My Lecture to Beginning Cubers

[JyH]

F or B moves in F2L

F' R U R' U' R' F R

 

[Bapao]

I used my store bought for a month before I got my first GuHong. When I got the GuHong, I couldn't even use it because my finger joints were killing me. I only had to look at a cube, and my hands would start hurting. Using the store bought put me out of business for about a month and nearly put me off cubing altogether because it was also influencing my guitar practice.

Since I dumped the store bought, I have no problems with pain what so ever.

I get what you mean though, you're suggesting optimization before moving on. But a store bought can really mess up your hands if you use it as much as a beginner would.

 

[Cyrus C.]

F' R U R' U' R' F R

R' U' R' U' R' U R U R

 

[Godmil]

These new cubes allow you to do things you normally can't do, so your times aren't "really" that good. They will only be good with a good cube. If you try to use a normal cube, you'll see you don't really have the accuracy and skill because you're used to cubes that mask regular problems.

I completely agree, far too many beginners are starting out with advanced cubes (which are designed to be really stable and require high degrees of turning skill, Rubik's etc.). It gives a false illusion of skill. Give one of these guys a normal speedcube (say a Dayan) and they just dont know how to control it. I think beginners should use a standard cube from the very beginning (such as a GuHong). That way they develop good form and technique for handling cubes, then when they've got the basics down and start to get faster they can move onto an advanced cube like a Rubik's DIY.

 

[michaelfivez]

I don't really agree, you can start learning F2L fast.
I started recently (april) and I see all these 'old-scool' cubers talking about 'years' before they got sub 30 and stuff, but nowadays with all those tutorials you can get faster fast.

2 days after I started cubing I averaged 1.30s and I started learning F2L. 1 week after I started I started with 4LL, I finished it 2 days later (I averaged 1 min). Then I immediately started full PLL wich I finsihed about 2 weeks later, at that time I bought a Guhong. At the start of may I averaged 40 seconds, Near the end about 32-33 sec. In the middle/end of June I averaged 27 sec, now I average 23-25.
It really goes faster nowadays.

I do practice 5 hours a day regularly tough (essentiatly almost every second I'm not with friends/working/sleeping)

 

[yockee]

I think that is a bad idea to learn F2L algs before you learn to do it intuitively, I agree that algs can change the way you see the F2L but if you learn them before you can do it intuitively you wont understand what you are doing with the algs, you will do them like automatically, but if you learn them just after you can do a good intuitive F2L you will see and understand how the algs work and how you can adapt them to your "intuitive F2L"

I can see why people say this, but the reason I think it's better doing it the other way around is because, in my example, if I had tried to start intuitively, it would have taken much longer as I really knew nothing at all about F2L, and really would have come up with some horrible ways of inserting the pairs. By learning algs first, it showed me what I was really supposed to be doing, and once I understood a little more, I changed most of the algs to faster ways of inserting pairs. It was pretty automatic with the algs, and that is what made me realize that it was so much slower than it needed to be. Now, I'm really comfortable with my F2L and looking ahead is more my main concern. I progress a little at a time, but I at least am aware of what I'm doing wrong, rather than having to ask the same question all the time. "How do I get faster?" etc.

 

[yockee]

I used my store bought for a month before I got my first GuHong. When I got the GuHong, I couldn't even use it because my finger joints were killing me. I only had to look at a cube, and my hands would start hurting. Using the store bought put me out of business for about a month and nearly put me off cubing altogether because it was also influencing my guitar practice.

Since I dumped the store bought, I have no problems with pain what so ever.

I get what you mean though, you're suggesting optimization before moving on. But a store bought can really mess up your hands if you use it as much as a beginner would.

Usually, it would suck, but my storebought, as you can see in the video (when I show it, not the cube I use for the examples) is better than a lot of DIYs!!

 

[yockee]

I completely agree, far too many beginners are starting out with advanced cubes (which are designed to be really stable and require high degrees of turning skill, Rubik's etc.). It gives a false illusion of skill. Give one of these guys a normal speedcube (say a Dayan) and they just dont know how to control it. I think beginners should use a standard cube from the very beginning (such as a GuHong). That way they develop good form and technique for handling cubes, then when they've got the basics down and start to get faster they can move onto an advanced cube like a Rubik's DIY.

Hahahaha, I can't tell if you're making fun of what I'm saying, or agreeing with me, saying how backwards people are.