fathin maftuh abdullah - it was definitely logic related, how he used jperm on a 3x3 and applied it on a cube with totally different mechanisms, thats just crazy. I just solved the squan for the first time today, watched several tutorials and it took me HOURS, like more than 3 (only following instruction) and I’m still slower than Dylan who does it partially intuitive. So he’s definitely really smart.
Steven Nguyen Changing parity is completely intuitive and needs no algs, the hard part is determining in inspection if you need to do your regular cubeshape solution or if you need to change parity. There are 90 cases and sometimes it's different when mirrored in the bottom, so it's effectively learning 180 cases. I used to know them all but now I've forgotten it.
@@nguyener14 well you just find somewhere where you can do an odd number of swaps, hence changing parity. If you have 6 corners on one layer, rotating does a 6-cycle (aka 5 swaps). If you can get all 6 corners on the right, slashing does 3 swaps etc. Those are the most obvious ways but by the time you're halfway through CSP you'll learn more ways to do it. By the time I was nearly done all I needed to do to learn a case was do a trace, solve it normally and see if I get parity. If I didn't, I'd remember that. If I did, I'd know to look for somewhere along the way to change parity without even learning the alg :p
11:18 the fact that he didnt even ask us to like or subscribe... I just love that. And of course I liked because of the dedication and hard work J-perm has been doing just to entertain us. Legend.
Dude this was so interesting to watch, I'm kinda mad that I resorted to tutorials for so many puzzles. I'd love to try this sort of thing more often :)
@@brayyan2384 superliminal.com/cube/cube.htm The 2^4 might be a little easier to tackle at the start, but if you understand how to solve a 3x3, you can figure these out with some work!
I know I’m super late but i just want to share that you can do a j perm on a square 1 with a shorter alg Ja Perm: R2 U’ R2 D R2 U’ R2 U R2 U D’ R2 U Jb Perm: R2 U R2 D’ R2 U R2 U’ R2 U’ D R2 U’ I don’t know if its faster but it helpful
I’ve returned to cubing after 3ish years, your “attempting to try ~~~~ without any help series” has had me retry things such as the 6x6+ using knowledge with the 4x4/5x5.
The parity's easy to avoid if you know 1-Look PLL on a 3x3, or at least can recognize every possible case in 1LPLL. If you can't though, then you'll have to deal with parity at the end of the solve and that's much a much nastier alg than the pre-emptive one.
@@PanjaRoseGold I'm not a cuber but RU-vid has me down a rabbithole of these tonight. But... this seems like some good life advice for anything you can apply it to.
He said he was studying Simpson's paradox, which has to do with statistics. So I think "no cancer" was a label for a group being compared with a "cancer" group in a table.
I actually saw this video, decided to do the exact same thing with my Square One (it’s been at least a year since i solved it about 5 times while staring at algorithms) and found almost the same solution as you. I found an algorithm that does a jperm on both the top and bottom at once and had to get creative. Then i watched your video and it was interesting to see how similar our approaches were. I think i had an easier time with square shape and “OLL” because of my past experience though
I just finished watching your Rubik’s clock video (after binging many other random ones) where you mentioned how much time you spent trying to figure out how to solve this puzzle irl. I have loved all of your content so far. I saw this upload was a shorter one (I am commenting before actually watching the whole vid btw) and I was wondering if you have ever thought about uploading more raw footage. I personally really enjoy seeing the thought process behind solving complex puzzles and I think you explain your reasoning in a very clear and concise way. Anyway, thank you for your content! You have done a phenomenal job and I am very happy for you, man! :)
I actually made up a piraminx method by myself and still use it. In case you wonder it's just 1st layer, PLL (magminx like), OLL (with a random alg I discovered to flip 2 edges)
I knew the method for solving Square-1 around 10 years ago and now I forgot them all so I tried this. What I found was a brand-new (to me) T-perm that I don't know existed and also works as a J-perm in a Square-1: / U / U' / U' D / U' / U / D' (/ means R2 in 333, right side 180 turn in Square-1). It was overall very fun (probably because I had an experience although long time ago)!
It was very interesting to watch your approach to solving the SQ1. It just surprised me that you had never tried / learnt how to solve it but it was also a lot of fun. This is a cube I learnt long ago how so solve with a tutorial and later forgot completely how to solve and I have relearnt by myself using my own method based on cuboid algorithms and an edge commutator I created myself. I recorded a tutorial in my channel for this method but, sadly my videos are in Spanish. It was nice to see something like this, a little bit different from your usual (and excellent) tutorials. Very nice job done on that SQ1!!!
