When I first got a cube (when i was 7 or so), The furthest I could get was to orient all of the white pieces to the white center. " I got the white side!"
I didnt know that there were 20 pieces; 8 corners and 12 edges. I had no idea that the pieces all had to be in a certain place. I didn't even realize at that point that the centers were stationary. I didn't understand the opposite colors. I learned a corners 1st method by Jeff Varasano from a book. So he taught me in esscence. i don't think that I would have gotten it on my own. My First Big Alg [(R'<)(R2 >>) (R' U2 R) (>> R2 > R) U2] My 10 year old cousin got a cube last year for Xmas and has been working on it with little success for a year. I promise, i didn't deprive her of anything by teaching her. I do agree w/ you, Stephan, about learning things on your own. I have tried to do this as much as possible with F2L, but sometimes seeing a new shorter way to do a Pair will help out. I defenitely don't believe in memorizing written sequences for F2L. Thats why I like Gille's Method. very little Memorization. Lots of intuition. And lots of (R r U M) moves, of course. Jason k I first solved the cube when I was 10 years old. I only worked out the > first two layers by myself, then I read a book for the last layer. I'm > quite sure that I would not have been able to work out the last layer by > myself at that age. I'm not saying it isn't possible at that age, just > that I don't think I could have done it! So I'm not too bothered by the > fact that I didn't work it all out on my own. > > This makes me wonderÂ… of the people who did initially work out an entire > solution on their own (regardless of how inefficient it might have > been), how old were you at the time? > > Jasmine > http://speedcuber.blogspot.com > > > On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:32:44 -0000, "Stefan Pochmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > > --- In [email protected], "kovacic81" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I didn't think that my 10 year old cousin would figure out the > > cube > > on > > > her own. > > You *thought* so. And now we (and more importantly she) will > > never > > know. I myself am quite sad I'll never know whether I would've > > been > > able to find a solution myself, if I remember correctly I got a > > solution with my first cube when I was about 6 and sadly nobody > > encouraged me to try it on my own first. > > Why waste the opportunity? > > Recently a friend of mine became interested and found a solution > > himself. Took him two months, and it wasn't the most efficient > > method, > > but he did it. He resisted getting any help, I resisted giving > > any > > help. That's what *I* am proud of. But yeah, I know I'm quite > > lonely > > with that attitude. > > Stefan > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and > love email again > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
