The Speedsolving.com community trains 5 year old prodigy [emoji3]

[wallstreet777]

Yesterday, wallstreet777 posted that he averaged just over a minute.

By the way, @wallstreet777, I'd love to see another video of one of his solves now.

Haha. He's averaging just over a minute using beginners method. He's still working on figuring out F2L - we are working on it together. He's grasping the concept now just needs to get comfortable with doing it. It's a lot to think about when you're first doing it.

It took him about 2 weeks to master beginners method so I'm thinking about the same to get better with F2L (not master)?

He's got a Rubik's Cube with him everywhere, it's pretty hilarious watching people's reactions when he solves it in public.




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[wallstreet777]

So maybe he IS indeed a prodigy.

Hahah! He's actually higher on the IQ scale [emoji3] - which is exactly why I bought him a Rubik's cube in the first place.

Certain things come easier to him and he wasn't taking "risks" if he'd think he would fail.

My goal with the Rubik's cube was to aggravate him and it did just that. He was definitely pissed when he couldn't figure it out the first night.

But we continued to work on it and now he's pretty much obsessed.

Probably too much info, but wanted mention how we got into it.


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[sqAree]

I think the reason everyone loves this thread is because we wish we were into cubing as 5-year olds already.

 

[wallstreet777]

We seem to struggle the most on the last F2L solve. Here's what we are trying to figure out right now.

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[biscuit]

Put green in front and do U L' U2 L U2 L' U L

If that doesn't make sense to either of you, the next thing he should learn is Notation

What it's doing is hiding the corner (You have to have the empty slot for this) putting the edge in a position so that you bring the corner back up and the pair is paired, then inserting it.

 

[DGCubes]

We seem to struggle the most on the last F2L solve. Here's what we are trying to figure out right now.

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Holding it in the position shown in the first photo, do a U', and then with F' U2 F, it'll make the pair. Then insert it normally. You could also rotate the cube beforehand to make it have R or L moves instead of F moves, because those are generally easier to execute.

 

[wallstreet777]

You guys make this look too easy [emoji3]


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[DELToS]

He has started to time his solves on his iPad. He averages a little over a minute using the beginners' method.

I will look further into Roux. Any reason why you prefer that method?


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I feel like Roux may be a bit complex for a 5-year-old, CFOP is generally considered the best method due to the easy transition from Beginners', a number of resources for it, and the overall simplicity of the method. That's what most of the top speedcubers use anyway. I'm not saying you can't get fast with something like Roux or ZZ, it just may be easier for him and better in the long run. That's just my opinion, though, feel free to debate with me

 

[RennuR]

Can we like PLEASE rename this thread. "Speedsolving.com trains the 5 year old prodigy"

This is just so fun and amazing how a dad and his son are learning to speedcube, and this 5 year old is pretty frikkin amazing at it.

This kind of shows just how amazing and helpful this community is, coming together for a cause like this.

Keep up the great work @wallstreet777 's son!

 

[wallstreet777]

Can we like PLEASE rename this thread. "Speedsolving.com trains the 5 year old prodigy"

This is just so fun and amazing how a dad and his son are learning to speedcube, and this 5 year old is pretty frikkin amazing at it.

This kind of shows just how amazing and helpful this community is, coming together for a cause like this.

Keep up the great work @wallstreet777 's son!

Hahah. Title change - Done [emoji736]

Seriously, you guys are so beyond helpful I can't thank everyone enough.

We are having a great time learning together and as a bonus, I can now solve a Rubik's Cube!




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[Matt11111]

I think the reason everyone loves this thread is because we wish we were into cubing as 5-year olds already.

I can only imagine how fast all of us would be.

 

[DGCubes]

Hahah. Title change - Done [emoji736]

Seriously, you guys are so beyond helpful I can't thank everyone enough.

We are having a great time learning together and as a bonus, I can now solve a Rubik's Cube!




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That's awesome. I love this thread so much.

 

[RennuR]

I think we ALL wish we could have a rewind button now that we have seen this.

 

[Matt11111]

5 year old me was in 2nd grade too...

 

[pglewis]

Happy hunting!

 

[Matt11111]

Only problem with cubing at 5 is my parents hate me cubing for some reason. They stopped me from taking cubes to school because they think that people will think of me as the Rubik's Cube guy and nothing else. Well, they don't. Plus being known as the Rubik's Cube kid is actually a good thing. It's much better than being that guy who pantsed another guy during a break in humanities class or that guy who thinks prejudice is funny. (Yes, these are both people I know) I've resisted them up to this point, and I've even resisted my school trying to ban cubes because I somehow inspired an army of fifth graders to start cubing and they were making too much noise in the library. Ok, so they didn't... ban cubes per se, but they did restrict the places in which we could cube. I feel like if something like this happened when I was 5, I would prooooooooobably quit.

 

[obelisk477]

We seem to struggle the most on the last F2L solve. Here's what we are trying to figure out right now.

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http://algdb.net/Set/F2L

If you can't figure out an F2L case, here is a page with F2L algorithms for any case you might encounter. For example. you posted F2L case 8, and @biscuit recommended algorithm 4 from that list.

 

[newtonbase]

My son is 2. I'd love him to show an interest in solving. At the moment he'll occasionally mess one up but there's plenty of time.

 

[wallstreet777]

http://algdb.net/Set/F2L

If you can't figure out an F2L case, here is a page with F2L algorithms for any case you might encounter. For example. you posted F2L case 8, and @biscuit recommended algorithm 4 from that list.

This is perfect, thanks!




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[wallstreet777]

Happy hunting!

This is actually very helpful, thank you


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