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Jason Green said:
I really have been wanting a way to summarize better how *I* would teach someone to cube, so I finally put together a blog post about it. I tried to make an overall video before, but I think it was too overwhelming and difficult for someone new.
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Your blog post looks right about at my level too. :) I'll take a look at the videos tomorrow.

Meanwhile, my CubeDepot order arrived today. It contained a QiYi Square-1, which looks and feels amazing. I'm scared to touch it though as I don't want to mess it up until I convince myself that a mere mortal such as myself could actually solve it. The horizontal layers feel a bit dry as I think you'd say, and the slice move (?) sounds a bit squeaky, but everything moves freely.

It also contained matching Cyclone Boys cubes, a 3x3 and a 4x4. My judgement on the 3x3 is that, after one solve, it feels about 90% as good as my TangLong for about half the price. The 4x4 is, I believe, their smaller 60mm offering. The middle layers are slightly stiffer than the outer layers, but I hear this is pretty common. I bet a good blast of silicone spray will make a world of difference. I'm wary of loosening the tensions since I'm a n00b and I don't want it to explode.

The factory stickers on both the 3x3 and 4x4 leave quite a bit to be desired, but then again, so does my restickering ability. I plan to order in Cubicle sticker sets for both of them in my colors anyway, and probably for the Square-1 too.
 
I got QiYi Sq1 and it's awsome. My times dropped by a 40 seconds to ~1:30. I can start practicing it. After some time with that puzzle I can say it's quite easy and very intuitive. There are few algs which are almost the same like in 3x3 CFOP - Uperms, Zperm, Hperm. The only one which is long and hard is parity alg. I dont understand all cases with shapes. I must work with it.

Jason - good luck with teaching.
 
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Did a great 4BLD before work today, could have been a PB by some margin. Hit the DNF button when stopping the timer. Time lost forever. I think it was about 10 mins. Argh!
 
Congratulations of the comp results guys, fantastic stuff. Which UK guys are going to Exeter. Sure I have asked this before but be great to meet you. 2 1/2 years since a comp is too, too long for me :(

Really interesting reading the discussions on BLD. I have been working hard on the horrible nemesis that is BLD for the last few days. Having had a few successes (~6m) a few years ago I found OP corners very quick to recap on and as recommended but you guys I have watched Noah's M2 tutorial videos which are very good. It is taking longer to nail M2 edges and I am only doing sighted edge solves at the moment but seem to be very regularly messing up when shooting to the M slice but I will keep persevering. Also seem to be making regular errors when tracing cycles, even writing down the letters but I guess that will come with time.

Certainly thinking of changing memo following reading recommendations on here though as I was going to make a complete letter pair list.

Imminently exppecting delivery of Gans 356v2, Yuxin 5x5, Qiyi Square 1 and some Gans sticker sets. Might even do my first unboxing if I get the chance.

PS: Still no sub 15 Ao12 on video. Whenever I turn on the camera it is not happening. Got a 15.21 earlier so going to try again this afternoon
 
Stuff memo will come with time and experience. Full letter pair list is helpfull - I did one and tried to learn it but never done it. It helps only with strange letter pairs. In Polish the letters like "OI" "IO" "IE" "EI" etc are not making common words. On the other hand doing the list pushes one's mind to create images/words... I found doing mbld similiar to it. When I did 10 cubes I thought few words that I started to use since.

@Mark - better next time. What timer do you use?
 
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Jason Green said:
[...] I really have been wanting a way to summarize better how *I* would teach someone to cube, so I finally put together a blog post about it. I tried to make an overall video before, but I think it was too overwhelming and difficult for someone new.

I would appreciate your feedback on the general ease of understanding of the text I wrote. I'm not looking to debate what ways are easiest to learn, I know there are opinions on that. As I said in the post, I recommend this to my friends because it is what I could help them with the best if they want/need it. Thanks if anyone would like to help me out!

https://acuriousblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/how-to-solve-the-rubiks-cube/
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I found it very easy to follow and a beginner should be able to learn with that. Good job. Maybe for cross a bit more detail on learning your colour scheme around white and some links to badmephisto advanced cross videos could be a bonus for people that want to take it one step further.
 
mafergut said:
I found it very easy to follow and a beginner should be able to learn with that. Good job. Maybe for cross a bit more detail on learning your colour scheme around white and some links to badmephisto advanced cross videos could be a bonus for people that want to take it one step further.
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Thanks. That's a good idea, I should definitely mention the color scheme and the fact that the centers don't move. I might end up making separate posts for the next steps, I'll think about that some more. Thanks again!
 
Jason Green said:
Thanks. That's a good idea, I should definitely mention the color scheme and the fact that the centers don't move. I might end up making separate posts for the next steps, I'll think about that some more. Thanks again!
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If you wanna get into cube geometry for absolute beginners, apart from the fact that centers don't move, some elaboration on pieces vs stickers and the other two types of pieces (edges and corners) would be fine as well, but, to be honest, this should be also straightforward enough so, never mind :)
 
mafergut said:
If you wanna get into cube geometry for absolute beginners, apart from the fact that centers don't move, some elaboration on pieces vs stickers and the other two types of pieces (edges and corners) would be fine as well, but, to be honest, this should be also straightforward enough so, never mind :)
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I thought of defining edges and stuff, but I decided to just use the words and let them figure it out from the picture. :)
 
Arrggh, no bus or train that arrives soon enough on Sunday for 4x4 and second round of 2x2 and 3x3. I don't plan to go to a hotel, so I'll go only on Saturday, or not even that :(
 
Goals for Saturday:
3x3 -- eh, don't really care, PB I guess
3BLD -- sub 3:00
MBLD -- 5 correct
clock -- sub 13.5 avg

lofty goal -- sub Feliks in clock avg(11.8) or MBLD (6/6 36:16)
 
MarcelP said:
http://www.academictips.org/memory/romanrom.html
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Interesting stuff. I guess I associate things similar to that when I memorize, but never did it as a room.

BTW, I pierced some of my bubbles and they are hardly noticeable now. Perhaps some went down over a few days too. The only one I can see easily is the worst white one, but I think I disturbed the texture trying to iron it out so hard. It is better after piercing though.

New PB 16.76 tonight, yay!
 
Muchacho, there's a train arriving at 11:10, you may do even 2x2 if you ask to be put in the last group. No chance of going by car?

I have tried 5BLD 3 times in the last couple of days first time was off by 4 midges (I executed HE instead of NE, memo was Okay) and twisted corner and buffer that I forgot to memorize, the closest so far. The other 2 where messed up during centers. I'll try again maybe this evening.
 
No car. I'm not sure if with that train I could arrive in time for 2x2, and no 4x4, so going for just 1 round of 3x3 (if I make it to the second round) is not worth it.

I've asked to be added to FMC, the first attempt is on Saturday, at least I'll try it.

Goal for FMC: 60 moves

Should I bring more than 1 cube for FMC? is that very useful?
 
It is helpful, I keep always one cube scrambled to check if I scrambled it correctly (faster than looking at the image) and the other 2 for trying different things, so yes, bring them
 
h2f said:
@Mark - better next time. What timer do you use?
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KingEn on Android. I've never even noticed the DNF button before. Would have made sense to open my eyes first rather than stab at the timer in the dark.

Today's 4BLD... 10:01 PB... so close to sub-10! :D I have been working on advanced U2 & r2 and have added lots of shortcuts. That's maybe shaved 1-2 minutes off but most of my improvement is down to faster memo of course.
 
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