How do you memorize all 57 OLLs?

[alevine]

I have not learned the OLLs yet, but I would recommend watching badmephisto's video called "Tips/tricks for learning OLL/PLL". It will help you a lot.

 

[Smiles]

Thanks for you help. I do know some 1 look OLL and I do use 2 look in my solves. I average about 17-18s, I want to avg sub 16. Will 1 look help?

Yes 1 look will help, but with the algorithm memorization, practice, etc. it could take a while. the overall benefit is definitely worth it though.
it's not as huge as 1 look PLL or simple F2L, but compared to other alg sets like COLL or special F2L cases, 1 look OLL will help the most.

with full OLL you'll find your solves seem a lot shorter, cause you eliminate an entire step. knowing a method 100% makes the method seem less tedious.

 

[immortalchaos29]

I went to the wiki and selected algorithms heavy in finger tricks that I am familiar with. Then I wrote them down and sectioned the finger tricks off in parentheses which makes it easier to memorize. I carried the paper around with me and looked at it when I was bored.

I guess I learned about 2/3 OLLs/day, but then had to go back and review a bunch that I started getting confused with other algorithms. So maybe 2 months total at a very casual pace.

 

[Coolster01]

2 look oll, Use thrawst's oll video, then weston's (thewestonian) video. Thats already quite a bit of OLLs, and for the rest of them, go t badmephisto's website. I learnt them 6 months after I started cubing

Don't learn full OLL and switch to ZZ - if you already know full PLL then no more alg learning for you

*cough* COLL *cough*

 

[uberCuber]

*cough* COLL *cough*

Not at all required for ZZ. OLL -> PLL is a perfectly legitimate and perfectly fast approach.

 

[uvafan]

Not at all required for ZZ. OLL -> PLL is a perfectly legitimate and perfectly fast approach.

This. COLL/EPLL is not necessarily faster, and even if it is, it's by a very small fraction of a second.

 

[speedpicker]

Give me a few days, maybe a week. I am about to release a document that will absolutely nail learning or improving your OLL in a way no-one has done before. Keep your eye out for the thread....

Does this count as a teaser trailer?

 

[Datak]

It took me 3 months to get used to them to turn the cube very fast. what you god to do is memorize 1 oll a day

 

[Johnnyman318]

It took me a week. I learned about 25 the first day. If you look on badmephisto's website, he does it very well to categorize and simplify algs with triggers.

 

[Rubiksfreak]

You just take baby steps and start learning them, I didnt go in any specific order i just picked a couple each day that i would learn. It took me a month to learn all oll and pll algs. Its all depends on how bad you really want to learn them, some people might take a year and some might take a couple weeks. Atfirst it seems like a lot, but when you're done and learned them all it seems like nothing. Also take your time learning the right algorithms that work with your hands, some algs just dont go with the way your hands like to move.

 

[CarlBrannen]

I learned the usual 2-look OLL. I suspect that there is a more optimal (i.e. faster average with the same or less memorization) 2-look OLL than the usual. This suspicion comes from analyzing the usual 2-look PLL system.

 

[elliotsherrow]

I learned 2 look and oll and full pll within the first month or two of speedcubing. for the next 7 months about i slowly learned an alg here and there and i knew about half the olls. I got sick of it, and within 3 days i learned 28 or so. People only recommend learning 1 to 2 a day. but i actually think that kind of sucks. First off, it's hard to get yourself to learn a couple, and then you may get it down but when you're timing your solves and the case comes up and you have to think about it, you might just 2 look it. that's what i did at least, and i'd forget algs i'd learned. also, it's nice to just get them over with.

I wrote down all the algs on three differnet papers, divided equally and grouped up. and then one day I'd first memorize 'em all and work on recognition, etc. then the next day I'd practice those then I'd learn the next set and so on. Now, my recognition was terrible for the first couple days. I would accidently do the wrong algorithim and stuff like that. but within a week give or take a couple days they all kind of click. I really reccomend just getting it over with as fast as possible, it really isn't too much of a challenge and you'll be happy you did.

 

[Clarkeeyyy]

I use Bob Burton's CubeWhiz.com. He shows all the algorithm's he uses which are usually pretty good.

 

[MarcelP]

I know 33 algs right now. I could have learned more, but it has no priority for me. I take up two or three new OLL's per week right now.

 

[stoic]

I spent over a year learning them. Quite a few of them I figured out or just picked up along the way; although for recognition it's better to learn them in groups.
Breaking them down into triggers also helps massively.

 

[Kirjava]

I just realised that I knew OLL one day.

 

[bran]

For every case learn the easiest one there is and once you have gotten them down then you can switch later, that is atleast what I did.

 

[Cubinguy]

It took me around 3 weeks to learn full oll and my technique was to repeat the algorithm I wanted to learn over and over again until it was in my muscle memory.

 

[speedpicker]

I made a document containing all the information I wanted to learn in an organised way, and then systematically worked through it until I had it down.

I have to disagree with bran's idea to learn "easy" but inferior algs and then replacing them. I spent a lot of time picking what I felt were the best algs and then learning those, since learning something knowing you have to replace it with something else soon enough just isnt an efficient use of practice time. Get it right from the start. As for what getting it right actually is (alg choice and execution), I will be releasing a guide to OLL soon that I hope will answer any questions in this respect. Look out for it.

 

[Veerexx]

I made a document containing all the information I wanted to learn in an organised way, and then systematically worked through it until I had it down.

I have to disagree with bran's idea to learn "easy" but inferior algs and then replacing them. I spent a lot of time picking what I felt were the best algs and then learning those, since learning something knowing you have to replace it with something else soon enough just isnt an efficient use of practice time. Get it right from the start. As for what getting it right actually is (alg choice and execution), I will be releasing a guide to OLL soon that I hope will answer any questions in this respect. Look out for it.

I am looking out for it
I think it should be a good idea for me to learn all of the OLL algs at one point