How did you learn how to solve the cube?!

[guinepigs rock]

I would have been so much better now if I had stuck with cubing back in 2007, when I first learned beginner's method. I was at around 1:30 when my stickers wore off, leaving me without a cube for a good year and a half. I used to think when stickers wore off, you had to buy a new cube, hahaha, so for the longest time, I just didn't have one. Then, I finally got one again, and found Dan Harris's book, "Speedsolving the Cube" and started learning Fridrich from that. I didn't yet know about you tube tutorials, or DIY cubes. So, I learned F2L between that book and his website, cubestation.co.uk, and took quite a while to master them. Then, I copied every single LL alg onto paper, and spent the next 6 months or so learning them. It took forever. Then, I found out about you tube tutorials. I started finding better LL algs, and changed a few of the ones I was using, as well as how to solve F2L without strictly using algs. I didn't know you could do this, for some reason. I thought you had to use the algs, hahaha. After a while, I started finding my own ways of changing the F2L algs, so I could do the cases faster. One day, I saw a video about DIY cubes and Eastsheen cubes, and thought "why would anyone want to buy a crappy copy version of a cube when they can get the real, original Rubik's?" hahahha. I wouldn't buy anything that wasn't Rubik's. Then, I got the Rubik's 2x2, which was supposed to be really small, but ended up being the size of a 3x3, and I freaked out thinking they'd sent me an eastsheen, until I found out that they'd changed them. It sucked so badly that I gave in and decided to try an eastsheen, and started buying DIY's. This all happened around September 09. I was around :45 then. I quickly started getting faster, breaking into the 30's, and freaked out when I hit the 20's. Once I got to around 22, I just stayed there forever. Now, I'm finally averaging around 17 to 18 sec, with more and more sub 15's recently, but still get lots of crappy 23's, 25's and even some 27's on really bad solves. That's just when I make stupid mistakes though, and really depends on which cube I'm using, even though, I've gotten sub 20 on all 20 of my cubes. I'm so glad that learning time period is behind me. I think I would kill myself if I had to go through it all,again.

Im now learing oll I finished learning all my plls cant wait till im as fast as you.

 

[Tyjet66]

www.chessandpoker.com

 

[Samania]

Dan Brown's tutorial. At first I just wanted to solve the cube.

 

[masteranders1]

I learned from a mix of Dan Brown's and badmephisto's YouTube tutorials. I learned from Dan Brown up to the last layer, when he starts (imo) to get really confusing for beginners like myself at the time. I then looked up an easier to follow tutorial, found badmephisto's, and learned how to solve it.

 

[xbrandationx]

RobH

 

[Engberg91]

Cross
Corners
edges (L U L U L U' L' U' L') and (R' U' R' U' R' U R U R)
Yellow cross
Sune
Corner Permutation
Edge Permutation

 

[Seirup]

youcansolvethecube.com

 

[Reinier Schippers]

From a dutch guy Kadettv8 He made a tutorial in dutch. Afterwards I saw a few other tutorials but the way he solved was LBL but for the last layer I only needed to learn 4 algs 2 oll and 2 pll so I was happy with that

 

[baseball-chicago]

At first I learned LBL from Dan Brown, but then went to badmephisto.

 

[PowerCuber]

I learned from someone at a summercamp.

 

[Cyrus C.]

I figured out a luck-based CF method. I then learnt LBL off of a pdf sheet.

 

[peterbone]

I worked it out for myself while on holiday when I was about 12. Only started learning more efficient algs within the last couple of months.

 

[stone]

i learned from pogobat's tutorial from youtube but then i saw bad mephisto video's i had to relearn everythink because it was too slow

 

[theace]

Rather complex story...

I went on to youtube and started watching Dan Brown's video. But then I stopped after notation because I thought I was kinda cheating. So I started trying to figure it out on my own. I quickly learnt that matching colours will get you nowhere in life. I then figured out the concept of layers and decided to put in the corners first. Soon, I had both layers down. However, I couldn't get the last layer for a long time so I went back to Dan's vid and wrote down the algs. I didn't see what they do. I decided to figure it out. In 2 weeks, I had the cube solved

Then I saw the video

 

[KarateCuber]

I learned how to solve a 3x3 from the little book that came with the rubik's cube. I learned how to solve a 4x4 from memyselfandpi's tutorial and I could solve my 5x5 easily after that without a tutorial.

 

[tx789]

I learned 3x3 on You can do the Rubik Cube. Then 5x5 at RobH one and 4x4 I only did what I did on 5x5 and for over a year I didd't learn partiy

 

[Reinier Schippers]

I learned 3x3 on You can do the Rubik Cube. Then 5x5 at RobH one and 4x4 I only did what I did on 5x5 and for over a year I didd't learn partiy

I also didnt know the parity for like 2 months but then a comp was coming and i wanted to compete in the 4x4 aswell. At Dutch Nationals there was a guy who dnf'd his first 3 solves and fifth solve because he didn't know the alg xD

 

[TiLiMayor]

there was a tutorial on wikipedia and I learned from it

 

[goflb]

the lil booklet that came with the storebought rubiks. they were free so i took lots

 

[Specs112]

Dan's tutorial on youtube initially, switched to F2L after a few months which I learned from badmephisto's guide.