Hello everyone,
First thing: I was wondering if there are any cubers and/or any official or
unofficial cube competitions near me. I live in Minnesota of the US. I
learned how to do the cube about 3 weeks ago and got sub-50 non lucky this past
week. It would be nice to talk with some people that really know a lot about
the cube and also to enter in some competitions.
Next thing: Some people have been saying that you should not memorize the F2L
algs and some people have been saying that that is what they did. Personally,
I memorized the F2L algs in the sense that I got a sheet of paper and practiced
the algs. However, I learn best by doing that and while I am doing that I look
at the moves to see what is going on. I think this combines doing it
intuitively and memorizing in a pretty good way, although maybe you don't get
the satisfaction and good practice of doing it for yourself. I think it is
right that you should not just learn algorithms. It would be like just
memorizing a poem and not even realizing what it is saying. So am I going to
suffer later on from learning F2L the way I did or will I be all right?
Next next thing: I am switching my LL order so that it would be easier to
move to OLL/PLL. Before I did the normal beginner LL: OE, PC, OC, PE. Now I
have been trying to switch to OE, OC, PC, PE but somebody posted a different
way to do this (I think it was oc, oe**, pe**, pc where the stars could be
switched). Which would be the better way if I am aiming for OLL/PLL? I
thought the way I was trying would be good because to do PC than PE I had to
learn 7 of the PLL algs and then I could gradually incorporate more.
Last thing: What does a good 3x3 usually cost and where can I get one. Mine
is a Rubiks.com one that works reasonably well now that I put some silicon lube
on it.
Cheers,
Robbie
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