will solve the rest of the cube, and instead of twisting the same corner, you’ll twist the corner that is where the twisted corner was.
An example of corner twisting.
An exemple of corner swapping
An explanation where it ticked for me: https://www.ryanheise.com/cube/commutators.html
If you are more a video person.
Doing non-wca twisty puzzle, commutators are a must.
That’s also the case for patterns on big cubes.