[Member Intro] New member from Sweden

[AES]

Hi!
My name is Anton and I’ve been cubing for about 3 weeks or so.

The golf season was about to end here in Sweden so I needed something new to occupy my mind. I accidentally found a cube laying around and I tried to solve it.

First I learned a beginners method. And that lead me to CFOP.
Played around with 4LLL for 2 weeks until I stumbled upon Roux.

I still haven’t decided what method to continue with, but I think Roux is more fun atm.

Anyway, that’s me.
Have a nice day!

//Anton

 

[CornerCutter]

Hey, welcome to the forums! It's great you found the forum this early! It can be a hard decision to choose a method, but I use CFOP.

 

[AbsoRuud]

Welcome to speedcubing, welcome to the forum and welcome to Roux. I personally really enjoy Roux, it feels a lot more like solving rather than spamming algs. I hate learning many algs. So this is really nice for me.

What are your times right now? What k ind of cube do you have?

 

[AES]

Thank you!

I don’t know the name of my current cube, I don’t think it’s anything special. But I recently ordered a Gan 356 Air SM. Hopefully it will arrive this week.

I don’t mind learning the algs, however, just spamming them gets old rather quick imo. That’s why I think blockbuilding might suit me better. On the other hand, Cross and F2L in CFOP is kind of fun as well.
I’m so new to this, so I have still to figure out what suits me.
I think I average about 1 minute with CFOP and around 50 seconds with Roux.

 

[AbsoRuud]

Those are very good times for only being a cuber for 3 weeks! I've been at it since August myself and I consider 40s still good times for me. I often get 30s and I just broke my PB with 28,86. Like just now, 2 minutes ago. With Roux.

 

[AES]

Those are very good times for only being a cuber for 3 weeks! I've been at it since August myself and I consider 40s still good times for me. I often get 30s and I just broke my PB with 28,86. Like just now, 2 minutes ago. With Roux.

Congrats to your PB!

Well, I’m not that concerned with times yet. I try to solve the blocks slow and look ahead. Also trying to learn som finger tricks, especially for U2 and M’ etc.

That’s another cool thing I like about Roux. Instead of learning lots of LL-algs, I can focus on finger tricks and look ahead.

Luckily there’s a lot of useful information on this forum, which is very helpful.

 

[AbsoRuud]

Yeah, but I found the most valuable information on Kian Mansour's YouTube channel. The phrase that made everything click for me was "The alone piece". When you watch his videos, esp. the last part, you'll know what I mean.

 

[kawam1123]

Welcome to the forums. I'm newbie here, too. (since yesterday)
I personally use CFOP and have tried to practice ROUX, but it was terribly hard for me to execute because I am not good at M rotations.

Solving the cube with Roux has a fantastic appearance.

 

[AES]

Yeah, Kian Mansour’s videos are amazing. I’m currently learning roux by watching his videos. His Roux tutorials are great as well as his ‘Tips and tricks’-videos.