How hard is it to learn to solve these cubes?

[04mucklowd]

square-1 is difficult but fun
4x4 is really good
megaminx i dont have

I suggest square-1, if you can do OLL and PLL
4x4 I you cant

 

[jonny guitar]

2x2 is super easy to learn how to do but if you want to really fly on it you need to learn a more advanced method so of which have lots of algos.

Mine sat on the shelf after I solved it a few times using 3x3 corners method; I use ortega now and find that the 2x2 is lots of fun to do and challenging to get seriously low time solves.

Megaminx is easy but I find it hard on my hands after a while.

4x4 is a fun puzzle to speedcube and pretty easy to learn....bit harder to get a really fluid edges progress so it is worth practicing.

Square one I haven't got yet.

Pyraminx is kinda a joke to me and does not really have the potential of the 2x2 for fun fast solves. Pyraminx is the one I give to people and say, "Just turn it and eventually you wil solve it".

 

[Unknown.soul]

I suggest square-1, if you can do OLL and PLL
4x4 I you cant

:confused:
Shouldn't it be the other way around? You can't apply 3x3 algs to a Square-1.

 

[EmersonHerrmann]

Easy, Easy, Easy, Easy.

 

[fanwuq]

Sq1: Bad if you want to ambidextrous. Unless you feeling like mirroring all your algs and do / as L2 every other solve.

Pyraminx: simple and fun.

4x4: not as simple and fun.

2x2: fast and boring.

I suggest square-1, if you can do OLL and PLL
4x4 I you cant

What? OLLs can't exist for Sq1 and you might be able to some PLLs only if you use U, D, R2 algs for PLL.

 

[firefox109]

alright then i'm probably going to get a megaminx because i'm too lazy to learn square 1 and 4x4, and you guys said 2x2 is simple so yea..also how hard is it to learn the last layer of the megaminx.

rate it on this scale:

how hard is it to learn a rubik's cube 3x3 1-10

compared to

how hard it is to learn the last layer of megaminx 1-10(btw i know how to do f2l fridrich so the 1st 2 layers should'nt be a problem.)

 

[Vulosity]

rate it on this scale:

how hard is it to learn a rubik's cube 3x3 1-10 7

how hard it is to learn the last layer of megaminx 1-10(btw i know how to do f2l fridrich so the 1st 2 layers should'nt be a problem.) 5. There are some algs you may know form 3x3 and the LL involves 4 steps; EO, CO, EP, and CP. EO and EP uses familiar algs from the 3x3 algs. There are more cases to learn, but even I don't know them. CO is the hardest to learn because there are many cases. CP is the easiest step.

Hope that helped.

 

[firefox109]

EO, CO, EP, and CP. i don't know what they are

 

[Unknown.soul]

Edge Orientation, Corner Orientation, Edge Permutation, Corner Permutation.

 

[firefox109]

and is that all for the last layer?

 

[firefox109]

btw hey unkown.soul are you the same guy from the puzzleproz forum?

 

[Unknown.soul]

Yes, that's me. I know that you're blackleon94.

 

[firefox109]

o ok just wondering. btw are those the only things you need to learn for the last layer?

 

[puzzlemaster]

o ok just wondering. btw are those the only things you need to learn for the last layer?

yes..essentially, you need to know:
FRUR'U'F'
FURU'R'F'
Sune: RUR'URU2R'
Antisune: RU2R'U'RU'R'
2 algorithms: each mirrors to orient the corners: RUR'U' and URU'R'
and then commutators to finish it off..each are 3 turns so yea...all in all you need to know 8 algorithms...4 you should already know, 2 are 4 turns each, and 2 are 3 turns each.. all in all..very simple

 

[firefox109]

and that's for the megaminx right?

 

[hippofluff]

I'd say that square-1 is the hardest puzzle to solve (WCA approaved) in my opinion, although i have not tried to learn 7x7.

 

[firefox109]

how long does it take to learn the LL of megaminx

 

[firefox109]

what if i learned F2l intuitively would it matter with the first to layers of megaminx??