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Where should a complete beginner start from? Please suggest videos or tutorials... Are the cubes all the same? https://www.amazon.it/s?k=rubik+cube https://ww

Where should a complete beginner start from? Please suggest videos or tutorials... Are the cubes all the same? https://www.amazon.it/s?k=rubik+cube https://www.amazon.it/s?k=rubik+cube

gwynplaine 3y ago
I recommend learning from J Perm. https://jperm.net/ https://jperm.net/ - also on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@JPerm https://www.youtube.com/@JPerm Interestingly, the official Rubik's cubes are very poor quality. I have a GAN speedcube and can recommend.
- mlukaszek 3y ago
  Came here to also recommend J Perm videos. His way of explaining the solve clicked with me, and it was easy enough for my 11yo daughter to pick it up super quickly!
- loup-vaillant 3y ago
  > Interestingly, the official Rubik's cubes are very poor quality. Official Rubik’s cubes solve a different problem: being a good toy: sure they’re horrible to turn, but they also they never explode, can’t corner-twist, and can even survive being thrown into a wall. That being said, I would never recommend this brand to any one above 12.
  - kazinator 3y ago
    Newer Rubik's cubes are not horrible to turn at all, other than through the perspective of an elite, competitive speed cuber. Rubik's cubes have a long history of being crap. They used to have crappy stickers that would peel off, and would explode. The newer ones don't explode. You can definitely corner twist. Modern Rubik's brand cubes have hidden screws under two of the faces (yellow and white, I think) where you can adjust tension to some extent.
- kazinator 3y ago
  > the official Rubik's cubes are very poor quality That used to be true but hasn't been for years. The Rubik's branded cubes (e.g. that you can get a Walmart) now have decent, fast action and real plastic faces rather than stickers. They don't have the beveled inner corners for the smoothest action, but are usable. I've seen YT videos of people solving them in 20 seconds or less.
ur-whale 3y ago
> Are the cubes all the same? Definitely not. Get a GAN with built-in magnets, it'll get you far. Beyond that, rabbit hole is right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9mhOJflqgk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9mhOJflqgk
- ilc 3y ago
  GAN's really fallen in recent years. There's a ton of good cubes out there, but unless you go back to the Gan 12, not worth it. I haven't really turned a 3x3 for speed in a while.. but at the end I was using a Tornado V2, cheaper, and better than the Gan. Now there's better than that. If you are interested watch the stuff from "The Cubicle" Phil does a good job of breaking down cubes and giving an honest opinion.
hooksfordays 3y ago
As a complete beginner, you don’t need to spring for a $50+ cube magnet GAN some other comments are recommending. You’ll get just as far with a YuXin[1] as a beginner, or a Valk[2], which was my primary cube for over a year, and carried me under an 18s average time. There may be better middle-of-the-road cubes since 2016 though! [1] https://speedcubeshop.com/collections/3x3-speed-cubes/products/yuxin-little-magic-3x3 https://speedcubeshop.com/collections/3x3-speed-cubes/produc... [2] https://speedcubeshop.com/collections/3x3-speed-cubes/products/qiyi-valk-3-3x3-magnetic https://speedcubeshop.com/collections/3x3-speed-cubes/produc...
_aavaa_ 3y ago
Surprised this hasn't been posted yet [0]. It's got some very useful and compact pdfs that you can print off with the algorithms you need. [0]:http://www.badmephisto.com/ http://www.badmephisto.com/
- bnycum 3y ago
  As someone who used that site forever ago to learn cubing algorithms, I was surprised to learn that Badmephisto is actually Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI, Tesla). These days I prefer to use though: http://algdb.net/ http://algdb.net/
  - _aavaa_ 3y ago
    huh, TIL
exitb 3y ago
Right here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ron6MN45LY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ron6MN45LY Generally the difficulty of a method is driven by the number of "algorithms", or sets of moves, you have to memorise in order to move between states. The "beginner method" is not very fast, but doesn't require a lot of memorisation. One comfortable with that, you can build up on it and replace parts with faster moves.
photochemsyn 3y ago
The Ruwix wiki is really good. The complete beginner pages you'd want are: https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/how-to-solve-the-rubiks-cube-beginners-method/ https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/how-to-solve-the-rubiks-cu... and, for learning about cube algorithms and the notation for cube algorithms (which relies heavily on getting familiar with counterclockwise/clockwise turns viewed from one stable orientation of the cube for all faces): https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/algorithm/ https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/algorithm/ https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/notation/advanced/ https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/notation/advanced/

