Your 3x3x3 Speedsolving Method History

[Sa967St]

@Sela: Why didn't you do F2L first?

Because I didn't know F2L was important.

 

[waffle=ijm]

sela weird rike that

 

[Cyrus C.]

1. Corners First.
2. LBL.
3. CFOP, 4LLL.
4. CFOP, 3LLL.
5. Petrus.
6. ZZ.
7. Roux.
8. Petrus.
9. CFOP.
10. MGLS-Fridrich.
11. Petrus.
12. CFOP.
13. MGLS-Fridrich.
14. MGLS-Petrus.
15. MGLS-Fridrich.

^Why I'm so slow^

 

[teller]

1981 Nourse LBL
1999 +Keyhole
2008 Full Fridrich
2010 +Multi-slotting

 

[Yes We Can!]

1. LBL
2. CFOP

Lame

 

[RyanReese09]

just plain dan browns beginners into fridrich

 

[jiggy]

pffft...let's see if I can remember them all, and in the correct order:

-Beginner's layer by layer (Learnt for quite a random reason...a story for another day.)
-Human Thistlethwaite Algorithm (Stayed up all night learning this. Awesome. Still my favourite method.)
-"Philip Marshall" (An edges first method with two corner comms to finish.)
-Petrus
-CFOP (2LOLL, 1LPLL)
-Corner Commutators/intuitive solve
-Hiese
-Finish 1LOLL (We are now about two months from when I first picked up a cube, averaging ~30sec)
-Roux (2 Looking the LL corners)
-ZZ (I didn't give much time to this, so it's actually probably one of my weakest methods.)
-8355 (This took about two minutes to learn!)


I've probably missed something out, I've also experimented with things like belt, corners first, etc. but not learnt formal methods for them. I also don't count things like "key holing" or edge comms as methods, more tricks or interesting theory.

EDIT: Of course, these are just methods I've learnt out of interest. My main method is, and has been from early on, CFOP.

 

[JonnyWhoopes]

Dan Harris' LBL from his book.
Petrus
LBL [4LLL]
CFOP [intuitive F2L with 3LLL]
Roux

 

[EVH]

-Dan Brown's LBL
-Petrus (but not true blockbuilding)
-Heise (Got maybe 3 successful solves but tried for at least a month)
-Petrus (true block building)
-LBL with 4LLL
-F2L with 4LLL
-Roux
-F2L with 4LLL
-F2L with 2LOLL and 1LPLL
-ZZ with OCLL and PLL
-CFOP with 2LOLL and Full PLL

 

[StachuK1992]

Well...
LBL Dan Brown
LBL booklet
LBL better 4LLL (R' D' R D for OCLL)
LBL keyhole 5LLL (2 sunes per OCLL)
LBL keyhole 4LLL (Decent OCLL)
Salvia
Salvia, but switch do corners before doing *any* of M or S slice. (like superoux)
Petrus
Petrus CN
Petrus
Keyhole 4LLL
F2L 4LLL
Salvia
Petrus
F2L 3LLL (finally done PLL!)
switch between Petrus, Roux, and CFOP a few more times
ZZ
Petrus
CFOP
ZZ
CFOP
Roux
*learn CLS and use for everything from now on when it's cool*
CFOP
ZZ
*learn CPLS and use for ...not sure yet*
CFOP/ZZ
*learning 2GLL*

Seems about right.
I'm fantastic.

And by fantastic, I of course mean horrid.

tl;dr Salvia.

 

[Narraeson]

-Dan Brown's beginner's
-Intuitive F2L, LL with Dan Brown's Beginner's
-Intuitive F2L, 2-look OLL/PLL

 

[Daniel Wu]

Petrus
LBL
Keyhole
Petrus
CFOP
Roux
CFOP

 

[Forte]

My transition is so lame.
LBL -> Fridrich

Me toooooooooo

 

[Godmil]

Think I started with Dan Knights beginner then intermediate methods (basic Fridrich) but that was around 2001 so it's hard to remember. Starting again I tried to go full Fridrich as quickly as possible (from BadMephisto's site). And for fun I like to use Heise. Learning L3C at the moment to help optimise some of my Heise solves and in anticipation for Anthony Snyders method being documented.

 

[Erik]

Just for the stuff that I actually use(d) for speed:

- horribly inefficient LBL method
- normal LBL method (Joëls website, all corner OLLs in sune[U move]sune (or anti) combinations)
- keyhole with cross on left (Joëls website) 4 look and then 3 look LL
- CFOP 3 look then 2 look (opposite colour neutral)

some additional stuff I use:
- last pair + OLL
- ELL
- CELL
- COLL
- ZBLL
- real COLL (COLL for all OLL cases)

 

[MTGjumper]

LBL -> CFOP -> Opposite colour neutral CFOP

I really should learn some more tricks. I've been solving the cube exactly the same way for a year and a half now, basically now alterations or improvements. Seeing all of Breandan's and Rowan's tricks at UK Open was a real eye opener.

 

[NeedReality]

LBL (Dan Brown)
Intuitive F2L + 4 look LL / tried out Petrus
Intuitive F2L + 2 look OLL and full PLL (minus G perms) <---What I currently use
Roux (still practicing to make it fast)

For my 2 look OLL, it's more like 1.5 look as I know the case it'll be before I finish the previous algorithm, so I don't have to pause in between. Some of you guys have certainly tried a lot of methods, though!

 

[FatBoyXPC]

I forgot that I too used to do cross on left when I did keyhole. Seeing Erik's post reminded me that. I'm not sure if it's of importance, but since MTGJumper posted Opp Neutral, I too am Opp Neutral and just started that in October (and it certainly came in handy this weekend!). I also wish I'd had learned how to optimize the final CE pair during Keyhole, I'm betting I could sub25 Keyhole with just a bit of practice

For my 2 look OLL, it's more like 1.5 look as I know the case it'll be before I finish the previous algorithm, so I don't have to pause in between.

Lol, you missed the thread that explained how 2LOLL is 1LOLL if you know the OCLL case Even though it's considered looking twice when I usually don't stop looking at the cube until it's solved...

 

[drewsopchak]

1-lbl
2-cfop.
waste no time!.
in the future i will learn coll and cll

 

[DavidEBowyerJr]

1. Dan Brown LBL
2. LBL with keyhole
3. Petrus (did not learn all the algs and ditched it)
4. Fridrich f2l (intuitive) With beginner last layer This got me down to about 50 second average
5. roux (learning now and can see the potential top be very fast) Thanx for the roux page waffle.