Preparing for full OLL

[Myachii]

Recently I decided I would have a go at learning full OLL. Right in the middle of my revision for my May - June exams. I am not a smart person.
But once I have an idea like this, I won't stop till I've done it.
I've spent the past two days, instead of learning the actual algorithms themselves, preparing this hideous paper waste:

It might not actually look big but each of those sheets of paper is quite large.

Therefore, the collective group of algorithms + the top sheet is taller than me (there is probably room for one more row beneath the bottom row before the floor)

Above the algorithms I have a standard Cubewhiz print-out with the algs I already know crossed out.

Next to this is the interesting part, i.e the bulk of my two days work. These sheets of paper give detailed descriptions of what each case looks like, and also which cases look similar and how to differentiate between them.

All in all a massive pain to produce. But now I probably have a massive recognition headstart so yay

 

[Lazy Einstein]

That is a pretty good setup. I just made a Google Doc, printed it off, and took to out with me when I was learning. I like how big your drawings are.

I suggest trying out different algs for each case before you settle on the alg you are going to learn. You may find algs you like better than Bob's. Here are a ton of OLLs.

 

[Smiles]

That is a pretty good setup. I just made a Google Doc, printed it off, and took to out with me when I was learning. I like how big your drawings are.

I suggest trying out different algs for each case before you settle on the alg you are going to learn. You may find algs you like better than Bob's. Here are a ton of OLLs.

I agree. don't take shortcuts by memorizing an alg, then using the mirror alg for the mirror case (unless it's really nice, like fat sune or something like that).
I did that because I was ambidextrous or something, but it's much faster to use your dominant hand for (almost) every case.

 

[Rocky0701]

Looks like an awesome start you have! All I did when I started learning OLL was make note cards, maybe that's why I only know like 2/3 of them. Great commitment, and at this rate I bet you should easily have them all down in two or three weeks.

 

[Seanliu]

Wow. Could you type this up and post this somewhere? I think this is gonna be a great source of info! Then what I need to do is just modify some of the more horrible left-handed algs...

 

[MM99]

Just learn ZZ instead

 

[Myachii]

That is a pretty good setup. I just made a Google Doc, printed it off, and took to out with me when I was learning. I like how big your drawings are.

I suggest trying out different algs for each case before you settle on the alg you are going to learn. You may find algs you like better than Bob's. Here are a ton of OLLs.

Thanks! And I did use badmephisto's OLL algorithm list as well. I would draw each OLL, then review both Bob's and Bad's algorithms, perform them both, and see which one flowed nicer for me.

Looks like an awesome start you have! All I did when I started learning OLL was make note cards, maybe that's why I only know like 2/3 of them. Great commitment, and at this rate I bet you should easily have them all down in two or three weeks.

Thanks, I figured I would learn them now because I'm sick of being stuck at 18s. I stopped for a good three/four months at the end of 2014, and got back into it after the UK Championship. After about a month I went from ~20s average to ~17-18s and haven't moved since, so I want to get all the algs out of the way so I can knuckle down and practice.

Wow. Could you type this up and post this somewhere? I think this is gonna be a great source of info! Then what I need to do is just modify some of the more horrible left-handed algs...

Do you mean the algs or the Looks/Similarities?
If you mean the latter, then it might be a bit difficult to understand (I made it so I would understand the abbreviations)

For example, here is the description for case 53:
When TC in UBL, TC← Bar of 3 on R
TC means trapped corner, UBL is the position.

If you want me to type it all up I guess it wouldn't be too difficult, but you may struggle with understanding it.

 

[CriticalCubing]

That is excellent. But I would do it more on PC so as to not waste paper. I have an OLL image I made where I cross off OLLs I learnt with paint and then I have a OLL doc which I refer anytime as it is also on my mobile and PC. So whenever I want to learn OLL algs, just pop open mobile, get a cube and do it. I am also going to do OLL tutorials from February so check that out

 

[Myachii]

That is excellent. But I would do it more on PC so as to not waste paper. I have an OLL image I made where I cross off OLLs I learnt with paint and then I have a OLL doc which I refer anytime as it is also on my mobile and PC. So whenever I want to learn OLL algs, just pop open mobile, get a cube and do it. I am also going to do OLL tutorials from February so check that out

I would do something like that, but I prefer to have a complete list of everything I need right in front of me. I don't particularly learn algs well using a PC, I prefer to write them down and learn from my own handwriting.

 

[sneaklyfox]

Ok, it's good to prepare this way. I just don't get why such large pieces of paper. Smaller makes it easier to flip through. I used flash cards.

 

[Dong]

If I average ~20 sec, should I start to memorize full OLL?
Should take me 1 week, I'm good at this stuff.

 

[obelisk477]

If I average ~20 sec, should I start to memorize full OLL?
Should take me 1 week, I'm good at this stuff.

Yes. Now is a good time to start learning.

 

[Myachii]

If I average ~20 sec, should I start to memorize full OLL?
Should take me 1 week, I'm good at this stuff.

Normally I would say no, but if you can get it down in a week, go for it.

Ok, it's good to prepare this way. I just don't get why such large pieces of paper. Smaller makes it easier to flip through. I used flash cards.

I didn't have smaller square paper, and my post-it notes seem to have come without the sticky back xD

 

[sneaklyfox]

I didn't have smaller square paper, and my post-it notes seem to have come without the sticky back xD

I would have cut it in quarters then. But whatever. It's your paper. Use it how you like. Good luck learning.

 

[Dong]

Yes. Now is a good time to start learning.

Yeah I suppose

Normally I would say no, but if you can get it down in a week, go for it.

A week of dedication.. oh noes! But yeah, gotta go find comfortable OLLs that aren't on Bob Burton's printable page. oh boi!

thanks m8s

 

[Myachii]

Wow. What a journey.

I posted the OP on January 23rd, and completely ignored the monstrosity of algs that took up a large chunk of my wall for a long time.
Today, on July 16th, I've learnt them all.

This wasn't a long, one alg a week process. I knew only 21 OLL's up until about 4 days ago, when I just decided that I needed to get it over with.
Around mid-June I decided I wanted to commit to this. With 36 algs left to learn, I decided I'd do two a day starting July 1st and then spend the remainder of the month drilling the algs ready for TGN, a competition on August 1st and 2nd.
On July 1st I did my first two. And then I stopped. I just forgot completely about the two a day until around 4 days ago.
On the first of these few days I did 3 or 4 algs. Then the next day, I was extremely bored. So I simply ploughed through them.

On the 14th and 15th July I learnt around 25 algorithms. Today I did the final six.
I was very surprised at how easily I was remembering them. After only 10 minutes or so of practice and getting used to them, they were stuck.
Also, I was taught 2 new J perms (I had no idea the ones I was using weren't the mainstream ones), and a new improved alg for the bowtie case (diagonals) of OLL.
So in about four days I've learnt upwards of 35 algorithms. And I remember every one of them.

Here is the stack of algorithms that were taken down one by one from my wall:

Here is the checklist, completed:

Thanks for all the support you guys gave when I first created this wall of algorithms.

 

[cashis]

proud

 

[Rubiks560]

Congrats!

This really makes me want to tackle things like VLS. Been a long time since I tackled a big alg set.

 

[CubeWizard23]

Man.. i wish i had that kinda dedication 30 + algs in a week

mad skilz bro

 

[OrigamiCuber1]

That's great! I could never do that. But then again I don't actually need to know full OLL... ever... pls don't ask why.