First of all, I never really introduced myself, but I'm a new cuber who joined
this group about a week ago... my name is David, i'm 17 from Ohio/USA, and
learned how to solve a rubik's cube (using a cheat-sheet for algs) on Christmas
(although I had my cube before then). I did 12 in a row today to find my
average time, which is 2:41 at the moment.
Anyways, I want to get faster.. at least to be able to solve the cube in a
minute.
A few questions.
First of all, from what people here have told me, I need to learn how to
solve F2L in one step. Currently I do all 3 layers seperately. I printed of all
41 algs from speedcubing.com, but I have been told that I should know how to do
it intuitively. With that in mind, what is the best way of learning how to do
the F2L simultaneously? The way I see it, there should be a way to learn a
smaller number of algs and then learn how to position the cubes so that those
algs can be used.. maybe that woudlnt' work though. Anyways, let me know what
methods you guys used for mastering F2L.
Second question: is this a good method for last layer?
-Cross
-Permute corners
-Orient corners
-Permute edges
-(Orient edges; i almost never have situations where the edges are in the
right place but oriented wrong)
Third question: are there any algs to rotate 1 corner (i know that it would
also have to move edges, b/c it's not possible to rotate just one piece) What
about rotate 2 adjacent corners, or 2 opposite corners? I currently have one
alg, which rotates all of the corners except front left; it is inefficient and
I sometimes have to execute it as many as 5 times to orient all of the corners.
Fourth question -- any other general tips on getting faster?
Thanks a lot, and thanks to all the people who've helped me so far!
David
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