Has fridich ever made you wana crawl up and die!?!?

[Dylan]

Basically im getting reallly worked up over f2l and im about to throw away my cubes and have you ever felt this way!?

 

[Zane_C]

No.

 

[That70sShowDude]

Not to this extent, but I remember being pretty pissed off with f2l.
One day I just sat down and put 100% focus into Kippy33's tutorial. I got it over time. You'll also learn new and advanced tricks as you go along.

 

[chicken9290]

No i average sub 12 and its actually quite simple once you get passed the 15 second barrier

 

[flan]

Learning it...no because I was super motivated. But I feel like that when I feel like I'm solving fast but I struggle to get even close to good times.

 

[Cubenovice]

No but FMC sometimes does...

And still this is currently the "event" I enjoy most.

 

[Dylan]

The problem is though i just dont get what shes on about on her website so is there any easier websites? And im not actually gonna crawl up and die

 

[Cubenovice]

is there any easier websites?

Google?

 

[Cool Frog]

roux.

 

[Godmil]

have you tried the Hunting story videos, or Badmephisto's youtube tutorials.

 

[Dylan]

Ill have. Look thanks

 

[blakedacuber]

i learned from lanc the blue knights video and found it xremely easy to understand so i would recomend it

 

[theace]

I learnt from LanceTheBlueKnight's videos. There was a time when I felt that way, but that was because I was stagnant at sub 40. I'm sub 30 now. Need to get to sub 20!

 

[uberCuber]

I definitely never felt this way. I just looked at a few cases on the speedsolving wiki, figured out how they worked, and pretty quickly learned how to do it for any case.

 

[moogra]

F2L can be figured out by yourself. The cases are largely similar and I remember sitting down one day and figuring it all out. There are a couple of strange cases that I use that aren't the same as "the book", per say, but the ways I've figured out is fast anyway.

I suggest you mess around with the cube, try to figure out how to make a F2L pair. Usually this does not take many moves. Intuitive F2L is supposedly better, as far as I know.

 

[somerandomkidmike]

I never got upset while learning F2L. Sometimes a couple of the LL algorithms bothered me because I could never find any fingertrick-friendly algorithms. It doesn't matter though, 'cause I like Roux, and corners first better.

 

[goatseforever]

ITT: Every cuber ever on SpeedSolvingdotcom had no difficulty whatsoever with figuring out F2L; they skimmed through a tutorial and within minutes mastered it began averaging sub-10. It was so easy they showed their 10/10 supermodel girlfriend how to do it and even she figured it out, and then they proceeded to make sweet love.

Yes OP, I raged when learning F2L, especially when I first started and became about 20 seconds slower than when I used beginner's. It's an ongoing process, it's been years for me and I'm still learning new things.

 

[ElectricDoodie]

I'm raging right now at it.

I'm stuck at 22 sec avgs...
I've done it intuitively, then got the best algs for weird cases. I understand how it works, and can do a pair at a time without looking during each pair.
The problem is, though, that I cannot track the pieces as well as I wish. I have to concentrate hard and go slower than usual to track them. But, when I'm timing myself, I tend to not notice, and just speed up, which means I mess up my lookahead, and get slower avgs.

So, I need to concentrate on lookahead and tracking the pieces, and it's making me rage. I just feel like no matter how much I focus on F2L tracking/lookahead, my times are improving by about 1 sec a month...

Which reminds me, anyone know of a F2L tracking/lookahead practice?
I mean, I understand how it works, so I don't need a guide/tutorial. Just wondering if there's a type of practice that focuses on lookahead/tracking, instead of me just doing F2L over and over. I just feel like the way I'm practicing isn't getting me anywhere, and that there's gotta be something better that I don't know about for tracking/lookahead.

But, if there isn't, then I just need to man up, and keep at it.

 

[Erzz]

There is a site I keep forgetting to help you recognize corners. I'm sure someone else will read this and know it.

 

[uberCuber]

There is a site I keep forgetting to help you recognize corners. I'm sure someone else will read this and know it.

you talking about this? http://cube.crider.co.uk/coracle.html