Welcome all! It's nice to have so many new cubers these days. However...there are a few things in my mind that I kept on thinking about. Sorry if you find it offensive
But don't worry, I'm not trying to offend anyone.
The thing is that, you can't expect to be able to understand every aspects of cubing all in just a couple of weeks. I wrote this in another thread I think, but the thing is that you new guys are going way too fast. I know the new generations are going to learn and improve faster than the how the older generations used to learn. The community grew much larger in the past few years, and lots of informations and networks are created to help aid people. Even that, you can't possibly expect to teach a baby the general theory of relativity, while the baby can only recall the letters of the alphabet. However, it is good to look ahead and see what you'll do next...but that doesn't mean you have to do it right now.
Just let time fly by, be patient. Sure, cubing is something that we can all master, but at different rates. At first, it really is overwhelming to look at the advance method, with seemingly endless pages of algorithms to "memorize". But it's not like you have a deadline for memorizing them. It might take a week, a month, a year, or more! But that doesn't matter, because as long as you're familiar with the algorithms, who cares how long it takes to get there?
Learning algorithms isn't just like memorizing facts. It is more like playing a musical song on an instrument. You need to practice, and familiarize yourself to it. You can memorize the letter part of the algorithms, but not know how to execute it. How you execute the algorithm might be totally different from another cuber, but that doesn't mean that you're wrong. It's what's comfortable for you that matters.
If you're stuck on something, try thinking about the answer first, before asking it--perhaps it's even already answered somewhere! And if you want to find the best algorithms, just search on the internet! Because we can't all list the sites (then again, I think i saw a thread that had the links?). Because when we suggest a site, you might be hypnotized into thinking that this has the be the holy site, that is the one that other good cubers learned from...so you must force yourself into that site. The key is that find as many sites as possible, with as many different algorithms. There'll be the perfect one that fits you.
God...I was rude -_-" sorry
Harris
