Fresh Cuber

[blah]

Firstly, I'm sticking to my assumption earlier in this thread: This guy's using a translator. I don't care what form this translator manifests itself in (dictionary, thesaurus, whatever), it's still a translator, dammit.

If you really speak that eccentrically, as Lofty puts it, and your vocab is really that good, how on Earth did you get the first line of the first post of this thread wrong?! (Kinda reminds me of All your base are belong to us ) Plus, with such perfect spelling (zero errors so far!), how on Earth did your grammar get so ****ed up?! It just doesn't add up. You're using a translator.

Don't whine about the notation. No one's whining about it. And no one will. You have a right to be annoyed, no one's denying you that right. But you don't have a right to annoy others with all your complaints about the notation system, keep that to yourself.

And you totally ignored requests from MistArts and myself to type in Chinese so as to make yourself more comprehensible, when you obviously are Chinese and have the ability to type in Chinese, as demonstrated in another thread in the off-topic subforum. What are you trying to prove?

I've read all 5 pages of discussion on the notation system, and everyone has been kindly and patiently trying to explain why you should just get used to and accept the current notation system (okay, maybe not pcharles93, but that's just his personality, I'm fine with that). So far no one's been on your side, so I don't see why you're trying to convince anyone to go over to the dark side (where there are less stars?!).

Plus, there's even less logic (if any) in using a 1 for a counterclockwise turn. Why the hell a 1?! It's based on absolutely nothing. At least a prime symbol is based on Math.

Oh, I've been learning Dvorak for a month now, and I have been using the Metric system all my life (and I don't have a problem with it), and I'm perfectly fine with the cubing notation we have now.

 

[pcharles93]

Hey, what's wrong with my personality?

 

[blah]

Nothing.

I'm fine with that.

 

[yurivish]

Firstly, I'm sticking to my assumption earlier in this thread: This guy's using a translator. I don't care what form this translator manifests itself in (dictionary, thesaurus, whatever), it's still a translator, dammit.

If you really speak that eccentrically, as Lofty puts it, and your vocab is really that good, how on Earth did you get the first line of the first post of this thread wrong?! (Kinda reminds me of All your base are belong to us ) Plus, with such perfect spelling (zero errors so far!), how on Earth did your grammar get so ****ed up?! It just doesn't add up. You're using a translator.

Even if he is, I rather like his mode of speech. I vote for him to continue using the translator, or not using one (whichever he's doing now)!

Also, check out http://www.tranexp.com:2000/Translate/result.shtml. It's the best damn english-to-english translator I've ever tried.

 

[not_kevin]

Also, check out http://www.tranexp.com:2000/Translate/result.shtml. It's the best damn english-to-english translator I've ever tried.

Indeed: "how are you doing" is now officially "method are you happening"...

 

[yurivish]

Also, check out http://www.tranexp.com:2000/Translate/result.shtml. It's the best damn english-to-english translator I've ever tried.

Indeed: "how are you doing" is now officially "method are you happening"...

And Blah's post:

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And it goes on.

 

[pcharles93]

No more english-english translated posts. Agreed?

 

[Rabid]

Don't whine about the notation. No one's whining about it. And no one will. You have a right to be annoyed, no one's denying you that right. But you don't have a right to annoy others with all your complaints about the notation system, keep that to yourself.

I've read all 5 pages of discussion on the notation system, and everyone has been kindly and patiently trying to explain why you should just get used to and accept the current notation system (okay, maybe not pcharles93, but that's just his personality, I'm fine with that). So far no one's been on your side, so I don't see why you're trying to convince anyone to go over to the dark side (where there are less stars?!).

I’ll keep the whining (I take some offense at that affront) to this filthy corner of Beginners Central.
Resistance is futile don’t panic thanks for all the fish. Or some such.

 

[pcharles93]

Answer this honestly: do you use a translator? If yes, type in your native language. we have cubers from all over the world who visit this forum daily. They can translate it for you.

 

[Rabid]

Answer this honestly: do you use a translator? If yes, type in your native language. we have cubers from all over the world who visit this forum daily. They can translate it for you.

You've damned me. I know you can understand.

