Welcome to the Yahoo! Message Board for Speed Solving Rubik's Cube...
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weirdman71
Jun 19, 2000 2:13 am
Welcome to the speed solving rubik's cube club. If you know how to speed solve then you can offer hints to others who are just learning. If you don't know how...
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_jaap
Jun 20, 2000 11:50 am
In general there are two schools of thought about speedsolving.<br>1. Know and learn many move sequences, so that anything you encounter can be solved with...
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weirdman71
Jun 21, 2000 6:45 pm
I use Jiri's method speed solving, or I know a whole bunch of moves so anything that comes up I can solve in a few moves. I have never tried the other method,...
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weirdman71
Jun 27, 2000 4:15 am
I have a question for anyone out there that speed solves. ilovemycue I know that you are faster than me so maybe you can help me answer this. How can I solve...
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ilovemycube
Jun 30, 2000 7:18 pm
I also have good days (<23 avg) and bad days (>25 avg). The difference is in the second phase (four times a corner of the first layer and an edge of the ...
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cubin4speed
Jun 30, 2000 8:08 pm
(note: most of this is from my home page)<br>I use Jiri's method, and I usually do the first two layers in 11-12 seconds. Here's what I recommend: <br>solve...
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rubixsux
Jun 30, 2000 10:09 pm
I agree mostly with cubin4speed.<br><br>here are some of the things that I have found most helpful.<br><br>1. When finishing the cross make a very strong ...
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crazycomputers
Jul 3, 2000 5:39 pm
I can usually solve the Rubik's Cube in 2-3 minutes....
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rubixsux
Jul 6, 2000 11:51 pm
I was thinking that it would be cool if we could set up an averages board that people could post their averages to. I think that this would be a pretty cool ...
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cubin4speed
Jul 7, 2000 2:27 am
Chris Hardwick has a great page set up for posting averages:<br><a href=http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/7362/rubik/recordtimes.html...
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slowcuber
Jul 8, 2000 6:34 pm
I started out placing the cross on top, and then solving top layers while holding cross on top. It was hard to find the next pair of cubes that way. I am now ...
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ilovemycube
Jul 8, 2000 9:00 pm
There's not one answer.<br>Cubin4speed keeps the cross at the bottom.<br>Some other very fast cubists (below 20 secs average) keep the cross at the left, half ...
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slowcuber
Jul 9, 2000 12:25 am
How do you take advantage of empty slots to put pieces together before placing them, as a few of you have referred? I know it's probably hard to explain and...
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slowcuber
Jul 9, 2000 12:30 am
I'm also curious as to how people first started memorizing the orientations. Did you draw them up to make them most efficient for your hands, and then...
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ilovemycube
Jul 9, 2000 8:15 pm
Well I had better show you a picture. So please go to a part of my home page to be: <a href=http://members1.chello.nl/~r.vanbruchem/corners1_edges2.html....
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ilovemycube
Jul 10, 2000 5:28 pm
There are 40 different cases of orientation in the top layer. But if you include the cases which can be formed by mirroring one of the 40 cases, then there are...
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slowcuber
Jul 10, 2000 8:28 pm
Thanks for the ideas on this, and on the empty slots, I appreciate it. I look forward to your website; right now I couldn't get the pictures up, not done yet? ...
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ilovemycube
Jul 10, 2000 8:38 pm
The address of my web page was not entered correctly in my previous reply. You should remove the closing "." in the URL.<br>I added my link to our club ...
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weirdman71
Jul 10, 2000 11:17 pm
I found that the easiest way for me to learn the moves was to print out Jiri's move list and to just go down the list move by move and check them off on the ...
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rubixsux
Jul 11, 2000 1:36 am
here are some of my thoughts on the<br>Orientation case:<br><br>learning the orientations is like programming a good application. Design is a key element. I ...
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rubixsux
Jul 11, 2000 2:20 am
Here are some of the moves that are fast:<br><br>Z permutation / (two and two edge switch)<br> / (not opposite)<br>13 moves can be done in under 2 ...
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_jaap
Jul 11, 2000 10:59 am
Hi 'Ilovemycube',<br>The images on your homepage don't work properly. You will have to change all the \ to / in the image refs.<br><a...
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starwatcher_1
Jul 12, 2000 6:42 am
hi SW1 here<br><br>With one of the links<br><br><a href=http://ng.netgate.net/~mette/lars/cubedude/index.html...
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ilovemycube
Jul 13, 2000 6:04 pm
Hi SW1,<br><br>The rotating cube is a Java applet.<br>I suppose you have Internet Explorer. If you save the page using Internet Explorer's menu option "Save ...
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starwatcher_1
Jul 14, 2000 3:29 am
Thanks<br>Ilovemycube :)...
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weirdman71
Jul 14, 2000 5:47 pm
I know a that there are people who do the first two layers holding the cube so that the cross is on the bottom so this isn't new I know. I've started doing the...
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cubin4speed
Jul 14, 2000 9:02 pm
I solve with the F2L on the bottom and I like it.<br><br>My impression is that you can be comfortable and fast using any orientation of the cube once you get ...
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slowcuber
Jul 15, 2000 1:58 am
I agree with the comments of cubin4speed. I started out forming the cross on top and keeping it there while finishing the F2L. Main problem was finding the ...
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cubin4speed
Jul 15, 2000 4:56 pm
In regards to slowcuber's question:<br>Yes! I know exactly what you mean about always using the front right as your target slot. When your new target slot is...
