On 3/23/06, kirk83616 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Welcome, Aron > > I tried that method (printing out the F2L algs and looking at the > sheet as I did them). everyone learns differently, but for me that > didn't help because there were just too many and I just got > confused. better approach for me was to learn a few at a time and > also explore intuitively so I understood what the alg does. Also > helpful is meeting up with other cubers to learn from them directly-- > don't know where you are, but these days it seems odds are good > there's another cuber somewhere relatively close.
Okay. When learning just a few of the algorithms, do you train them "back and forth", i.e. doing them and then doing their reverse and so on? Or is that a bad way to practice? Should I just cube along and if one of the cases I'm training comes up, I'll do the algorithm, and if it's another case I'll solve it using my old layer-by-layer method? This is what I'm doing now. I'm in Sweden, and I had plans to go to the Swedish Championships last week, to meet some other cubers for the first time, but I'd forgot that I was booked up that weekend. I'll be going to Chalmers Open though, also here in Sweden. > I don't know all of the algs, but I know enough for where I'm at as > a cuber. If you learn a handful really well, and you get a case for > an alg you don't know yet, with very little practice you can usually > manipulate it rather easily into a case for which you do know the > alg. [I suppose that could be viewed as knowing an alg for that > case, just not an optimal alg]. Yea, pretty often I can do that, or I can resort to doing what I did using the layer-by-layer method, though that doesn't really count, as the side is not layed down simultaneously with the corner :) > Good luck! Thanks! Aron PS. Do people want to also be Cc:d messages to the list? Different lists have different rules. DS. > --- In [email protected], "Aron Stansvik" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello cubeheads! > > > > This is my first mail to the list, I just joined yesterday. I'm 22 > > years old and solved the cube for the first time a few months ago, > > using a beginner layer-by-layer method. I haven't started my > > speedcubing carrier very intensively, just cubing a little here and > > there, so my average is around 60 seconds, still with the beginner > > method. > > > > Recently I started looking at improving my cross speed, solving the > > cross in D and the Fridrich F2L algos. If any of you wickedly fast > out > > there can remember what it was like when you first learned the F2L, > > and have any tips/suggestions et.c. you're more than welcome to > share > > them with me. > > > > At first I started with having the algos for the 41 cases beside > me, > > printed on a piece of paper.. But the last couple of days I'm > starting > > to think that it's better to work out them out intuitively. What > was > > your approach? Trying to figure them out by myself, it feels as if > I > > learn them better, as if they "stick" better in my head, but I'm > > worried that often I make unneccessary moves, that could fast turn > > into a bad habit. > > > > Anyway, glad I found this fine sport. It kills off time when I'm > > sitting in my bookshop with no customers ;) > > > > I'm sure there are more questions for this list that I've thought > of, > > but can't remember at the moment. > > > > Best regards, > > Aron Stansvik > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > 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/
