Puzzles solved without help?

[Tetris Cube]

Just 2x2 and fused cubes, I'm ashamed. Looked up the megaminx solution before getting it, so I already knew it was like a 3x3, and I already know the 5x5 solution without having one... I'm a terrible person.

 

[JTW2007]

Anyone who has solved a Sq-1 without help is a threat to society.

 

[Tetris Cube]

Anyone who has solved a Sq-1 without help is a threat to society.

Agreed. (message too short)

 

[EmersonHerrmann]

2x2x2, 5x5x5, Megaminx, 6x6x6, 7x7x7 (I can't think of any others right now...). That Great Gears thing looks weird, Ton.

 

[cmhardw]

Actually, the only puzzle I truly figured out on my own was Square-1. I started learning to solve the 4x4x4 on my own in 1998, but got stuck at OLL parity. I had no understanding of what parity was at the time, so I gave up and searched for an algorithm online for how to solve it. I did "figure out" the reduction method with minimal input from other 4x4x4 solvers and one website at the time, but I learned parity. 3x3x3 I completely learned from a website, no independent thought whatsoever :-( :-( :-(

I feel like all the rest of my puzzles were "tainted" from me learning the 3x3x3 so I don't count pyraminx or megaminx even though I solved them without help (but used 3x3x3 concepts from my 3x3x3 methods).

By the time I got around to Square-1 I was determined not to give up. I spent about a full week coming up with a method for it, and it is slow as hell and super inefficient, but it works well enough to place me 318th out of 362 competitors for fastest single (as of 4/17/09) haha :-D

One day I may try to either improve my SQ-1 method or learn a new one, but for right now it is my only puzzling "victory" of figuring out a puzzle completely on my own with no help at all from any person or website related to the puzzle. I suppose you could say that even this is "tainted" because I do solve layer by layer, but I came up with my own parity fix algorithm (terrible and super long, but it works), my own algorithm to solve edges and my own algorithm to cycle corners.

Chris

 

[EmersonHerrmann]

On a later solve I was amazed to see an OLL parity (one edge flipped) -- just as people are amazed seeing it on the Void Cube.

OP can happen on a void cube? Can you give me an alg for it please?

 

[shelley]

No, OP can't happen on a void cube. He meant people being amazed at seeing PLL parity on void cube.

Think about it. What we think of as the "orientation" parity on a 4x4 is really two edge pieces switched, not a "flipped" edge. A flipped edge can't happen on a 3x3, unless you popped during your solve.

 

[byu]

Which always makes me think that orientation parity is actually permutation parity, because two edges need to be swapped

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

On a later solve I was amazed to see an OLL parity (one edge flipped) -- just as people are amazed seeing it on the Void Cube.

OP can happen on a void cube? Can you give me an alg for it please?

Ooops! Yes, Shelly is right. I wasn't thinking straight. The Void cube problem can have 2 edges swapped, not an edge flipped.

 

[Alcuber]

For me: I invented my own method for the 2x2, Skewb diamond and Jing's pyraminx and have solved Skewb and Skewb ultimate using logic.

 

[Rpotts]

care to share your 2x2 method?

 

[Alcuber]

care to share your 2x2 method?

1. Create a layer (at the time I used logic for this
2. Finish off the last layer with 2 algorithms (sometimes you'd have to repeat the algorithm more than once)

It made me extremely inconsistent and about 2 days later I realised you can solve it like a 3x3

 

[bluecloe45]

i did 2x2, magic, 3x3x4 3x3x5 3x3x7 and 5x5

 

[The Bloody Talon]

all the puzzles that i have.. 2x2x2, 3x3x3, 4x4x4, 5x5x5, pyraminx

 

[marco.garsed]

2x2 3x3 4x4 (except fot the OLL parity...) 5x5 7x7 (I don't have 6x6 XD) megaminx mastermorphix 3x3x4 and I'm quite sure I can solve a 3x3x2 without algs too... I have to try 3x3x7...

I don't have pyraminx...

I definitley can't do the Bcube and I'm trying to solve the Super Square 1 without algs...

 

[MagicYio]

I first saw a pyraminx when I was visiting a fellow cuber in my area. I solved it within a minute. She didn't like that.

 

[Hyprul 9-ty2]

2x2, 5x5, 7x7, 6x6 when I get one
Megaminx, Pyraminx, random "IQ puzzles"

 

[whauk]

FTO and venus crazy cube are probably the ones i am most proud of. both took me several hours but i got it
then some random puzzles on gelatinbrain buit i dont remember how many that was.

 

[cuberkid10]

3x3 (Up to F2L), 2x2, 5x5 (except for a wing edge flip), void cube, and 3x3x4 FF

 

[ninjabob7]

First puzzle I figured out was Square-1. I did get some help on cubeshape though, and a hint on parity.
I solved 5x5 using commutators, without knowing a 4x4 method (I had used one but never learned the method/algs). I figured out how to avoid parity.
I solved a Siamese cube that I built, using a variation on Petrus (my main method at the time).
I solved 3x3x2 on my 3x3x3, but later forgot one of the algorithms I came up with.
I solved Pyraminx using commutators.
For Megaminx, I originally looked it up, but I didn't want to memorize the algs so I figured out how to use Heise method on it.
I don't count 2x2 since I just used a 3x3 method to solve it.