Well looks like tomorrow I’ll be cubing as well.
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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:
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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