Have you ever tried teaching someone how to solve a cube?

I've only been cubing myself for about 2 months, and i've taught 6 people how to solve the 3x3, because there are always people at my house and they wanted to learn... and we are all really nerdy anyway. i taught my gf how to solve and she is under two minutes. and i'm currently teaching 3 people 2 look OLL and PLL.

its very awesome, people will walk in and literally see 8 people sitting in a room all racing for solves... i got 41 seconds in our last race =)

you should see the looks on peoples faces when they have never seen even one person solve a cube before and they walk in to a room full solving it. haha

also i've taught 2 people how to solve the 4x4, not counting parity algs... they always hand it to me to do it for them.... ironically i'm the only one here that can solve a 2x2 though
 
For me, the first thing to show them is how a cube works, so I take it apart for them. Then I start teaching them blockbuilding.
 
Yes, and I've succeeded three times (1, 2, 3). Of the two people I've taught recently, one is pretty good because he's put a lot of effort into it, and the other has naturally amazing cubing skills but hasn't really cubed much, so is still around a minute.
 
I taught one person, I taught him a 7 step layer by layer beginners method.
He doesn't to it for speed though, he's about 3-4 minutes.
Another kid I gave up on, he couldn't even solve an edge that was 1 turn away!
 
curious said:
I taught one person, I taught him a 7 step layer by layer beginners method.
He doesn't to it for speed though, he's about 3-4 minutes.
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Cool! Sounds like fun!

Another kid I gave up on, he couldn't even solve an edge that was 1 turn away!
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Wow... Did you read the previous posts in this thread related to this?

Chris
 
its really difficult... because before you know how to solve a cube... its the most intimidating thing, and most people don't even understand how the cube works... i've never tried taking the cube apart as a way to explain this, it is a great idea... i always try to teach them not by movements, but by the way the cube looks.... like " you turn this so this yellow bar is here, and then turn the yellow bar here and do this with it, so on and so forth"

some people get it right away... one girl i taught that only learns her algs from me is catching up to me!! haha. and then some can't understand the fact that the middles are a way to see the color of the side.... maybe we should start teaching how to solve twisty puzzles in school.... i would've paid a lot more attention
 
Chris, The very first think I explain is that the cube is made up of individual pieces, (rather then stickers). I explain how the center pieces are fixed, the kid even seen what a cube looked like disassembled. He was just a slow learner.
I was patient!
 
I taught my wife, she had beginner's down the first day. Few weeks later taught her FL2.

In middle of teaching my neighbor and her daughter, but its' taking forever because I have to teach a step at a time and let them practice for a week or so till they have it memorized then move on to the next step. We're through OLL now - but it's been a while since they've asked for next step. I think they gave up..... shame, so close!
 
I've taught 2 persons to solve 3x3x3, and about 20 persons to solve it blindfolded.

It's just because it's easier to teach someone that have been hooked with cubing, and want to know more about another (cool) way to solve it. :cool:

I don't know how many have learned from my video tutorials.
It's around 2000 views, mostly from Indonesia because it's in Indonesian.
 
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I tried to learn my mum how to solve the 3x3 first layer. Without learning her to solve the rest of the cube, she can now make one layer on almost every cube, 2x2 -7x7, pyraminx! except square-1, that's too difficult.

I was like wtf, even 7x7! (it took her around 45 minutes!)
 
The most difficult thing about teaching how to solve a rubik's cube to a beginner is the last layer, cos there are some algorithms to memorise.
 
Not for a whole cube, but at the very beginnigng.

I tried to teach my mother to solve the first centre of a 5x5 V-Cube. She tried but gave up quickly. I showed her how to do it. She looked on in amazement.
 
I taught a couple of people at my school that were more "popular and cool" than I am. They can do it in about 1:30 perhaps. anyway, everyone thinks that they figured it out on their own, and think I'm copying off of them in order to try to be cool, since I never really brought cubes to school until I started teaching them (on the Cross-Country bus). It's really annoying because the other people call me a "poser" and other crap, even though I can solve 2x2-7x7 and a lot of other cubes. So, moral to the story is, I'M NEVER GONNA TEACH SOMEONE TO DO SOLVE A CUBE AGAIN!!!!
 
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