"Speedsolving the Cube" by Dan Harris-lolz good read

[Crzyazn]

so who actually has bought this thing?

The information is a wee bit outdated (Ron Von Bruchem holds the WR for 3x3) but Fridrich method and LBL are pretty nicely described.

but frankly, some of his algs suck and it would've been more helpful if he gave at least one alternative alg for each OLL or PLL

but it does A GREAT JOB of breaking down VHF2L and providing the 32 cases

 

[Uberdad]

My book is in the post still ( due any day ). World records published in books are always going to end up outdated eventually, so thats not a big issue for me. Another source of reference material is never a bad thing, and something to read while away from the computer. Can't wait for it really.

 

[Mohammad96]

i was gonna buy the book and now i decided not 2 buy it

 

[immortalcube]

My mom got that for me. He teaches Fridrich so I have no comments about the 3x3 section, but the section for the 4x4 cube is good. It came in handy when I went on vacation for a week 2 weeks ago and had no computer around and wanted to learn the parity algs.

 

[cpt.Justice]

If I'm gonna buy a cube-related book, its gonna be the one about group-theory

 

[pcharles93]

If I were to buy a cubing book. Nevermind, all of the necessary information can be found in a handful of websites. Why buy a slightly outdated book when you can go to a PLL page and print it out. Same with any algorithms or techniques you want to implement into solves.

 

[tim]

If I were to buy a cubing book. Nevermind, all of the necessary information can be found in a handful of websites. Why buy a slightly outdated book when you can go to a PLL page and print it out. Same with any algorithms or techniques you want to implement into solves.

The answer is simple: Because it's a book. You have all information in one place. No need to go browse through many pages.
The same thing applies to many other technical books. You can find almost everything on wikipedia/other sites. But it's no fun at all to search through half the internet to get the information you want. You better buy a book and be happy .

 

[jazzthief81]

I think it's a good thing that there finally is a book now about modern speedcubing. All other books about cubing were written at least 20 years ago and those certainly _are_ very outdated and you can only buy them second hand.

Sure, you can find everthing you need on the internet. But what about people that can't get regular access to the internet? Cubing should not be restricted to just the elite of people who have a fixed internet connection at home.

Double thumbs up to Dan Harris for making our sport much more accessible!

 

[AvGalen]

Everyone should buy his book and give it to his/her parents/friends. That way they will appreciate our hobby a bit more, they might decide to learn how to solve it themselves and best of all: Dan will get some money so he can go to another competition like Dutch Masters

I am pretty sure that all the information in his book is also available on the internet. It's the gathering/sorting/editing of all that information that makes a book worthwhile.

 

[hawkmp4]

Yeah, on that subject.
I can't find ANY pages with VH on it. Dan's old and new websites give me a 404 and anywhere else I find, its just discussions of the concepts.

 

[brunson]

This is the only page I'm aware of that works on his site.

http://www.cubestation.co.uk/cs2/index.php?page=3x3x3/vh/coll/coll

 

[Lucas Garron]

Yeah, on that subject.
I can't find ANY pages with VH on it. Dan's old and new websites give me a 404 and anywhere else I find, its just discussions of the concepts.

What's does the V in VH stand for? http://www.cubezone.be/conU1a.html

And if you can remem ber that VH is a subset of ZB, you can find it anywhere:
http://speedcubing.com/chris/zbf2l1.html


EDIT: Oh, forgot Macky's page: http://cubefreak.net/speedcubing_misc.html#edge_control

 

[hawkmp4]

>.>
Thank you.
*humble*

 

[Alex DiTuro]

If I were to buy a cubing book. Nevermind, all of the necessary information can be found in a handful of websites. Why buy a slightly outdated book when you can go to a PLL page and print it out. Same with any algorithms or techniques you want to implement into solves.

The answer is simple: Because it's a book. You have all information in one place. No need to go browse through many pages.
The same thing applies to many other technical books. You can find almost everything on wikipedia/other sites. But it's no fun at all to search through half the internet to get the information you want. You better buy a book and be happy .

That's The reason I bought it. I can't always get on the internet, so having all the same info in one place is great. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who cubes or want's to cube. It doesn't go into too much detail about 4x4x4 chain solving but I guess that wasn't the main purpose of the book. There's a great beginner method as well as a very in depth look on the fridrich method. It's explained in a way that anyone can understand. I actually learned how to solve a 5x5x5 from this book!
Anyway, this book is a great read and should be picked up by any avid cuber, since it is an excellent reference. Kudos to Dan Harris!

 

[Alex DiTuro]

What's does the V in VH stand for? http://www.cubezone.be/conU1a.html

Vandenbergh

 

[Johannes91]

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who cubes ... There's a great beginner method as well as a very in depth look on the fridrich method.

There are people who cube but are not interested in beginner methods or Fridrich.

 

[AvGalen]

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who cubes ... There's a great beginner method as well as a very in depth look on the fridrich method.

There are people who cube but are not interested in beginner methods or Fridrich.

I saw Johannes91 on the left, read that one sentence and my mind combined it to: "There are people who cube but are not interested in beginner methods like Fridrich"

 

[Dene]

Lol, nice one . So here's a question, what exactly is "lolz" meant to be? We pluralise acronyms with "z" now?

 

[AvGalen]

lol means laughing out loud. I don't think that can be pluralised. I just consider it bad writing and/or wanna-be l33t

 

[Johannes91]

I actually had to read AvGalen's post a couple of times to see the diff.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lolz

A corruption of lol, probably a leet variation, treated as if it were a noun rather than an interjection and pluralized in a deliberately unconventional manner.