Your 3x3x3 Speedsolving Method History

[emolover]

Rob method
3 look OLL and 1 look PLL
3 look OLL and 1 look PLL and F2L
2 look OLL and 1 look PLL and F2L

 

[Rpotts]

Jasmine Lee Method (LBL, EO,Niklas,Sunes,Alan)
Intuitive F2L +4LLL (EO,CO,CP,EP)
F2l+3LLL (Full PLL)
CFOP

2x2
LBL with Sunes + T/Y Perm
LBL with OLL
Ortega
Learning Guimond (kinda)

 

[JTW2007]

1. LBL from the Rubik's book (1min.-27sec)
2. CFOP w/ 2LOLL (27sec-right now)

 

[Ranzha]

Jan. 7, 2009: Dan Brown's Tutorial (time: 5 minutes to 40 seconds)
1.) Green cross on top.
2.) FL corners individually, and then flip over to cross on D.
3.) Middle edges, one at a time.
4.) Basic EOLL.
5.) EPLL with Sune.
6.) CPLL with Niklas.
7.) OCLL with commutator R' D' R D.

June 15, 2009: "Ranzha's Beginner's F2L" LBL. (40 seconds to 30 seconds)
1.) White cross on top and flip to cross on D.
2.) Middle edges, individually, with ELS on the last one.
3.) FL corners, 2-gen.
4.) EPLL with Sune.
5.) CPLL with Niklas.
6.) OCLL with commutator R' D' R D.

August 10, 2009: Ranzhian F2L with 4LLL. (Up to 35, and then down to 25)
1.) White cross on top and flip to cross on D.
2.) Middle edges, individually, with ELS on the last one.
3.) FL corners, 2-gen.
4.) OCLL with Sune and variants.
5.) CPLL with A-permutations.
6.) EPLL with UUHZ-permutations.

November 1, 2009: CFOP with 4LLL. (Up to 35, down to 25, as before)
1.) White cross on top/front and flip to cross on D.
2.) F2L pairs/slots. Took awhile to get accustomed to.
3.) EOLL, as from LBL.
4.) OCLL with Sune and variants.
5.) CPLL with A-permutations.
6.) EPLL with UUHZ-permutations.

January 7, 2010 (one-year anniversary): CFOP with 3LLL to 2LLL/CFCE with 3LLL to 2LLL (Up to 30, down to 19, as it is now)
1.) White cross on top/front and flip to cross on D.
2.) F2L pairs/slots. Took awhile to get accustomed to.
3a.) OLL for the cases I know, 2-look for the rest.
3b.) 3CLL for the cases I know. If else, refer to 3a.
4a.) PLL. 2-look for Gs. Stupid Gs.
4b.) If 3b was used, ELL.

 

[Noahaha]

1) Pogobat
2) Ortega
3) Petrus
a. Niklas->Sune->Allan LL
b. 5+6 index + EPLL
c. OCLL + PLL

 

[antoineccantin]

Beginner (Dan Brown variation)
+2LLOLL and PLL
+intuitive F2L
+full PLL (kind of)

 

[PhillipEspinoza]

I originally started with some weird LBL method where the LL was solved on bottom and you first had to permute the 2 front adjacent corners, then if necessary the other 2, then you had to orient them using some variation of sune, then once you had all corners solved you had to permute the edges, then orient them using the BLD algs. Really inefficient which is why I avg'd around 5 minutes initially with it.

Got down to 2 min with that method, then started researching more methods for the cube, friend told me about a highly advanced method where you make a 2x2 block first then expand it (Petrus) but I didn't go down that path. I looked up Chris Hardwick's almighty page of goodness which was like miracle whip for cubing back in the day and discovered OLL. I was daunted by the extremely large amount of algs but I somehow thought that OLL was the end of it, that OLL somehow both permuted and oriented the pieces. I put this off for about a year til I went to college, in the meantime learned makeshift OLL and some PLLs. Got down to ~50 sec-ish.

Went to college and in Fall of 06 my RA had a Rubik's Cube. Said he new someone named Toby Mao who had taught him how to cube and that he was uber fast, he looked him up, and sure enough at the time Toby had the WR. He gave me his cube and my jaw dropped at how amazingly smooth it was. He told me I could have it, and from that point on I was inspired to get faster and break that 10.48 WR lol.

