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Hah, I think this was one of the first things I read when I got into speedcubing, back in '08. The history of the puzzle is fascinating, whether you wish to lea
by rwnspace 9y ago
Hah, I think this was one of the first things I read when I got into speedcubing, back in '08. The history of the puzzle is fascinating, whether you wish to learn to solve or not. Plenty of vintage websites to explore, too. Cubers now refer to the method Fridrich used as CFOP, partly since it was independently derived by a couple others around the same time.
The World Cube Association is staffed by really brilliant, wonderful people - and the website/solveDB is open source. If you can solve, I would recommend checking the site for upcoming competitions. You'll likely make friends.
Fun-fact: the YouTuber Badmephisto made the best tutorials back in the day ('08-'10) - nowadays he is better known as Andrej Karpathy and works at Tesla. Users may know him for the online Stanford deep learning courses.
(I used to hold the UK single record, AMA)
- namanyayg 9y agoDid not know about Badmephisto being at Tesla -- I remember having printed out his tutorials and guides to improve my time. Good days. Have your experiences with other cubers been similar to those of Fridrich's? Mine definitely have -- it's curious how "cubing culture" has developed to be very similar everywhere.