I was around 19 when i took the cube for solving it seriously. I kept working on it for a whole 3 months(i had my summer holidays going on) ... i only saw one algo on the net to flip two corners but then i realised that this is cheating so i started to work on my own solution. I did somethinglike a corners first method with solving the two opposite layers and then doing the middle layer at the end,
I remember very vividly, i was in the train once when i "discovered" the sune algorithm. I was just playing around with the corner edge pair and i thougt of putting them a little differently and then suddenly the corners were all oriented! I was very proud of myself that time. I had gotten really stuck in the last two edge pairs. I just couldnt orient them correctly. So when one day when i was playing with the cube, the pieces popped out, I just put them back together and solved them. Then i realised that i had put the btm layer edge wrongly...so i put it back correctly adn then solved it. But in the mean time the two middle layer pieces had oriented them correctly! So i gave it some thought and my method at that time was to purposefully incorrectly orient the btm layer edge piece and them do a middle layer turn and again solve it. Now that i look back upon it, it seems to be just horribly inefficient, but i was still very proud of myself :) Btw ppl dont hijack the topic...lets stick to the original thread :) Sachin. On 1/6/06, kovacic81 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 wonder… 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 > > > > > > > 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/
