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[bapprille]

Hi all,

My name is Brian and I'm new to this site. I am 37 and really enjoy cubing. Currently, I average between 45 and 55 seconds to solve. My goal is to get around 30 seconds. I am using/learning F2L (slows me down the most) and I use 2 look OLL and currently learnning all PLL (I know 14 of the 21 algs so far).

Looking forward to learning more and developing into a better cuber...

 

[Owen]

Great! You'll be down to 30 seconds in no time.

 

[wontolla]

Join the race to sub 30!

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?21411-quot-NEW-quot-Race-to-Sub-30!&highlight=race+sub30

 

[5BLD]

Hi! You'll easily sub-30 if you keep going the way you are right now. As you develop your fridrich skills you can explore some other methods like heise or petrus or roux. You might even want to switch! You can also post your records and averages in your signature.

 

[bapprille]

What do you think the advantages of Roux are over Fridich? I've heard of a lot of people on the site using it, but I don't really know what would be the main differences?

 

[Bapao]

Welcome!
Dude! you made my evening I'm 35, but I don't feel anywhere near between 45 and 55. Harsh times...

 

[Godmil]

(Yay for more older cubers)
Welcome to the forums.

 

[Bapao]

(Yay for more older cubers)
Welcome to the forums.

You're not "old" yet Godmil...What with your mere 30-31 years of earthly experience! Hah!...

You're officially old when you reach 30/31 and 1 day... Sorry, the clock in my kitchen stopped working the day you turned 30/31...when was that btw...? Your party was the shitz though! Greets to Maggi. Is she married yet? If not, ask her about "snikelgard". She'll remember me

Greetz...

H.

 

[5BLD]

What do you think the advantages of Roux are over Fridich? I've heard of a lot of people on the site using it, but I don't really know what would be the main differences?

Sorry for late answer, hope you do read this.
Before I say anything, let me tell you, these are just my opinions. If you hate roux, don't use it.
Roux is far less algorithm-based. It uses intuitive blockbuilding and the mooing (my favourite bit ) at the end which is also intuitive, so it gives more room for customisation.

The first step is to intuitively build two blocks opposite each other, I sometimes do non-matching blocks, though.

Second step is to solve the corners, allowing the M-slice to be murdered. This is the only alg-based part of it.

Last step is the mooing, or MUing. At this point you have reduced the cube to M,U reachable positions. This part looks especially cool



It's very different to CFOP.

 

[bapprille]

Sorry for late answer, hope you do read this.
Before I say anything, let me tell you, these are just my opinions. If you hate roux, don't use it.
Roux is far less algorithm-based. It uses intuitive blockbuilding and the mooing (my favourite bit ) at the end which is also intuitive, so it gives more room for customisation.

The first step is to intuitively build two blocks opposite each other, I sometimes do non-matching blocks, though.

Second step is to solve the corners, allowing the M-slice to be murdered. This is the only alg-based part of it.

Last step is the mooing, or MUing. At this point you have reduced the cube to M,U reachable positions. This part looks especially cool



It's very different to CFOP.

I just looked up a couple of videos on YouTube and it looks interesting... Couldn't find a good tutorial (but honestly stopped after a couple of tries.) Any videos that you recommend?

 

[5BLD]

Try Gilles Roux's site, or my site, although it's not complete. I am working on making a full tutorial now.
For the moment, however, I recommend this:
http://grrroux.free.fr/method/Intro.html
His website is nice and casual and makes you think, rather than giving you all the answers.
But remember, throw away all your F2L techniques, try any way you can to build the blocks. It's fun!

All I've got on my website so far is a really long winded first block tutorial (in case people didn't get it). it's on the tutorial ish thing bit
http://5bld.webs.com

If you're confused with anything, please tell me on my website or here and I can make a video for you or somethings. At least it'll give me a video to make.
And if you hate Roux (after giving it a good go), then don't force yourself to use it.

