School cubing club

[fanwuq]

I'm starting a cubing club at school this year. Right now, we are doing the paper work, buying cubes, etc...
I'll be teaching a lot of beginners, so I guess I can plan some sort of experiment on which is the easiest and fastest beginner method.
My thoughts:

1.LBL using http://peter.stillhq.com/jasmine/rubikscubesolution.html
2.Corner first using First layer corners, solve rest of corners using FURU'R'F' , Niklas, and Sune. Then intuitively solve some edges and learn to solve the rest using M2.
3.Beginner Petrus.
4.Nasty Dan Brown solution.
5.Edges first and solve corners one or 2 at a time using RUR'DRU'R'D' and such commutators.
6.Classic Pochmann.
7.Beginner Roux using same CLL approach as method #2.

I don't know how many people will join, but let's say it's about 10. I guess we would want at least 3 people in one category. So which 3 methods should I experiment?

 

[MistArts]

I think this is easy to understand if you in High School.

Keyhole triple-x cross, orient edges, solve edges, solve corner (commutators!)

 

[fanwuq]

I think this is easy to understand if you in High School.

Keyhole triple-x cross, orient edges, solve edges, solve corner (commutators!)

No, people at my school are stupid, I need an easy method!

 

[Dorsenstein]

I would teach them Leyan Lo's beginner method. It is the best (beginner) method I have found. I didn't vote because that wasn't an option but there you go. That's my opinion.

 

[Mike Hughey]

If I were you, I would use this:

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3660

My teaching method is slowly transforming into this method - it's almost all the way there already.

 

[fanwuq]

I would teach them Leyan Lo's beginner method. It is the best (beginner) method I have found. I didn't vote because that wasn't an option but there you go. That's my opinion.

If I were you, I would use this:

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3660

My teaching method is slowly transforming into this method - it's almost all the way there already.

It's the same thing as Jasmine Lee's. (I'd consider teaching either Niklas or J perm for permuting corners, but that's such a minor difference.)

 

[rachmaninovian]

I think using A perm to switch corners is somehow more logical. cos u really cycle 3 corners

 

[Neutrals01]

I think this http://www.rubiks.com/Academy/YouTube%20channel.aspx one is the most suitable for beginners, I show this method to many of my school friends and most of them can learn in a day or two.

 

[MistArts]

I think using A perm to switch corners is somehow more logical. cos u really cycle 3 corners

Commutators are better.

 

[Mike Hughey]

It's the same thing as Jasmine Lee's. (I'd consider teaching either Niklas or J perm for permuting corners, but that's such a minor difference.)

Well, almost the same. There are slight differences, and in my opinion the differences favor Arnaud's method for ease of teaching. I'd teach a layer-by-layer method like this, anyway, and I prefer the nuances of Arnaud's method over those of Jasmine's. (Jasmine's is still good; I just think Arnaud has refined it a bit.)

 

[Odin]

teach them this : http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com/watch?v=HsQIoPyfQzM http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com/watch?v=IW_BBp3FPMQ i thinks its the dan knights method (the one he made) its my first method

 

[PCwizCube]

I would teach them Leyan Lo's beginner method. It is the best (beginner) method I have found. I didn't vote because that wasn't an option but there you go. That's my opinion.

If I were you, I would use this:

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3660

My teaching method is slowly transforming into this method - it's almost all the way there already.

It's the same thing as Jasmine Lee's. (I'd consider teaching either Niklas or J perm for permuting corners, but that's such a minor difference.)

Jasmine Lee tells you to solve the cross and first layer on top of the cube. It also teaches you how to do the second layer when the first layer is on the top of the cube.

The other solutions mentioned only teach how to do the cross on top. I think those ways are faster.

 

[fanwuq]

Whatever, you know what I mean. Actually I noticed that the way I was going to teach was:
Cross on D, use LUR to solve corners, use RU alg to place E layer edges. EO using the 6 moves, Sune to orient, J perm, U perm.

I don't really care about the tiny variations.


Right now, it seems like I should compare basic LBL, Petrus, and CF M2.

Nobody likes Roux?

 

[deco122392]

hmmmm im not sure lbl can be simple and so can petrus and roux and it might be easier to tteach a hybrid of sorts.. the 2x2 block with the 2 cross edges (extended cross)is simple & intuitive with enough explanation. and c-e pairs are the same.so f2l shouldnt be much of a problem' however i think that teaching the last layer might be a little tricky.& as 4 roux most of it(with the exception of the coll stage)is in intuitive. theres my 2 cents

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

Beginner Fridrich (LBL)
Beginner Petrus
Beginner Roux

The other ones are silly for people who probably aren't going to get much further.

 

[DavidWoner]

i learned from choice #1 and have taught many many people using that site. they have always learned within a day using peter's site. the "next steps" part of his website are also very helpful. i got sub-40 avg using nothing but his site.

 

[hdskull]

http://www.rubiks.com/Academy/Tyson Video.aspx

Pretty easy to understand.

 

[shelley]

Beginner Fridrich (LBL)
Beginner Petrus
Beginner Roux

The other ones are silly for people who probably aren't going to get much further.

Seconded.

I might also add Heise in that list; maybe you have some students who prefer to solve more intuitively and don't want to just blindly memorize algorithms.

 

[blah]

How on earth is Classic Pochmann even an option :confused:

 

[Escher]

heise is very cool, and would obviously be incredibly rewarding, but difficult to teach, and would probably require more patience and intelligence than the average person has. i'd suggest teaching heise to the ones with more of an aptitude for cubing, AFTER theyve learnt some cube basics.