diff --git a/rdkit_utils/conformers.py b/rdkit_utils/conformers.py
index 5eca03a..d34fff3 100644
--- a/rdkit_utils/conformers.py
+++ b/rdkit_utils/conformers.py
@@ -173,6 +173,51 @@ def get_conformer_energies(self, mol):
         energies = np.asarray(energies, dtype=float)
         return energies
 
+    def prune_conformers_update(self, mol):
+        """
+        Update the 'prune_conformers' function to get more speed.
+        The idea came from Jean-Paul Ebejer and others' paper:
+        *Freely Availabel Conformer Generation Methods: How Good Are They?*
+        (1) generate n conformers in set C_gen.
+        (2) Energy minimization is performed, and the conformer list is sorted
+            by increasing energy value, recorded the lower energy conformer,
+            and add it to C_keep.
+        (3) For each conformer, c in C_gen, compute the rmsd between c and
+            each conformer in C_keep.
+            (a) If any rmsd value is smaller than a fixed threshold, dicard c
+            (b) Otherwise add c to C_keep.
+        I test: the result is the same as prune_conformers.
+        """
+        if self.rmsd_threshold < 0 or mol.GetNumConformers() <= 1:
+            return mol
+
+        energies = self.get_conformer_energies(mol)
+
+        sort = np.argsort(energies)  # sort by increasing energy
+        keep = []  # always keep lowest-energy conformer
+        for i in sort:
+            if len(keep) == 0:
+                keep.append(i)
+                continue
+
+            if len(keep) >= self.max_conformers:
+                break
+            
+            filter_rms = filter(lambda rms: rms >= self.rmsd_threshold, 
+                [AllChem.GetBestRMS(mol, mol, i, j) for j in keep])
+            if filter_rms:
+                keep.append(i)
+        print keep
+        new = Chem.Mol(mol)
+        new.RemoveAllConformers()
+        conf_ids = [conf.GetId() for conf in mol.GetConformers()]
+        for i in keep:
+            conf = mol.GetConformer(conf_ids[i])
+            new.AddConformer(conf, assignId=True)
+        return new
+
+
+
     def prune_conformers(self, mol):
         """
         Prune conformers from a molecule using an RMSD threshold, starting