Right now, you could be learning algorithms

[Andreaillest]

Eh, I'll start learning OLL when I have time and I'm actually motivated to learn algs.

 

[Sa967St]

If you forget an alg, does it really take the same amount of effort to relearn it as it did to learn it initially?
When I forget an alg, all it takes to refresh my memory is to just look at the alg and execute it once or twice. I think its unrealistic to assume that casually forgetting algs would greatly impact the pace at which you can learn new ones.

If you had to relearn an alg, wouldn't you count it twice? If you keep the pace of 1 alg/week then yeah that would slow it down. Same goes for switching algs that do the same case.
For OLL, PLL, CLL and maybe EG and 2GLL yeah it probably wouldn't take too much effort to relearn an alg if you forgot it, but for more difficult things like ZBLL it would certainly cost a lot of time if you forgot a bunch of algs and had to relearn them.

 

[Jungleterrain]

In some cases, you can learn about 3 algorithms in one day. For example, the sune, anti-sune, and H-perm. Really easy ones. What would be the best way for learning OLL? The way Badmephisto posts on his website? How about if you learned the hardest algorithms first? Would that make the easier ones even easier to learn later on? Or is it better to learn the easier ones first so that you have more knowledge of how the cube works and all that to help you learn the harder ones later on? And by "easier" and "harder" algs, i refer to what people personally think are challenging or simple algs.

 

[LouisCormier]

I dont care.

I started CLL in december 2009 and still only know half

Have been cubing for ~8 years (I dont even know what year I started, it was about 2002 - 2003ish) and still dont know full OLL.

Im at 16/40 and I started two weeks ago..

 

[maxim1914]

this made me lol, i came here to procrastinate on learning algs and now im gunna go learn them

 

[antoineccantin]

I've been putting off learning 1 G-perm for a bit more than a week now...
Started learning PLL about 8 months ago (maybe more?) and know 18/21.

 

[a small kitten]

2GLL is really hard to learn quickly. Most of the algs are 2 gen and it is hard to differentiate some of them. They are pretty quick though.

 

[AvGalen]

Learning an alg really isn't the hard part. Practising it so it becomes fast enough to use in a speedsolve is the problem.
I have done G-Perms with A-Perm+U-Perm so long that that only takes 3 seconds and it IS my automatic response to seeing a PLL I don't know. I learned all 4 G-Perms in January but STILL can't use them in a speedsolve and recognising which G-Perm to perform still takes me > 1 second.

I actually thought this thread was started to point out that "instead of posting on this forum, you could spent that time learning an alg"

 

[Innocence]

My initial response to the title of this thread: Shut up, I hate you. Why do you have to be right?

Thought the same thing as AVG up there. Would be a much better use for this thread, IMO.

 

[Zarxrax]

The point is that if you just learn something, even at a slow but steady pace, you will reach your goal much faster than if you do nothing

Words of genius

 

[Jaysammey777]

Megaminx Statistics:
1 a week:
Full OLL and PLL: 8 years
Full PLL: 3 years
Full OLL: 4 1/2 years
COLL: 4 months
EOLL: 1 month
EPLL: 4 months
Sunny cases (CPLL): 4 months
Hourseface cases: 10 months
Mushroom cases: 10 months
Bunny cases: 4 months
Additional PLL cases: 10 months
2 COLL cases: 15 months
3 COLL cases: 15 months
4 COLL cases: 1 1/2 years
5 COLL cases: 7 1/2 months

1 a day:
Full OLL and PLL: 1 year
Full PLL: 5 1/2 months
Full OLL: 8 months
COLL: 2 weeks
EOLL: 3 days
EPLL: 2 weeks
Sunny cases (CPLL): 2 weeks
Hourseface cases: a little over a 1 month
Mushroom cases: a little over a 1 month
Bunny cases: 2 weeks
Additional PLL cases: a little over a 1 month
2 COLL cases: 2 months
3 COLL cases: 2 months
4 COLL cases: 3 months
5 COLL cases: 1 month

 

[timeless]

I've been putting off learning 1 G-perm for a bit more than a week now...
Started learning PLL about 8 months ago (maybe more?) and know 18/21.

same, i learned every pll except g-perm in 3-4 weeks

 

[oll+phase+sync]

10htm LL

How many are there? I would guess/estimate less than 100 of over 1000.

 

[EricReese]

I already learn about 4 algs a night, totalling about 12 algs a week. So nope, I couldn't be learning algs right now

 

[irontwig]

How many are there? I would guess/estimate less than 100 of over 1000.

42 that are exactly 10htm, 23 that are 9htm or less. I know about a third of the 10 movers.

 

[riffz]

42 that are exactly 10htm, 23 that are 9htm or less. I know about a third of the 10 movers.

How did you go about memorizing them, since they aren't really intended for speed?

 

[irontwig]

How did you go about memorizing them, since they aren't really intended for speed?

Mostly according to "structure" so to speak; e.g: L:[F2 D F', U].

 

[Owen]

I don't learn algorithms. I haven't learned one in months.

 

[Tim Major]

I already learn about 4 algs a night, totalling about 12 algs a week. So nope, I couldn't be learning algs right now

Perhaps take a short break and learn to count

 

[EricReese]

No, I dont need to count, I learn 4, take a 2 day break approximately, then learn 4 more. That is why I said "totalling 12 a week"

:fp