my record is average 1m 50s....duno how to speed more...u guys know where to find any suitable grease to put inside the cube?

Hi, just to intro myself here. Newbie to rubik's cube. Now can solve by LBL method. I'm looking into Human Thisthethwaite Algo in Heise website. Anyone can guide me on that? Don't understand the instruction there and the youtube link provided don't help much at all.

first thing, cross, get it done in 5 seconds

F2L, improve your observation

your cross on top or bottom, do on bottom can speed up. F2L im assuming ur using fridrich since u didnt specify corners and edges so try looking ahead more.

I'm not amongst the best cubers in malaysia (T_T) but i tend to finish cross+f2l around 25-30 seconds eventho i suck at looking ahead.

Improve your cross time smile.gif
if u stay in kl/pj. apparently summit (the one near subang) got sell rm19 pyraminx (i think thats what u mean la). i wanna buy but no time to go

cross
- there nothing to it you just need to practice practice practice
- do your cross on the bottom, much easier transaction to f2l
f2l
-train yourself to do it really really slowly without pausing this will improve your lookahead thus you time.
-learn fingertrick might help abit

Actually, there is no so called "supposed time", that's why we've got people who can solve under 10 seconds and people who uses over 1 minute.
It's depend on your own cubing technique, e.g. finger tricks, algorithms you use, cube you use.

Me myself with LBL, 4 look LL, I can get it done in sub-40, and no it's not good, there are people who can sub-30.

And as for the method, the famous one are Fridrich, Petrus and Roux.

Fridrich method is the method used by most of the top cuber, I would say the top 10 in WCA website are all using Fridrich.

Petrus method is said to use the least step to solve. This method is based on block building, and looking ahead is very important in this solve in order to get good time.

Roux method is similar to Petrus but this method needs to inspect 5 pieces at the starting instead of 4 of Petrus and Fridrich. Also, this method uses M slice very often, in which, change of gripping is less often.

There are hell lots of videos available on youtube which you can find finger tricks, tutorial on each methods, even algorithms,
give some patience to watch them.
For the gripping, I can give some idea here.

For right hander, use your left hand to grip,
hold 4 pieces of bottom left corner(reference to F face) with your left thumb,
you middle finger and ring finger on the opposite site,
free up your index finger in order to push U'.

Basically that's the idea, hope you can get it, watch more videos to get a clearer image.

It's already more than half the total time of world record, lol
Take real good care of your cube, else it won't last as long as you expect it to be

it's 7.08 seconds to be exact
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzGjbjUPVUo
see how the hell it happens!

15 seconds, but the pros usually only use up half of the time

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Added on October 12, 2008, 1:48 amit was a PLL skip btw

laliloo i read earlier that you said you are taking along time solving the cross, do you solve the cross with it facing up or down?

i think with 1 turn per seconds you could solve the cube using the lbl method in 3 minutes.

i suggest start practicing with the cross facing the bottom. it certainly improved my time alot. this way, not only you save time turning the cube when you go into the 2nd layer but you have abetter view of the cube and can search for the edge for the first layer much easier

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Added on October 16, 2008, 10:20 amsorry experience very long never visit this thread didnt reply you. erm im using the 4looklast layer. the f2l may seems intuitive at first but try applying the algrothims more and will somehow automatic di one. my problem is looking ahead T_T.

so much algorithm to memorise, even more assignments by the uni T_T

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Added on October 16, 2008, 10:21 ameh who is the cempaka dude? yeah i was from there!

some of the cubes (1st bulk) was with old screw. ONLY the white cube has the new screw. Weird enough.

Lol, watch some videos tutorials and surely you can solve it

Anyway you guys use all the terms just make me blur only =.="

Anyway if i do cross from bottom, doesn't that makes the algo i learn must change?

hmm...try to look for the solution and see the amount of turns needed for each case...then create a solution urself using intuitive that the amount of moves needed is same with the solution....then u would not have any unnecessary moves
Try to learn back slotting..as in u can create and insert ur pairs at the behind slots instead of front slots..so u will reduce ur cube rotations.. try praticing like this >> do R' U' R on a solved cube..there is already a pair there.. now insert it with R' U R... and also do L U L' to setup...then insert with L U' L'... keep doing this and soon u will get used to back slotting...