Hey everyone,
I just got back from a sort of cube club type meeting at Duke
University. I brought about 30 puzzles for people to play with and
in the course of the night successfully taught 6 people how to
solve, and 2-3 others how to solve the F2L. A few people didn't
have time to finish learning, and also Tyson I met a girl there who
said she knew you and Leyan, but sadly I didn't catch her name.
Anyway the method I taught to the people I did teach was Joel van
Noort's LL mixed in with my own stuff for F2L (cross + corners + F2L
edges, for which I have a system that is easy to teach/remember but
of course not very speedy).
Anyway I was very impressed with how easy it is to teach the LL with
commutators, rather than "ok do this sequence, and don't ask me how
it works because it's 'magic'". I found that the 6 I was able to
teach understood exactly what they were doing for LL, and also they
were all able to remember what they did with minimal reminders from
me after the initial teaching session. All of the people I taught
simply wanted to learn to solve and weren't interested in speed.
So in concluson, with quite a lot of experience teaching people to
solve the cube, I have to say that Joel's commutator LL is the
best/easiest I've ever used. It will definitely be the method I
teach to people who just want to learn to solve, and aren't
interesed in later scaling to a speedier method.
So Joel, I think your method is great, and will definitely be what I
teach to beginners in the future :-)
Chris
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