Hello!

Really nice progress man, this kinds of things are giving me inspiration to keep parcising and learning new stuff.

Keep it up.
 
DeeDubb said:
Thank you. I'm really pushing myself hard, and the results seem to be reflecting that. I just have to keep it going :)
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Ill actually even try out your Roux tutorial, it seems easy. I did the left and the right block with no problems. If i like it maybe i could keep working with it.

Edit: 5 minutes into trying this method out, i did my first Roux solve. That was actually really easy and intuitive. Hmm i need a few more solves and i will decide what to do.
 
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I think that i will try out a Roux solve too, i have always meant to try to learn Roux/Petrus/ZZ but never really got around to it. I will obviously stick with CFOP unless i absolutely fall in live with Roux, but it will be fun to try.
 
xsolver said:
Ill actually even try out your Roux tutorial, it seems easy. I did the left and the right block with no problems. If i like it maybe i could keep working with it.

Edit: 5 minutes into trying this method out, i did my first Roux solve. That was actually really easy and intuitive. Hmm i need a few more solves and i will decide what to do.
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You must be a natural because I couldn't figure out roux until the 3rd attempt.
 
xsolver said:
Ill actually even try out your Roux tutorial, it seems easy. I did the left and the right block with no problems. If i like it maybe i could keep working with it.

Edit: 5 minutes into trying this method out, i did my first Roux solve. That was actually really easy and intuitive. Hmm i need a few more solves and i will decide what to do.
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Thank you so much for trying out my tutorial. I just put it up over the weekend. Thanks for being my first guinea pig. Any suggestions you might give about the method would be greatly appreciated.
 
Rocky0701 said:
I think that i will try out a Roux solve too, i have always meant to try to learn Roux/Petrus/ZZ but never really got around to it. I will obviously stick with CFOP unless i absolutely fall in live with Roux, but it will be fun to try.
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Actually just from the first solve i found Roux much much more interesting to learn, im just loving the M slices. Its really intuitive and once you understand how things work, i bet its gonna be much easier.

GuRoux said:
You must be a natural because I couldn't figure out roux until the 3rd attempt.
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I learn things pretty fast, but 3rd solve is also great. It takes more to learn Fridrich in my opinion.

DeeDubb said:
Thank you so much for trying out my tutorial. I just put it up over the weekend. Thanks for being my first guinea pig. Any suggestions you might give about the method would be greatly appreciated.
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I actually noticed something that you went trough too fast, ill reply in this thread once i get home.

Ill also try to promote your videos to my cubing friends, i know that they will appreciate it.

Now i kinda regret not starting with Roux, but i cant quit Fridrich now cause im halfway trough. :/
 
xsolver said:
I actually noticed something that you went trough too fast, ill reply in this thread once i get home.
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Thank you, I'd love to hear about it.


xsolver said:
Ill also try to promote your videos to my cubing friends, i know that they will appreciate it.
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Again, greatly appreciated :)

xsolver said:
Now i kinda regret not starting with Roux, but i cant quit Fridrich now cause im halfway trough. :/
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Honestly, at your speed, there's no reason you can't start over. Some people switch even when they are at Sub-20 CFOP speed. If you find Roux to be more your style, you'll be able to very quickly catch up to your CFOP speed (I was sub 1-minute within a week of starting Roux).

Also, my method is very simplified. If you are looking to get into speed solving with Roux, you can upgrade to an intermediate tutorial, like Donovan's.
 
xsolver said:
Now i kinda regret not starting with Roux, but i cant quit Fridrich now cause im halfway trough. :/
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Currently I average about 24 seconds with Fridrich, but I decided to switch to Roux anyway. I've only been using it for a couple weeks (and I've not been working on it as hard as I should) and I'm averaging about 32 seconds. It's never too late to switch!
 
DeeDubb said:
Thank you, I'd love to hear about it.




Again, greatly appreciated :)



Honestly, at your speed, there's no reason you can't start over. Some people switch even when they are at Sub-20 CFOP speed. If you find Roux to be more your style, you'll be able to very quickly catch up to your CFOP speed (I was sub 1-minute within a week of starting Roux).

Also, my method is very simplified. If you are looking to get into speed solving with Roux, you can upgrade to an intermediate tutorial, like Donovan's.
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I feel like you went too fast on the last part. You didnt talk much about making an arrow, and you used only 1 explanation to it. I didnt have much time today for practice, but now when i come to the last part, in some cases i really cant understand how to make that arrow, especially coz i dont understand how to flip the bad edges. Few times i figured it out, but sometimes its really hard, and i end up messing up. Most of the time i mess up because i cannot make an case when i get that arrow and the edge for flipping in the right position. Thats literally the only problem i found during solving Roux.

