Square-1 Resources

[byu]

I'm getting a Square-1 soon and I want to know what resources you guys use

I suggest using this resource:
http://tinyurl.com/n2vdf

is it a joke?that sends me to wikipedia:brain

You must be new here.

To OP: I made up and currently use a rather sillie beginner method.

Shelley, your square-1 parity fix is the best!

 

[dougbenham]

I'm getting a Square-1 soon and I want to know what resources you guys use

I suggest using this resource:
http://tinyurl.com/n2vdf

is it a joke?that sends me to wikipedia:brain

You must be new here.

To OP: I made up and currently use a rather sillie beginner method.

Shelley, your square-1 parity fix is the best!

Yeah thats probably the best parity fix out there.

 

[dougbenham]

Alright. I will take your advice and attempt to solve the Square-1 with only my prior knowledge.

Yeeesss! Victory!

If I am clueless after many tries, I will resort to looking up methods.

Sure. It's just a big pity if you don't give it a try at all. I'm sure when you try it you'll get at least *something* on your own, maybe a layer or the corners or whatever you go for. You can always get help later if you get stuck. And if you're in it for speed, you can still learn faster methods later.

I love your voice in this vid: http://www.stefan-pochmann.de/spocc/videos/square1_pll.wmv

You sound like you are hating life or something. In your head you're saying, "oh my god this is lame why am i doing this?"

 

[Dene]

Playing with the puzzle before looking up a solution lets you understand it better, as opposed to simply following a prescribed sequence of steps to solve it. You won't believe how many newbies are rendered helpless if you do a PLL on a red face, because they can only solve the cube starting from a white cross.

Oh man I have this problem all the time. I mean, especially because I tend to pick up the puzzle in a random fashion and apply algorithms anywhere.
Then again I can hardly talk; I have never figured out a puzzle entirely for myself from scratch. Now maybe I can be exempt from 3x3 because even though I did figure out the F2L by myself, but then had to refer to the solution booklet to do the last layer, I was only a very young child. Many would say that is no excuse but I think that many would agree that it is certainly more reasonable than someone in their mid-teens being too lazy/stupid to figure it out for themselves.
I henceforth make a vow to solve a puzzle completely from scratch by myself with no help whatsoever. Maybe I will start small, with skewb. However I don't have one at this stage. Maybe someday.

 

[Stefan]

You sound like you are hating life or something. In your head you're saying, "oh my god this is lame why am i doing this?"

You mean in that video? Not at all. I liked coming up with that method and sharing it and getting feedback for it. I was just trying to keep it short and thus spoke quickly. And some people say I have an accent.

Maybe I will start small, with skewb. However I don't have one at this stage.

Try a virtual one? Or you can always come up with new puzzles using the ones you already have. Like 2-gen Square-1.

 

[spdcbr]

cubezone is pretty good.

 

[dougbenham]

You sound like you are hating life or something. In your head you're saying, "oh my god this is lame why am i doing this?"

You mean in that video? Not at all. I liked coming up with that method and sharing it and getting feedback for it. I was just trying to keep it short and thus spoke quickly. And some people say I have an accent.

Nevertheless it was a great video

 

[Dene]

Maybe I will start small, with skewb. However I don't have one at this stage.

Try a virtual one? Or you can always come up with new puzzles using the ones you already have. Like 2-gen Square-1.

Unfortunately it is too late for bandaged Square-1.
And to be perfectly honest I really can't stand virtual cubes. I know qq won't like to hear that, but it's something that I just can't get in to.

 

[Stefan]

Unfortunately it is too late for bandaged Square-1.

Why?

 

[DavidWoner]

Because he already knows how to solve it.

 

[Dene]

Unfortunately it is too late for bandaged Square-1.

Why?

Wow Mr. Pochmann, you must really be tired, or just plain getting old. A rare stupid question.

 

[qqwref]

To OP: I made up and currently use a rather sillie beginner method.

Shelley, your square-1 parity fix is the best!

Yeah thats probably the best parity fix out there.

The one I use (which I learn it from Andrew Nelson) works exactly the same way, and since it's the same every time you can memorize what it'll do. Furthermore it only messes up permutation of top and bottom, so if you take a bit of extra time to recognize parity before you do CP, you can do the alg then. It is:
/(3,3)/(1,2)/(2,-4) / (-2,4)/(-1,-2)/(-3,-3)/
Enjoy

 

[Stefan]

Unfortunately it is too late for bandaged Square-1.

Why?

Wow Mr. Pochmann, you must really be tired, or just plain getting old. A rare stupid question.

Indeed I was tired (at 5am) but I don't believe you already know how to solve any bandaged Square-1 (there are more of those than just 2-gen). Which suggested the answer might be something else (like a broken Square-1), so not at all obvious. Or in other words: Just because I see more possibilities than you, doesn't make me stupid.

 

[Dene]

Heh well I was using "bandaged square-1" in the only way that I know it to be used.

 

[d4m4s74]

I use the algs on The Six Sides and from Jaaps Puzzle page (got a parity alg and two double parity algs from there)

 

[dougbenham]

I use the algs on The Six Sides and from Jaaps Puzzle page (got a parity alg and two double parity algs from there)

Cool thanks.

Does anyone know where I can find a good PC simulator for the square-1? So i can mess around with it..?

 

[byu]

There was an online one someone mentioned a few weeks ago, try the search function

 

[spdcbr]

I've never touched a square 1 before...

 

[byu]

The two simulators I found:

http://www.mud.ca/puzzler/JPuzzler/squareone.html
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfly/projects/applets/SquareOneSim/

 

[mmjmike]

Thanks for URL - the first one I like more then others.