Did you learn to cube from Dan Brown(pogobat)?

[Inf3rn0]

No.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

K, there is no need to hate on him like this. He did a good job for teaching people how to solve in about 55 seconds and brought a lot of members to the community. It's not like anyone forced you to learn from him. So just chill about it. I have told people about it and they find it easy. I didn't use it and am glad I used the book but he still made a good tut.

Sure he thought millions of people who to cube, but a majority comes to realize they're slow and ask so many times "WTF do I get faster?!?!?" here on this forum and several places.

I for one am glad that I didn't learn from pogobat and pretty damn proud of it.

You're being such a drama queen.

Dan Brown has probably brought more people into the speedcubing community than any other publicly available cubing resource. While his method might not be efficient, it's basic enough to get people into it. I learned from his method, and I have NO problem with that. I'm sub-20 now. Going from his method to full Fridrich wasn't difficult, in the least, so why should I complain? His video was clear, easy to follow, and very simple. Of course, Badmephisto's beginner video is significantly better, and that's the video I recommend to people, but if someone has learned from Dan's video, that's fine too.

I, for one, am proud of him for getting so many people into it. Anyone who's hating on Dan for his tutorial video needs to get off their high horse, come down to earth, and look at how many people he's "introduced" to the cube.

There should be another thread like "How many people learned to cube from pogobat and pwn him now?" There seems to be many.

That's a great idea, because we're all 12 year olds!

:fp


Seriously, get over it. Dan's done great things for our community.

 

[waffle=ijm]

fine fine...Dan helped lots of us get into cubing that I admit.

But how many of us really wanted to solve the cube before you even heard of Dan's tutorial? (just a question, not intending to turn your argument around or anything )

 

[Edmund]

A total split after 132 votes, crazy.

 

[Edward]

fine fine...Dan helped lots of us get into cubing that I admit.

But how many of us really wanted to solve the cube before you even heard of Dan's tutorial? (just a question, not intending to turn your argument around or anything )

I did. i remembered how much I loved my old cube when I was 8 years old, even though I couldn't solve it. so I bought a new cube, and decided to learn any way I could. I just happened to find Dan brown's tut, and because I understood it, and liked the way he did it, I used it.

 

[reghrhre]

Nope. Learned from Thrawst.

 

[ArcticxWolf]

yes

 

[Dene]

K, there is no need to hate on him like this. He did a good job for teaching people how to solve in about 55 seconds and brought a lot of members to the community. It's not like anyone forced you to learn from him. So just chill about it. I have told people about it and they find it easy. I didn't use it and am glad I used the book but he still made a good tut.

Sure he thought millions of people who to cube, but a majority comes to realize they're slow and ask so many times "WTF do I get faster?!?!?" here on this forum and several places.

I for one am glad that I didn't learn from pogobat and pretty damn proud of it.

You're being such a drama queen.

Dan Brown has probably brought more people into the speedcubing community than any other publicly available cubing resource. While his method might not be efficient, it's basic enough to get people into it. I learned from his method, and I have NO problem with that. I'm sub-20 now. Going from his method to full Fridrich wasn't difficult, in the least, so why should I complain? His video was clear, easy to follow, and very simple. Of course, Badmephisto's beginner video is significantly better, and that's the video I recommend to people, but if someone has learned from Dan's video, that's fine too.

I, for one, am proud of him for getting so many people into it. Anyone who's hating on Dan for his tutorial video needs to get off their high horse, come down to earth, and look at how many people he's "introduced" to the cube.

There should be another thread like "How many people learned to cube from pogobat and pwn him now?" There seems to be many.

That's a great idea, because we're all 12 year olds!

:fp


Seriously, get over it. Dan's done great things for our community.

I didn't feel like reading your post, but I got through the first 2 or so lines. I want to say that I don't think Mr. Waffle was being a drama queen. Also, pogobat did NOT turn lots of people to speedcubing. People that were already interested FOUND him, and then learnt a crap method which put them on the back foot from the start. So I think we are justified in blaming pogobat for all the trouble he's caused our community.

 

[Jokerman5656]

no and I hope he dies in an ironic cubing accident. like slipping on vaseline and hits his head against his cube...then explodes.

+1

 

[chris410]

Yeah I did, then learned F2L and most of PLL from badmephisto

Exactly what I did

 

[hyunchoi98]

I sure did 'cause that was the first one that came up when i searched
"how to solve rubik's cube".
It was pretty hard, but I learned in a week.
I think pogobat goes WAY too fast.

 

[rubiknewbie]

I learn from Rubik's website and Tyson Mao.

 

[cubestack]

Yes.
(I don't see why there are so many posts with the tag: I'm not proud of it. Dan was efficient in teaching a method that was easy to follow.)

