Showing posts with label Speed Cubing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Speed Cubing. Show all posts

May 14, 2014

How to become a Speed Cuber? | Part 2

16:05 Posted by Freblogg , 1 comment
Finally we are back with the Part 2 of this How to become a Speed Cuber series. (For Part 1 - Click here). This article and the previous one mainly concentrate on the original Rubik's Cube, 3x3x3.

Many people liked Part-1, but one thing they wanted was me to explain each of the speed solving methods, i discussed about in detail. Well, I would like to do that for sure, but this article doesn't seem like the correct place for that. So, for now, i'll give a few links at the end of this article to a few sites and videos, that helped me with Speed Cubing. 
But, since, many people asked me to cover the methods, i'll explain the basic procedure, strategy and tips and tricks with each method in this and the successive articles in this series. Here, i need to be honest with you. Jessica Fridrich's method (CFOP), is the most popular and well used. So, as you probably can guess, I use CFOP for solving. At the same time, i know Petrus method too, So, i'll cover these two methods in great amount of detail than the other two methods (Roux and ZZ). But, i'll still give my comments on them but they are mostly from seeing others solve and not my own personal experiences. So, for these two methods i'll provide a few resources for you guys to look at, if you are interested in learning these.
So, Let's get started .

April 15, 2014

How to become a Speed Cuber? | Part 1

03:00 Posted by Freblogg No comments
Rubik's Cube, introduced in 80's (late 70's) is the most popular puzzle ever made. It has been sold an estimated 350 million pieces as of 2009 and its growing at an incredible rate. So, more than ever in the history of cubing, lots and lots of people are aspiring to become speed cubers. This article is dedicated to all those people wishing them the very best.

So,What is Speed Cubing?
http://durgaswaroop.blogspot.in/2014/04/how-to-become-speed-cuber-part-1.html

 Speed Cubing or Speed solving is solving the Rubik's cube or any other similar puzzles quickly, as fast as possible. So, how fast are we taking about? To give you a perspective of the actual speed, here are the world records in a few categories.
3x3x3 cube - 5.55 secs
4x4x4 cube - 24.66 secs
2x2x2 cube  - 0.69 secs
5x5x5 cube - 50.50 secs

So, if you are a beginner or a person who has just started learning the cube, these may scare you a bit. But you don't need to worry. It is just a matter of the sheer amount of practice you do. This post should be able to help you with almost everything related to speed cubing.
This article is written so that it can help even the person who just just started learning to solve a cube. In other words it covers A-Z of cubing. Starting from How to solve? to finally participating in the Cubing events and ultimately being a world champion !