Hello everybody!

[mitch12345]

hello people of the cube, i'm fairly new to cubing. I recently bought a moyu sulong and a 2x2 lanlan. My 3x3 average is around 1:15 and i ve had my cube for a little over a week now. I am becoming very addicted to the "sport" i guess. I joined this site for tips and tricks to get faster at the rubiks cube. I also want to know the best way to understand the best way to memorize algorythms and how someone who does speedcube memorized these algorythms. Thanks for reading.
edit: i use the CFOP method.

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

What method do you use?

 

[STOCKY7]

Just do the alg again and again and agian until your hands (not your brain) learns it. You'll then be able to execute it without thinking about it - hence it'll be in your muscle memory.

ps. alg means Algorithm

 

[sneaklyfox]

Welcome! I thought it was funny how you said, "people of the cube".

 

[STOCKY7]

Also to get faster, there's nothing like good old solve after solve after solve to majorly drop your times. I'm averaging 17 now, and this is all I've ever done.
Though I guess as I do get quicker, my practice will need to become more specific /better quality

 

[Johnny]

Just do the alg again and again and agian until your hands (not your brain) learns it. You'll then be able to execute it without thinking about it - hence it'll be in your muscle memory.

ps. alg means Algorithm

Fun fact- Muscle memory does not exist (although you could argue that muscle memory is now a figure of speech). Your brain is what remembers how to perform algorithms.

Also, I would like to say that while you are repeatedly practicing the algorithm you need to keep in mind what it does because you need to know how to apply it.

 

[kcl]

Fun fact- Muscle memory does not exist (although you could argue that muscle memory is now a figure of speech). Your brain is what remembers how to perform algorithms.

Also, I would like to say that while you are repeatedly practicing the algorithm you need to keep in mind what it does because you need to know how to apply it.

Fun fact: that's ********. You know how to walk? That's an easy example of muscle memory. Half the algs that I can perform I can't do slowly, there's a reason for that. Playing a piano concerto from memory, playing guitar chords, any task involving muscle usage in a repetitive manner uses muscle memory. Granted it isn't actually memory in muscles, rather it's memory in your brain. It stores the patterns created by repeated muscle motion rather like a cache. That's why the best way to get better at many things is through repetition.

 

[guysensei1]

Fun fact: that's ********. You know how to walk? That's an easy example of muscle memory. Half the algs that I can perform I can't do slowly, there's a reason for that. Playing a piano concerto from memory, playing guitar chords, any task involving muscle usage in a repetitive manner uses muscle memory. Granted it isn't actually memory in muscles, rather it's memory in your brain. It stores the patterns created by repeated muscle motion rather like a cache. That's why the best way to get better at many things is through repetition.

This is really strange. Can fast cubers really not perform their algs slowly? I've never had this problem O_O. But yeah, muscle memory is real.

 

[kcl]

This is really strange. Can fast cubers really not perform their algs slowly? I've never had this problem O_O. But yeah, muscle memory is real.

There's a 2x2 alg that I can't execute without the U AUF at the beginning. That's just how strong this memory can be. I should probably fix that.

 

[mark49152]

This is really strange. Can fast cubers really not perform their algs slowly? I've never had this problem O_O. But yeah, muscle memory is real.

I'm not fast and I can't do algs if I go too slowly or think about the moves. There's no way I could write down e.g. my R perms as I don't know or think about the move sequence. If I get a lockup in the middle of an alg, that's it, I'm lost; I can't resume an alg half way through.

 

[sneaklyfox]

I can do most of my algs slowly, but not all of them. But it also depends how slowly. Somewhat slow is ok. Very slow is not.

Edit: Oh yeah, but if I were to write down the alg, I would get lost in the middle.

 

[mark49152]

Somewhat slow is ok. Very slow is not.

I have been doing more 5x5 and 6x6 recently and having problems with my LL for exactly this reason. I often lose track in the middle of an OLL or PLL alg just because the cube forces me to turn slower or finger it differently, and I lose my flow.

 

[newtonbase]

I'm the same. I try and learn a new alg that might be described as "half a y perm with a cancellation" and I'm lost. I have to learn a new alg from scratch.