I've been practicing my cubing for a long time, or at least a decent amount of time. Probably about 8 months. And I'm still pretty much a novice. Mostly because I failed to actually look up new algorithms and such until recently. There's so much for me to learn, I just learned the 2-Look OLLs, which seems to have bettered my time a bit. My average is about 50 seconds, with my best being about 38 seconds. Since there's a lot for me to learn (Full OLL algorithms, PLL, etc..) I'm just looking for some advice on what to learn when. Or does it even matter? Should I learn the full OLL first? Or should I learn the 2-Look PLLs? Things like that.
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Edam
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practise f2l.
2 look Oll will be fine, i'm 22-23 seconds and only just really learning 1 look.
Full PLL is always useful, but 2 look PLL would be fine as well.
f2l's the most important though.
2 look Oll will be fine, i'm 22-23 seconds and only just really learning 1 look.
Full PLL is always useful, but 2 look PLL would be fine as well.
f2l's the most important though.
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Berry
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go with 2 look pll & oll, and then learn your pll's then oll's. do you know f2l?
Berry
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Practice f2l and learn a few algs for some of the harder cases also.
IamWEB
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My advice would be to know that the 'speedsolving' board is not for asking tips/advice questions, wether the thread-starter is a cube beginner or sub-20.
If you don't know 2-look PLL, what do you do after 2-look OLL? I'm aware that PLL can be simplified beyond 2-look, but it doesn't sound it's the case here.
If you don't know 2-look PLL, what do you do after 2-look OLL? I'm aware that PLL can be simplified beyond 2-look, but it doesn't sound it's the case here.
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Just work on f2l and learn full pll dont worry about full oll for a while
4Chan
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Buy lots of different types of cubes and experiment with different types to see which suits you the best.
Perhaps even experiment with hybrids and lubes and such.
Perhaps even experiment with hybrids and lubes and such.
Uberdad
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I think most of us own, and use more than one cube. I have about 8 or 9 at last count. You can never have too many cubes
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It seems appropriate to me for people to get advice on cubing faster in the Speedcubing forum. What do I not understand? If there is a difference between beginner questions and speed cubing questions, what is the rule for distinguishing them?
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Learn intuitive F2L and 2-look PLL and OLL. Once you master intuitive, "Go Slow and Look Ahead." and practice your OLLs and PLLs algorithms in till you can get a sub-5 sec on each algorithm.
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nitrocan
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I think that learning the algorithms first is a much better option. Then you won't have anything ahead of you that will prevent you from concentrating on your F2L. Secondly, learning algorithms is just muscle memory. F2L on the other hand requires much more experience, practice and patience. You probably would want to get the easy ones out of the way first.
andyaycw
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Agreed with everyone else; most of your successes will stem from a faster F2L. Go slow and practice your look-ahead.
I personally like to advocate learning F2L intuitively first, which gives you a better sense of how the cubies work/interact with one another, and I feel this gives you a better understanding of the cube rather than just memorizing algorithms.
I'd say learn F2L intuitively first, then after you get very comfortable with it, to look up algorithms for the tougher F2L cases that take too long to insert intuitively.
Good luck!
I personally like to advocate learning F2L intuitively first, which gives you a better sense of how the cubies work/interact with one another, and I feel this gives you a better understanding of the cube rather than just memorizing algorithms.
I'd say learn F2L intuitively first, then after you get very comfortable with it, to look up algorithms for the tougher F2L cases that take too long to insert intuitively.
Good luck!
xXdaveXsuperstarXx
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Learn Intuitive F2L then PLL. You can still get sub 20 with 2-look OLL if you have a good F2L.
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