How To Solve the Cross FASTER [Cross Boot Camp]

[@JPerm]

For those of you wondering about the cube: I have 2 Yuexiao Pro cubes that I have no use for, so I peeled the stickers off one of them. Anytime I need specific pieces (like in my ZZ tutorial too) then I just swap out black pieces for stickered pieces.

[@trufflewormmapping7601]

Big brain

[@hamadachetouane9297]

Big braain

[@skeletoneagle7886]

..

[@arrow9031]

J Perm can you do your community a huge favor. One of my favorite videos and many others favs is the 3x3 ranking. Its so enjoyable to watch you do rank 3x3s and its very helpful. Pls make another one. You should include way more 3x3s than last time and keep the old ones. like a lot of cubes. That would be awesome.

[@Richard-pt3dd]

Since you use CsTimer, do you keep your sessions? if you do (assuming that it's up to date,) what session are you currently at?

[@nichoIas_]

One day cubing is gonna get so advanced that J Perm uploads a video on how to use the stack mat timer fast

[@OP-pe4yc]

Stack mat timer will probably be advanced by then..

[@nathanyam2310]

lol

[@meryemnaciri767]

Lmao

[@meryemnaciri767]

But it's the reality

[@aarav_rao]

Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rajasparekh455]

Tip : You can also scramble just a solved cross to get the same scrambled cross according to the scramble algorithm. You don't need to solve the cube each time. Just perform the scramble alg on a solved cross.👍🏻

[@kazimierz1032]

thanks for tip, it will save time. I was just randomly scrambling, or solving cube first

[@rajasparekh455]

@@kazimierz1032 you're welcome

[@WizriCutClips]

Thanks, saved my time

[@rajasparekh455]

@@WizriCutClips happy cubing:)

[@Vicky-kf6it]

Great idea man... Thanks I thought I will have to solve whole cube each time that's why I was not doing that... I just used to scramble it randomly and solve it but now I'll do that...

[@thaddeusbrennan9740]

I’m not first I’m not last But when j perm uploads I click fast

[@ej22_gc86]

petition to make speedclicking on J Perm’s vids a WCA event

[@mlons5252]

Yes

[@thaddeusbrennan9740]

Ha

[@LEVIHackerMan]

Nice

[@iqbalhakim2658]

unoriginal

[@rubikscinema1455]

I seriously started yesterday with cross improvement and looked your old video’s about cross and now a new video, this is amazing, you are always up to date

[@bitgoodtomato2858]

He highly recomends everything Edit: thanks for all the likes😅😅

[@abdulmajeedhamid2607]

😂

[@orion7222]

Lol

[@prasantasaha7556]

Lul

[@keshavasanjevani2803]

Lol

[@debratasingh370]

Devils likes

[@yashaswinikapse9261]

Lets just thank him for preparing a separate cube for just a tutorial😍😍Big fan

[@andersensplob9082]

Trying to get rdengjbmmzxnamn 🚀😁😁

[@madhurimarkad4109]

Very true yashaswini

[@SandeepGupta-zz1lt]

He could have also used the monster go cubes well !

[@Dg47PRO]

Sandeep Gupta they weren’t out yet

[@SandeepGupta-zz1lt]

But currently when they are out he still peels the stickers off and not use those cubes

[@StormRaid417]

The cross and F2L is my biggest obstacle. Everything else is decently fast. I will try to practice this more to get better since this is my slowest part of a solve.

[@4klegendaryyt379]

Not only yours, basically everyone's before they get good at it.

[@Zoomrail]

Algorithms arent that hard, with f2l and cross, you are forced to think about it more, and thats makes it the hardest for everyone

[@AliKhan.1247]

When I want to solve the cross faster. Jperm:

[@Mahfy3w]

Jperm is always there when you need him

[@ignaspast4416]

Gets 149 likes r what?

