If you started walking now you could make it just in time! :P
--- In [email protected], "Joe Allen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> We really could use a tournament or two up here sometime soon. I'm
> also from Minnesota, so you can count me in for any tournament in
the
> Iowa/Minn/Wisc area.
>
> Sorry, Richard. Tennessee is too far away.
>
> Joe Allen
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], Robbie Hank
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > 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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