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Bart Van Eynde

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Hi all,

I'm a fairly new speedcube enthousiast. I'm in my late 30's so I guess that's considered to be of the older dudes. I fell in love with the original rubik's cube early 2010 and starting to learn the beginner's method. It took me like 4+ mins to solve it back then and it got put aside for many years. In the beginning of this year my youngest daughter (age 4) found it and started to mess with it. So I started to solve it again so she could scramble it again. Then one day she threw it on the floor and it broke. So I bought a Rubik's Speedcube pro-pack and started to learn F2L.
My times where slow as hell going from 3:30 to 4:00 mins (even slower when trying F2L) but I kept practicing and times came down to 2:00 to 2:30 mins. Then 2-look OLL brought me around 1:30 to 2:00 mins and finally PLL (not all) got me to sub 1:20. Also I bought myself a Tanglong and now my personal best is 50.260 sec.
My weakest points ... white cross, F2L, and I'm a slow turner :)
 
Welcome! I say invest a few dollars, grab a quality speedcube. There's tons of threads about which one you may like best, I can almost guarantee that almost all recommendations here are better than what you're currently using. There are a bunch of great speedcubes and speedcube shops online. There's like 10 or more different threads about picking your shop and picking your perfect cube.

Also, you should definitely check around at some of the other speedsolving methods on the market. Roux is my main speedsolving method and I enjoy it a lot because it's not super algorithm based. There's a lot of intuition involved. Plus it's a great method to use for solving the cube without using a ton of moves.

So yea, welcome to the forum, have fun solving the puzzle and definitely investigate all the different ways of solving the puzzle before settling in on the one that's for you.
 
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