 

[iasimp1997]

NOOOOO WAY
i learned from rob, f2l from badmephisto and rob and memyselfandpi, oll from the internet and lancetheblueknight, PLL ima still learning
dan brown's tutorials are explanatory, but they dont work.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

But how many of us really wanted to solve the cube before you even heard of Dan's tutorial? (just a question, not intending to turn your argument around or anything )

I'm not sure I see the point to that question But I did. I didn't know anything about cubing, but I wanted to learn how to solve, so I search for a video tutorial on youtube and his came up. Who would watch that video if they didn't care to know how to solve? Or is that what happened to some people here?

I didn't feel like reading your post, but I got through the first 2 or so lines.

I'm not sure how you expect to respond appropriately without reading my whole post.

 

[EmCube]

Yep...

"Hey world"....

 

[Muesli]

I didn't feel like reading your post, but I got through the first 2 or so lines. I want to say that I don't think Mr. Waffle was being a drama queen. Also, pogobat did NOT turn lots of people to speedcubing. People that were already interested FOUND him, and then learnt a crap method which put them on the back foot from the start. So I think we are justified in blaming pogobat for all the trouble he's caused our community.

You say that ignoring the 47% of the community that DID learn from Pogobat. Do the maths. Nearly half of the forum started, learned or got help via his videos. Sure, he made a mistake with the Vaseline, but he also presented the Beginners method in an incredibly easy to understand format. Badmephisto may have better tutorials but I think Dan's tutorials are perfectly good to be at nthe top of the list when searching. There is no problem with the method he teaches, and I have taught it to other people. Layer-by-layer is how the brain works, and just because it doesn't have on of the smoothest transfers to CFOP doesn't mean you should knock it.

 

[JTW2007]

I didn't feel like reading your post, but I got through the first 2 or so lines. I want to say that I don't think Mr. Waffle was being a drama queen. Also, pogobat did NOT turn lots of people to speedcubing. People that were already interested FOUND him, and then learnt a crap method which put them on the back foot from the start. So I think we are justified in blaming pogobat for all the trouble he's caused our community.

You say that ignoring the 47% of the community that DID learn from Pogobat. Do the maths. Nearly half of the people who read this thread and voted in the poll started, learned or got help via his videos. Sure, he made a mistake with the Vaseline, but he also presented the Beginners method in an incredibly easy to understand format. Badmephisto may have better tutorials but I think Dan's tutorials are perfectly good to be at nthe top of the list when searching. There is no problem with the method he teaches, and I have taught it to other people. Layer-by-layer is how the brain works, and just because it doesn't have on of the smoothest transfers to CFOP doesn't mean you should knock it.

No?

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

I didn't feel like reading your post, but I got through the first 2 or so lines. I want to say that I don't think Mr. Waffle was being a drama queen. Also, pogobat did NOT turn lots of people to speedcubing. People that were already interested FOUND him, and then learnt a crap method which put them on the back foot from the start. So I think we are justified in blaming pogobat for all the trouble he's caused our community.

You say that ignoring the 47% of the community that DID learn from Pogobat. Do the maths. Nearly half of the people who read this thread and voted in the poll started, learned or got help via his videos. Sure, he made a mistake with the Vaseline, but he also presented the Beginners method in an incredibly easy to understand format. Badmephisto may have better tutorials but I think Dan's tutorials are perfectly good to be at nthe top of the list when searching. There is no problem with the method he teaches, and I have taught it to other people. Layer-by-layer is how the brain works, and just because it doesn't have on of the smoothest transfers to CFOP doesn't mean you should knock it.

No?

No.

 

[Muesli]

I didn't feel like reading your post, but I got through the first 2 or so lines. I want to say that I don't think Mr. Waffle was being a drama queen. Also, pogobat did NOT turn lots of people to speedcubing. People that were already interested FOUND him, and then learnt a crap method which put them on the back foot from the start. So I think we are justified in blaming pogobat for all the trouble he's caused our community.

You say that ignoring the 47% of the community that DID learn from Pogobat. Do the maths. Nearly half of the people who read this thread and voted in the poll started, learned or got help via his videos. Sure, he made a mistake with the Vaseline, but he also presented the Beginners method in an incredibly easy to understand format. Badmephisto may have better tutorials but I think Dan's tutorials are perfectly good to be at nthe top of the list when searching. There is no problem with the method he teaches, and I have taught it to other people. Layer-by-layer is how the brain works, and just because it doesn't have on of the smoothest transfers to CFOP doesn't mean you should knock it.

No?

If a person is active in the community they will have seen the thread. I maybe should have been more concise.