[@ivanwinleymanllagas3835]

I can solve a rubiks cube for about 40 sec. Sometimes it takes about 1 minute, But when I start watching your tutorials, now I can solve for about 20sec, and im still improving Thank you Mr. J Perm

[@tristanrujano]

I was literally just thinking "I need to improve my cross." so I go to KZbin and this was the first thing on my recommended

[@piconum8197]

This was my second

[@dominoesrex8884]

Creeppyyyy

[@DayFlounder]

Lmao I love how I was watching another video and you commented the exact same thing

[@Ahmet-ur5js]

Yes this happened to me now

[@adrenalinelol4961]

Ur device can read ur mind

[@squaredancerpuzzles]

Thank you very much for giving deeper insight on cross-building, there were a few tricks that I hadn't thought about applying such as attempting to make your first move a U or D move and refraining from leaving the cross on the bottom during your first few moves if it'll leave you with more favorable turns. Also that cross-only cube is such a big mood, I used to have an old Rubik's brand cube that I peeled all the stickers off of except for F2L pieces, heh.

[@error5487]

8:18 For this cross I insert green and blue while inserting red. Facing blue, (U2 D) L R' (F B') U' L2 For U2 D I do U2 with my right hand and D with my left hand. The L after (U2 D) is to move orange away so that after I finish blue red green, orange wont' end up in its slot flipped. Anyway nice vid bro, have been a big fan of your channel

[@MBrady1970]

I've been longing for a video like this, thanks! Even after 3 years and knowing all the basic stuff in your other videos you recommended, I'm still slow at the cross, and now i know why!

[@RubyOneTake]

you are the only person who has been able to post stuff to get me to solve the 3x3 for the first time ever, and you're also making me faster and better at solving it, by using your videos my time went from 5min to 1min 15seconds just by using what you've taught in vids like these

[@RubyOneTake]

btw this was over a span of a week using a rubix brand standard cube

[@ayosgsauce]

​@@RubyOneTakeare you using the beginner method?

[@ivoplaninic9356]

J perm knows algoritms and stuff I would love to see him answering questions on stack owerflow

[@stickguy9109]

I see a man of culture here. But I hate stackoverflow they always downvote my questions for some reason. I would rather figure it out myself

[@ivoplaninic9356]

@@stickguy9109 cant argue with that logic, if i posted questions and they got downvoted i would hate it too But i have everything proof plan so that doesnt happen: i dont post i just read.

[@stickguy9109]

@@ivoplaninic9356 Yeah I am not saying that i don't even read. I always use stackoverflow. I just don't post my own questions anymore

[@m1nus0ne]

My coding man here lol java stackoverflowes are the worst

[@bensolvescubes977]

I literally said while filming a walkthrough solves video (the video didn’t turn out) that I needed to get a lot better at cross, then j perm hits us with this. Absolute legend

[@Gretchaninov]

This video is so helpful! I only wish you showed the scrambles at the start and end of each example because I wanted to retry a few times and kept having to go back.

[@LogoSystemCG]

Beginner from france. I started since one month. I can.solve with beginer method in 1mn. Your channel is a gift for them who wants to push to high level the methods. Thanks

[@kishanpasumarthi7433]

Improved cross from 3 seconds to 1 second thank you

[@JohnAJ-07]

We miss j perm . He has helped many of us become fast

[@arrow9031]

J Perm can you do your community a huge favor. One of my favorite videos and many others favs is the 3x3 ranking. Its so enjoyable to watch you do rank 3x3s and its very helpful. Pls make another one. You should include way more 3x3s than last time and keep the old ones. like a lot of cubes. That would be awesome.

[@monkeh3925]

Everyone- what do you do ? J perm- I like to highly recommend

[@LickOfPaint]

Missed an opportunity to name the video ‘How to Boss the Cross’! Seriously though. I needed this.