 

[waffle=ijm]

or my site...or my thread....or my videos...etc. [/advertising]

 

[5BLD]

Oh yeah, forgot about waffle's stuff lol! I never used his cuz I didn't notice the tutorial until I was like sub-20 haha. What a shame, I wouldn't have wasted bags of time trying to figure out the first block then.

Yeah, go waffle's site too, it's a bit clearer than Gilles'. But still I believe Gilles' is a nice site to begin with (it makes you think HARD), and if you get confused, go to waffos site (very clear) or ask me to do a tutorial on it.

 

[bapprille]

Oh yeah, forgot about waffle's stuff lol! I never used his cuz I didn't notice the tutorial until I was like sub-20 haha. What a shame, I wouldn't have wasted bags of time trying to figure out the first block then.

Yeah, go waffle's site too, it's a bit clearer than Gilles'. But still I believe Gilles' is a nice site to begin with (it makes you think HARD), and if you get confused, go to waffos site (very clear) or ask me to do a tutorial on it.

Sweet! I'll definitely check them all out and see which works best for me... but that'll be after the San Diego Open tomorrow... don't want to even mess with my brain tonight..it's all about trying to get sub :45 tomorrow (I have no shot at winning, just going to hang out and compete against myself).

 

[Selkie]

Heh sorry for the delayed welcome. Nothing wrong with being a more mature cuber!

I am 41 years old myself and I solved using a beginners method for 30 years on and off and joined the community here this January. First goal, a sub 30 single, got that and just kept changing my objectives. Just about sub 25 now and my eventual aim is sub 15. I'm enjoying it as much as those a third of my age and it is a great community here.

So don't feel your age is any reason not to make good progress. There are great inspirations such as Mike Hughey and Ton Dennenbroek who are fantastic cubers of the more mature persuasion, if they will forgive the reference ;-)

As the others before me have stated look into your various options and find a solving method that suits you. I personally went for CFOP and that was because it was a method I had wanted to learn for years. Although very algorithm intensive I find no problem learning algs myself and learned the 21 PLLs and 57 OLLs in about 2 months with no issues. In fact I am missed the algorithm learning and looking at learning COLL and VHF2L, but that that is a completely different story!

The NEW Race to Sub 30 is a great place to motivate you and check on early progress. I really enjoyed my time there.

Best of luck in your comp today, and welcome to the forums

 

[bapprille]

Heh sorry for the delayed welcome. Nothing wrong with being a more mature cuber!

I am 41 years old myself and I solved using a beginners method for 30 years on and off and joined the community here this January. First goal, a sub 30 single, got that and just kept changing my objectives. Just about sub 25 now and my eventual aim is sub 15. I'm enjoying it as much as those a third of my age and it is a great community here.

So don't feel your age is any reason not to make good progress. There are great inspirations such as Mike Hughey and Ton Dennenbroek who are fantastic cubers of the more mature persuasion, if they will forgive the reference ;-)

As the others before me have stated look into your various options and find a solving method that suits you. I personally went for CFOP and that was because it was a method I had wanted to learn for years. Although very algorithm intensive I find no problem learning algs myself and learned the 21 PLLs and 57 OLLs in about 2 months with no issues. In fact I am missed the algorithm learning and looking at learning COLL and VHF2L, but that that is a completely different story!

The NEW Race to Sub 30 is a great place to motivate you and check on early progress. I really enjoyed my time there.

Best of luck in your comp today, and welcome to the forums

No worries...and thanks! It's cool that there are some older cubers on here. At the comp I was surprised I figured it'd be all 13 year olds, but thankfully there were a few older (still not my age, but I'll take it). I did ok at the competition I just about tied my PB for a single solve (which I've since beaten by 4 seconds) and the others well, I had F2L issues..ok brain issues of my mind locking up on me. When I filmed them all you could see is me shaking my head as I blew another move.. good times.

I'm really liking CFOP at the moment and I finally found a site where I can study the last F2L cases I was having troubles with. So hopefully once I knock those out, I can somehow program my brain to do cross on bottom and life will be good. But I will check out Roux and see how that goes.