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Cube solving is a path finding problem. The way to learn path finding problem is to understand how your actions move you through the space you're navigating.
by wantsanagent 4y ago
Cube solving is a path finding problem.
The way to learn path finding problem is to understand how your actions move you through the space you're navigating.
One of the most effective ways to learn these relationships is to work backwards.
Starting from the goal, take a step away, then step back. Then take two steps away, then those steps back. Then take different steps away and steps back.
As you move farther and farther from the goal you get an explosion of options that quickly requires deduction of strategies over memorization of all paths back to the goal.
This can help ground learning the well known techniques for cube solving.
This visualization might help with that process, but just playing solutions from start to finish (IMO) doesn't.
- taeric 4y agoI found it somewhat fun to think of it in terms of permutations. https://taeric.github.io/cube-permutations-1.html https://taeric.github.io/cube-permutations-1.html is where I started with the idea. Never went too far with it, sadly. I do have my own 2d view of the rubics cube there. Was fun to watch the squares jump around. :D