Dan Brown's New Video

[talonryanicecreambar]

I'm sort of excited to see how many new cubers there are going to be. Alot of my friends at school watch his vlogs so I might actually have some cubing friends. So my question is do you want more people that know how to solve the Rubik's Cube or do you like being unique?

 

[tkcube1]

I think more people would be better. We would get noticed more and maybe something good would come out of it. Im not sure though it could go either way.

 

[talonryanicecreambar]

Yeah, hey if I'm starting to get tired of cubing should I just take half a week for a break or what should I do?

 

[tkcube1]

Learn something like blindsolving. Or for 2x2 if you dont know it learn ortega or cll. Learn ortega first though. Also learn more oll's. If this doesn't work take a break yea.

 

[talonryanicecreambar]

Thanks I'm gonna learn ortega.

 

[Ranzha]

The problem with learning Dan Brown's method is that once you learn that, people either tend to not want to be faster, or they don't want to learn a faster method (like CFOP, Petrus, Roux, etc.). In some cases, his tutorial is just plain fantastic, but if he branched off form F2L into a semi-4LLL, then his tutorial would be optimal for transition into the widely used CFOP.

So, here is my list of pros and cons:

Pros:
-Excellent remastering. I just hope he doesn't delete the original.
-Good camera angles, lighting, articulation, etc. Dan's always great at that.
-More user-friendly--lots of annotations and things to help a wandering noob.
-Correct notation! Finally!
-A bit moar in-depth.

Cons:
-Still the crappy ol' method he uses. Not good at all for CFOP transition, and NO WAY for a foundation on block-building (block-building in CFOP ftw!).
-Moar to come, but that's about it.

"Lolwut"s:
-People are giving him NEGATIVE feedback for using "prime". What noobs.
-Moar to come.

 

[Sa967St]

umm, what new video?


edit: nvm, found it

wow, I'm glad that he started using '/prime instead of i/inverted, but... 2F instead of F2? :fp

 

[Innocence]

I was hoping he would improve the method, but no such luck. Apparently even he is too lazy to learn a new one. >.<

 

[waffle=ijm]

umm, what new video?


edit: nvm, found it

lol
and lol dan brown

 

[Ranzha]

Oh sh*t, I didn't notice he used the wrong 180 degree notation.
I failed.

 

[Innocence]

Me neither. :O, it's a conspiracy. Seriously, he should have a contact in the speedcubing underworld to point these things out.

 

[miniGOINGS]

Um, what method does he use/teach?

 

[Lucas Garron]

Um, what method does he use/teach?

How about looking at his video description?

 

[Sa967St]

I just watched the whole tutorial, I don't think it was any better than the original. I guess he made it more entertaining, but he doesn't explain some parts too well (e.g. he used the word 'orient' several times without explaining what it means) and it still goes by way too quickly.

Badmephisto's tutorial is still so much better than Dan's

 

[Lucas Garron]

Hello Dan Brown,

In your new tutorials, you chose to use 2U to represent a double turn of the U-layer. The overwhelmingly standard notation for this is U2, and 2U, if anything, has a different meaning. Every Rubik's cube expert in the world, every world record holder, even every intermediate cuber, would tell you this, and if you really want, I can have them tell you.
I don't think you realize this, but by telling this to a lot of beginners (your videos, if not accurate in notation, are still appealing to new people with a cube), you are making things very difficult for us. It's like teaching children the wrong order of operations for arithmetic.

I appreciate your decision to move to the prime notation for counterclockwise, although I'd like to note that the prime is really just a normal apostrophe: F', not F′.

Is there any good reason for your choice of 2U, and is there any chance we could implore you to correct this?

»Lucas Garron

 

[PEZenfuego]

I just watched the whole tutorial, I don't think it was any better than the original. I guess he made it more entertaining, but he doesn't explain some parts too well (e.g. he used the word 'orient' several times without explaining what it means) and it still goes by way too quickly.

Badmephisto's tutorial is still so much better than Dan's

After watching a tutorial from Badmephisto, every other tutorial on the subject sounds like it's in Chinese.

 

[Innocence]

Go Lucas!

I just watched the whole tutorial, I don't think it was any better than the original. I guess he made it more entertaining, but he doesn't explain some parts too well (e.g. he used the word 'orient' several times without explaining what it means) and it still goes by way too quickly.

Badmephisto's tutorial is still so much better than Dan's

What I never get is people say he goes too fast, when I think that's not really a factor. You can go back and watch it as many times as you want, and it saves youtube and people's computers on download. It may not be as efficient learning-wise, but it definitely helps with the internet connection.

 

[Sa967St]

What I never get is people say he goes too fast, when I think that's not really a factor. You can go back and watch it as many times as you want, and it saves youtube and people's computers on download. It may not be as efficient learning-wise, but it definitely helps with the internet connection.

this.

 

[Innocence]

Only marginally inefficient. I have to reiterate, you can watch the video more than once. Speed is never an issue on youtube.

 

[Sa967St]

Only marginally inefficient. I have to reiterate, you can watch the video more than once. Speed is never an issue on youtube.

but it's frustrating and hard to understand when you have to keep re-watching a video many times because something was poorly explained and/or rushed through.