[@sunnypsydup]

Scramble 8 crushed my soul and you're timed solution smoothness saved me

[@lucasjagger674]

4:30 I would've done the Cross like this, also facing green: D2 L2 D' R' F2 which is pretty easy to fingertrick and one move less. I also have a question how to take the most advantage of color neutrality because I often see myself spending a lot of time choosing in which color should I do. Btw really useful video

[@JPerm]

For color neutrality you should focus on colors that have the most cross pieces attached to the center, like a red edge touching the red center. I go over this a bit in color neutral example solves. This usually reveals one of the best crosses, and makes first pair tracking a lot easier.

[@Exzochunk]

@@JPerm But you can try the colour which are more dark becuz they are more attractive than pther

[@jcchen7578]

dude... jperm is just inevitable 1. inspires people 2. great reviews 3. GOOD HUMOUR Keep it up Jperm your the best!!! P.S he also inspired me to cube cube, gan air pro pb average 35.6 :)

[@ummatehasanat353]

Pb 5.34

[@ovidius9862]

I'm averaging like 15 and I start cubing from March so like just a half year but that because of you thank you very much and keep going ur the best All my friends are watching you😇😁👏💪👌✌️

[@727-]

Jesus Christ thats fast improvement

[@mrsenxo]

I was thinking "I really need to send JPerm a video to critique my garbage cross skills." for the past month. And I guess I put that energy out there so much you just made a video on it instead. Thanks universe. (and also Jperm)

[@727-]

You can't send him one unless you are paying him

[@727-]

(patreon)

[@mrsenxo]

@@727- I know

[@727-]

@@mrsenxo okk

[@Liver1776]

@J Perm thank you so much for doing all of these tutorials it finally made me get a sub 30 solve for the first time ty

[@mdoe8]

Oh crap didn’t realize this was a new video. I just realized my cross times are absolute garbage and viola! JPerm to the rescue.

[@mdoe8]

Also, I just used the code JPerm at SCS this week, thanks for the 25 cents! ;-)

[@doiz-gd8505]

Extra tip: if you plan on starting the cross with (U2 D2), you can rotate y2 and just start with E2 which makes fingertricks way easier imo

[@waldolemmer]

What's y?

[@doiz-gd8505]

@@waldolemmer y2 means rotate the cube 180 degrees, y means 90 degrees

[@noeruchangd]

*sees the word cross* Me: pleasedontpleasedontpleasedont My brain: *c r u s a d e* Jokes aside, thanks for the tutorials! I'm now sub-15 after a year and I couldn't have done it without you!

[@cryogopher8902]

Yoda8778 DEUS vult my dudes

[@philippechotard1603]

Nice, I'm only sub 60 after a year ;(

[@crossmane]

I’m sub 35 after 3 months

[@kyedo-]

I’m sub 25 after 3 months using roux 😅

[@ClumsyCuber]

Haydan Tran same

[@smallno744]

YES FINALLY THE CROSS THAT TAKES ME HALF OF MY TIME MASTER J-PERM FINALLY CLEAR IT * This fills you with DETERMINATION

[@727-]

Wait really :| do you not plan it in inspection??

[@smallno744]

@@727- i do,but still learning. currently i can plan 3 blocks of cross,but if i move the last one i have to find it again

[@727-]

@@smallno744 just one look cross lmao

[@infrakazos]

Hmm, determination

[@bl.edxardo]

@@infrakazos crin ge

[@The_Cuber]

Summary of video: What side to face, depending on how much regrips there are and how efficient it is(is it finger trickable). Saving regrips is finding solutions that have less regrips(make you change your current hand position or grip). The first move of the cross is usually slower when you do b and f when you lift the cube because it has a regrip at the start which slows down your momentum. If there is only pieces in bottom layer you can just fix it by using replacement technique or other advanced cross techniques. You also avoid B moves in solve and if there is no option then try to do a R or L moves to setup to a B move to speed up the cross without regrips. If you want to start the solve with F/B moves face the white side and do the solution which helps minimize regrips. A common mistake for cubers is to trying to avoid b moves when there is a lot of pieces in one side instead you can minimize effect of B move by setting it up using R or L moves. Go over mulitple options to solve a cross to help solve efficiently like changing sides or moving different pieces. Lastly, use the replacement technique which is just replacing a unnecessary piece with a needed piece and put the un-needed piece into the cross at the end of the cross solve. I hope you found this summary useful!