Knut said:
Currently I average about 24 seconds with Fridrich, but I decided to switch to Roux anyway. I've only been using it for a couple weeks (and I've not been working on it as hard as I should) and I'm averaging about 32 seconds. It's never too late to switch!
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You think? Im cubing for ~1month and i average ~40sec with Fridrich. But when i solve with Fridrich i feel like an automated machine, the only intuitive part is F2L lol. Its not that i cannot learn algorhitms (matter of fact i learn them really quick), its just that its not challenging at all. I feel like i fit into Roux very well.
 
newtonbase said:
Maybe I need to switch too. I've been cubing for over 4 months and haven't had a sub 30s solve yet. F2L is my problem. I just can't find the pieces.
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Try out my videos, to get a basic understanding, then switch to a more advanced tutorial like Donovan's :) See if you like it.


Alrighty, back to my selfish stuff. Another day with PBs in Ao5, Ao12, and Ao100. Only slight improvements in all 3, but improvements nonetheless. I received my SS 5x5, 6x6, 7x7 (still waiting for my Aosu 4x4 from Lightake though). I managed to get the 7x7 solved, but it took waaay too long. The last two centers were a major pain. It was pretty fun though.

As for 3BLD, I'm trying to come up with names for every letter pair. I've only filled about 1/3rd of it. I think I'm gonna step back a bit from Speed 3x3 to focus on 3BLD. It sucks, cause I really want to find my potential in speed solving, but I also REAAALLY want to b a competent 3 BLD solver, so I'm really torn.
 
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I had a really fun weekend. I took a bus to Seoul for a Korean Cuber's Picnic thing. We went to Seoul Zoo to some picnic area. There were about 70 cubers there, and we hung out and did some team activities. I was the only foreigner there, which made me pretty popular, haha. I met many of the best cubers in Korea, including Jung-Ho "Hoya" Jeong, the inventor of the Hoya method, and most of the Korean record holders. I was lucky that I know Roux, because many of them wanted to race me, but of course they are much much faster, but they aren't good with Roux, so most of their Roux times were around mine, meaning I could race some of the fastest and have a chance to win, when they were handicapped by using Roux. After that event, the adults went to a chicken restaurant and drank lots of soju and beer and kept racing. It was hilarious getting drunk and playing with cubes. It felt nice hanging out with other people who are passionate about the same hobby. It gives the time I "waste" some validation being around other people who "waste" their time the same way. I made tons of new Korean friends and had a blast. Anyway, that's my only update for now.
 
Ugh, so I've been working on memory stuff for 3BLD, and it's super frustrating. My speed 3 stuff has slowed down, but I have been having fun playing with some bigger puzzles now that I have my Aosu and SS 5x5. I did my first Ao100 today in a couple of weeks and dropped my PB by 1.5 seconds. My overall is getting better, but I'm just not putting together a good Ao12 or Ao5, and not getting the lucky single to break those PBs. But, at least I see I'm getting better overall, which means eventually the smaller things will come around.
 
FailCuber said:
You beggined with roux. How did you get in to roux. Because it's very unsual to start with roux.
I wish I started with roux too.
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I came to this forum, only knowing the beginner method, averaging 1:40 to 2 minute range. I went to the section about choosing a speedsolving method, and Roux appealed to me, so I followed Donovan's Tutorial, and found Waffle's and Alex's sites, and just went from there. My friend showed me some F2L stuff, so I goof around with that sometimes, because I think it helps my Roux ability to understand F2L. My F2L solves are around 50 seconds (I don't really know the best OLL/PLL stuff, so I just use weird CMLL algorithms that don't influence edges). It is weird to show someone some cool Roux trick and they just go "oh yeah, I use that for CFOP"... Also, my big cube solves are a little slower on the 3x3 phase with Roux, but not terribly slower, so I don't mind too much. Roux is quite fun, but it's still in the minority, so there just aren't nearly as many resources. There are times I regret a little not going CFOP just so I can speak the same language as everyone else, but overall, I'm glad I chose Roux.
 
How did you learn your 3BLD? What video did you learn from? I am currently trying to do blindfolded but i can't understand what they are talking about.
 
I like Roux a lot too. I average like 1 minute plus with it. I saw that speedsolving method thread also. F2L just came more naturally to me than LSE. I don't think learning algs is difficult. DO one a day and you will know Full OLL/PLL in less than 3 months. I just like CFOP better because I suck at M slices.
 
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