Megaminx - easy to learn?

[Yes We Can!]

Hi,
I want to sign up to the German Open 2009, and I don't know, whether I will join at Megaminx event... I ordered one at cube4you and it will come in 2-3 EDIT: weeks...
Do you think, that I can learn, how to solve it (fast enough to compete, in 5 minutes) till 25th of April?

Greets,
Conny.

 

[byu]

I seriously hope you mean 2-3 weeks.

 

[EmersonHerrmann]

Yeah, I'm sure you can if you practice enough....It's basically like 3x3, just takes longer and pieces are scattered farther.

 

[snckdude]

ummm, i would say its about the same as a 3x3 but a little more odd to handle. as far as learning about how to solve its pretty easy. there is just 1 new alg to learn

 

[Yes We Can!]

Yes, of course I mean 2-3 weeks.
okay, then I will sign up for megaminx

What is this allgerithm? and how to use it (for what)?

 

[Inusagi]

I got around 2-3 weeks before a competition and got sub 3:30 avg. So it's not hard if you can solve a 3x3.

What do you mean by "this allgerithm"?

 

[Crossed]

I'm able to solve everything but the last layer, and since you know how to solve a 3x3 you probably won't have a problem until you reach the LL.
I haven't learned the LL yet, so some simple algs would be usefull for me too.

 

[snckdude]

(U, L, U, L', U') when you have 1 of the 5 corners.

 

[jcuber]

I need a u-perm for a virtual minx.

 

[Unknown.soul]

R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' (Jb)

(borrowed from cutex.info)

 

[Yes We Can!]

Thanks a lot to all of you!

 

[Sebastien]

U don't have to learn how to solve a megaminx, you can just do it if you are able to solve a 3x3. You can use the OLLs to orient the LL and PLLs to permutete ist. Just try a T and a J perm on a MM and you will see what I mean.

 

[Yes We Can!]

Okay...
I signed up for 3x3x3, 2x2x2 and Megaminx

 

[TMOY]

U don't have to learn how to solve a megaminx, you can just do it if you are able to solve a 3x3.

That's not always true. Try to solve a megaminx with a corners first method and you'll see what I mean.

 

[Stefan]

Why do you ask whether megaminx is easy to "learn", instead of asking whether it is easy to "solve"? Tells a lot about you.

 

[fanwuq]

U don't have to learn how to solve a megaminx, you can just do it if you are able to solve a 3x3.

That's not always true. Try to solve a megaminx with a corners first method and you'll see what I mean.

Why not?
Solve all corners until LL, corner commutators for CLL, Edge 3-cycles for EP.

 

[TMOY]

I'm using a Guimond-like corners first method on the cube. How am I supposed to solve the corners of my megaminx with that ?
And anyway, 3-cycles is not the way you usually solve edges with any CF method on the cube.