Best teaching method?

[Georgie]

Hi,

I am undergoing year 12 Research Project, and am research the easiest method to teach someone to do a Rubik's cube.
I would love it if people could answer these three questions.

1) How do you personally solve a Rubik’s Cube?

2) What do you think would be the best way to teach someone to solve a Rubik’s Cube?

3) What do you think would be the second best way to teach someone to solve a Rubik’s Cube?

Thank you

 

[jeff081692]

1. I use CFOP (learned from a textbased tutorial which took me longer than it should have.)

2. I would have someone watch a tutorial on solving with the beginners method as a preview to what they will be learning since the best youtube videos can explain everything better than I can. And I would clarify any further questions they had along the way.

3. The way I have taught people in the past was create a cheat sheet for them and walk them through when to use each algorithm. For the first few solves they use the cheat sheet so they can at least solve it but eventually they will need to refer to it less and less as they practice the algorithms on their own.

 

[kcl]

1. CFOP
2. Beginner's method with dan brown LL. Very few algs, very simple.
3. LBL with 4lll?

 

[acohen527]

1. Petrus
2. Beginner's Method
3. Sexy Method (not sure if there's an actual tutorial on this)

 

[Rocky0701]

Either this thread was moved and the old thread wasn't deleted, or you reposted this in another section later. Either way, my answer isn't here so i will post it here too:

1) I personally use CFOP with 2 look OLL, full PLL and intuitive F2L
2) I think that they best way to teach someone how to solve a Rubik's cube is to show them step by step the beginners method, stopping after each step to do a few example solves and to have them drill the step until they have it down.
3) I think the second best way is the use a combination of teaching, and them figuring it out them selves, for example, teach them that the first step of the beginners method is the cross, and then the corners, so to just tell them that they need to make a layer and then have them figure it out. Same thing for intuitive F2L, that is why it is called "intuitive"
I hoped that helped. Also i just have to say it..

"They float Georgie! They all float!"-Pennywise

 

[brian724080]

1. ZZ method (with two subsets of COLL), CFOP as secondary method for big cubes
2. Badmephisto's beginner's tutorial, explanation for LL is excellent
3. Beginner's LBL with 4LLL

 

[Renslay]

1) Roux
2) Classic LBL or Sexy/8355 method
3) Sexy/8355 method or Classic LBL.

Not sure which one could be better for a beginner... So I let them chose after a brief explanation on both.

 

[CriticalCubing]

1) CFOP as Main. Petrus and Roux for practice/fun solving. Both are fun methods
2) Beginners Method (LBL)
3) Make them use their Brain and try finding out which piece should go to where so they are actually learning by doing themselves

 

[TDM]

3) Make them use their Brain and try finding out which piece should go to where so they are actually learning by doing themselves

Not sure if this is best, it took me a month. If I'd have concentrated more on it and less on other things, it would probably have taken about a week, but that's still quite a long time. 8355, LBL and, if they can solve a 2x2, CF are all good methods to teach beginners if they want to learn faster.

 

[ElectricDoodie]

CFOP

If they just want to solve it and be done with it, teach them the easy beginner method with the least amount of algs to memorize.
If they want to actually have an "ah-HA!" moment, then teach them that each side is fixed. So, White and Yellow are always opposite, and so on. Teach them that the faces are fixed, so that the cubes will always end up in the same spot. That it doesn't matter that the cube is scrambled, the middle pieces show you that there is still a specific position for everything. (When my friend said that to me, before I got into cubing, it really blew my mind that I had never noticed that before.)

 

[Tao Yu]

1. CFOP
2. The solution on youcandothecube.com. I've taught three people using this solution. I sometimes feel that a lot of other tutorials oversimplify things and explain things to people as if they were stupid. I like that this tutorial has fewer steps like "do RUR'U' until the corner goes in" and just teaches you the mirror of the algorithm. Probably not the best method for children and grandparents though, as it has more algs.
It also makes the transition to CFOP extremely easy.
3. Dan Brown's tutorial looks okay, but I don't like the last layer.

 

[kju]

1. Roux or Heise
2. Intuition + Commutators, if the person wants to know how to solve the cube
3. LBL or CF with fixed algorithms, if the person simply wants a solved cube


kju:

 

[Georgie]

Thank you to everyone that replied. I really appreciate it, all of the answers are very helpful