Robert Marik
Member
Hello, I am new here.
I am from Czech Republic, I am over 40 (both age and seconds). Thank you so much for this site, forum and wiki. I learned a lot from here.
I do not have ambitions and time to memorize all these OLL and PLL used in speedcubing. But as a mathematician (working in ODE's), I like the theory, the composition of permutations and its inverses, such as commutators.
I started with cube in 80's, I learned some specific super slow method which is much slower than nowadays beginner's method (2 layers, permute corners, orient each corner separately, orient remaining edges, permute edges).
Now I am again in the game. During one month I refused beginner's for little fun (you just repeat algorithms like a monkey), also refused method CFOP and Roux for too many algorithms. I played a little bit with Petrus and ZZ, since I liked the idea behind. Finally I stuck at Heine's method, which I really like. I like the "no algorithm" approach and I always wonder, if I succeed to make pairs and find conjugate and commutator for the last step.
I am surprised that there are many tutorial on youtube and only few high quality tutorials which can be printed on paper (comparing to an enormous number of videotutorials).
Finally, you may enjoy the video which reveals my second hobby - mechanical calculators. This one is the fastest mechanical calculator Marchant. It has very fine mechanics and it is very difficult to find a working machine or to make it work again after 40 or more years in a cellar or repository.
I am from Czech Republic, I am over 40 (both age and seconds). Thank you so much for this site, forum and wiki. I learned a lot from here.
I do not have ambitions and time to memorize all these OLL and PLL used in speedcubing. But as a mathematician (working in ODE's), I like the theory, the composition of permutations and its inverses, such as commutators.
I started with cube in 80's, I learned some specific super slow method which is much slower than nowadays beginner's method (2 layers, permute corners, orient each corner separately, orient remaining edges, permute edges).
Now I am again in the game. During one month I refused beginner's for little fun (you just repeat algorithms like a monkey), also refused method CFOP and Roux for too many algorithms. I played a little bit with Petrus and ZZ, since I liked the idea behind. Finally I stuck at Heine's method, which I really like. I like the "no algorithm" approach and I always wonder, if I succeed to make pairs and find conjugate and commutator for the last step.
I am surprised that there are many tutorial on youtube and only few high quality tutorials which can be printed on paper (comparing to an enormous number of videotutorials).
Finally, you may enjoy the video which reveals my second hobby - mechanical calculators. This one is the fastest mechanical calculator Marchant. It has very fine mechanics and it is very difficult to find a working machine or to make it work again after 40 or more years in a cellar or repository.
