How did you learn how to solve the cube?!

[Paul Wagner]

So, I've seen a lot of people "dissing" Dan Brown, about him not being a "speedcuber" or fast. But he taught me how to solve the cube so I'm very grateful for his videos.

Also, a lot of Fridrich users, and Roux users (that one's for you Waffle) and Petrus users (that's for you Erik Johnson) started speedcubing from videos from Dan's channel/videos.

Well how did you learn?

Poll coming later!

 

[LNZ]

By a 1981 solution book. I used Pogobat's 4x4 tutorial to solve the 4x4 cube and RobH0629's tutorial to solve the 5x5.

 

[zip_dog12]

I sorta combined Tyson Mao's and Dan Brown's vids into one method. Ultimately, though, it was Tyson Mao who originally taught me how to solve a rubik's cube. Thumbs up for Tyson, and Dan I guess too!

 

[Waffle's Minion]

"Hey World" coming from Dan was always memorable for me. I still watch his non-related vids. Czeck them out!

 

[dbax0999]

Tyson Mao's tutorial on rubiks.com

 

[Kian]

I learned directly from my brother, who had learned from Jasmine Lee's tutorial. I learned 4x4 from Chris Hardwick's Corner on speedcubing.com, Sq-1 from Lars (cubezone.be), and BLD from my Joel Van Noort's description of Old Pochmann.

 

[andrewunz1]

the little paper that came with the first cube i bought

 

[V-te]

Friend and Dan. No one should be dissed because of their speed, I guess everyone forgot thats where they were at one point in their lives.

 

[shelley]

From here: http://jeays.net/rubiks.htm

Learned 3x3 BLD from Leyan, and r2 for 4x4 BLD from Lucas.

 

[cmhardw]

I learned from Mark Jeays' website: http://jeays.net/rubiks.htm

I learned LBL from him first, then got bored after a month and learned his second solution (keyhole). After that I discovered Fridrich, and the rest is history ;-)

I learned big cubes on my own, except for OLL parity. I learned SQ1 entirely on my own, but I suck at it speedsolving wise.

The one I am most thankful for though is that I learned BLD from Dror Vomberg. I figured out how to BLD solve mostly on my own, but I wasn't even using the cycle method and each solve took me over an hour. I shared a cab ride with Dror Vomberg in 2003 at the World Championship and he taught me the cycle method. He also inspired me very much to train big cubes BLD seriously in 2005 at the World competition.

My most inspirational teachers have been Dror Vomberg for showing me the world of BLD cubing, and to Mark Jeays for teaching me how to cube in the first place!

Chris

 

[salshort]

jeays taught me the LBL solution and badmephisto taught me the 2 look oll/pll fridrich, then from there used his/bob burton's pll page.

 

[robertpauljr]

I'm 56 years old. I first learned a LBL method from books in the early days of cubing, but eventually forgot how to get the last layer. So a couple years ago I looked up solutions online. Jeay's Working Corner method was the first one that I learned, then Jasmine's Beginner method, then Cheyer's Corners First method, then The Ultimate Solution which is Edge's First.

 

[elcarc]

dan brown and the little solve booklet i got with my first cube

 

[Novriil]

My mother
Dan brown was the how to get faster video maker. I HATE HIM!! VASELINE KILLED MY TWO CUBES!

So yeah.. and Fridrich I started to learn this winter or so.. because thgen I first heard about new methods.

 

[Jokerman5656]

I learned from thrawst 4 years ago.

 

[Inf3rn0]

I learnt keyhole first off some link off wikipedia. And yeh first it was the first tutorial i found so i did it.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Dan Brown His beginner method video is what taught me, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that video. Any speedcuber that disses Dan for that video needs to get his head checked.

 

[panyan]

helm.lu

 

[amostay2004]

Dan Brown as well. I dunno..did he figure out the last layer method by himself? He must know a little about cube theory if he did...

 

[AndyRoo789]

Dan Brown
First one i found, and was pretty easy to understand.
Then about a month later i found out about other methods.
That's when badmephisto became my god