The Top 99 Things All Cubers Should Know

[onlyleftname]

You don't have to be the next Feliks, learn at your own pace. Everybody progresses differently.

 

[cuberkid10]

Building off of what ^^ said,

There's no correct amount of time that you should progress. I see many people ask, "I've been cubing for x amount of months, how fast should I be." People progress at their own speeds. Some cubers have all of CFOP done in a year, some others take more than 3 years. (Yea.. I've cubed for 3 years and don't know OLL yet).

Another misconception is that if you know alot of algorithms, you are fast. I met a person at competition who knew all of F2L, PLL, and OLL (even had them on flashcards and had his father quiz him on them), yet he was around 26 seconds. You can do well with minimal amount algorithms, you just need to improve other areas. I didn't know full PLL, much less Oll, and I could manage 16-17 averages. Same for 2x2, people assume because I have a 3.60 average, I know an extensive amount of algorithms. (CLL, EG, anti-CLL). To be truthful, all I know is the standard Ortega. Just takes practice to make do with what you have.

 

[Owen]

WHY 99?! Would it kill you to just add one more and make it 100, a nice round number!? Are you TRYING to get on people's nerves!? I can't take it!

 

[TimMc]

See below

1. Learn the Fridrich Method
2. Practice
3. Learn some more.
4. Go to 2.

Tim.

 

[irontwig]

1. Learn the Fridrich Method
2. Practice
3. Learn some more.
4. Go to 2.

Tim.

Why should everyone know CFOP?

 

[CRO]

Badmephisto.

 

[AvGalen]

* Centers don't move (although they do turn, and on bigger, even cubes they DO move)
* All you need, is the sexy move
* Going to a WCA-competition is awesome no matter what your level is. You will learn more in a weekend than you could have imagined and you will probably end up with new friends
* It is equally impressive to solve a 3x3x3 in under 10 seconds as it is to solve a random puzzle that you have never seen before in 1 day, but the first option requires a lot more time!
* Being a female cuber is a great way to meet guys

 

[Gaétan Guimond]

Feliks Zemdegs might be fast, but there are many other great cubers too.

Absolutly and ...

Speed ​​is popular but there are other skills fmc bld cretor method and more

 

[Ressiol]

If you are timing your solves with a desktop and with a damn large flat-screen whatever-it-is monitor while using cubetimer.com or qqtimer with 204823423 font size, stop looking at the time while solving. The less you care about the time and the more you do about your look-ahead, the faster you'll get the solve over with.

 

[Lucas Garron]

If you are timing your solves with a desktop and with a damn large flat-screen whatever-it-is monitor while using cubetimer.com or qqtimer with 204823423 font size, stop looking at the time while solving. The less you care about the time and the more you do about your look-ahead, the faster you'll get the solve over with.

Trivia: qqtimer didn't use to have updating fractions of a second, and you can still turn them off. They were just added by extremely popular demand.

 

[MostEd]

If you are timing your solves with a desktop and with a damn large flat-screen whatever-it-is monitor while using cubetimer.com or qqtimer with 204823423 font size, stop looking at the time while solving. The less you care about the time and the more you do about your look-ahead, the faster you'll get the solve over with.

Just cuz you said that!
I made mine the smaaaallleeest avaliable size, and not showing time while solving

 

[jaywong88]

Practice make Perfect...

 

[rubiksnerd246]

1.) There is no difference between white and black cubes (except for spacial recognition)
2.) Go slow and look ahead, better than going fast then stop then go fast etc.
3.) In speedcube center turn as fast as you can but on edges be careful because one mistake can mess everything up.
4.) Whenever people say practice, people don't take it seriously but it actually does help. For ex: like 2 months ago i averaged like 33 secs on the 3x3x3, and i practiced a LOT and got my average down to like 27-26 secs.

 

[IanTheCuber]

This is the order of methods I reccomend starting with:

Start with Petrus or Tyson Mao
Learn how to make basic F2L Slots
Work your way to learning 2-Look OLL
Then start on 2-Look PLL
Learn Full PLL
And then Full OLL...

After that, try and learn ZB or ZZ, or maybe full F2L...

 

[ben1996123]

Q. were do u get d algos for dis case?

A. Cube explorer, aCube, figure them out yourself

 

[Julian]

And wiki.

 

[Cool Frog]

1. Learn a Method
2. Practice
3. Learn some more.
4. Go to 2.

Tim.

fixed

 

[TheAwesomeAlex]

dont spend too much time and effort into cubing

 

[Hershey]

dont spend too much time and effort into cubing

Yes.

dont spend too much time and effort into cubing

No.

 

[Weston]

Yes.



No.

Nah, don't spend too much time or effort.
Just spend a **** ton of time and effort.