How to help a kid speed cube

[Kean]

Hi all
I have an 8 year old who loves cubing. He can solve in under a minute, but wants to improve his time and learn CFOP. You tube not helping. Does anyone know of a cubing tutor, events in westchester NY or have any recommendations? He is solving layer by layer in about 45 seconds.

 

[lvcuber]

Although not 100% what you may be looking for, TheCubicle is one of, if not the best cubing retailer in the United States. I would send them an email about this and make a appointment to visit their office. The address can be found at the bottom of their website along with their email.

 

[Cuber Score]

Hi all
I have an 8 year old who loves cubing. He can solve in under a minute, but wants to improve his time and learn CFOP. You tube not helping. Does anyone know of a cubing tutor, events in westchester NY or have any recommendations? He is solving layer by layer in about 45 seconds.

Firstly, make sure he knows how to do the following: finger tricks, normal cross, tricks for the corner insertions on the first layer, and the recognition of F2L pairs or possible F2L pairs. Start with OLL algorithms, and if he has trouble learning headlights or pi, use these algorithms:
Pi: T case and a sune
Headlights: T case and bow-tie
Then, teach him the following algs: y perm, t perm, u perm, z perm, and h perm
Leave F2L for last as it's the least necessary out of all the steps of CFOP.
I hope that helps!

 

[Americancuber232]

I say learn 2 look last layer and intuite f2l
After he averges around 40 seconds earn full pll and advanced f2l and that should bring him down to 25 seconds and the learn fingertricks(sorry learn fingertricks and arond 50 seconds.)

 

[Kean]

Although not 100% what you may be looking for, TheCubicle is one of, if not the best cubing retailer in the United States. I would send them an email about this and make a appointment to visit their office. The address can be found at the bottom of their website along with their email.

Thank you! Had no idea that was here in NY will check that out!

 

[Kean]

Firstly, make sure he knows how to do the following: finger tricks, normal cross, tricks for the corner insertions on the first layer, and the recognition of F2L pairs or possible F2L pairs. Start with OLL algorithms, and if he has trouble learning headlights or pi, use these algorithms:
Pi: T case and a sune
Headlights: T case and bow-tie
Then, teach him the following algs: y perm, t perm, u perm, z perm, and h perm
Leave F2L for last as it's the least necessary out of all the steps of CFOP.
I hope that helps!

We will work on this !!

 

[Kean]

I say learn 2 look last layer and intuite f2l
After he averges around 40 seconds earn full pll and advanced f2l and that should bring him down to 25 seconds and the learn fingertricks(sorry learn fingertricks and arond 50 seconds.)

Thank you! We will work on this as well !

 

[SkewbIsTheBestEvent]

You tube not helping.

If youtube isn't helping, you are clearly not looking at the right videos. Check out J Perm's videos on CFOP and go to cubeskills.com and learn there.

 

[Tabe]

Hi all
I have an 8 year old who loves cubing. He can solve in under a minute, but wants to improve his time and learn CFOP. You tube not helping. Does anyone know of a cubing tutor, events in westchester NY or have any recommendations? He is solving layer by layer in about 45 seconds.

There are cubing coaches online. I've done it, Brodythecuber offers the service, etc.

If you're looking for events, take a look at www.worldcubeassociation.org for competitions.

You indicated that Youtube isn't working. What, specifically, isn't working? Youtube is, by far, the most common resource for learning to get faster. There are videos for numerous styles of learners. Knowing what's not working can help with recommendations.

You can look on Facebook to see if there's a cubing group for your area. We've got one for the Pacific Northwest that has over 1500 members, for example.

Feel free to message me directly if you have more questions.

 

[Kean]

Although not 100% what you may be looking for, TheCubicle is one of, if not the best cubing retailer in the United States. I would send them an email about this and make a appointment to visit their office. The address can be found at the bottom of their website along with their email.

There are cubing coaches online. I've done it, Brodythecuber offers the service, etc.

If you're looking for events, take a look at www.worldcubeassociation.org for competitions.

You indicated that Youtube isn't working. What, specifically, isn't working? Youtube is, by far, the most common resource for learning to get faster. There are videos for numerous styles of learners. Knowing what's not working can help with recommendations.

You can look on Facebook to see if there's a cubing group for your area. We've got one for the Pacific Northwest that has over 1500 members, for example.

Feel free to message me directly if you have more questions.

Hi Tabe.
something isn’t clicking for him with the videos. He has figured out how to solve in 45 seconds using his own method. He says it’s a combination of different methods. I am lost and no help. We tired to watch the JPerm videos today but he didn’t understand. Thanks for your recommendations. I may try Brody the cuber. Im assuming that if you are solving in 45 seconds that isn’t good enough for a competition right?

 

[Tabe]

In my experience, JPerm videos are not great for beginners. I recommend the videos from Cubeskills.com instead. You can get them on YouTube or go through the web site to track your progress.

45 seconds is plenty fast enough for a competition. Don't wait. He won't win, of course, but he'll have so much fun that won't matter.

 

[SkewbIsTheBestEvent]

We tired to watch the JPerm videos today but he didn’t understand.

Which video?

 

[LBr]

Ik I’m late to this thread, but the main way I learned algs was from webpages and pdfs so you should try those if videos don’t work before trying to splash out on ‘coaching’ (imo cubing is very easy to simply get better at on your own provided you know what to improve and how to improve it).