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

Dylan is basically the God of cubing instruction. Nobody else comes close. Feliks and Max may be faster, but they can't teach like Dylan.

[@SparkyP3nguin]

who is dylan if you are talking about j perm then are you are a complete idiot. he pretends like scrambling doesnt exist and thinks that the same scramble will happen every time

[@visalsngg]

Penguin Saver thats not true?

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@SparkyP3nguin Quote/link me the video where Jperm says scrambling doesn't exist. He just showed 10 different scrambles for 10 totally contrasting crosses, not to mention the rest of the solution. And you say that he believes scrambling doesn't exist? Sorry, you are talking out of your Hugh Janus.

[@SparkyP3nguin]

i meant on his 3x3x3 tutorial video

[@boo7948]

8:15 lmao captions think his rubiks cube is music. i mean it kinda is for our eyes lmfao

[@outandabout259]

Someone calls me: what are you doing? Me (watching this video): cross training

[@un_common1483]

Jperm in the future: Today i’ll be showing you how to construct a DIY rubiks cube incredibly fast

[@ProNinjaHype]

i had an easier time understanding and learning this than i did the previous two bro

[@SolisAdarsh]

I think he took the "I just peel the stickers off" too seriously…

[@cybershark5465]

Nah we don’t do that here

[@SolisAdarsh]

@@cybershark5465 umm not sure if I quite understand that... 🤔

[@paarthpradhan198]

If you see one of his videos on his collection of cube, he tells that those are GAN cubes (I guess like poor memory) which were given to him by Gan so it's factory made like that

[@SolisAdarsh]

@@paarthpradhan198 oh ohk

[@andreabenini7392]

And then there's me doing the daisy in 5 min

[@Cubingwizard]

Jperm: "if you average 10 seconds cross in 1 sec, if 20 then 2 secs" Feliks: "what if you average 5 secs?"

[@lumina_]

he doesn't average 5 seconds tho

[@Cubingwizard]

@@lumina_ i was trynna make a joke, but it didn't work

[@crateer]

@@Cubingwizard there's always a really smart dude that doesn't get jokes xD

[@why-him982]

You guys talking about what Feliks averages meanwhile me over here:. 5 seconds

[@jyothisatish156]

@@Cubingwizard it was good not gonna lie

[@ivantran3420]

Your videos made me sub 30 in barely 2 months you are a great teacher.

[@guypeleg9675]

Thanks for the tips. I have improved a lot just watching your vids and practicing your methods :)

[@ivantran3420]

Yesss finally a better cross tutorial from j perm. Thank you helped a lot. :)

[@ewetho]

Hi J Perm, I just got started a week or so ago and can now solve the darn 3x3. Ok, while my brother had one when I was a kid I did not and never solved it. But I did solve the Pyraminx back then (you know the 80's if not the 70's, lol) well before my older brother. Thought I would pass on, cool channel and enjoy your videos on the puzzles. Thought I let you know that I did use your code at SCS for Supernova 2 M, 3 M, 4 M, 5 M Valks. Supernova Wingy Skewb M, Supernova Bell Pyraminx M, and a QiYi Master Pyraminx all in stickerless just to have nice puzzles to learn to solve. Yeah, yeah I know they are way over my head and not interested in completing just wanna learn to solve all of these. Besides fight the Rubik's Cube already is no fun, and watching all you guys flicking stuff when not quite aligned makes me envious! Should be fun my new teacher!

[@-eagle-5014]

One day, when there will be a 50x50x50, J Perm's tutorial videos be like, 3:48:27

[@sleepingboiz8155]

nah it would been 2 minutes of saying to watch his previous video of 49x49x49 then that video would talk about the previous and so on or it would just been j perm saying we need to know how to solve 4x4, 5x5, 6x6 then we are done

[@bloodeagle2945]

Damn, you've got the whole squad laughing

[@-eagle-5014]

And also he might even be doing how to have a correct posture in order to shave off 5 seconds

[@therealrezmund]

no joke, after watching this i got 2 back to back pr's. great video

[@swnk.]

