{"id":999,"date":"2012-11-03T20:18:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T20:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2018-12-14T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T15:57:39","slug":"curvy-copter-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/999","title":{"rendered":"Curvy Copter Get!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/curvycopter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/curvycopter-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"curvycopter\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/curvycopter-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/curvycopter.jpg 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a>When shopping for my newest cube purchase, I had a few things in mind.  The first was the Rex Flower Cube, but upon inspection, it really just looked like a pretty Skewb.  I like the colors and the patterns but the solution looked just like a Skewb and I never solve that puzzle.  It&#8217;s pretty boring and not very challenging.  <\/p>\n<p>So, while I am also looking to get a 3x3x5 and start going down that path, I decided to forego those desires and grab the Curvy Copter.  I checked out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tkxhacESoOI\">RedKB&#8217;s non-jumbling tutorial<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RydUtIlMzVk\">jumbling here<\/a>) and placed my order.  Today it arrived and it&#8217;s a rather solid, fun puzzle.  Like some other puzzles before it, this one took me a little bit to wrap my head around.  It was hard to conceptualize what I wanted to do initially.  However, once I started understanding it, the puzzle became quite fun, albeit somewhat easy.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, I need to graduate to jumbling to really start challenging myself.  However, for now it&#8217;s a pretty cool new addition to the collection and I look forward to getting better.  Some algorithms to help&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Edge switcher for weird cases: R L JR F R L<br \/>\nEasy edge 3 cycle: F R F R<\/p>\n<p>\nPermute Corners CCW (FL=correct) R L B L B R B L B L<br \/>\nPermute Corners CW (FR=correct) L R B R B L B R B R<\/p>\n<p>\nOrient Corners CCW (FL) F R B L x6<br \/>\nOrient Corners CW (FL) L B R F x6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When shopping for my newest cube purchase, I had a few things in mind. The first was the Rex Flower Cube, but upon inspection, it really just looked like a pretty Skewb. I like the colors and the patterns but the solution looked just like a Skewb and I never solve that puzzle. It&#8217;s pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algorithms","category-blog","category-cubing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}