Where should a complete beginner start from? Please suggest videos or tutorials... Are the cubes all the same? https://www.amazon.it/s?k=rubik+cube https://www.amazon.it/s?k=rubik+cube

gwynplaine 3y ago

I recommend learning from J Perm. https://jperm.net/ https://jperm.net/ - also on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@JPerm https://www.youtube.com/@JPerm Interestingly, the official Rubik's cubes are very poor quality. I have a GAN speedcube and can recommend.

mlukaszek 3y ago
Came here to also recommend J Perm videos. His way of explaining the solve clicked with me, and it was easy enough for my 11yo daughter to pick it up super quickly!
loup-vaillant 3y ago
> Interestingly, the official Rubik's cubes are very poor quality. Official Rubik’s cubes solve a different problem: being a good toy: sure they’re horrible to turn, but they also they never explode, can’t corner-twist, and can even survive being thrown into a wall. That being said, I would never recommend this brand to any one above 12.
- kazinator 3y ago
  Newer Rubik's cubes are not horrible to turn at all, other than through the perspective of an elite, competitive speed cuber. Rubik's cubes have a long history of being crap. They used to have crappy stickers that would peel off, and would explode. The newer ones don't explode. You can definitely corner twist. Modern Rubik's brand cubes have hidden screws under two of the faces (yellow and white, I think) where you can adjust tension to some extent.
kazinator 3y ago
> the official Rubik's cubes are very poor quality That used to be true but hasn't been for years. The Rubik's branded cubes (e.g. that you can get a Walmart) now have decent, fast action and real plastic faces rather than stickers. They don't have the beveled inner corners for the smoothest action, but are usable. I've seen YT videos of people solving them in 20 seconds or less.

ur-whale 3y ago

> Are the cubes all the same? Definitely not. Get a GAN with built-in magnets, it'll get you far. Beyond that, rabbit hole is right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9mhOJflqgk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9mhOJflqgk

ilc 3y ago
GAN's really fallen in recent years. There's a ton of good cubes out there, but unless you go back to the Gan 12, not worth it. I haven't really turned a 3x3 for speed in a while.. but at the end I was using a Tornado V2, cheaper, and better than the Gan. Now there's better than that. If you are interested watch the stuff from "The Cubicle" Phil does a good job of breaking down cubes and giving an honest opinion.

hooksfordays 3y ago

As a complete beginner, you don’t need to spring for a $50+ cube magnet GAN some other comments are recommending. You’ll get just as far with a YuXin[1] as a beginner, or a Valk[2], which was my primary cube for over a year, and carried me under an 18s average time. There may be better middle-of-the-road cubes since 2016 though! [1] https://speedcubeshop.com/collections/3x3-speed-cubes/products/yuxin-little-magic-3x3 https://speedcubeshop.com/collections/3x3-speed-cubes/produc... [2] https://speedcubeshop.com/collections/3x3-speed-cubes/products/qiyi-valk-3-3x3-magnetic https://speedcubeshop.com/collections/3x3-speed-cubes/produc...

_aavaa_ 3y ago

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet [0]. It's got some very useful and compact pdfs that you can print off with the algorithms you need. [0]:http://www.badmephisto.com/ http://www.badmephisto.com/

bnycum 3y ago
As someone who used that site forever ago to learn cubing algorithms, I was surprised to learn that Badmephisto is actually Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI, Tesla). These days I prefer to use though: http://algdb.net/ http://algdb.net/
- _aavaa_ 3y ago
  huh, TIL

exitb 3y ago

Right here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ron6MN45LY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ron6MN45LY Generally the difficulty of a method is driven by the number of "algorithms", or sets of moves, you have to memorise in order to move between states. The "beginner method" is not very fast, but doesn't require a lot of memorisation. One comfortable with that, you can build up on it and replace parts with faster moves.

photochemsyn 3y ago

The Ruwix wiki is really good. The complete beginner pages you'd want are: https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/how-to-solve-the-rubiks-cube-beginners-method/ https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/how-to-solve-the-rubiks-cu... and, for learning about cube algorithms and the notation for cube algorithms (which relies heavily on getting familiar with counterclockwise/clockwise turns viewed from one stable orientation of the cube for all faces): https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/algorithm/ https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/algorithm/ https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/notation/advanced/ https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/notation/advanced/