How much did you figure out?

[souljahsu]

How much of the cube did you figure out before you found a solution online?

 

[flan]

first side but i was about 12. no excuse i guess

 

[ElectricDoodie]

F2L.

When I reached the last layer, I crapped myself trying and looked online.
From there I found out about algorithms and boom, here I am today at 30sec avg.

 

[BC1997]

yeah i could only solve 1 side in 8 mins and now have an avg of 47 and single of 29.07 seconds

 

[Keroma12]

I figured out every puzzle I own and average 27 sec with my method on 3x3

Square-1 and Face Turning Octahedron were the hardest.

1x2x2 was the easiest hehe.

 

[Joker]

All of it. Made my own method and was able to solve it in about 7 min. I tried my old method yesterday (barely able to remember it since I made it two years ago when I was 10) and I got 3 min with it. Commutators FTW lol.

 

[TheCubeMaster5000]

I would solve the first layer every once in a while, but at that time I had no interest in learning how to solve the whole thing. That is, until I got a brand new cube. Then I instantly went online to learn for myself how to do it for real.
Now I avg 23 seconds.

 

[TheCubeMaster5000]

I figured out every puzzle I own

Square-1 and Face Turning Octahedron were the hardest.

1x2x2 was the easiest hehe.

I can solve a 1x1x1 all by myself. Does that count?

 

[StachuK1992]

I voted for "2 1x2x3 blocks," but not the Roux 1x2x2 blocks, but rather Cross+2 F2L pairs, opposite.
By this, I mean FR and BL.

 

[Andreaillest]

I managed to get a layer, however all the pieces were oriented incorrectly.

 

[Owen]

I never tried solving a Rubik's cube before I learned.

 

[Sa967St]

Just one layer, I had no idea what to do after that.

I would made a 3x1 block on a face (place two opposite cross pieces) then make a 3x1x1 block of the same colour somewhere else and place it beside the 3x1, then make another 3x1x1 block and place it to complete a face. After that I would intuitively switch any pieces that weren't in the correct position. Pretty terrible method, but that's what I started off doing since I couldn't come up with a better way of doing it.

 

[coinman]

F2L + some of the last layer. I inventet Sune + some more LL algs in the 80's

 

[BigSams]

I noticed some guy in another lunch table doing a cross, so I imitated that. And then I assumed the 4 "holes" had to be filled in. I noticed RUR' and RU'R insertions and used intuition to turn everything else into those 2 cases (horribly inefficient intuition with lots of whole cube rotations). Gave up on the rest of the cube and learned a stupid "fish" method from youtube.

 

[Thompson]

I barely even tried. I just went to youtube right away.

 

[AvidCuber]

F2L. Then I learned LL from the little booklet that came with it. My biggest mistake, I think, because it took forever for me to transition to Fridrich.

Now I average 24-ish with intuitive F2L and 4LLL.

 

[komandoran]

I watched a tutorial before I got my first cube and bought one the next day to see if it really was as easy it looked like.

 

[Kirjava]

There's no poll option for two sides

 

[ben1996123]

How much of the cube did you figure out before you found a solution online?

I figured it all out with an offline guide.

Without any guide, 1 layer. If I started cubing recently, I probably could have figured out at least all of the F2L.

 

[Forte]

I barely even tried. I just went to youtube right away.

Me too!