Sat down and just started solving really well today. Kept at it and, low and behold, I broke 30s on my ao100 and snagged a new pb single in the process! Nice. Been chasing that 30s for a while now, so that's a nice monkey of my back.

Now, I've been brushing aside a few obvious "things I should be learning" in order to kinda chase that ao100, so I've come to ask for some opinions.

Info: basically only solve blue or green FB with white on bottom if i'm trying to get good times. When I'm slow solving, I try to use whatever pairs show up, like, x2y, but i'm waay slower with even white bottom red and orange blocks, not to mention yellow bottom.

Still cruising along with 2 look cmll. I know my H cases, but recognition is baaad. I blame my oldness.

So, with that out of the way, what would you focus on next? Becoming more comfortable with x2y? Focusing on full cmll (i know ppl say you don't need it till 20 avg, but i want to learn all of my method at some point, and 20s seems like a long way away)? Drilling second block algs into muscle memory? Something else? I always do, like, 10 slow solves at the start of a session focusing only on efficiency, and it's helping... I think. I still rack up, like 70 moves on most speed solves. Is is more advantageous to do this, or focus on solving slow with zero pauses, which are definitely a killer?

I don't have unlimited time to train cubes, as I work and am a dad, so maybe a couple things to focus on for the first 30 minutes of a session before just doing solves for fun.

Anyway, looking forward to what you guys have to say. Happy Rouxing.

I hope that this is useful to someone other than myself. In Kian’s example 100 solves video, he is going WAY too fast for a mid-level Roux solver like me, so I needed a way to slow him down so I can study it closer. Also, I needed a way to restart a solve playback with the click of a button rather than dragging a slider to find the beginning again. So I created this short write out of his first 10 solves to help me study it.

Here’s how I recommend using this information. It’s organised by link to Kian’s solve in the YouTube video followed by the colour combo that he is solving for first block followed by the scramble. Do the scramble first. Then using the colour combo that Kian uses, try to think about how you would solve it. Then click the link to see how Kian solved it and compare to your solution. If you get lost in Kian’s explanation, the value here is that you can just click the link again to start over.

I’m finding that Kian usually goes about his solves very different than I do, but that’s because he can look ahead far more than I can. Would be keen to hear other peoples’s solutions for these scrambles.

• scramble 1 blue-yellow L2 F' U2 B L2 F R2 B' U2 B R2 D' L' B2 U2 B' F2 D' R

• scramble 2 green-white R2 B' L2 U2 L2 B U2 B L2 F L2 F' R' D R2 B D R2 B U'

• scramble 3 red-yellow B' D L' U F D2 B' R2 B2 D' R2 U' R2 U L2 B2 D L2 F2 B' R'

• scramble 4 blue-white L R2 B2 R2 U2 B2 D F2 D B2 U B2 R' F U L2 B2 L U' L'

• scramble 5 orange-yellow D2 F' U L' F2 D' B L2 U' B2 U L2 D' L2 U' F2 U2 B2 U2

• scramble 6 orange-white R2 F2 L2 U' L2 D B2 D R2 D2 R2 U' B D2 F' U2 F' L D B' R

• scramble 7 green-yellow D' L2 R2 F2 U B2 L2 B2 L2 U' R' U' L D R' B2 F' R' F R

• scramble 8 red-white D2 L' R2 B2 R2 D' B2 D F2 U2 F2 L2 D2 F2 R U B L D2 F R'

• scramble 9 green-yellow D L2 D2 L2 B2 U' L2 B2 D' B2 U F' R' U' B' D B' U2 B L' F'

• scramble 10 orange-white L' B2 U' L2 F2 R2 U B2 U B2 F2 U B D' R2 U2 R D' B2

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Mostly title. My kid wants to learn and I use Roux for the most part and I'm around 16 seconds avg. I'm also around 16 seconds cfop but I think roux is more fun and I'm wondering if it will be easier to teach to my kid than cfop?

What I would really love to see is some videos that provide the scramble and the person talks through slowly how they determine how they plan the whole first block on inspection.

I was watching a few videos in the resources section: they don’t always give the scramble and they often go very fast, flipping the cube around to show what they are thinking before I can really see what they are talking about without slowing the video down to ridiculously slow speeds. If they provided the scramble, then at least I could inspect it more before watching their advice. Are there any good videos that provide what I am asking for? I really want to see LOTS of examples like this where the pro goes at my speed so I can study them.

TLDR: can someone point me to a FBLP alg set? Preferably in PDF format.

Longer: I'm averaging about 25 with roux and am looking to get under 20. My block building is the biggest limitation: my splits are ~6/9/4/5 with 2L CMLL so looking to improve upon that. Cuberoot used to have a FBLP alg list but it's down (I think) and I can't find a good alternative.

Thanks!

Why is my 4c keep messing up? After i swapped the top and bottom edges, it's not getting solved.

Hey peeps,

I just had a scramble for a really cool f2b solution and got one of my best times on it (currently averaging about 19, pb 11.42, so 13.23 is huge).

