Hello guys.
I've been trying to find Malaysian Cubers for a long time, glad to see that at least there are some Malaysians who are interested in things like this.

I start cubing at November 2007, in which I get my first Rubik's Cube from Cameron Highland, of course not an official one.
It had broken in weeks time, I've gone through a month without having a cube on my hand, yea that's a torture >.<, because I was at Melaka and there is no TRU in Melaka.

In the beginning of this year, I finally got myself an official cube worth RM24.90
Now I've been playing with my official cube for almost 5 months and my time has improved from 90 seconds to 30 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HXvzZlB8Zk
This is my video of solving Rubik's Cube, I am using the Fridrich Method.

Hopefully I can reach sub-20 by this year.

Well, I can sub-25 with my DIY cube, but not OFFICIAL cube;
I say this because the coming Toy R Us competition only allows OFFICIAL cubes, I have a hard time using it.



P/S:Toy R Us doesn't sell any 6X6 cubes, 6X6 and 7X7 only produced by V-cube for now.

This post has been edited by fireace123: Jan 25 2009, 08:43 PM

what method are you learning on?
the 3-cycle-method?
or the more efficient M2 method?

I know only the 3-cycle-method, tried once to learn M2, but it's abit complicated

http://cubefreak.net/blindfoldcubing.html

this is macky's site, it has both the methods i mentioned


yea TRU increased the price AGAIN,
imagine half year before the price for 3x3x3 is RM24.90 but now you can only get 2x2x2 with that price!

yea, stupid TRU

i wonder what's the price for cubes of TRU in other country

quote from macky
[go SLOW and look AHEAD]

which i failed to do so
>.<

o.O izit,
cause' I didn't really look into detail for M2

anyway i will try to learn the M2 method, wanna find ways to improve my blind fold time

first thing, cross, get it done in 5 seconds

F2L, improve your observation

you can try the following link, see if the TS accept order for it

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/754824

thanks for the information, gonna get some

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.

lol why are you so desperately find black ones,
I am bored with the normal black colour, I would prefer other colour else, to be more special +.+

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

This post has been edited by fireace123: Oct 12 2008, 01:48 AM

he already has one pair filled up after completing the cross,
it's written in the vid

lol
that's what we call PRO

nope I don't know,
sorry can't help

lol sorry for the terms, yea LBL means layer by layer, and LL means last layer.

People say they need more time with Fridrich because they are not yet familiar with the second step of it, F2L.
F2L is what makes Fridrich to be fast, but for the newbie who just switches to Fridrich from LBL, it's understandable that he or she will take longer time.
Note that it's recommended you should get your time in around 1 minute with LBL before changing to Fridrich(or any advance methods).

4 minutes is not really a good time and you've got lots of space for improvement. Meanwhile you should just train more on your LBL and eventually you will get into 2 minutes in around 1 week or less.


Finger trick is actually something that suits yourself, not necessary that yours must be same with others. So it's a thing that left yourself to discover with.

As for me(and probably most of the speed-cubers), F move is made by pushing the FUR(Front-Up-Right) corner using your right hand index finger, of course, your left thumb must release some tension in order for it to move. While F' will be pushing FDR(Front-Down-Right) corner with right thumb.

For L, change your grip to right hand and use left hand to turn.


One more thing need to know is that, the gripping is just for a reference, it doesn't mean that you need to grip that in whole solve, of course you'll have to change some gripping in order to perform faster finger tricks.

sorry again for term, F2L means first 2 layer, it's the second step of Fridrich which comes after Cross.
By LBL, you will have to slot in first layer, then second layer one by one.
Using F2L, you slot both layer together, we called it as F2L pair or CE(corner-edge) pair.

The only thing for you to do know is only PRACTISE.
With more practices you will get more and more familiar with the cube and there is no way you can't get your time improve with that.

Regripping does eat some time, but in your case, it's still OK to regrip.
It's sometimes depends on the person, it's how fast one can turn the cube. A quick example is, for a Fridrich solve, normally it takes around 50~60 moves, world record is 7 seconds, means the record holder is turning more than 7 moves per second. Well, if you can turn at that speed, you can get good time too.


What cube are you using?
DIY ones?
If yes, it shouldn't stuck often, maybe it's the way you turn or the power of your turning.