 

[pcharles93]

Resistance is futile don’t panic thanks for all the fish

After reading that, I'm not sure anymore.

 

[yurivish]

Don't whine about the notation. No one's whining about it. And no one will. You have a right to be annoyed, no one's denying you that right. But you don't have a right to annoy others with all your complaints about the notation system, keep that to yourself.

I've read all 5 pages of discussion on the notation system, and everyone has been kindly and patiently trying to explain why you should just get used to and accept the current notation system (okay, maybe not pcharles93, but that's just his personality, I'm fine with that). So far no one's been on your side, so I don't see why you're trying to convince anyone to go over to the dark side (where there are less stars?!).

I’ll keep the whining (I take some offense at that affront) to this filthy corner of Beginners Central.
Resistance is futile don’t panic thanks for all the fish. Or some such.

My favorite book!

I believe it was "Resistance is useless." Perhaps you were reading the translated version?

 

[blah]

Proposition: Why don't we take Rabid's posts and put them in that English-English translator and see if the translated stuff makes sense?

Edit: Oops...

I’ll keep the whining (I take some offense at that affront) to this filthy corner of Beginners Central.
Resistance is futile don’t panic thanks for all the fish. Or some such.

... turned into this...

I’ll recur love vegetable ( immateriality eat quantitative attack at special capability of giving pain ) at this time unclean receptacle incomplete Learner Middle. Counteraction is useless don’t absence of hope gratitude hence whole love stew. Or quantitative such.

I love the "special capability of giving pain" part And how did "fish" turn into "love stew"?

 

[Rabid]

Progress. One week with my new DIY and I’ve moved on to the LL algs. I left the stickers off the yellow side (black) so I look like a badass cuber nobody wants to mess with. I do F2L exclusively Petrus with White on top..and almost always Red/Blue corner first. I’m sure it’s theoretically faster to be colour neutral, but practicality shines in recognition speed. I’m still a bit slow on the recognition and orientation of some of the 7 bottom states before applying the proper alg. Sometimes I just spaz a few algs quickly to get it to a familiar state. They are simple enough, I just need to bully them. I think my times are hovering around 2 minutes (If I don’t go spastic). The cube craves lube, so there is still a definite physical limitation to some algs.

I was concerned for a while about my slow look ahead. But as I become aware I’m pulling the right pieces from negative space. I know what pieces aren’t right without flipping to hunt over the entire cube.

I’m not sure how to classify my LL. Petrus solves the F2L and bottom edge orientation at the same time. Orientation and Placement of Corners is a maximum 4 algs with 2 looks. The final Placement of Edges is a max 2 algs (or one continuous) and 1 look.
Is it a 3LLL?

 

[brunson]

Your cube needs stickers on all sides to be legal in competition. You should just get used to it, just like you should get used to the notation.

 

[Rabid]

Your cube needs stickers on all sides to be legal in competition. You should just get used to it, just like you should get used to the notation.

I have a set of superfluous black stickers. I'll apply if I ever want to compete. I'm used to the notation, but still think it's clumsy. The horse is dead.

 

[Lofty]

Congrats on Petrus. For a technical 3LLL you need to learn 7 algs to orient your corners then know 2 to permute the corners and then know 4 to permute your edges.

 

[Rabid]

Congrats on Petrus. For a technical 3LLL you need to learn 7 algs to orient your corners then know 2 to permute the corners and then know 4 to permute your edges.

Your perspective is discouraging. There are only 2 unique algorithms to Orient the Corners (post Petrus) 2 to Permute them and 2 for the final Edge Permutation. I can’t justify assigning a difference for each beginning state.

 

[not_kevin]

Then it wouldn't be a true 3LLL - you should be able to solve each case with one algorithm in each of the three steps.

 

[Lofty]

You are right. I suppose if you are able to combine those few algorithms to finish the step in one look then you have 3LLL but if you see corner permutation close you eyes and solve corner permutation, see corner orientation close your eyes and solve corner orientation and finally see edge permutation close your eyes and solve edge orientation it is not 3 Looks. It is mainly the difference between a look and a step.
Either way Petrus is a wonderful method, and you can get quite fast using it. Eventually you will want to learn more algorithms tho. But much progress can still be made with what you are using.