Why do you have zero posts? This is weird.
Indeed, that's quite strange... maybe I should change my nick to black hole?
there is a How to get fast with ZZ method thread,you might want to check that out
Thanks for the suggestion, I've seen it, and I'm working hard on step 0 (yay!).
My (purple) weilong just arrived yesterday, and I'm experimenting with custom colors, that needs a bit of getting used to.
The cube I was learning on before is a really old one, guessing from the build and the color scheme which seems like japanese, but with the red and orange swapped.
anyway, I had issues with the red and orange being too similar, so I though why not try completly new colors
I'll post my color scheme in a few days if I'll be satisfied with it.
Check out Phil Yu's tutorials. I think they're great.
I've seen them even before I had a cube, they're indeed very nice, they helped me a great deal.
If you have learned CFOP, and are switching to ZZ, hurrah!
Nope, I started with ZZ right away, after reading a bit about it in the 'beginners guide to choosing a speedsolving method' thread. I really liked the idea of a 3 gen (+ rotationless) f2l, and a "fewer alg" LL.
Just my opinion: If you haven't learned how to do CFOP F2L (intuitively), I think you should learn it and get decent at it before continuing to practice ZZ. Although (CFOP) F2L is often seen as easier than ZZ (or Roux) blockbuilding, it really is very similar, and will overall give you a better understanding of how pieces move around.
As little as I know about cfop it really seems similar, so maybe I'll try it later on. Right now I'm at the point where I'm starting to get a feel for all the pairs and blocks, and it's a really good feeling. A few days before I was really struggling with my last pair/block, but now it's so much easier, I can definitely see some progress there.
As for my plans for the next few weeks:
- practice lots
- really know my colors from heart
- find a way to practice EOLine effectively
- train my left hand fingers
- try to get down H, U, T and Z perms with the M slice
The M slice feels rather strange for now, but I really like the idea of doing the edge perms with it, so hopefully I'll find a way that suits me.
As for my left hand, it's always terrible to see how dominant my right hand is (I even bat from the left in softball, etc), so I really need to work hard on that.
What I'm doing right now is really paying attention on using the "right" fingers while scrambling, hopefully that will slowly build up some fingertrick muscle memory for starters. I've seen one of Phil's videos about 'getting a little load off the dominant hand' with doing F2 with the left hand for example, and that seems a really reasonable thing to do.
Regarding the EOLine: it usually takes up ~half of my time, so at least I know where I can improve a great deal. I guess that takes practice, practice and some more practice...
As for long term goals: from what I've seen, the Hungarian Open is held around october-november every year, so It would be great to get to be a "somewhat of a decent solver" around that time.
I'd also like to try the skewb and the pyraminx, and 3BLD in a few months.
Thanks for the warm welcome, guys, I really appreciate it
Please feel free to keep the suggestions coming!
(Also as you've probably guessed, I'm not a native english speaker, so please forgive/correct my mistakes!
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