Hi Matt, I just found this message on the group, great to hear of another cuber in the UK! I hope that you will be able to meet up with Duncan soon, he is a very nice guy and he has a great knowledge of the cube!
Hopefully you will be able to make it to the next meeting of UK cubers, which I hope will be sooner as opposed to later! Anyway, if you want to get in touch to talk about anything cubing or otherwise then please drop me a line. dan at cubestation.co.uk Dan :) --- In [email protected], "mantawrays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! A new cuber in the UK here. I used to play with the cube in the > 80's when I was little(I used a really simple beginner layer method, I > think) and recently after playing with a 4 x 4 someone in the office > had got hooked again and bought a new cube in August. > > I've been reading a lot of the people here's web pages and they have > all been a great help (esp. Jessica Fridrich's, Dan Harris', Joel Van > Noort, Chris Hardwick's). So thanks to everyone for making some great > webpages. I use the cross on the bottom. I am getting better at doing > F2L (it's taking a long time to be able to make fast decisions > though!) and have learnt the U, Z, H, E, J and F PLL algorithms (and > have forgotten the A one!). I guess I'm going to try to learn all the > PLL ones and then look at the OLL ones. Is that the general approach > to learning Fridrich? Since I learnt those PLL's I have found it > possible to solve the cube in around 50 seconds whereas before it was > around 1 minute 30 or something like that if I went flat out. Still > pretty slow compared to everyone here. > > Still, I had a go with Chris H's 'oh wow' scramble and was shocked > when using my method after a few tries I solved it in 31 seconds. > Well, That was a big Oh wow for me, anyway! :) > > I have two cubes, one I bought from a department store in August with > bright stickers on (which deteriorated really rapidly )- probably the > generic 3 x 3 Rubiks.com sell, and a Rubik's 3 x 3 DIY cube with PVC > stickers which I prefer. The DIY one seems to be easier to control > turns on and more suitable for doing fast solves (although it's > noisier according to my wife). Oh yes, and it has M0105B written on > one of the corners. > > Does anyone have any opinions of the new anniversary cube? Is it the > same as the normal 3 x 3 but with a different centre white sticker? Is > it at all suitable for speedcubing? Are the stickers PVC or polypropelene? > > That's it for now. > > Cheers, Matt > 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/
