Message #1171

From: Andrey <andreyastrelin@yahoo.com>
Subject: 4^6 solved!
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:03:42 -0000

It was long. Took about a month from me. I hadn’t expected any parity problems - and there wre none. I had serious orientation problem in the end of 5C stage (3-cycle of one last piece; it looked for me like 5C orientation of 3^5, that is very difficult for my algorithm), but now I see that there was easy way around this problem). Timer shows 40+ hours, but it started at the middle of 3C, so actual time is close to 70h. 175K twists, with longest macro of 65 twists (swap of 5C).
Not very difficut… it’s only a cube :P

3^6 is still waiting for its solver.
Good luck!

Andrey