Recent content by SenorJuan

What to do? You need to let your body recover. Losing blood is often tiring, ask anyone who has donated blood. Exerting yourself, particularly if it's hot, can lead to dehydration, which is not a trivial matter. It can certainly bring on major headaches, lethargy, vision disturbances. So ensure...

The 3x3 was the first of Rubik's puzzles, that accounts for a lot of it's appeal. But remember the Revenge ( 4x4 ) was the ball-cored version that was not so great to solve, and the 'Pocket Cube' ( 2x2 ) had a horrid mechanism that was just awful to solve. This made the two variants very...

Though it's been mentioned before, I am also finding the abundance of 'progression threads' on the front page irritating. The fact they are on the front page presumably means someone finds them of interest ... but their high profile seems to encourage every other newcomer to create their own...

And I'M confused too. Why is Abunickabhi unable to use the link to the 'Wayback Machine' archive of Alex's site ? It still works OK for me. Is anyone else able to confirm/deny it's working?

3x3x1 floppy-cube, and the floppy Ghost Cube are not that hard, but quite fun. For an additional challenge, try and one-look the solve, performing it blindfolded / eyes-closed.

The 'no cube' 3x3x3 FMC event gets my approval, too. It probably deserves more than the 1 hour time limit, though. Two more tough, but probably not 'extreme' events: Mirror-blocks 'match the scramble' Mirror-blocks 'match the scramble BLD' ( that is ... tactile only )

I personally think that sticking to a fixed starting-face colour is the best option for us oldies. The tiny ( one or two moves ) reduction in solution length resulting from 'colour neutral' solving is just not worth it. Learning an advanced method like CFOP is challenging enough, without having...

"I am sure if I keep practicing I will improve" That's the right approach. The 30 secs barrier is a significant one .. I remember having a single PB of 32 secs when I left school (1984). Close, but not sub. Only when I started university, and met my friend Chris, who could manage 28sec ( with...

It's largely down to practice, really. For each of these 4 'F2L' cases, there's 16 variations ( 4 y positions, 4 AUF possiblilties ). Just go through them all, and gradually you'll recognise more and more of the cases. For example, take the cases where the AUF is such that the edge is correctly...

He's referring to cases 19, 20, 21, 22 , which all look rather alike. Gotta admit, I struggled with these. The easy cop-out is indeed to AUF until the edge matches the centre, and it's not that harmful, movecount wise. I eventually got good enough at recognition, and no longer considered these...

I too managed to intuitively solve the SQ1 back in ~2001 , though I did have the advantage of 20 years 'intermediate-level' 3x3 solving to give me some insight. I bought the puzzle secondhand at a car boot sale ( US: flea market ) for 50 pence / 60 US cent in barely-used condition, and put in a...

It looks suspiciously like it's based on the V-cube mechanism for the 1 x 1 puzzle , but with hidden middle layers. I wonder if V-cube will take legal action ? (edited, I should lern to tipe proply. )

You didn't say what other empty slots were available, so there is : R U' R2 U2 R then finish how you like: sledge / U' F' U F / U2 F' U2 F the last of these keeps the back-right pair for insertion

I didn't say it was more advantageous than edges-first. I said it was an alternative way of doing corners-first. You really need to get many different opinions from other forum users if you want answers to your question. Not just one guy who took the time to reply. But unfortunately, it is an...

Surely you can understand that baby-step explanation ? You don't even need puzzle-solving skills.