What's with newbie cubers lately?

[wddglr]

ive been cubing for about 2 months now. i found a studio cube downtown and picked it up and started playing with it. for a whole week, non stop cubing. all i got to was the first two layers using intuition and some reallly long nasty algorithm to get the 2nd layer edge pieces in. then i oriented the last layer but i never got to fully permute it. you can call me a newbie, since ive been learing f2l lately and learned pll with some mods. but mostly all intuitively. i've only watched those two f2l videos by badmephisto, and from there ive done my own algorithms for f2l, finding out later that many people already use them.
cubing might start to explode, but atleast those of you pioneer cubers know that you were part of it since the start. which you should take some pride on.

and not be dissing us newbs

my respect to all of you, newbs and uber cubers

 

[LamentConfiguration]

people just want instant gratification... that's why they want all the super cool awesome mega algorithms from the get go.

 

[immortalcube]

I would also add that there really isn't much on the internet about methods other than Fridrich. Everyone talks about Fridrich and explains it, and has alg lists for it, etc., but there's only one site that really talks about the Petrus method in depth, lar5.com. Same for Roux.

I think I should join Lofty and work on Petrus. It would be really good with MGLS. Or maybe something like a combination of 2x2x2 block, then extend to 2x2x3, then do the third slot like Fridrich, then MGLS, then PLL.

I've been practicing petrus lately. I would really like to try that. Seems interesting. which requires less moves, ZB or MGLS? Probably ZB, but better by how much on average?

Petrus ftw!

 

[Alex DiTuro]

people just want instant gratification... that's why they want all the super cool awesome mega algorithms from the get go.

Exactly. People don't understand that with time speed will come

 

[scriptease]

I'm fairly new, I started with the booklet then started Fridrich, I understand why some people jump straight into something with 100+ algorithms.

When I picked up a 2x2x2, I looked online for a system (because I'm not the kind of person that can figure stuff out like that on his own) and saw about 5 systems. One had ~6 algs, one had ~10, one had ~15, and one had 100+. I picked the 15 alg one (later turned into 13 algs), the Ortega system. I started with this, not the easy one, because if I was going to practice it anyway, I might as well start with the more complicated one and not waste my time with the easy ones. Best analogy I can think of is playing a video game, lots of people don't play the 'Easy' mode because they know they're better than that, and are willing to commit to something harder, for the larger payoff.

On the note of just learning canned moves you don't understand, I agree with the point made earlier, when I learned the beginner system, it was all magical. I turned this and this, and *poof* it was solved. But, once I could do them, I started to understand them. Now, as I learn an algo, yes, I don't understand it, but I make sure I understand what it's doing before I consider it memorized. As I progress, I start to understand the cube better!

I think a lot of more experienced cubers forget what they learned, because as you get used to it, you take a lot of knowledge for granted. Most cubers didn't pick up a cube with a sudden knowledge of how to shift pieces around, they had to learn it, as I said, through practice and watching it move in your hands.