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I’m a new fan of cubing. I’ve recently bought a speed cube and for now I have only mastered the beginner’s method and solve it in barely a minute and a half (which is way over what a speedcuber is supposed to do).
So I’m wondering, is there any recommended method to learn after the beginner’s method in order to improve my time ?
asked Feb 19, 2016 at 18:52
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I agree with @mchoy25 that you can bring your time down much more. Things like single finger turning, properly lubricating the cube, and knowing what the back of the cube looks like without rotating the cube will improve your time much more than switching algorithms. That said, if you want to switch to more complicated methods then I’d look up F2L. Basically, from beginner to master you’ll just be reducing the number of steps taken while massively increasing the number of possible algorithms to perform/memorize for any given step
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If you want to go for speedcubing, it’s NOT recommended to learn the beginner’s method at all. You end up trying to unlearn the bad habits that you picked up from the beginner’s method. However, the most commonly learnt speedcubing method (and hence has a lot of resources available for it) after the beginner’s method is the Fridrich method. In less than a couple of weeks you should be sub 40 easily.
answered May 17, 2016 at 22:35
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I’m not sure of the answer to this question but you should be able to bring your time down way more. Using the beginner’s method I got my time to around 56 seconds.
From what I’ve heard from other people though (and what I’ve experienced), you should probably try learning CFOP next. As other people have said, the bad habits from learning the beginner’s method will be annoying at first but I think it’s still a good idea to learn the beginner’s method for the sake of getting a grasp of the fundamentals.
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answered Nov 8, 2020 at 16:10
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CFOP is what most speedcubers use, but if for some reason you can’t turn fast (with practice), use Roux
answered Nov 2 at 17:56
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