tao-yu.github.io/Alg-Trainer/

Alg Trainer is a website that makes it easy to memorize Rubik's Cube algorithms.

In July 2017, I used this trainer to memorize full ZBLL (493 algorithms) in only 58 days, a feat which I describe in this video.

Features

• Smart Rubik's Cube support - Giiker i3S/i3SE, and MoYu cubes using the WCU_MY32 protocol such as the Weilong V10 AI
• Three cube views - qcube, the compact layout csTimer uses, with the U and F faces stacked and the L and R faces hinged out into side bars; qcube extended, the same with four more stickers showing on each side; and a 3D virtual cube you can drag to turn, which animates each move as you make it. Pick one under Cube view in the settings.
• Full screen cube - the cube fills the window at whatever size it is, with just the scramble, timer and solution around it. Everything else lives in a settings panel that slides over the top, including the keyboard and gesture binding editors. Nothing navigates away from the page, so a connected smart cube stays connected while you change settings. Works on a phone in both orientations.
• The cube never changes size. The bands above and below it are a fixed height, so revealing the solution, a long algorithm or a short one, and switching between the three views all leave the cube exactly where it was. A sticker is the same size in every view.
• Top bar - the algset and Go in order sit next to the connect button and the settings gear, because those are the two things worth changing mid-session.
• Touch - tap the screen for the algorithm, swipe left for the next case (swiping past the newest one gives you a new scramble) and swipe right to go back.
• Guided algorithms - once the solution is up, the moves you have already made grey out and the next one is highlighted, the way csTimer guides you through a scramble. A turn that is not part of the algorithm shows in red with the move needed to undo it. It follows you whether the moves come from a smart cube, the keyboard or the virtual cube, and it copes with rotations and wide moves - progress is tracked by the state of the cube, not by matching the moves you type.
• Cube gestures - turn the cube itself to show the solution, change case, or get a new scramble, so you never have to put it down to reach the keyboard. The four defaults (U U U' U', U U U U, U' U' U' U', R' R' R R) all leave the cube untouched, and they can be rebound from the settings panel, taking effect immediately.
• Cube orientation - tell the trainer which colours you hold in front and on top, and every case is oriented to match, so the virtual cube looks like the one in your hands. A connected smart cube names its faces in its own frame, so its moves are relabelled into your orientation too - which means a restickered cube and a standard one both behave correctly without changing how you hold either.
• Supports PLL, OLL, F2L, COLL, WV, ZBLL, 2GLL, ZZLL, ZBLS, CLS, TTLL, CMLL, TOLS, CLL, CPEOLL, OLLCP, blindfolded 3-style (corners, edges, parity, floating pieces), and much, much more.
• Train algsets by their subsets - for example, you can train the T, U, L, Pi, H, S and AS subsets of ZBLL separately.
• Features a timer for timing your algorithms.
• Real scrambles - scrambles are not just the reverse of the algorithm. It won't be possible to guess the algorithm just by looking at the scramble!
• Pressing spacebar, or tapping the screen, shows you the algorithm you should use. No more searching for algs in pdf documents!
• Virtual cube. Learning algs with a virtual cube saves a ton of time because you don't need to scramble your cube. I used this when I was learning full ZBLL.
• Customizable controls: The default keyboard controls for turning the virtual cube are based on a ergonomic layout designed by Ryan Heise. However it is possible to customize the controls to whatever you want!
• User defined algset - Have a list of algs you want to train? No problem, just paste them into the "User defined algset" box.

Licence

This project is MIT licensed, except for js/twisty.js and js/twistynnn.js, the virtual cube renderer taken unmodified from csTimer, which is GPL-3.0. As a result a distribution of the project as a whole is effectively GPL-3.0. See js/README.md for the licence of every vendored file.