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Hi there.
A bit of background on me:
I started cubing a long time ago, learning from online and youtube tutorials. I was never fast at cubing and I'm still not (~1 min) but I've always enjoyed messing with twisty puzzles and maybe I will actually focus and practice.
I grew up watching thrawst, RedKB, and Memyselfandpi. I had a crappy Rubik's brand cube and some knockoff Chinese ones that were pretty bad as well. I tried using silicone spray lube on the plastic but it only made the cubes more gummy. I even considered putting sand in my Rubik's brand cube. At the time I was vaguely aware of Dayan and Alpha cubes but I didn't feel like asking my parents to buy one for me. Nowadays there are so many incredibly cheap great budget cubes that put old cubes to shame.
Interestingly enough youtube recommendations (mostly JRCuber and CrazyBadCuber vids at first) and some college friends have resparked my interest in cubing. When it comes to my interests, it really is what goes around comes around. Like many others, my longtime recurring interests are math and programming. I am thinking of writing an algorithm explorer for cubes (the goal is for twisty puzzles of all sizes and shapes). It has no doubt been done before but I still think it will be an interesting learning experience. An idea I had is to weight certain moves as less expensive to perform than others. Another is to force algorithms to a certain well-known forms: commutators, symmetric algorithms, and repetitive moves (my grasp of group theory is very superficial).
What brought me to this forum was that I was exploring some intuitive F2L algorithms from the wiki.
A bit of background on me:
I started cubing a long time ago, learning from online and youtube tutorials. I was never fast at cubing and I'm still not (~1 min) but I've always enjoyed messing with twisty puzzles and maybe I will actually focus and practice.
I grew up watching thrawst, RedKB, and Memyselfandpi. I had a crappy Rubik's brand cube and some knockoff Chinese ones that were pretty bad as well. I tried using silicone spray lube on the plastic but it only made the cubes more gummy. I even considered putting sand in my Rubik's brand cube. At the time I was vaguely aware of Dayan and Alpha cubes but I didn't feel like asking my parents to buy one for me. Nowadays there are so many incredibly cheap great budget cubes that put old cubes to shame.
Interestingly enough youtube recommendations (mostly JRCuber and CrazyBadCuber vids at first) and some college friends have resparked my interest in cubing. When it comes to my interests, it really is what goes around comes around. Like many others, my longtime recurring interests are math and programming. I am thinking of writing an algorithm explorer for cubes (the goal is for twisty puzzles of all sizes and shapes). It has no doubt been done before but I still think it will be an interesting learning experience. An idea I had is to weight certain moves as less expensive to perform than others. Another is to force algorithms to a certain well-known forms: commutators, symmetric algorithms, and repetitive moves (my grasp of group theory is very superficial).
What brought me to this forum was that I was exploring some intuitive F2L algorithms from the wiki.
