Huh. This inspired me to look up what FTO means, so for anyone else curious but too lazy to look it up, it's Face-Turning Octahedron.
Congrats on getting the hang of it OP!
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Huh. This inspired me to look up what FTO means, so for anyone else curious but too lazy to look it up, it's Face-Turning Octahedron.
Congrats on getting the hang of it OP!
I solve the FTO by piece type. Corners first (skewb-style), then edges (su-ne), and finally a bunch of 3-cycles for the little center triangles. Am I correct in remembering that Bencisco's method is more of a reduction approach? What puzzle is it reduced to? A tetraminx?
I think I recently bought a stickerless FTO. I should dig it out and try some alternate solutions... I've heard that the newer FTOs turn much better than the old LanLan or Diansheng ones...
The Bencisco method is theoretically very similar to 4x4 Yau, but it doesn't actually reduce anything. It's basically layer by layer. So you solve the 6 center pieces of one face, then two of that face's corners. Then you turn the cube so that face is on the side and use the unsolved corner and slice moves to solve 3 more faces. And then the last layer is this whole thing that I sort of just do things until it's solved 🙃