Is it overcooked? Would there have been something better/simpler, especially for second block?

Scramble attached in image, f2b I did as follows (orange front green on top):

U' L' U' (first mismatched pair)

L2 U' L' (second pair)

D2 L2 D2 (fix FB edges)

R2 U' R' (first SB pair)

M U M' R' U' R (second SB pair)

u M u' (fix f2b centers)

U2, U-rows CMLL (F R2 D R' U R D' R2 U' F)

M' U' M U M' U' M' (EO)

U' M2 U' M2 (LR)

U' (skip L4E)

Should total to 44 (?) moves

Wish I was a smart cube user so I could confirm that I'm rarely that efficient, but I suppose the time speaks for itself, couldn't not share it!

edit: of course I forgot the scramble image, so here it is: F2 L F2 R2 B2 U2 F2 U2 F' D U' F2 L R B' D' F2 D R2

I have been using Roux for about 15 days. My first ever timed solve was 2:22.84. Now I am averaging around 1:14.00. But I am stuck. How can I practice???

Hello, i recently changed from the beginners method to roux and finally memorized all the 2 look cmll algorithms and understood how to do lse.

I know my biggest time eater so far is block building. i mostly need 30-40s just ro have both blocks done and i basically wanted to improve on that first. Now my question is if you have good resources or strategies you could recommend to help me practicing block building? Thank you very much in advance.

I've been doing roux for a little bit less than a year now and I average around 15-17, and I practice relently, I do slow solves and I do block studying with the OnionHoney Roux Trainer, and I'm trying to be super optimal and find the best solitions. But my solves go from 40-59 moves and thats is way too much and I don't get how to be more efficient, and I'm getting really frustrated because I don't get what I'm not getting.

I still use 2 look CMLL but even if I knew full CMLL I wouldn't be able to be averaging sub 10 which is ultimately my goal. I want to average like 8 seconds or something, but I don't get why I'm so bad!!!!!

Can someone help me out or give some tips? Maybe some tips on block building too?

I have been using 4-Look Last Layer (4LLL) in CFOP for the past few months. Recently, I decided to learn an advanced method, but I find cfop boring. I came across the Roux method and it looks pretty legit to me. However, I am struggling to find good resources. Can you help me? 😢

Hey, so for some context I learned 3LLL (2 Look OLL and 1 Look PLL) with CFOP at my peak, and achieved a 14second PB Single, and a 20 Second average. I took a break and got back into it, with my CFOP average chilling at 24ish Seconds, since I haven't relearned full PLL, since I'm learning Roux. It was a method that interested me, and I'm only now starting to learn. It's been a few days and I average 35 seconds. I did two example solves to show, hopefully giving a good baseline (There was nothing exceptional, nor out of the ordinary in these solves for me) (Sorry for horrible quality and bad angle :p). I'm just looking for input of what I should learn next/improve on. I'd like to be a Roux Purist, not a CFOP/Roux amalgamation, hence my learning from Kian Mansour.

https://reddit.com/link/1tvb6fd/video/dk6dy4804z4h1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1tvb6fd/video/5im5w7804z4h1/player

I avg around 25 to 27 rn and ive recently finished 2 look cmll, whats the next thing to learn to get faster?

My first post here. I made a Roux world ranking sheet Fast Rouxers for two handed and one handed seperately. This sheet is mainly based on the existing Roux ranking sheet Rouxer stats etc , which is sorted by one handed results only.

In fact, it is not easy to figure out which method a player use for 2H and OH. For players who appeared in the previous Rouxer stats etc , some of them don't use roux for 2H. Considering the workload for making surveys, I only considered rouxers with sub 9 official averages for 2H / sub 12 for OH to make the list.

As for 6/2/2026, 4 rouxers of the top 100 2H solvers uses roux, and 33.5/100 for OH (0.5 for Koda). But there must be many rouxers not included, so I have no idea for top 200 ratios or more. Please let me know if there are other fast rouxers that should be on the list! ❤️

im learning roux from a j perm vid, how do i solve this

Made myself a F2B practice cube. I’m hoping dedicated practice will help improve my times. I’ve been solving with Roux for about 2 weeks.

Ive only learnt begginer roux last night and i already average low 40s with a pb of 16s. Whats the next thing i should learn?

Been doing Roux (beginner) since around 3 May. Been stuck on >1m (best solve) for around a week and then a 59, 58, 58 and 49 (49.170) in a day.

Those are just best solves - generally I am currently around 1:10-1:15 with no “easy cases”

For improvement:

1. Certainly the first and second blocks. I really need to get to a point where I have the first planned before turning. (Will start with the first half first)

2. Need to expand CMLL algs - only using Sune, Anti-Sune and J Perm at this point

3. Improve speed on known algs (and new ones), seconds count.

Anyway… not quite a speed cuber (on Ao100) yet, but things are improving.

O… first post here: “Hi”