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My speed cubing page
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Re: My speed cubing page
#22If 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 :)
Re: My speed cubing page
#23Where 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
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.
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#24Where 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
I recommend learning from J Perm. https://jperm.net/ - also on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@JPerm Interestingly, the official Rubik's cubes are very poor quality. I have a GAN speedcube and can recommend.
> Interestingly, the official Rubik's cubes are very poor quality.
Official Rubik’s cubes solve a different problem: being a good toy: sure they’re horrible to turn, but they also they never explode, can’t corner-twist, and can even survive being thrown into a wall.
That being said, I would never recommend this brand to any one above 12.
Re: My speed cubing page
#25Speed 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?
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#26Where 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
Right here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ron6MN45LY
Generally the difficulty of a method is driven by the number of "algorithms", or sets of moves, you have to memorise in order to move between states. The "beginner method" is not very fast, but doesn't require a lot of memorisation. One comfortable with that, you can build up on it and replace parts with faster moves.
Re: My speed cubing page
#27If 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?
Re: My speed cubing page
#28Where 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
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/
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#29I like the section: “Move algorithms to your subconsciousness”
Practice makes permanent.
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#30What a throwback. This was one of the few websites on speedcubing available back in 06/07. IIRC there are a few prescient sentences about advancements to cfop which came to life as seriously developed 'research projects' by 13/14 and nowadays fully utilised by the very fastest.
This is one of several competitive methods but it remains the most popular by far. I enjoy them all but the modularity and flexibility of cfop makes it my favourite and my home.
Thanks for the post.