This is a general discussion thread. Anything is welcome!
Any exciting plans for the week? Any new PBs? New interesting puzzles?
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I picked up cubing half a year ago, and set myself a goal of getting to sub-30. I just learned the last PLL algorithms today and now working on getting them into muscle memory. I’m averaging around 45s now, with my PR in the mid 30s.
I’m not looking forward to full OLL. If I’m ever going to do that.
I’ve been cubing for years, average around 15s, and still don’t know full OLL haha. I’m getting there, very slowly
Damn. I think just recognizing and remembering PLLs is hard enough. It must be crazy with more than twice as many.
I think I’ll focus on improving F2L instead 😄
PLL is not too bad. To be fair, I’ve never really focused on learning PLLs or OLLs. I usually just learn 1 or 2 to get used to them, and then just practiced other things for weeks/months. So I was always slow in learning new algs.
I started learning 3-Style and I made my own tool to parse Jack Cai’s sheets and create flashcards for the algorithms. I even made it generate the algorithms that Jack Cai marked as “inverse of …” by inverting said algorithm. Since it’s best to start with pure commutators, I made the tool replace all appearances of pure commutators other algs with the pair name. I think it’s very useful, much more intuitive and makes learning much faster. Hopefully I’m able to learn all of 3-Style before uni break ends.
(Btw: I posted on the last discussion thread but it doesn’t seem to show up. I hope this one does)
Sounds fun. I still don’t completely understand commutators so I never learned 3-Style. What method did you use before and what were your times?
(Btw: I posted on the last discussion thread but it doesn’t seem to show up. I hope this one does)
Strange. We did have a lot of issues at lemmy.world yesterday so maybe your post got caught up in that.
Sounds fun. I still don’t completely understand commutators so I never learned 3-Style. What method did you use before and what were your times?
My PB is 3:07 with M2/OP. I’m going against the usual recommendation of “practice a lot of memo before learning 3-Style” but I’ve also read a few comments against doing that saying to just start with 3-Style immediately. Also knowing full 3-Style just sounds amazing.
Do you do BLD too? What are your times and method?
I don’t do BLD. I learned it once a while back because I wanted to get an official time, and I managed to get a ~7 minute time at a comp. Since then I’ve never really practiced. I did OP I believe. I looked up 3-Style because I thought it was interesting but haven’t spent any time on it, or on understanding commutators.
I’m gonna continue for a few more weeks, but if there’s no engagement I might stop the weekly thread.
Hi all… I’m old (42), and achieved the life goal of learning to solve a cube. Then I got a 2x2, 4x4, and a 5x5 front the wife for mother’s day. Got them fairly figured out (haven’t memorized the 4x4 parity algs, I’ll admit).
Trying to figure out what’s next. Getting fast w a 3x3 is probably it…
Funny thing is that I used to cube to wean off of reddit when they killed third party apps, so that’s why I’m here.
If I get a speed cube (looking at an RS3 M 2020), should I be concerned with things like lubes at this point, or should I just get one and go?
RS3M is a great choice! I guess depending on where you’re buying your cube from, I’d suggest just buying lube anyway, but I don’t think you need to get too much into it. There are different lubes for core vs pieces and many different types/feels but I think just buy one for the pieces that can make it feel smoother. That’s a huge, quick help in making your cube feel better.