How I got into speed-cubing.
I got my first rubik's cube when I was 11 (I'm 17 now). I learned to solve it from a tutorial back then. But I just kept solving it over and over until I got faster and faster. I actually regretted learning 3x3x3 from a tutorial so much that I made my own method later.
But about a year ago I really started getting into speed-cubing and started watching videos, looking up algorithms and learning f2l. But mainly the last few months I've really started practicing a lot.
Now I average just below 40s. And I am in the process of learning full PLL.
(my steps are currently: cross, f2l, 2look oll, mix of pll and 2 look pll)
I'm wondering if I should learn Roux? Since I've put so much time in CFOP already. But is seems like an attractive method although I don't want to learn all the CMLL algs. I think I should at least give it a try.
Other twisty puzzles
For all of the other twisty puzzles I got I tried to figure out my own method.
I got the skewb around 3 years ago. I figured out how to solve it by discovering the sledge hammer and looking at the cube to see what it does. I never really got into speed-solving it (for more than a 2 weeks) although at some point I was sub-20 (I don't know how fast that is for a skewb).
2 years ago I got a pyraminx. This was my favorite puzzle for a long time. I the method I found was a mix of key hole and last-4-edges (bases on sledge hammers). I actually got really into speedsolving it with that method and I ended up combining slege hammers to make l4e algs. Although I haven't practiced for about a month I still average around 13s.
In the last 2 years I got a 4x4x4, a 2x2x2, an ultimate skewb (skewb shape mod) and an egg-cube. I have made my own methods for all of them (4x4x4 is just paring up the centers & edges first and than 3x3x3, 2x2x2 is just the corners part of my corners first method, ultimate skewb is like a skewb with a few parities). But I'm still working on the egg cube because I'm focussing on 3x3x3 atm and I don't really like the egg cube (because of the terrible recognition).
My own 3x3x3 method
-I would solve the white corners first
-Orient the yellow corners with the sune (I think I could have come up with the sune myself)
-permute the yellow corners with my own alg (based on commutators)
-solve the yellow and white edges intuitively
-permute the other edges with halve turns and M slices
-orient the other edges with my own alg (base on cummutators)
(tell me if you would like a more in depth description of any of my methods)
Hardware
-A rukib's 2x2x2
-A rubik's 3x3x3
-A v-cube 4x4x4
-A moyo pyraminx
-An unknown skewb
-An unknown utltimate skewb
-An unknown egg cube
(I don't know many of these because I got them as gifts)
But there is an order on the way for a:
-MoFangJiaoShi 2x2x2
-YJ Guanlong 3x3x3
-YuXin kylin cube 5x5x5
-ShengShou 2x2 Megaminx
-ShengShou Aurora Megaminx
-ShengShou 4-layer Pyraminx
Other hobbies
I also watch a lot of youtube, play games,...
But as you might not expect I also make some games (really small indies)
for example I made this game https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam/rate/158968 with a friend for the game makers toolkit 48-hour game jam.
Btw my native langue is Dutch so their will be a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes.
Wonder what I should learn next altough I think I'll follow this guide: https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/threads/how-to-get-faster-using-the-fridrich-cfop-method.6085/
Is there anything I forgot to say? You want to ask? You want to tell me? This is supposed to make me meet people after all.
I got my first rubik's cube when I was 11 (I'm 17 now). I learned to solve it from a tutorial back then. But I just kept solving it over and over until I got faster and faster. I actually regretted learning 3x3x3 from a tutorial so much that I made my own method later.
But about a year ago I really started getting into speed-cubing and started watching videos, looking up algorithms and learning f2l. But mainly the last few months I've really started practicing a lot.
Now I average just below 40s. And I am in the process of learning full PLL.
(my steps are currently: cross, f2l, 2look oll, mix of pll and 2 look pll)
I'm wondering if I should learn Roux? Since I've put so much time in CFOP already. But is seems like an attractive method although I don't want to learn all the CMLL algs. I think I should at least give it a try.
Other twisty puzzles
For all of the other twisty puzzles I got I tried to figure out my own method.
I got the skewb around 3 years ago. I figured out how to solve it by discovering the sledge hammer and looking at the cube to see what it does. I never really got into speed-solving it (for more than a 2 weeks) although at some point I was sub-20 (I don't know how fast that is for a skewb).
2 years ago I got a pyraminx. This was my favorite puzzle for a long time. I the method I found was a mix of key hole and last-4-edges (bases on sledge hammers). I actually got really into speedsolving it with that method and I ended up combining slege hammers to make l4e algs. Although I haven't practiced for about a month I still average around 13s.
In the last 2 years I got a 4x4x4, a 2x2x2, an ultimate skewb (skewb shape mod) and an egg-cube. I have made my own methods for all of them (4x4x4 is just paring up the centers & edges first and than 3x3x3, 2x2x2 is just the corners part of my corners first method, ultimate skewb is like a skewb with a few parities). But I'm still working on the egg cube because I'm focussing on 3x3x3 atm and I don't really like the egg cube (because of the terrible recognition).
My own 3x3x3 method
-I would solve the white corners first
-Orient the yellow corners with the sune (I think I could have come up with the sune myself)
-permute the yellow corners with my own alg (based on commutators)
-solve the yellow and white edges intuitively
-permute the other edges with halve turns and M slices
-orient the other edges with my own alg (base on cummutators)
(tell me if you would like a more in depth description of any of my methods)
Hardware
-A rukib's 2x2x2
-A rubik's 3x3x3
-A v-cube 4x4x4
-A moyo pyraminx
-An unknown skewb
-An unknown utltimate skewb
-An unknown egg cube
(I don't know many of these because I got them as gifts)
But there is an order on the way for a:
-MoFangJiaoShi 2x2x2
-YJ Guanlong 3x3x3
-YuXin kylin cube 5x5x5
-ShengShou 2x2 Megaminx
-ShengShou Aurora Megaminx
-ShengShou 4-layer Pyraminx
Other hobbies
I also watch a lot of youtube, play games,...
But as you might not expect I also make some games (really small indies)
for example I made this game https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam/rate/158968 with a friend for the game makers toolkit 48-hour game jam.
Btw my native langue is Dutch so their will be a lot of grammar and spelling mistakes.
Wonder what I should learn next altough I think I'll follow this guide: https://www.speedsolving.com/forum/threads/how-to-get-faster-using-the-fridrich-cfop-method.6085/
Is there anything I forgot to say? You want to ask? You want to tell me? This is supposed to make me meet people after all.
