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Re: My speed cubing page

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Post by kuboble »

mattbruv wrote: post #27
ilc wrote: post #22

If you can solve the cube, I'd encourage you to learn 3BLD. Or, solving a 3x3 blindfolded. Solving the cube was cool... Memorizing the cube and solving it and taking off the blindfold to see a solved cube, is really damn cool. I remember my 1st attempt taking me 1/2 an hour to get a success, times have dropped, but it's been a while since I did it. I should fix that :)

Any resources for learning Blindfolded 3x3? How long did it take you to learn it?

JPerm's youtube tutorial should hey you started.

The OP (old Pochmann) is a super simple method. Learning 3bld if you can already solve a cube is actually less work then learning to solve the cube at first

Re: My speed cubing page

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Post by kuboble »

mrklol wrote: post #25
loup-vaillant wrote: post #3

Speed cubing has advanced a lot in the last couple decades. The cubes have evolved like you wouldn’t believe, and the methods have been refined like crazy. World record average (5 solves, remove best and worst, do the arithmetic mean of the other 3) stands at 4.48 seconds. https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/records The system described here is basically standard CFOP: Cross, First 2 layers, Orient last laye…

Are you always using the same method in tournaments or are there "scenarios“ where one is better than the other?

You always use the same method. Some people experiment with being method neutral but the consensus is that's not worth the effort. Given finite amount of time for practice is better to master one method rather than two. And even if you could master more methods is not clear that given 15s inspection spending time for method choice is a good thing.

However you can use different methods in different events (e.g. for one handed).

And the notable exception is 2x2x2 where if you want to be the top competitor you basically have to learn all the methods. During the competition you search mamy solutions and pick up one you can execute fastest.

Re: My speed cubing page

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Post by hbn »

noman-land wrote: post #6

For anyone looking to dip their toes into speed cubing or cubing in general I highly recommend checking out a YuXin Little Magic. https://www.thecubicle.com/products/yuxin-little-magic-3x3 The cube is only $6 (recently inflationed from $5) and it's one of the best cubes I've ever used. I have a stack of these sitting at home that I sometimes give to people who show an interest. Incidentally, YuXin makes some very smo…

That's crazy they sell apparently decent 11x11 cubes these days.

I remember back when I was getting into cubing, late 07-early 08 and you could only get up to 5x5 cubes. Vcube had a website up for what seemed like forever (I was 10 so it may not be as long as my memory tells me) showing that they were going to be selling 6x6 and 7x7 cubes, and at some point it started feeling like vaporware and I thought maybe the site was just a viral stunt. But eventually they came out and I bought a 7x7 which I still have, and I thought it was so cool. It's still the biggest cube I have but it's not great to use because it was before a lot of modern cube tech advancements.

I'm not super hardcore into cubes, every few years I look online into what the zeitgeist is saying to find the best new 3x3 speedcube and buy one to keep on my desk and do E-perms while reading or watching videos. And a couple years ago I bought a decent 5x5 (looking at the email receipt, it's - YJ MGC Magnetic 5x5 - Stickerless) and I've had a lot of fun playing with that sometimes while listening to podcasts. Though it is prone to pieces popping if I'm not careful with my turns

Re: My speed cubing page

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Post by saalweachter »

hbn wrote: post #33
noman-land wrote: post #6

For anyone looking to dip their toes into speed cubing or cubing in general I highly recommend checking out a YuXin Little Magic. https://www.thecubicle.com/products/yuxin-little-magic-3x3 The cube is only $6 (recently inflationed from $5) and it's one of the best cubes I've ever used. I have a stack of these sitting at home that I sometimes give to people who show an interest. Incidentally, YuXin makes some very smo…

That's crazy they sell apparently decent 11x11 cubes these days. I remember back when I was getting into cubing, late 07-early 08 and you could only get up to 5x5 cubes. Vcube had a website up for what seemed like forever (I was 10 so it may not be as long as my memory tells me) showing that they were going to be selling 6x6 and 7x7 cubes, and at some point it started feeling like vaporware and I thought maybe the si…

I feel like the rise of 3d printing and the falling cost of rapid prototyping has to play a part here.

