{"id":51,"date":"2008-11-24T19:58:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T02:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2018-03-12T20:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T20:23:32","slug":"the-new-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/24\/the-new-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The New(?) System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit I&#8217;m very hesitant about posting this announcing a new system or method that I am using. Mostly because it is so similar to Petrus, yet at the same time not at all. I&#8217;ll mostly let the reader decide what to call it and tripple check with people before naming it after someone (especially me). Soooo here&#8217;s the story.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a late thursday night, I&#8217;m cubing, after a hideous 23.xx average but with one amazing 16.xx single. This 16.xx was the last solve of the 5 and I had gotten an extended cross on it (the cross with 1 F2L slot finished) so then I realized, &#8220;Hey I always get good times where I have an extended cross or some sort of 2x2x2 form, so why don&#8217;t I always start with a 2x2x2 block?&#8221; It took only a few solves to try this new system out and sure enough my times dropped. A lot.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/new-sys.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52\" title=\"Cubemania Graph\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/new-sys-300x181.png\" alt=\"Just look at the averages drop. \" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just look at the averages drop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So after a video glitch in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zmMTL4XVqUk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">average of 12<\/a> with this new system it seemed to work! So what is it all together? I&#8217;ll try to elaborate. Before I start, I think it&#8217;s safe to say that color neutrality is <strong><em>very<\/em> <\/strong>advantageous.<\/p>\n<p>1. Get a 2x2x2 block somehow, doesn&#8217;t matter how, sure look ahead a bit for the next slot after it, but you really can&#8217;t plan all that well.<\/p>\n<p>2. Finish up the next two layers either by adding the two last edges to make an extended cross. Or by making the 2x2x2 into a 2x2x3. From the 2x2x3 you can choose the side the LL will be on.<\/p>\n<p>3. Do LL how ever you want to.<\/p>\n<p>So for those interested and who understood those three consise yet complex steps, call the system what it is, and if it isn&#8217;t around then what you want. <a title=\":(\" href=\"http:\/\/www.speedsolving.com\/forum\/showpost.php?p=82678&amp;postcount=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I&#8217;ve misnamed things in the past<\/a> before so I&#8217;m not making any calls here just to be safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit I&#8217;m very hesitant about posting this announcing a new system or method that I am using. Mostly because it is so similar to Petrus, yet at the same time not at all. I&#8217;ll mostly let the reader decide what to call it and tripple check with people before naming it after someone (especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speedcubing","tag-speedcubing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}