This reminded me so much of when I did the same thing like fifteen years ago. A very similar process of finding out the same things and having similar ideas. The difference was that my algorithm swapped two edges in the top and two on the bottom, so I did setups based on that instead. Solving the corners is really simple, so coming up with an algorithm for edges was all I needed. I think I was little faster at making the cube shape and completing the white and yellow sides(and the corners), but unfortunately I ran into the parity error. I spent like a day trying to solve it despite the parity error, before I conceded that I had to yield the progress I have made thus far. I didn’t just mindlessly scramble the puzzle and hoped I would be lucky with the 50/50 the next time, though; I came up with my own algorithm that 100% fixed the parity error, but returned the puzzle to a scrambled version of the cube shape. After that, it didn’t take too long to fix the whites/yellows, then corners, and finally the edges to complete the puzzle. My reaction was very similar, the feeling of completing a first slice of Square-1 on intuition is less that of satisfaction, and more that of just relief and having a burden released from you. 😂 It’s satisfying in hindsight, of course, but not in the moment!
For the original Rubik's cube, I had to read a book to get the last layer (RU-vid didn't exist back then). For the Square-1, I figured it all out myself. I enumerated all of its weird shapes and how to bring them back to the cube shape. Next I transformed the cube shape back to four or five (it has been a long while now) of the weird shapes - shapes that allowed me to rotate a "face" and still retain the same weird shapes. Bringing these rotated-face shapes back to to a cube gave me cubie displacement tables, which I could use to solve any position of the Square-1 using algebra. Truly the weird shapes helped me solve the puzzle from first principles.
This is what genius called. See you and I both can solve a Rubik's cube... We just memorized moves but very few can actually work out the moves and try it on other cubes like him. This video breaks my believe that a Square one can be solved with knowledge of Rubik's cube. Really you're genius
I have one of these and I haven’t solved it for like 2 years and now watching this I have a better understanding and I will hopefully be able to solve now
a couple of months after watching this video I bought a Square-1 and remembering nothing from this video I took a 9 month trip of trying to solve it. I usually solve my new cubes with no help and after that I watch a tutorial, but no cube was asa painfull as this one. I solved it 3 weeks ago now and this video got recommended to me today. I also came up with my own Jperm and did every algorithm from it.
I think the N and J-Perm Alg that he used to permute the edges is this with the big slice piece to the right: Permute outer layers: / (3,0) / (-3,0) / (3,0) / (-3,0) + Fix Middle Layer: / (6,0) / (6,0) / Outer + Middle Layer Alg: / (3,0) / (-3,0) / (3,0) / (3,0) / (6,0) / Add a (1,0) if there's an Nb-Perm or a (0,-1) if there's a Jb-Perm This can solve the cube if there's an N-Perm at the top and a J-Perm at the bottom. Let me know if this is helpful.
I figured out how to solve a Square-1 puzzle decades ago. It's interesting that you basically solved it in the same order I worked out, i.e. first make it a cube, then separate the top and bottom corners, then the top and bottom edges, followed by permuting the corners and finally the edges. Except I found shorter ways to do each step and also figured out how to fix a parity problem (which involves swapping three adjacent top corners with three adjacent bottom corners).
Just finished my 1st unassisted solve of square 1. It took me 4 days, maybe a total of 6-7 hours of playing with the cube and trying to solve it. I scrambled and started over 3 times and the 4th solve got me there. Thanks for the inspiration, feels so good to be able to make it.
As a rule, I never look up tutorials, algs, or videos or any help until AFTER I solve it once 1st on my own, (and almost no one seems to want to do that,) SO MAD PROPS TO YOU FOR DOING THAT!!!! And with a square1! Damn bro! That still has me stumped! I solved the Rubiks 3x3x3 speedcube with good ol' Abstarct Algebra & modular arithmetic. (It took me almost a year! (Yea)) I had my own notation..., dude, I made sketches, I drew graphs with nodes & vertices, adjacency matrices from Linear Algebra. I wrote down all the algorithms that I made up, (so I could do them in reverse when they failed instead of starting over. 😂) Now I can do it in 2minutes but when you don't have any hints whoooo!! thats the real hardcore s**t homie!!
