. still trying but it's wierd reactions when people see me playing with rubik LOL.
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. still trying but it's wierd reactions when people see me playing with rubik LOL.
Now, I also want to get a Rubik's cube and try solving it.
Rcuber , which algorithm do you use ?
Thanks, buddy.^^ Congrats.. welcome to the club , the time will decrease as you solve more and more and understand how the corners and edges move around. it will comedown to 5 minutes and then to 120 seconds. after than you need to learn more advanced techniques to reduce the time. I still cannot cut down from 35 seconds to 30 seconds.. takes hell lot of algorithms.
I don't even know a single one. Can you share some links.there are many.. 100+ but I know know about 20-30 max.
I don't know how I missed this thread
why people often try and fail to solve a Rubik's cube is that they try to solve every side at the same time, it doesn't work like that. a Rubik's cube is generally solved layer by layer, there are about 7 steps involved. and one can learn in two days. one of my friend solved it in 6 hrs straight with instructions from me ..
follow this guide and one can learn within two days.
Solve Rubik's Cube 3x3 - Stage 1
PS:
Pogobat's tuts are one of the worst, badmephisto's is one of the best, but it might be confusing for absolute beginners.
anyway here is the link for his tut How to solve a Rubik's Cube - YouTube
EDIT: Before anyone can ask, Yes, I can solve the Rubik's cube, currently ranked #376 in India. my current average solve time is about 35 seconds.
i do it in 1 min 22 sec and acted like god in front of my friends..
that's a good time, Now learn F2L (First Two Layers), its basically paring a corner and edge piece and inserting into the corners like this image shown below.
*www.speedsolving.com/wiki/images/f/f9/Fridrich_method.gif
this will take about a weeks or two to learn, initially solving speed will go up to 5 minutes, but will drastically reduce once you get the hang of F2L.
when I was learning F2L it took 2-3 weeks. my time went from 5 minutes to 55 seconds and then by practice dropped to 35 seconds. you would also need a good cube to perform finger tricks to achieve the low time.
let me know if you require more info.
F2L video
what are finger tricks.. watch it
EDIT: BTW.. once you learn F2L it will be totally intuitive.
Pardon me for poking my nose, but you may want to rectify your thoughts on what an algorithm is.When I tried to learn it, every tutorial came with lot of algorithms which made no sense to me like R,F,Ri,L etc etc. I hated doing that way and wanted to do this in a logical way without byhearting algorithms and I searched for methods. I got logical methods for first and second layer. But in order to solve the 3rd layer there are no absolute logical way. But I learned a method without algorithms as equations but easy to remember steps. Now I can solve in 5-6 minutes and I can teach anyone how to solve in 15 minutes. But algorithms and speed cubing is not for me.
Im currently at 90-seconds average with my modded Rubik's original.. I'm using CFOP method with 2 look OLL , 2 look PLL.., and trying to master fingertricks to reduce my avg to <60 seconds.. btw @rcuber uncle, are you in SCMU Facebook group ji..?