Thanks for the welcome Dan, this is a great group. Having a little trouble keeping up with the volume (and often content!) of posts, but am already picking up a lot of stuff through being here.
I think the next step for me like some other new cubers here is improving my F2L, it still slows my times down. I have made efforts to learn F2L as intuitively as possible and can fairly quickly work out how to solve a pair when I spot then but the trouble is spotting them ahead of time. I want to have a smooth solving approach where I move from one pair to the next without pausing. I guess the looking ahead bit is just a technique you learn from practicing and staying focussed while doing the First two layers.. but if there are any pointers to speed up this process I would be interested in hearing them. Your website has been a great help for the last layer algorithms so thanks for maintaining that. While on the topic of websites that helped me, I forgot to mention in my first post that it was Jasmine's excellently explained beginner method that started me off again after all these years away from the cube. As far as meeting up goes... time is at a premium at the moment what with me and my wife expecting our second baby and all that that entails... but I will make an effort since it would no doubt help my method loads plus I get to see some really fast cubers up close! cheers, Matt --- In [email protected], "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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/