A giant Rubik's cube is the sort of thing that one person with a computer, a resin printer, and an obsession could design and test until it's ready to bring to market, and which is such a niche market that it'd be a terrible business decision to do it.

Re: My speed cubing page

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Post by photochemsyn »

_giorgio_ wrote: post #14

Where should a complete beginner start from? Please suggest videos or tutorials... Are the cubes all the same? https://www.amazon.it/s?k=rubik+cube

The Ruwix wiki is really good. The complete beginner pages you'd want are:

https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/how-to-solve-the-rubiks-cu...

and, for learning about cube algorithms and the notation for cube algorithms (which relies heavily on getting familiar with counterclockwise/clockwise turns viewed from one stable orientation of the cube for all faces):

https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/algorithm/

https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/notation/advanced/

Re: My speed cubing page

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Post by spikyllama »

Since we're sharing speedcube recommendations, here's what I'd suggest.

As a beginner, get a MoYu RS3M 2021 (or one of the newer MoYu budget cubes). Watch the 10 minute tutorial by J Perm on YouTube, then watch RiDo's Hunting Story, it really improved my first 2 layers early on.

Once you approach sub-30, get a YS3M if you want to have a more controllable cube, or a WRM v9 if you want a faster cube, and get cube lube. If you're trying to get serious, invest in a SpeedStacks timer; it is a much better method of timing and it's used in competitions.

Also, go to competitions early on. It gives you a big motivator to improve. You can find competitions on the WCA website.

Good luck!

Re: My speed cubing page

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Post by nsilvestri »

noman-land wrote: post #6

For anyone looking to dip their toes into speed cubing or cubing in general I highly recommend checking out a YuXin Little Magic. https://www.thecubicle.com/products/yuxin-little-magic-3x3 The cube is only $6 (recently inflationed from $5) and it's one of the best cubes I've ever used. I have a stack of these sitting at home that I sometimes give to people who show an interest. Incidentally, YuXin makes some very smo…

MoYu RS3M 2021 is considered a better budget cube nowadays. Many people use it as their main, which is not something that can be said about the YLM.

Re: My speed cubing page

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Post by noman-land »

nsilvestri wrote: post #37
noman-land wrote: post #6

For anyone looking to dip their toes into speed cubing or cubing in general I highly recommend checking out a YuXin Little Magic. https://www.thecubicle.com/products/yuxin-little-magic-3x3 The cube is only $6 (recently inflationed from $5) and it's one of the best cubes I've ever used. I have a stack of these sitting at home that I sometimes give to people who show an interest. Incidentally, YuXin makes some very smo…

MoYu RS3M 2021 is considered a better budget cube nowadays. Many people use it as their main, which is not something that can be said about the YLM.

Cool, I didn't know about this one. Looks awesome. But it's over twice as expensive! :)

Re: My speed cubing page

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Post by foobiekr »

shilangyu wrote: post #9
loup-vaillant wrote: post #3

Speed cubing has advanced a lot in the last couple decades. The cubes have evolved like you wouldn’t believe, and the methods have been refined like crazy. World record average (5 solves, remove best and worst, do the arithmetic mean of the other 3) stands at 4.48 seconds. https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/records The system described here is basically standard CFOP: Cross, First 2 layers, Orient last laye…

Roux while still very much an underdog is gaining popularity as the method for one handed (OH) solves. The 2023 world champion of OH used roux to gain this title. I even heard of cases where people that use CFOP are now learning roux to use it exclusively for OH solves. The main advantages of roux for OH are that it requires fewer moves, requires no cube rotations (which are awkward to do with one hand) and you can u…

I’m never going to be particularly fast - ~50s best measured time which may not be my best time - but I really love roux. It’s meditative, like cube Taichi.

Re: My speed cubing page

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Post by _aavaa_ »

bnycum wrote: post #28
_aavaa_ wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet [0]. It's got some very useful and compact pdfs that you can print off with the algorithms you need. [0]: http://www.badmephisto.com/

As someone who used that site forever ago to learn cubing algorithms, I was surprised to learn that Badmephisto is actually Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI, Tesla). These days I prefer to use though: http://algdb.net/

huh, TIL
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