1:45 D2 R U2 F' R U2 gets u an f2l pair not sure if it's faster fingertricks wise because i can't move my fingers as fast as u. I found this out on accident first try lol

[@cubeblazer]

For scramble 2, it's faster to put yellow on front orange on top and do L2 F' (R' l') F D Scramble 4: It's easier to start WTGF and do U r' D2 F (R l) D' Just some optimizations for anyone who needs it.

[@ianhuangncubed]

7:54 For Scramble 7 an even better solution (holding red in front) would be U’ R’ D F D F. Zero regrips and less moves.

[@TheGermanfish-b5l]

For scramble number 8, instead of solving red first and then using the middle to get blue solved, I just brought the center up first, and then solved blue with F', which still allowed me to set up green and orange.

[@mustafam1466]

best teacher always❤

[@remytherat2175]

Me: Didn't understand either of the other cross videos and went straight here after watching both JPerm: Don't do that

[@SakuraIverson]

J Perm, can you make a video on misfit tips, like what to do if the cross pieces end up in the wrong spots, or like wrong inserts in f2l, or just stuff that wouldn't warrant their own video

[@asr2009]

he did that in a video called... so you screwed up

[@fallenreaper6757]

Best man of all times for telling us how to solve

[@driptidegaming]

Lol I know it's an old vid, but I'm getting my first cube, so I'm learning as much as I can before it comes in, thank you

[@NoahS4226]

1:24 "You usually want your cross to be about 10% of your time" Then there's me averaging 12 seconds with my barely sub-2 cross lol

[@maxime9006]

The Anonymous Cuber ok.

[@shuochen1689]

Nice video as always!

[@RandyKing314]

Cube with stickers for training cross: brilliant!

[@jcchen7578]

I suck at solving cross notification bell dings, jperm has new video BINGO!!!

[@hiphiphurray445]

man the 1st scramble yellow cross was awesome

[@domenhitrec3288]

I've seen feliks and some others use a lot od w moves (like Rw) to make cross and finger tricks even easyer, and they come up with some very creative ideas.

[@asr2009]

those are to be used in rare situations by advanced solvers. not for beginners or intermediate.

[@cartermc7336]

J perm is growing so fast 2k sure in 2 day

[@faramirhimself8626]

jperm pls make more cross tutorials these videos are amazing

[@doiz-gd8505]

Nr 8: what I like to do here is put blue on top of the red bad Edge and out green on bottom of red (D U2) and then put red into the right spot (R') which gets blue and green ready to insert at the same time! (F B') And then you just do orange last

[@hamzahkhalil4994]

YES, I did the cross in the first example, JUST LIKE YOU DID!!

[@rcu-rohancraftinguniverse6944]

Man your tips made my cross amazing fast

[@ethanh1759]

0:38 That cube

[@GabsLiotta]

How coincidental you make this video after I was looking for this speedup for the cross haha much love and thank you perm!

[@abhaypatil2000]

This one was best among all the three

[@horizoncubing4675]

Thank you so much JPerm!

[@jahedhossain6306]

For the first scramble, the yellow cross was dope.

[@matteomalcoci746]

OMG I was searching for a tutorial like this thank you!

[@teddiebloomfield9200]

j perm: making it look like the eisiest thing ever. me: WhAt aRe YoU oN aBoUt MaTe

[@noeramos2924]

This really helped me a lot. Thanks J Perm. 👍

[@ricksanchez147]

I have a cube with the stickers peeled off, for cross training, so it's easy to scramble it and follow along! Thanks man!

