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Do you know and use full COLL though? (PS: We hit a thousand messages!)

I myself use Petrus, and started learning almost immediately after I kinda mastered the beginner's method. I think that, besides the things others have already mentioned: - compared to the beginner's method it seems weird and hard (especially for the blockbuilding and EO) - most tutorials for...

Nice guide! Had I just read this earlier... The last section is only a bit messy. I'd separate 2x2x2 and 2x2x3 + "How to improve" from the "Inspection" and "common cases" sections. (I haven't read them yet, but having nested spoilers is not really nice). Also, don't forget the block trainer

In my opinion, if that's your main goal with this quest, knowing many methods isn't worth it. I think that getting your movecount really low with one method gives you a deeper understanding of the cube than knowing many (more speedsolving) methods. You should try to solve it in as fewest moves...

You meant conscrambled In all seriousness though, you can use the scramble to determine which orientation you do before the scramble. Example: Scramble: F’ U’ R D F2 U’ R2 U L2 R2 D’ R2 F2 B R’ F D’ F’ L2 D’ Since you have an F you could do an x so that F's on top. Then, the next scramble you...

Yes, you're now officially a scramble unscrambler!

Here's an idea: you take the scramble used to scramble up the scrambled cube to scramble the orientation so to scramble the cube in a scrambled scrambled state. (If you can't unscramble my scramble scrambling idea, just ask me to unscramble this scrambling scrambled poetry)

I don't usually solve with Hahn, but with Petrus. Scramble: R' U D2 L' U' D2 B' D' B' L2 U L2 D' L2 F2 B2 D R2 B2 x' U2 F' U' B' L B2 // 2x2x2 R F2 R' L F' L' // 2x2x3 z' U' F R' F R // FL + FD U R U2 R' // 2x2x1 R' F R // pair setup F R' F2 R F' R' F2 R // EP + pair x y2 L' R' B' L F' L' B L2...

I think it's pretty fast. Though, a question like "How far should I expect to be with my progress in X months with Y method?" would be nicer to read, instead of "Does my improvement suck?". If your improvement is really good, for some people it might be a little demotivating reading about some...

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What is the sum of all (or most of) your times? What do you currently average? According to my main csTimer session, I spent 71550.040 seconds cubing, i.e. around 19 hours and 52 minutes. I currently average 23 seconds.

Intuitive doesn't mean easy. If you can do something intuitively you don't need to remember formulas or algs to get a certain result: you just know how it works. A deep understanding of the subject is needed, though, which rarely takes little effort and time to develop. I first solved 4x4 using...

Nah, the purpose of the method is to be bad, so why bother orienting? That makes life too easy. In all seriousness, good luck @pillman! It would be interesting to see how far you can go with them

1 day: ~4 min (?) 1 week: ~1.5 min 1 month: ~50 6 months: ~28 1 year: ~22 (maybe ~16) 1.5 years: 15.750 27 months/now: 14.456 I lost interest around last August, then started again in mid-January.

Yes, but since in HK you usually do EOArrow, I thought it to be more similar to Petrus-W