# 40 years cube free **URL:** \ **Category:** Skill Toys\ **Created:** [March 9, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494 "2020-03-09T17:47:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Jhonaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhonaker/32/49024_2.png) [@Jhonaker](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Jhonaker)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/121 "2020-08-14T00:40:22Z")
Well looks like tomorrow I’ll be cubing as well. ---
**Author:** ![zslane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/zslane/32/19816_2.png) [@zslane](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zslane)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/122 "2020-08-14T01:14:05Z")
My current method is “Beginner CFOP”, which is to say my F2L is intuitive and pretty slow, I haven’t mastered many fingertricks, and both OLL and PLL are 2-look at the moment. I am following this plan, as advised by someone on the SpeedSolving forums: > [@](#): > > 1. Practice and improve until you average around 45 > 2. Work on doing INTUITIVE F2L more efficiently. This is something you should work on continuously but this is where you should start to do it. > 3. Work on finger tricks, but don’t learn anything too crazy. At this point I would recommend getting down to about 30 seconds before the next step. > 4. Learn full PLL and get down to around 15 to 20 seconds > 5. Learn full OLL and get to around 10-15 seconds, while still working on finger tricks, efficiency, lookahead etc. > 6. Learn more advanced things like X cross and work on lookahead and other fundamentals. Notice that more esoteric things like color neutrality and pseudo-slotting aren’t even mentioned. I think the implication is that those skills are really only necessary when you’re aiming to be sub-10 and attempts to optimize anywhere else are yielding diminishing returns. ---
**Author:** ![andy569](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/andy569/32/1256_2.png) [@andy569](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/andy569)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/123 "2020-08-14T13:32:05Z")
Lucas Etter is a sub-7 solver and only uses white cross so color neutrality is definitely not necessary. Will probably only improve your overall solve times by like a few percent. With that said though I think it’s still neat to know so if that’s something you ever want to learn, I would suggest starting now as the faster you get, the longer it will take to become color neutral. I regret not learning it when I started out. Advanced pseudo slotting and additional last layer alg sets are probably not necessary until sub-9. I know a lot of people are sub 10 with just good efficient F2L and 2LLL ---
**Author:** ![kevinm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kevinm/32/697_2.png) [@kevinm](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kevinm)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 12:48am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/124 "2023-06-14T00:48:37Z")
[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/4/2/2/4228dbbead159f9cac82262aea3f8ef21bcb0bb3.jpeg "Fastest Rubik's cube 3x3 WR (3.13) sec WORLD RECORD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh8HX4itF_w) ---
**Author:** ![Kiryl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2acd7d/32.png) [@Kiryl](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Kiryl)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 10:48am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/125 "2026-06-29T10:48:13Z")
30+ years ago I was kid and got a cube as gift. Never managed to solve it. I got no guides with the cube and there was no internet at that time. The last layer was totally impossible and I don’t think I was able to solve more than 3 sides fully. Few months ago daughter watched some video about rubik and talked a lot about it.. so she got her rubik.. messed it up, unable to solve. And I finally looked for tutorial and figured out how to solve the cube. The magic of unsolvable cube gone but it was quite interesting experience. ---
**Author:** ![Slestak75](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slestak75/32/212315_2.png) [@Slestak75](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Slestak75)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 11:31am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/126 "2026-06-29T11:31:09Z")
The only way I ever solved that was to dismantle it and put it back together in the proper order. I certainly wasn’t going to win any speed contests for this but I could still do it pretty quick. ---
**Author:** ![Splizacular](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/splizacular/32/640487_2.png) [@Splizacular](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Splizacular)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2026, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494/127 "2026-06-29T12:38:26Z")
i used to be able to solve it but it’s been so long the other day i tried and had forgotten the last bits. i looked for a tut to refresh but it seems like there’s a slightly diff way than what im used to but i can’t find the way I’m familiar with and i haven’t had the drive to relearn it lol [Previous page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/40-years-cube-free/316494.md?page=6)