DaSillyFool
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Hey guys,
I am Brendan from Sydney, Australia. I bought a Rubik's cube about 5 years ago and it just sat on my desk, I would pick it up every now and again but never learned how to solve it. At Christmas last year, my brother-in-law was saying how his daughter was interested in the Rubik's cube. I explained how I had bought one but never bothered to learn to solve it.
I said, "I've heard it's not too hard to solve".
"Yeah.. so... you do it.", he replied.
"mmm", I sigh ... followed by a sad face.
Later, when I got home I decided to give it another go. All the video's I watched just confused me, so I printed out the official guide. I took me about 4 or 5 days of practice for a couple of hours here and there before I was able to complete it without the guide. "I am a genius!!!" I exclaimed, or something similarly exaggerated ... I was pumped about my new found skill! I spent the weekend solving while explaining to my wife how I am now able to manipulate her inferior brain and move objects using only a contemplative stare, but things took a turn after I went on the internet to research faster methods.
Now, I knew that people had solved it quickly, even under 20's. Crazy people. ...but under 5 seconds?! There is always a crazy dude on youtube that can do the thing you do way better. Like, hanging upside down, blindfolded, underwater, surrounded by sharks, in space and using his feet. I did not expect such an enormous speedcubing community. I hadn't thought about it, now I had to be a part of it... I immediately went out and bought a Rubik's speed cube. Don't judge me, it was right there in the shop near my house.
So now I'm about three months in, my times are around the two-minute mark, there is no www.slowsolving.com by the way, so you guys are stuck with me here. I am getting quicker at F2L using the Fredrich method and I don't know any OLL, PLL or any other terminology. I am so keen attend the next competition in Sydney, but so far there is nothing on the calendar.
I'm looking forward to getting through all this info on here and eventually getting my times down. If I can get down to under 20 seconds I will rule the planet.
Don't worry, you guys are safe.
-B
Here is a video of my current ability, any advice or tips beyond "get good", would be greatly appreciated but if that's all you got I'm cool with that.
https://youtu.be/nKyQkJY9ZzQ
I am Brendan from Sydney, Australia. I bought a Rubik's cube about 5 years ago and it just sat on my desk, I would pick it up every now and again but never learned how to solve it. At Christmas last year, my brother-in-law was saying how his daughter was interested in the Rubik's cube. I explained how I had bought one but never bothered to learn to solve it.
I said, "I've heard it's not too hard to solve".
"Yeah.. so... you do it.", he replied.
"mmm", I sigh ... followed by a sad face.
Later, when I got home I decided to give it another go. All the video's I watched just confused me, so I printed out the official guide. I took me about 4 or 5 days of practice for a couple of hours here and there before I was able to complete it without the guide. "I am a genius!!!" I exclaimed, or something similarly exaggerated ... I was pumped about my new found skill! I spent the weekend solving while explaining to my wife how I am now able to manipulate her inferior brain and move objects using only a contemplative stare, but things took a turn after I went on the internet to research faster methods.
Now, I knew that people had solved it quickly, even under 20's. Crazy people. ...but under 5 seconds?! There is always a crazy dude on youtube that can do the thing you do way better. Like, hanging upside down, blindfolded, underwater, surrounded by sharks, in space and using his feet. I did not expect such an enormous speedcubing community. I hadn't thought about it, now I had to be a part of it... I immediately went out and bought a Rubik's speed cube. Don't judge me, it was right there in the shop near my house.
So now I'm about three months in, my times are around the two-minute mark, there is no www.slowsolving.com by the way, so you guys are stuck with me here. I am getting quicker at F2L using the Fredrich method and I don't know any OLL, PLL or any other terminology. I am so keen attend the next competition in Sydney, but so far there is nothing on the calendar.
I'm looking forward to getting through all this info on here and eventually getting my times down. If I can get down to under 20 seconds I will rule the planet.
Don't worry, you guys are safe.
-B
Here is a video of my current ability, any advice or tips beyond "get good", would be greatly appreciated but if that's all you got I'm cool with that.
https://youtu.be/nKyQkJY9ZzQ
There was alot pauses in F2L+cross but the last layer was good with near no pauses:tu So try to get the pauses away but you should learn 2-look it would make it alot better ;-) :tu
