[Member Intro] Hello from an Italian Noob :)

[Paoz]

Hello everyone,

my name is Stefano, i'm 30y old and i'm from Italy
I'm actually a videogame speedrunner (my area of expertise are JRPGs like Final Fantasy and Mafia-series games) and I discovered speedcubing around 1 year ago, through a friend of mine.

I picked up cubing back then, but after learning the real basics and a few solves, i pretty much abandoned it due to IRL issues distracting me.
It's a few days now that i'm back into cubing ... my best time is still a shitty time (1m47s), full beginner Layer by Layer with tons of looking, repetitions bla bla

I'm trying to be faster in execution ... and to cut pauses between algs, since i take too much time looking for pieces to move

obv i'm accepting all kind of tips/tricks/suggestions/whatsoever and, if possible, i'd like to ask 1 thing: what kind of target should i set to myself with L2L beginner method, before learning F2L ?

Thanks in advance
=Paoz=

 

[shadowslice e]

Welcome to the forums!

There is no real reason to stick with beginner's method until you are a certain time so I would recommend you switch to a "more advanced" method as soon as you can

With that said, CFOP is not necessarily the way to go as there are a few other perfectly viable speedcubing methods such as Roux, ZZ, Petrus and PCMS. I would personally advise that you look at each of the methods and see which one is best for you before you commit to one (or even better, you could be reasonable neutral at all the methods until such a time in which one begins to improve more quickly for you than the others though I can understand why you might not want to).

Anyway, I hope you have a good time on the forums!

 

[Solvador Cubi]

Hi Stefano (Paoz),

I think it's not unreasonable to think that you can solve in under 60 seconds with a little practice using LBL without F2L.

I assembled some 3x3 methods that can be used to solve the cube in under a minute without memorizing of a bunch of algorithms. However, both of these methods still have useful steps and algs that are used for more advanced CFOP.

The first is called DSEF and it uses known algs and steps in such a way so that a beginner only has to memorize 1 alg (sune) and 2 sequences (4 moves each). I turned this method into a step-by-step website and app. http://solvexio.cf

The second method is called FIXLL and has a 4 Look Last Layer. My goal for it was to use the fewest number of algorithms to memorize instead of 16 mostly unrelated ones. It uses only 9 main algorithms to complete the last layer in at most 4 steps.

Links to one-page quick reference guides are below:
http://solvexio.cf/app/#/DSEF_OnePage
http://solvexio.cf/app/#/FIXLL_OnePage

I hope some of that will help you!
Solvador Cubi