THIS IS BASICALLY THE LONG VERSION OF MY PREVIOUS COMMENT. I just talk into it really fast and before I know it my cmment is 20 pages long so Im like oh well... can't delete that now, might as well hit send, hope there are no typos, good luck, have fun reading my crazy thoughts, and listening to me rambling🤦🏻♂️ lmao 😂 As a rule, I never look at tutorials or videos for help until AFTER I solve it once on my own, (and almost no one seems to want to do that,) SO MAD PROPS TO YOU FOR DOING THAT!!!! And with a square1! You could get a degree in Math easily (if thats your thing.) I solved mine with Algebraic Structures & modular arithmetic. (The original 3x3 took me almost a year!) My notation was almost identical! My "left & right Sunes" were symmetrical: -L -U +L -U -L +2U +L = 0 and slo R +U -R +U +R +2U -R = 4U = 0 (4U = U4 = 0 'cuz 4U in a row is like 0, like doing nothing,) i.e. 0 is the "additive identity" (I remember thinking it was important for me to see if my algs were equal to 0 in certain cases while other cases I had to be certain they didn't = 0.) It depended on parity, even if this type of "addition" is non- commutative. ( R' U ≠ U R' ) But if you forget cubes & rotations & just pretend you're in Math class then -R +U +R -U = 0 Also, I write "2R" instead of "R2" The main difference that may be confusing about my notation is this: What every cuber calls "R prime" I do the same thing but call it "minus R" This is because if you look at the "D side" from the botton then it's turning clockwise (but I was always hold the cube facing the green with white side up & I imagined the cube was transparent & that I was looking "through the puzzle from the top" which makes cubers D' look clockwise to me instead of looking at the bottom (which would have confused me when I started out.. lol. ) I yeah, dude, I made sketches, I drew graphs with nodes & vertices, adjacency matrices from Linear Algebra. I wrote down all the algorithms that I made up, (so I could do them in reverse when they failed instead of starting over. 😂) So, full disclosure: I solved the 2x2 1st with no help, and that was REALLY HARD for me to do "Lone Wolf Style." Afterwards, I had confidence... AND I had two Rubik's cubes to double my output 🤣🤣🤣 AND the "Void cube" so when I got stuck I could try 2 different things in the other cubes and compare... and you did that with a Square 1??? Good for you, man!! I got MAD respect for you. That's that Lone Wolf s**t right there!!!!. 👍 Did you write anything down or just do it all in your head and rewind when you made an error?? It took me a few weeks to get the 1st 2layers on square 1 and its been looking like a bird house for a months 😂 Would you believe that I solved the Void Cube BEFORE the 3x3x!!!??? Fortunately I had the foresight to write down my moves... so I was able to re-use that same algorithm to solve the 3x3 the 3x3 right after (Today I can solve the 3x3x in under 2mins.) The 1st thing I did after each solve was compare my solution to the ones online I still solve like that with puzzles today. Cuboids I can usually solve same day with no help: 3x3x2, 2x2x3, 2x2x4, 2x2x6 and no paper. Except the 3x3x4 ... that took me a while and I got stuck with a parity on the last layer. Megaminx & Kilominx no problem until last layer. Mirror cubes, Dino cubes, Ivy Cubes, pyraminx, all easy. all 4x4 , 5x5, 6x6, and 8x8 I can do... just tedious af. (I love the 4x4 & 6x6 for long trips. Xman cube has me baffled right now but it's also delicate so I can't just plug those algs in and fingertrick. Gearball was deceptively easy which made it hard (if that makes any sense.) Puzzles I really love & are in "the Goldilocks difficulty range are the Kilominx, Rubik's Missing Link, the Pentacle Cube, the Clover Cube, the Skewb, the skewb extreme, the skewb Dodekahedron, and even tho thesesseem innocent: (the 3x3x2 cuboid & 4x4x4 cuz I forget how to solve the parity algs on both of those if I hadn't done them inn a while.) and the Penrose cube. they're fun af. Some honorable mentions are the 11 steel Hanayama Puzzles I own, , 2x2 gearshift by Oskar, The Gordian Knot, The Moyu Axis Wheel Cube which I will NEVER scramble again! (Im good on all axis cubes.) And puzzle I own but haven't attempted yet cuz Im scared are Mefferts Ghost Cube, the Fisher Mirror Cube? (I think its called,)
Learning how to solve a square 1 on my own probably would have been really hard, but after knowing how to solve one it's actually a really easy puzzle to solve, even when you do run into parity.
I saw your video in my recommendations a few times already. But i remembered that i wanted to do the same challenge myself. So i had to wait =) As it turned out i came up with exactly the same nperm jperm alg (+mirrored). And one to change yellow and white edges. Only the parity alg took me a while. My solution for that was: scramble the cube if parity had too do it 6 times =) After a few ours i’m finally able to solve a S1 and enjoy your video. Funny to see that we came up with the same solution.
11:19 "This is where another RU-vidr might say leave a like for that, but I want you guys to go and try something like this." No thanks, I'll just leave a like 😂
1 week later : Square 1 tutorial 2 weeks later : Square 1 Advanced Tutorial 3 weeks later : Square 1 finger tricks + tips 2 months later : I now Hold the square 1 WR!
Better than me. I fought for 3 days before I looked up a guide on square shape, then another week of fighting before I learned the algorithm to solve it.
