What was your first method?

[Gls7789]

We will discuss what your first method was and how fast your time was!
if you don’t remember how fast and what method you used or both, it’s ok you don’t have to say

 

[Cubinginatree]

The method that you find on Rubiks.com lol

 

[ProStar]

Nearly everyone who learned to solve a cube within the past 15 years or so probably learned some variation of the beginner's method (usually a simplistic, low-alg version of LBL)

 

[Isaiah Scott]

Lbl. After 2 months, I averaged low 30s.

 

[NmeCuber]

The method that you find on Rubiks.com lol

Same, on my first day or so I was averaging sub-2 minutes

 

[Gls7789]

Same, on my first day or so I was averaging sub-2 minutes

I was averaging 1 minute - 1 minute 30 Seconds.
AND I STILL AVERAGE THAT

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Nearly everyone who learned to solve a cube within the past 15 years or so probably learned some variation of the beginner's method (usually a simplistic, low-alg version of LBL)

didn't rowe hessler learn petrus first?

but you're right

EDIT:

Interview with Rowe Hessler

January 3, 2010 : Interview with Speedsolving.com member Rowe Hessler : Currently (at the time of this interview) holds the World Record for 2x2x2 Average (2.45 Seconds), and the North American Record for 3x3x3 Average (11.04 Seconds). He is the former World Record holder for 3x3x3 Blindfolded...

www.speedsolving.com

EDIT: and some people develop a sort of corner first method but they're the minority

 

[a_cuber04]

Has anyone gone directly into CFOP without first learning the beginner's method?

 

[lucazdoescubingstuff]

Has anyone gone directly into CFOP without first learning the beginner's method?

yeah exactly. i learned beginners

 

[Garf]

Beginners method that does edges-corners, but without sexy to solve

 

[OldSwiss]

I learned it with this one:

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It's a Layer by Layer Method.

1. Solve Cross (directly, without Daisy)
2. Solve Corners with Sexy Move
3. Solve Edges with 8 Move Alg
4. Solve Yellow Cross
5. Solve OLL with Sunes and Antisunes
6. Solve Edges with U-Perm
7. Solve Corners with A-Perm

Looking Back it was not the easiest way to learn it but it was the first explanation I found that I understood well.

Last layer is a little different to most other beginner methods i've seen but the good thin was that with sune, U-Pern and A-Perm I was already on the best way to oll and pll.
Other beginner Methods use Sune for positioning of the edges and Corner Flip to finish oll. This is farther away from the normal CFPM Method than mine.

When I teach it to beginners now I use this method (or send them the link)

• Make a Daisy
• Solve Cross
• Solve Corners with elevator move (Reverse Sexy)
• Solve Edges with reverse sexy, rotate, reverse sexy
• Solve Yellow Cross
• Solve OLL with corner flip
• Solve Corners with T-Perm
• Solve Edges with U-Perm

The advantage of this one, is that the only alg you use for the first two layers is reverse sexy and oll is also very easy with corner flip.
On the other side it takes a lot of moves to flip 4 corners, so the next i teach after they can do this is solving oll with sune and antisune.
T-Perm for Corners has the advantage that there is only one. With the A-Perm you learn only one variation in the beginning, so you have to do it twice if it is on the wrong side.

 

[quanloh]

Has anyone gone directly into CFOP without first learning the beginner's method?

I did. Cross on bottom, beginner F2L, 4LLL from the beginning, then intuitive F2L, then Roux.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Corners first. Back in 1981. Put the first 4 corners in intuitively, then figured out a few algorithms to move and twist corners, then once I had all of them in place, used a couple of 3-edge-cycle algorithms (that weren't commutators - all variants on R U R U R U R' U' R' U' R2 - I found them by playing with a solved cube for a while) to move all the edges into place two at a time.

Using this method in 1981 on an original Rubik's cube, I eventually got down to about 2 1/2 minutes.

 

[OldSwiss]

I did. Cross on bottom, beginner F2L, 4LLL from the beginning, then intuitive F2L, then Roux.

Only few people go directly into F2L but if you learn it directly, I think it's not so much harder.
It's just the 3 cases how pieces can be paired.

Same for 4x4 Yau or let's say 3-2-3 edge pairing. Edge pairing was very confusing for me with the standard reduction method and solved/unsolved edges all over the cube
With 3-2-3 you always know where to search your next edges and where to store the solved ones.
The hard thing about yau is to solve 3 edges first and then keep them while solving the centers, but you can also to normal edge pairing until hou have the cross and then go into 3-2-3.

 

[Caden Fisher]

My first method was a mix of Jperm’s tutorial and the Rubik’s website. I solved the first 2 layers with Jperm’s video but the LL didn’t make sense so I used the Rubik’s website. I took this picture when I solved it. It was at like 3 AM because I could not sleep until I’d solved it.

 

[abunickabhi]

Interesting, my first method was layer by layer, which I learnt from a pdf on the Rubiks web page.

 

[Cuber987]

Interesting, my first method was layer by layer, which I learnt from a pdf on the Rubiks web page.

same

 

[Deleted member 36445]

I tried learning from rubik's pdf and that helped me until last layer. I didn't get the last layer method at first then I looked up on other resources

I found a 2 look oll document and a complete pll document (that I have printed until today)

I just learnt sune and would spam it to solve orientation of corners, then I learned the other algs

for pll I noticed that I could solve any case by just combining an A perm and a U perm.

after that I learned the rest of the algs, something I didn't thought I was capable of

It was a rough road but yeah i learned it. (in about 6 months) the next one year I would time my solves and go from 1 min+ to sub20

 

[xyzzy]

LBL, following Jasmine Lee's tutorial.

It's a beginner method, but these days I guess "beginner's method" generally means solving the corners with RDRD spam, in which case I have no idea which option to pick.

(I jumped ship to Petrus at some point, probably. It's been too long; I never documented my cubing progress and my memory is hazy.)

 

[a_cuber04]

Rubik's LBL method, which I learned from the old(er) Rubiks.com pdf. A few websites have this pdf, so this probably isn't the site where I got it.

Rubik's PDF