David Pritts
Member
Hey folks,
I'm a bit curious about OH cubing... I've never been able to do it, but it looks like a lot of fun. Back in HS a couple years ago I got bored and decided to try to solve the cube one handed... I think it took me like 6+ minutes, and was a miserable experience.
A few questions
1) Like all other forms of cubing, I'm sure there are some good basic guides for getting started. Which one do you guys recommend?
2) One issue I have with cubing in general is that I am unable to remember the moves of algorithms. However, I don't mean that I have trouble learning them... I can do that just fine. But, I seem to do so strictly with muscle-memory. If someone asks me "what is the algorithm for {some case}?", I often have to spend some time executing the algorithm over and over again in order to figure out what it is on paper. Sometimes, I can't even do it, because I'm unable to execute algorithms slowly.
This problem also manifests itself when I try to solve big cubes, and have trouble using my algorithms when the big cube forces me to slow down.
I figured OH solving might help me with this, forcing me to *know* my algorithms. So I was wondering what percentage of your "standard algorithms" do you use for OH? Is it impractical for me to use my old ones?
3) Are there some people who are just NOT dexterous, and thus fail at OH cubing? If so, I worry that might be me I do have fairly long fingers, though.
4) How long does it take to learn? (a bad question, I know)
thanks for any input!
David
EDIT: Just attempted OH solve. I started off by solving the cross wrong, which was nice. F2L finished in ~2 min. I use 3LLL, but got lucky and got one of the 2 OLL cases that I know (T-OLL, very easy). So OLL took ~10 seconds. Then I got a 3-cycle PLL, which I ****ed up. Had to reorient with sune (which I ****ed up as well), then reorient again with sune+M`UMU2M`UM, then I got a G perm, tried to solve it with a T-perm+3cycle, but I ****ed up the T-perm and then....
ya you get the idea i don't know my algorithms except from muscle memory
Result: DNF
I'm a bit curious about OH cubing... I've never been able to do it, but it looks like a lot of fun. Back in HS a couple years ago I got bored and decided to try to solve the cube one handed... I think it took me like 6+ minutes, and was a miserable experience.
A few questions
1) Like all other forms of cubing, I'm sure there are some good basic guides for getting started. Which one do you guys recommend?
2) One issue I have with cubing in general is that I am unable to remember the moves of algorithms. However, I don't mean that I have trouble learning them... I can do that just fine. But, I seem to do so strictly with muscle-memory. If someone asks me "what is the algorithm for {some case}?", I often have to spend some time executing the algorithm over and over again in order to figure out what it is on paper. Sometimes, I can't even do it, because I'm unable to execute algorithms slowly.
This problem also manifests itself when I try to solve big cubes, and have trouble using my algorithms when the big cube forces me to slow down.
I figured OH solving might help me with this, forcing me to *know* my algorithms. So I was wondering what percentage of your "standard algorithms" do you use for OH? Is it impractical for me to use my old ones?
3) Are there some people who are just NOT dexterous, and thus fail at OH cubing? If so, I worry that might be me I do have fairly long fingers, though.
4) How long does it take to learn? (a bad question, I know)
thanks for any input!
David
EDIT: Just attempted OH solve. I started off by solving the cross wrong, which was nice. F2L finished in ~2 min. I use 3LLL, but got lucky and got one of the 2 OLL cases that I know (T-OLL, very easy). So OLL took ~10 seconds. Then I got a 3-cycle PLL, which I ****ed up. Had to reorient with sune (which I ****ed up as well), then reorient again with sune+M`UMU2M`UM, then I got a G perm, tried to solve it with a T-perm+3cycle, but I ****ed up the T-perm and then....
ya you get the idea i don't know my algorithms except from muscle memory
Result: DNF
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