Rubik's group

I can't say I know much about this whole learning algorithms thing... How I learned to solve it was by looking it at, playing with it, and then deciding that the easiest way to put it back together was to do it 1 piece at a time. The interesting part was after the first layer trying to not move pieces in their correct position, away from there.

I don't go about a set method or anything, it all depends on the way the cube is when I go to solve it, but I can usually average about a minute or so to solve.

I've read about the Fridrich method... I personally don't agree with it. Its no fun if everybody just goes and learns the exact same method from some article or book or something, especially when they didnt create it. Just doesnt seem as fun as knowing you actually conquered the little bastard yourself.

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I've learned 16 algs for the LL so far .
Allows me to solve the last layer in 4 algoritms on an unlucky case.
Hey makinlattes . Do you have all of the OLL and PLL algs down ?
Give me a good system to learn em all.
I have larned the main ones and i'm about to move on to the ones that orient and permute in one algrithm

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don't worry about times. for now, focusing on algs would probably be far easier. there are six basic algs that can get you a time of 30-40 seconds, though.

my 5x5x5 fell apart after I solved it twice. took about 5 minutes, it was so difficult to turn. piece of crap, 30 bucks down the drain...

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Thanks, i was just hopping to figure it out. I dought i'll ever be able to do one in 60 seconds.

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Hehe .

I learned it the hard way , without algorithms.
For the method i and most of the speedcubers use (Fridrich method) you gotta start with a cross on one chosen side.
Keep in mind that to be a valid cross , the edge pieces that you put in , must match up with all the centers. Learn to solve the cross having it face the ground. This way you can plan some of the moves after the cross.
Now , here comes the part that took me a couple of hours to understand.
You gotta put in the lower courners together with the neighbour edges.
For this part , i suggest that just look it up on youtube - "F2L" .
And afterwards figure it out so you can do it using your own logic.

Lat step requires learning atleast 3 algorithms which are realy easy to memorize and if you don't have any plans on reaching ultra high speeds , you don't need to learn more.
You can easily get sub 60 seconds only with those 3.

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i cant figure out how to do it

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I've been trying to put my rubix cube together for one year and a half, but i gave up and just busted it and put it back together lol

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