What to learn?

[grease]

hi, i'm gonna be in a car for 10 hours, and i was wondering what i should learn during this 10hours. im also going to be on plane for 3hours.

i'm averaging 35seconds with Cross, intuitive f2l, 2 look oll, pll

-should i go memorize all 57 olls? which ones?

-learn bld?? I'm going to need to print a page because i wont have internet access in the car. what guide should i follow? good written guides because i wont be able to ask questions if im stuck on something( cant do videos, no laptop)

- roux? petrus? i also need good written guides

-f2l algs?

i'm only going to bring 3x3x3.
so yeah, just wondering what i should do during these boring 10hour drive.

 

[ShadenSmith]

Well if you're interested in learning blindfold cubing, I'd use Macky's guide. It's great for text.

http://www.cubefreak.net/blindfoldcubing_guide.html

You could also print off a sheet of your OLL's and work on those. Or work on your f2l look-ahead.

Or you could just read a good book. I'd highly recommend Into the Wild if you're unfamiliar with it.

 

[grease]

hmm, the printable pdf file is saying that the memorization part is imcomplete, is this part neccesary? or is it just telling u the memorization techniques and stuff like that. cuz i would need to know how to memorize and what to memorize.

oh and do u reccodemend any good text petrus or roux guides?

 

[Harry]

How about practice looking ahead? By going slow that is.... If you keep doing that during the 5 hours, maybe you cn drop your average... If not bringthe 7 series of harry potter and read them all.....

Oh and if you are going to unfamiliar place, bring and read the guide.....

Lastly, for OLL, I learn the one with L and cross first since they are my common cases.

 

[ShadenSmith]

The memo section is incomplete, but that isn't necessary to learn it. Check the Memory Methods sticky for more details on your memo options. I would recommend (after you get the bld-method itself down!) assigning each piece a letter and using images or PAO and throwing them into roman rooms. But that isn't necessary at all to do bld.

 

[fanwuq]

Lucky you! In car for 10 hours? I'd definitely try a multiBLD.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I wish I had that 10 hours. Unfortunately, on our 9 hour trip to Atlanta, I'll be driving. So I can't do that 2-7 BLD relay I would otherwise be able to do.

But seriously, that's about how long it took me to go through Macky's document and learn to solve BLD. It was a couple more days before I got my first successful one, but I knew how after about 10 hours. The document has changed a bit and has more in it, so I'm not sure if I would be able to learn it all that quickly now, but it does seem like a reasonable match for the time you have. So I (being overwhelmingly biased towards BLD) would highly recommend learning BLD from the printed version of Macky's document.

 

[grease]

nice, thanks for the help guys! i will be learning bld and my look ahead.

 

[fanwuq]

I learned from macky's site in about 2 hours. DNFed for about half a month (or more).

 

[Lofty]

If you want to learn Pochmann for BLD Joel Van Noort has a very good guide on his site that you could print out to learn. He also has OLL's orginized nicely for memorizing.
I don't know good written guides for Petrus and Roux... You could just write down the steps and figure it our yourself?
BLD or OLL is best to learn tho I think.