CSP Tips and My Thoughts

[@bugybunny1]

Another tip for Star cases: The non-star layer can be aligned by 6 (from your starting counting position, not how the layer is aligned after the scramble) to switch parity. So If you have 8/Star and the 8 is already a -4 away from your counting position and you get an odd parity count, you can just do a -2 instead of a 4,2 or 4,-2 which is faster. Works also for the other cases, but 4-4/Star makes mostly no sense because of the symmetry, but I also use it for 6-2/Star (the one that goes into Similar Pawn) where it is beneficial.

[@SGD2718]

How do you know when the parity changes

[@zhu1018]

Thanks for the tutorial! I have a question now, may I know the difference tracing csp front and back? and why would you recommend for trace from end?

[@caz2384]

If i average around 22 seconds on squan with full co, eo, cp and intuitive ep, should I learn 2 alg pbl or csp first?

[@BlueAcidball]

Neither, keep grinding till sub-20

[@caz2384]

@@BlueAcidball Now i’m at around 16-17.5 seconds on average (ao 100 is like 16.85) is it finally time to learn 2 alg pbl or csp?

[@BlueAcidball]

@@caz2384 yeah you can go for csp first then

[@FreezieX17]

@@caz2384 hey, just curious, what did you work on in order to get sub 20? I'm currently just above where you were 11 months ago with the same method

[@caz2384]

@@FreezieX17 ngl i just spammed practice and worked on reducing my pauses. Help cut down my time a lot. Pauses and poor look ahead are often the weakness of most of my solves.

[@SGD2718]

Using this series, how realistic would it be to do one vid a day and learn full csp in 12 days?

[@nicolask5341]

Hey I would very much like to see a video about your whole cube collection. Greets from Switzerland :D

[@CubeMasterYT]

My collection all over the place and not too organized :( But I do have a collection video from last year and most of the cubes I got this year are in unboxings. Maybe I'll do another video sometime in the future

[@nicolask5341]

Cube Master okay thx 😊

[@bugybunny1]

Wuhu, no en andere Schwiizer :D (I hope you speak German and not French :p)

[@nicolask5341]

bugybunny1 du ich rede scho schwizerdütsch

[@Henryzzhang]

What tips do you recommend to trace faster?

[@SGD2718]

Probably practice and memorize which combinations of 3 colors mean an odd parity instead of eliminating a color. Idk

[@Henryzzhang]

@@SGD2718 thanks, since then I just practiced on squan mate and learned the star cases and just practiced getting used to the color patterns, etc. I’ve gotten down to around 18 or 19 seconds when focused

[@cub-0315]

Any tips on tracing CSP?

[@CubeMasterYT]

That's what this video is for lol, any specific part you're having trouble with?

[@cub-0315]

@@CubeMasterYT like when i trace from the 8 case when i do a (-2,0) on the top when i trace from the reference piece (which is the middle right edge), when i trace theres parity, i misalign the bottom and execute the even alg but theres still paritu Srry for a lot of when's

[@CubeMasterYT]

Misaligning the top shouldn't change parity if you readjust your position. I would recommend going back on that scramble misaligned and aligned to try to find what you are doing wrong :)

[@BrandonNunez]

But I'm not done with all the lin algs how am I going to learn csp

[@CubeMasterYT]

Learn a case a week or something, it's pretty simple

[@willwalter1384]

Can CSP be Intuvie like can those three rules like switching layers apply to all cases

[@CubeMasterYT]

I guess they can, but for some cases doing one of those rules would be quite inefficient and there is probably a better rule out there. My best recommendation is to just follow the series and whatever algs I use for the most efficient solutions. Other ways of changing parity are also pretty intuitive so don't worry too much about that :)

[@macuber4046]

how do you trace from your new position?

[@CubeMasterYT]

Tracing is the same as the one from my tutorial, but for all my "reference schemes", I start to trace from the top right (instead of bottom left) clockwise in the top layer and the same way in the bottom layer. 0:35

[@sp3ctum]

I'm really curious to hear your thoughts on how the algs work mirrored, and how they should be learned. I just do them with the middle layer flipped, and it works fine, but I think it's too unconventional for most people. In general I would love to have a lot more emphasis on your videos in the alg document. It's a lot easier to see how the method works when you show it, for example. What do you think?

[@CubeMasterYT]

For the mirrors, I mostly just switched the layer moves which seems to work fine, but if the alg has too many D moves instead of U moves I might find something better from Brandon's video or the other doc. For my videos, I did change a few algs and reference schemes to make it more comfortable for me, so they are a bit different from the doc, but you can definitely still use them :)

[@westonnemitz1093]

I am easily sub 18 even with parity, but without parity, and not a horrible ep, I can average around sub 12. I truly think that learning CSP is the next step, but it is so confusing and there is so little information about it. My biggest problem is that I don't know what moves change parity and which don't. I am good at tracing, I can do it in about 20 seconds, and getting faster ever time, but after that, if it is not an easy cube shape, I have no idea what moves affect parity!

[@gamer9smith]

He has a bunch of other videos on how to do the odd parity alg for every case

[@westonnemitz1093]

@@gamer9smith thanks, but I sorta gave up squan these past months

[@sp3ctum]

Wow I'm amazed by this, great that you are doing more content about the method. I was thinking of doing similar videos myself but I've hurt my hands and haven't been able to practice for a long time now. For Squanmate, each link will always be the exact same version. So if i release a new version I will update the link in the readme file to point to it. github.com/sp3ctum/squanmate/blob/master/readme.md If you think it's a good idea, maybe you could change the link on the video's description to point to the readme? Though I have to say it's completely up to the user whether they want to use the same version or not. It will always work and never change. Also thanks a lot for the kind words about Squanmate. I'm super glad you find it helpful.

[@CubeMasterYT]

No problem. Squanmate definitely helped me a lot and it'll probably help many more people. I'll add both links in description :)

[@davidcejka253]

Should i learn PBL or CSP first?

[@CubeMasterYT]

CSP for sure, PBL gets cut in half with CSP

[@davidcejka253]

@@CubeMasterYTThanks! When should i learn them ? Sub 20?

[@cedricthomassiew9513]

@@davidcejka253 I average 14-16 but I have learned neither of them. To me, they are utterly confusing. I just make sure to lookahead and grind the 54 EP I know.

[@azharvirani2979]

I can’t even solve a Squan lmao. Maybe I should actually try haha.

[@thephysicistcuber175]

Squan is fun :)