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At my school, I teach a lot of people how to solve cubes/introduce them to CFOP. However, they always seem to have a few things that confuse them/people have drilled into their heads from beginners method.
#1. There is not really a difference between intuitive f2l, and advanced f2l.
Obviously, there is a difference between them. However, cubers who want to learn f2l often think that they need to learn “advanced f2l” and this is not the case. Almost all of f2l is intuitive, and should be learned intuitively. (Maybe this is just a problem at my school.)
#2. You don’t need a top of the line speedcube to be fast.
A really amazing speedcube will not make you faster, especially if it is not set up properly. A ton of people at my school are getting GAN 354 m's just because I have one. Having a cheap/moderate speedcube will be just fine, and will serve you well until you get faster.
#3. CFOP is extremely difficult and I cannot learn it.
I used to think this as well, and didn’t really even try to learn any advanced methods. However, I found a good tutorial and learned it in no time. When I teach people CFOP I go at a very slow, easy to understand pace and gradually introduce more advanced concepts like 4LLL and f2l. It is not very complicated, and usually the only thing holding you back is a bad tutorial or the mindset that you can not do it.
If you are a beginner I hope this helped. These are just some things I personally notice at my school, and maybe there are other things. Please reply with other beginner misconceptions.
#1. There is not really a difference between intuitive f2l, and advanced f2l.
Obviously, there is a difference between them. However, cubers who want to learn f2l often think that they need to learn “advanced f2l” and this is not the case. Almost all of f2l is intuitive, and should be learned intuitively. (Maybe this is just a problem at my school.)
#2. You don’t need a top of the line speedcube to be fast.
A really amazing speedcube will not make you faster, especially if it is not set up properly. A ton of people at my school are getting GAN 354 m's just because I have one. Having a cheap/moderate speedcube will be just fine, and will serve you well until you get faster.
#3. CFOP is extremely difficult and I cannot learn it.
I used to think this as well, and didn’t really even try to learn any advanced methods. However, I found a good tutorial and learned it in no time. When I teach people CFOP I go at a very slow, easy to understand pace and gradually introduce more advanced concepts like 4LLL and f2l. It is not very complicated, and usually the only thing holding you back is a bad tutorial or the mindset that you can not do it.
If you are a beginner I hope this helped. These are just some things I personally notice at my school, and maybe there are other things. Please reply with other beginner misconceptions.
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