[@Lza_Ralte]

J Perm... you're one hell of a cuber.Keep it up

[@avaneeshpatil5729]

Jperm this helped so much because now I'm a sub-25 I started cubing a year ago

[@5anihalyaccha337]

I learnt cross because of your help. Thanks J Perm!

[@nathanielnewell4660]

That's pretty good, I'm not an expert at all but one thing I found out is that for the first cross scramble, it's easier to solve on yellow

[@PHCuber]

Respect for actually removing the stickers

[@lponchain]

PhCuber05 I have a cube that only has cross stickers and one with f2l stickers and one with last layer stickers

[@PHCuber]

seb by cool

[@BlazertronGames]

Wow, I've been trying to avoid the 3 move insert (R' F R) because I thought you said you should always turn bad edges into good ones, and should avoid that move, but you did it here! I was thinking the cross solutions where I had to do the move were bad, maybe not!

[@probablyme7121]

Sledghamer is okay he said it in one of his videos if correctly remember because it can be performed very quickly

[@yagamilight528]

bro i can relate when i was sub 30 i used to be like you but then i notice i shouldn't force myself that much to avoid 3 move insert. After all, why would anyone created the 3 move insert if you were meant to avoid it?

[@gojosatoru5524]

Bro this one helped me a lot at first i couldn't get it because i thought it was kind of difficult but eventually i got better at this . Thank you very j perm

[@inosukehashibira2218]

When I was solving a cross I remember ZZ tutorial flashbacks from your video and I remember to EO solution to see if which one is good or bad edge and I solve it without undoing the moves and I solve the cross in 8 moves and my dad was proud of me

[@collonwong6119]

Thanks for your tutorial, I have improved a lot now😊

[@markbockmann2073]

By far the best cross video I've seen.

[@InnerSanctuary777]

I know i am pretty late but to help, you can perform the scramble algorithms after just solving the cross which i figured out in the 7th case

[@ob3vious]

Nice, I'm learning CFOP at the moment, because Roux wasn't efficient enough...

[@da_lyga9123]

Lol

[@dhrutube]

Usually ppl say that roux is more efficient than cfop. But you proved otherwise... XD

[@da_lyga9123]

@@dhrutube ya

[@stan1slav995]

I want to know your location

[@727-]

No, you're not efficient enough with roux lol

[@hannahbendavies1281]

9:30 you can also do facing green F2 L' D' R' F2 D' which i think is better for finger tricks

[@SpeedyMcop]

4: 4:00 1 fewer move x2 (D2 L2 D' R' F2)

[@SaurabhKumar-cj2mn]

He protecc He attacc But most importantly He does cross boot camp

[@gavincarter167]

Saurabh Kumar uhhhh it’s supposed to rhyme

[@oneismajor4863]

My plan is to avg sub 20 consistently. Hope this video helps! As of now I avg around 23-35 if that's okay lol

[@smittywerbenyeagermenjenso3720]

"if that's okay"..... boi I'm not even sub 60

[@simianas3884]

@@smittywerbenyeagermenjenso3720 same, I'm Noob, too lazy 😞

[@nabeel8633]

Hey J perm have you seen that meme where you got a teacher saying that no one can be the best teacher and a student shows the teacher a screenshot from one of your videos

[@voidman6419]

Lol yeah jperm is the best teacher

[@jasonxii3141]

This is what I’ve been struggling with, I have to make my cross before I match my edges. I just can’t do them both at the same time atm

[@santiagobautista245]

Friend, your videos are good, however, there are many Spanish-speaking people like me who cannot understand your videos, I feel like you should think one day of making a channel in Spanish so that we can understand these videos so good :)

[@MeatBallFreak333]

J can use the text thing

[@wast1297]

Omg, you dont know how much I'm going to enjoy this! Thx

[@jouke2226]

Thank you. Love ur vids.

[@pranavraghu]

Thanks J perm. This video really helped!!

[@gemgem3280]

You're videos are amazing!! can you do one about block building?

[@JPerm]

I did! search for it :)

[@gemgem3280]

@@JPerm*GASP* THANKS!!!!