[Member Intro] Hello from Christian!

[VikingCuber]

Hello to every single one of you cubers out there!

I just wanted to introduce myself and tell how i got into cubing.
As said in the title my name is Christian and I'm from Denmark. I'm 19 years old and started cubing about 3 months ago. If you are wondering about how I got into cubing, the answer is that I have always had a slight interest in solving the 3x3 since my uncle is able to do it(pretty quick too). He even won the nationals in Denmark in 1981 I think it was. But as said I only got along cubing myself for about 3 months ago.
I average in the range of 35-37 seconds and my pb is 24.90 seconds. I use CFOP and use intuitive F2L and I know 2-look OLL and PLL, though I am going to start learning some actucal PLL algorithms today.(which ones do you think I should start with?).

One of my other interest than cubing is football( nope not american football - real football )

 

[Rocky0701]

Hello to every single one of you cubers out there!

I just wanted to introduce myself and tell how i got into cubing.
As said in the title my name is Christian and I'm from Denmark. I'm 19 years old and started cubing about 3 months ago. If you are wondering about how I got into cubing, the answer is that I have always had a slight interest in solving the 3x3 since my uncle is able to do it(pretty quick too). He even won the nationals in Denmark in 1981 I think it was. But as said I only got along cubing myself for about 3 months ago.
I average in the range of 35-37 seconds and my pb is 24.90 seconds. I use CFOP and use intuitive F2L and I know 2-look OLL and PLL, though I am going to start learning some actucal PLL algorithms today.(which ones do you think I should start with?).

One of my other interest than cubing is football( nope not american football - real football )

Hello and welcome! You on definitely on a good track, I learned PLL at about your speed. Learn the T perm first because many other PLL algs branch off from it. Then learn the ones that branch from it (J, F, Y). Don't let G perms scare you, they are moving a lot of poeces at the same time so they look hard, but they are easy to recognize and the algs are pretty easy. Leave the N perms for last because they have a very low chance of occuring. The speedsolving.com Wiki is the best place to find PLL algs. Try a bunch for the same case, then pick whichever one you like best. Good luck!

 

[VikingCuber]

Thank you!

Without even seeing your post before now, I thought I would let you know that I actually did start with the T-perm and then the Y-perm. But thanks for the suggestion anyway!

 

[Chree]

Welcome Christian! My name's Chris I come from Portland, Oregon, USA where we celebrate both football AND football.

I agree with Rocky0701... T is a great place to start. Y is also good because you get 2 free OLL algs out of it. And yeah... N's are easy.
You already know one of the A's, and at least one of the U's, so make sure to finish those soon. Then H and Z to polish off the EPLLs.
E is fun... and it's just 2 more OLL's you probably already know strung together.


Pretty much everything else you can do in whatever order you choose. The two best places to learn PLL are badmephisto and cubewhiz (Bob Burton).

http://badmephisto.com/pll.php
http://cubewhiz.com/pll.php

I'd say Bob's alg set is a little better than badmephisto's.. But it's nice to have options.

 

[sk8erman41]

I'd say Bob's alg set is a little better than badmephisto's.. But it's nice to have options.

First off, welcome! Second of all, Chree said it best, options options options! Make sure that you take your time with selecting algs before committing to learning them. Look at videos of finger tricks, play around with what feels best for you and your turning style, and don't worry about what is the most popular or easiest to remember alg. Once you select something that works well for you, then drill it and no matter how difficult it appears, with practice and time they will become second nature. If you start with the first alg you see you may find that further down the line you have to replace algs that you learned in the beginning with faster ones later so do yourself a favor and take your time up front.

This applies with all of cubing in general. Just do it to have fun! I am certainly not one of the faster cubers here, but I bet I have about as much fun as anyone. When practice gets boring or progress slows, don't get frustrated. Try a new method, learn a new cube, practice big cubes, etc. Enjoy the ride, the further down the rabbit hole you go the more you will fall in love.

 

[sneaklyfox]

Hi and welcome! You have a nice cubing history... I mean your uncle. That's really neat. Have fun with the cube!

 

[Chree]

...options options options! Make sure that you take your time with selecting algs before committing to learning them. Look at videos of finger tricks...

I should probably note that my current alg set for PLL is not Bob's or badmephistos. I picked from a few sources.

Here are some videos of alg executions! CBC's are pretty fun because he does them in slow motion. He doesn't do any fancy finger tricks either, so it should be right up your alley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1058SurCnRU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Hw1E_Rcx4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKCL_DFdkp4

And here's another one from Felix. Don't be scared: he uses mostly standard algs. But he uses a lot of cool fingertricks for G-Perms, some fun alternatives algs for N Perms (I use these N Perms now), and it's just kinda neat seeing what other algs he uses and how he executes them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kossdjLYqsc

 

[Ross The Boss]

Hallo, Viking! When it comes to the badasses of the world, those dudes definitely come to mind. Solve your solves with intensity and passion and we just might end up cubing together in Valhalla!