My cubing story

[scuba2006]

Well, here is my cubing story. My roommate taught me the Rubik's cube my freshmen year of college, using a very easy to understand but unorthodox method of notation. My solve time back then was around five minutes. I studied a little, and taught myself fur u'r'f, taking away the guesswork that used to be present. I am now teaching myself f2l, not using algs, just logic, and have been "experimenting" with OLL algs. My fastest solve has been 45 seconds, and I have achieved that time twice. What I need are easy algorithms that don't involve spinning the cube (x, x', y, etc.) or moving any middle layers (Lw, Rw, etc.), I can do that after I understand the algorithm. Any suggestions on where to start?
note: I don't understand most of the abbreviations that I've seen thus far.

 

[buelercuber]

cousin showed me he could solve one, he told me where he learnt it. Dan Brown....ewwww. Watched it. first solve 5 minutes. (i already knew how to make a first side intuitively, it's easy) Got faster. had problems moving to fingertricks, really the hardest part of my cubing career. Got faster then my cousin. Canadian open 2009(average 30). Learnt about speed-solving .com. learnt f2l oll pll. where i am today with an average of 16.


It's always the best to learn intuitive F2L it'll get you the fastest you can get. you should learn n2-look OLL and PLL, it's led you to full OLL and PLL
when learning PLL and OLL, teach yourself patterns, don't rely on others pattern tricks. If you have any problem with notation, or algorithms, go to the speedsolving wiki in the left side bar on the forum.

Oh, and welcome to speedsolving.com!

 

[EricReese]

For me my internet on my computer was down and so I went into ryans room bored as anything, his had internet, (its hard to explain) and so I was just laying there. I had never done a LBL method and I was just like "Im bored ryan, teach me fridrich" and then 3 weeks later I knew full PLL and 2look OLL and F2L and was averaging around 30 seconds.

Welcome to speedsolving

 

[scuba2006]

Thanks for the advice. I spend quite a bit of my spare time playing with my cube. It's good to have a little direction.

 

[scuba2006]

n2-look, LBL method, fridrich- I have no idea what these are or where to find them.

 

[scuba2006]

Not that anybody will read this but I finally found out what all of the above stated are, and am currently practicing F2L and 2-look OLL.