teller
REAL Fingertricks!
Greetings, programs!
I've been cubing since 1980. Back in the 80's the only resource I had available was this:
It's pretty ridiculous in retrospect. For a "beginner" method he had some painfully long algorithms, but that was the state of the art at the time. I never got below 60sec with it, but it always got the job done.
Around the year 2000 I came across Lars Petrus' site, but his method was just too alien for me and the little Java animations were difficult to follow. But it did inspire me to try the 4x4 and 5x5, which I successfully completed by reducing them to 3x3. No world records, just tinkering.
Then a couple of months ago I came across badmephisto on YouTube and he inspired me to finally relearn the cube properly from the bottom up (using Fridrich) and it's been a real joy. It's actually kind of sick to think that I used to cube without any lube!
I can't say enough good things about badmephisto--he's not Martin Scorcese or anything, but his stuff is actually edited and he doesn't treat the viewer like an imbecile. The material moves along, and if you have trouble there is always the pause button.
I maybe average about 45sec, but I don't like the pressure of being timed. Currently I am tightening my F2L...all I can figure is that it takes a lot of practice and there's no point in rushing it. The speed seems to descend upon the cuber when he/she finally feels no hesitation and not before.
anyway, just thought I would introduce myself. I am in awe of some of the times posted here, you guys rock.
I've been cubing since 1980. Back in the 80's the only resource I had available was this:
It's pretty ridiculous in retrospect. For a "beginner" method he had some painfully long algorithms, but that was the state of the art at the time. I never got below 60sec with it, but it always got the job done.
Around the year 2000 I came across Lars Petrus' site, but his method was just too alien for me and the little Java animations were difficult to follow. But it did inspire me to try the 4x4 and 5x5, which I successfully completed by reducing them to 3x3. No world records, just tinkering.
Then a couple of months ago I came across badmephisto on YouTube and he inspired me to finally relearn the cube properly from the bottom up (using Fridrich) and it's been a real joy. It's actually kind of sick to think that I used to cube without any lube!
I can't say enough good things about badmephisto--he's not Martin Scorcese or anything, but his stuff is actually edited and he doesn't treat the viewer like an imbecile. The material moves along, and if you have trouble there is always the pause button.
I maybe average about 45sec, but I don't like the pressure of being timed. Currently I am tightening my F2L...all I can figure is that it takes a lot of practice and there's no point in rushing it. The speed seems to descend upon the cuber when he/she finally feels no hesitation and not before.
anyway, just thought I would introduce myself. I am in awe of some of the times posted here, you guys rock.