How did you learn how to solve the cube?!

[cookingfat]

I learnt 3x3 beginners method from Dan Brown's video. really easy to understand for a noob but not efficient. I then learnt keyhole and beginner's last layer from AVG's videos. Then 2 look OLL and PLL from badmpehisto's videos as well as intuitive F2L. I learnt 4x4 from Dan Brown's video and improved this by looking at a 2-at-a-time edge pairing vid (can't remember which)

I learnt old pochmann BLD from badmephisto and then learnt M2 and visual memo from Eric Limeback. I watch a lot of videos.

 

[Sa967St]

I learned from thrawst 4 years ago.

I learned from Thrawst 2.5 years ago

 

[phases]

I learned beginner from RobH0629's 9 video series. I thought it was great for someone that had never touched a cube before. Took me 2 days to solve it notes free, and about a week later I learned F2L from meph's videos, which I'm still trying to improve on.

Soon I'll get off my butt and learn 2 look oll/pll. When I'm blue in the hands from practicing that I'd like to at least look a little into Heise (right?) Roux and Keyhole.



Sadly, I've yet to get under a minute. Got 1:06 yesterday, so close! But still average around 1:29.

 

[brunson]

I shook Frank Morris' hand at a competition and could instantly solve in under 60s.

 

[PeterV]

I started learning from Dan Brown, as that was pretty much the first thing that came up when searching for Rubik's cube solutions on youtube. Shortly afterwards I learned Leyan's beginners method on cubefreak.net and eventually started learning Fridrich with F2L from many, many places all over the internet (still working on full OLL).

 

[jacob15728]

Dan Brown. Then keyhole from some random tutorial, then Fridrich from Badmephisto.

 

[Kidi-D]

I got a 7-step guide that came with my Rubik's cube.

 

[jcuber]

I learned 3x3 (begginner) from the guide, intuative fridrich, 4x4 and 5x5 from bigcubes, 6x6 and 7x7 centers from Dan's video (I think), and the rest I figured out myself.

Oh, and OLL and PLL from a link on Bob's site.

 

[shelley]

I shook Frank Morris' hand at a competition and could instantly solve in under 60s.

Win.

 

[nitrocan]

I shook Frank Morris' hand at a competition and could instantly solve in under 60s.

You were obviously having a bad day. You should have immediately gone sub-20, or sub-15 on a good day.

On-topic: I watched pogobat's youtube award winner video, but then really learned it from Thrawst.

 

[Paul Wagner]

I shook Frank Morris' hand at a competition and could instantly solve in under 60s.

You were obviously having a bad day. You should have immediately gone sub-20, or sub-15 on a good day.

On-topic: I watched pogobat's youtube award winner video, but then really learned it from Thrawst.

Only works if you do the secret handshake.

 

[Novriil]

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.

I don't !

But why do he advertise vaseline??? Because of him I ruined my two cubes when They were my only cubes!!

 

[Paul Wagner]

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.

I don't !

But why do he advertise vaseline??? Because of him I ruined my two cubes when They were my only cubes!!

Did he put a gun to your head and make you put the vaseline in your cuber? Did he say to put the vaseline in the cubes or he will kill you and your family? He didn't make you do anything. And so what? Every lubricant kills your cube, slowly...

 

[Lorenzo]

I learned from Dan Brown, then after I was able to solve the cube using that method without any algorithm sheets, I went on Youtube and searched for more tutorials because I wanted to get faster. I stumbled upon a bunch of videos that talk about Fridrich and OLL/PLL. I didn't know what is was and decided to learn about it.

After I learned about it....I thought in my head, "Oh gawd a bunch of algorithms to memorize, I'm going to search for another way."

I then went on Google and searched for Rubik's Cube methods and stumbled upon a method that uses no algorithms....Heise.

I tried to learn it. Failed. Then went back to Youtube. I did more more searching and decided that I will just learn OLL and PLL algorithms. I learned about 2-Look OLL and PLL and how it cuts down the number of algorithms you have to learn dramatically, so I decided to go from there.

I found LancetheBlueKnight's website and looked at his 2-Look videos and learned from there. It took about two days for me to learn 2-Look. Although at the time I have been only cubing for about 5 days.

 

[krazedkat]

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

If the "czeck" was a joke relating to "Czechs" you should have said "Czech them out!"

ONTOPIC: I learned from pogobat's...

 

[Edmund]

Book it comes with for ll. Taught myself f2l.

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

Learned it on my own in late 1980. I fiddled with the last layer until I found about 3 or 4 sequences such as Niklas and Sune, and recorded on paper how pieces moved and oriented. Then I tried to combine them to do what was needed. I goofed a lot, and often needed several minutes to re-solve the first 2 layers.

 

[lemonade24tea]

I learned how to solve the 3x3 using the solution hints book. For the 4x4 RobH0629 was the one who taught me.
2x2 - Thrawst ftw.

 

[Raffael]

I learned it from www.kantenkreuz.de
Back in 2000 it was the only page (internet was still pretty small back then) providing a solution for the cube in german language.
I learned BLD from Joels description of Stefan's old system.
(Stefan is just CRAP at explaining some things but pure genius at some other things )
bigcubes.com for 4x4, thanx for everything, Frank! especially parity-algs.

Special thanx go to Dan Harris for providing me with great algorithms when I started speedcubing, to Erik Akkersdijk for explaining intuitive F2L to me and to AvG for his Edge-pairing.

 

[PEZenfuego]

Self taught.

Yeah, but I can't really brag too much because my self taught method took about half an hour lol. In addition to that, it didn't always work as the majority of the time, I would get parity issues and one algorithm that I taught myself sucked something aweful. Basically I would solve the corners completely and then do an M' D M D' D' M' D M. Most of the time I would get a corner parity:fp But in fourth grade, to be able to solve it over the course of a day wasn't too bad.

The whole thing was a :fp



After that I decided to learn from youtube (about 7th grade). After drastically reducing my time with a beginner method I hung my cube up for a while. Now I'm getting back into it full swing and learning friedrich. I am getting better but have the embarrassing average of 1:10. In any case, with this website I can now see and begin to fix my flaws as I learn. You guys rock.