Then I met someone at college who was sub-20 (ZOMG @ the time). Then I had someone to inspire me to get faster. I eventually learned full PLL then OLL I think. Then at the same time I think I looked back at the original Jessica Fridrich's page to learn to F2L. The pictures kinda helped but I decided to learn F2L myself since I understood the basic concept (which was to put both the corner and corresponding edge piece in at the same time). I learned intuitive F2L by starting with a solved cube with cross on left (because Jessica Fridrich suggested that you should do it cross on left in order to be really efficient) and doing some finger trick moves like R U' R' U x 2, looking at the positioning of the corner and the edge, remembering that case, then doing the inverse.

Since then it's been the same with additions onto my CFOP such as COLL and some ZBLL.

 

[collinbxyz]

1. Dan Brown Beginner's Method
2. Intuitive F2L + Beginner's Method LL
3. Intuitive F2L + 2 Look OLL and PLL
4. Intuitive F2L + 2 Look OLL and Full PLL
5. F2L w/ some algs + 1/3ish OLL and Full PLL

 

[Tim Major]

1. Intuitive block building/keyhole.(worked out first 2 layers reasonably consistently).
2. LBL.
3. F2L, EOLL, PLL, COLL
4. F2L, OLL, PLL.

I've messed with roux petrus and zz, but never for long.

 

[Robocopter87]

1. Dan Brown
2. CFOP (3 look LL + Intuitive F2L)

 

[tasguitar7]

LBL
4LLL
Petrus
CFOP
Roux

 

[DRAGON_RYU]

LBL
F2L+4LLL
CFOP

 

[MostEd]

LBL
F2L 4LL
Roux

 

[Akash Rupela]

pogobat LBL
intuitive f2l (rob h0629) + 2L oll + 2 L pll
full pll
full oll
Right now looking into occasional X cross and ways of tracking 1st pair in inspection

 

[cubecraze1]

dan brown
dan brown with a few short cuts
f2l with dan brown last layer and short cuts
4L CFOP
3L CFOP
i think i tried petrus somewhere in there but never really used it

 

[Zane_C]

-Rubik's instruction booklet. (same method as pogobat I think)
-LBL+EO+EP+CO+CP
-F2L+2L-OLL+full PLL
-CFOP

 

[ottozing]

1.dan brown lbl
2.dan brown lbl with some shortcuts
3.keyhole with dan brown last layer + shortcuts
4.keyhole with 4 look last layer
5.cfop with intuitive f2l, 2 look oll and 2 look pll
6.cfop with intuitive f2l, compound oll and 1 look pll
7.petrus (lol)
8.cfop with algorithm f2l for the ugly cases, 1 look oll and one look pll
9.cfop with algorithm f2l for the ugly cases + random shortcuts , 1 look oll + random ollcp and 1 look pll + extra algorithms for differnt angles

 

[Jaycee]

Method taught by RobH0629 on YouTube (Classic LBL?)
Same Beginner's F2L with 2 Look OLL and PLL
Same F2L with 2LOLL and full PLL
Intuitive F2L with 2LOLL and full PLL
Actually got good at intuitive F2L
Learned a bunch of OLLs over the course of the year, now know full.
So now : Intuitive F2L, Full OLL and Full PLL

 

[emolover]

Rob method
3 look OLL and 1 look PLL
3 look OLL and 1 look PLL and F2L
2 look OLL and 1 look PLL and F2L

And now 1 look OLL and 1 look PLL with actual good F2L.

My method history is not very interesting.

 

[JasonK]

1) Weird beginner method: Blue corners, blue edges, middle edges, CP, CO, EP, EO. I've still got a piece of paper with all the algs for this method written down but I can't find it on the web. It uses R' E' R2 E2 R' U2 R E2 R2 E R U2 for a 2-flip
2) Badmephisto beginner method (white cross)
3) Cross (on bottom), intuitive F2L, 4LLL
4) Full PLL
5) Add yellow cross and experiment more with F2L. Learn better algs for some bad PLLs.
6) Full OLL (Over a year later )