How to get my friend to continue learning f2l and not go back to beginners

[Beppe81]

In my opinion, F2L is also more funny than LBL.. because it's intuitive, and you don't do always the same steps... I learned F2L just for fun, before trying to speed up..

 

[buelercuber]

In my opinion, F2L is also more funny than LBL.. because it's intuitive, and you don't do always the same steps... I learned F2L just for fun, before trying to speed up..

yea its so much more funny that LBL

 

[bluedasher]

Heck, just show you're friend this thread. Here are a bunch of experienced cubers telling him to learn F2L and not LBL.

 

[Joker]

Tell him all the pros use F2L.

 

[Carson]

And whatever you do, don't let him see this video:

Spoiler

 

[shelley]

Yes, reverse physiology may work.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

OT: Why do you care? Let your friend make his own decisions about his hobbies. It's not like getting fast at cubing is something everyone is required to do. Besides, continuing with his old method rather than spending time on new techniques and algorithms can help him focus on things like looking ahead, which will help him in the long run if he eventually decides to learn a more advanced method. It's not necessarily bad that he wants to stick with it.

I didn't consciously decide "I'm going to learn advanced F2L now" when I was at that stage, either. I just did the beginner method over and over until I started to see patterns in how the middle layer edge was placed in relation to the corresponding corner and how they got paired up. I played around with things in an effort to make the process more efficient. Next thing I knew I was doing intuitive Fridrich F2L.

There's no point in forcing things. Besides, if you really want to convince him that advanced F2L is faster (because all the fastest speedcubers in the world aren't convincing enough), all you need to do is get fast with advanced F2L and kick his butt. It's that simple