benpuzzles | FTO Solved in 28.94 Seconds (Layer-by-Layer Method) @benpuzzles | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Learn to solve the FTO: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmsIIxL8dGWubJDG6wD_KHaRxbxFhmXyA

Reconstruction of this solve: tinyurl.com/bdf4ur8s

Added another FTO method to the collection. The idea of LBL isn't new in cubing generally, but I did have to come up with techniques that made it work on the FTO. The basic outline is:

First layer - solve first center and first three triples, very similar to Bencisco.
Second layer - done in three stages: solve middle edges with [U' F' : U] and the inverse; solve lower triangles with [D' BL' : sledge] and the inverse, as well as 3-cycle commutators when it's efficient; solve upper triangles with normal flip algs like in L3T.
Third layer - solve corners using Pyraminx L3E algs (or the FTO CP algs to preserve triangles when it's good), and finally solve the remaining triangles with commutators (usually two, sometimes three are needed).

This solve in particular skipped the lower triangles of the second layer (I managed to solve three large traps which was nice) but otherwise the rest was full-step, with some fairly nice cases. Overall I'm pretty happy with it!

I'd like to make a comeback with some new content for this channel in the near future, but it may be a few months from now as of yet. If you read up to here, thanks for watching and sticking around!

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