HOW TO BECOME A SPEEDCUBER

Hey guys , a common question I get from people who are just starting out cubing is there are so many options for what cubes and lobes to buy and there's so much to learn to get faster at cubing .

So how should I go about learning that ?

And also what do I need to buy in order to get started ?

So in this video , I'll give you you all the info you need to get started with cubing and answer a lot of common questions .

You've most likely already learned to solve a three by three .

But the Rubik's brand or Dull Store Cube you have at home may not be very good .

And how you can know is by how smoothly and quickly it turns and whether or not it can corner cut good speed cubes will turn up much more quickly and smoothly .

And if a layer is misaligned , it will just corner cuts .

It really doesn't care how much you mis align it .

If you're still using a non speed cube , I guarantee you getting a real speed cube will instantly make you faster and will make learning so much easier for which cube you should get my recommendation is the J perm R S3 M 2020 .

This is on Speed Cube shop for $25 .

It's professionally set up and that way you don't have to worry about looping or attention it to be correct .

So that is my biased answer .

If you want my unbiased answer , it's the R S3 M 2020 .

This is for only $9 but you'll have to set up and lobe it yourself .

And if you don't loop it yourself , then it's going to start getting worse over time .

But I'll talk more about that in the lobe section of this video .

You can find cubes all the way from under $5 to over $60 .

On average , the more expensive ones are going to be better .

But this is an outlier for how cheap it is and how good it is .

I have a separate video going over the best speed cubes at the start of 2021 which includes three by three and all the other puzzles .

So go check that out if you're wondering which ones to buy as it goes over a big range of prices .

At the same time , you may want to invest in a two by 24 by four and maybe even a Pyramis .

Once you've learned three by three , these are the easiest puzzles to branch off of as two by two is just easier .

Three by 34 by four , only requires three more algorithms and then you solve it a lot like a three by three and Pyramis is just really easy .

This is really important .

You must , must , must , must , must double check that all of the centers are in the correct places .

Just look at corner pieces , green , orange , white , green , orange , white .

That's correct .

Just do this until you are absolutely positively certain that you have every center in the correct place .

Now that you have completed every center piece on the Rubik's cube .

The next step is going to be to line up these two by one segments to essentially turn your scrambled four by four into a scrambled three by three .

What you're going to do is you're going to pick any one of these pieces .

I'm going to pick this green and orange and you're going to look for the other green and orange piece on the cube .

While if you used one of the worst cubes , then you may be doing finger such as this .

But if the price of the cube matters to you , then it's worth it to start out cheaper .

And that's just because when you are not as fast , you will not notice the differences in the cubes very much .

I've had newer cubers ask me before .

Hey , is this cube magnetic ?

That's because until you're more experienced , sometimes you just can't tell the difference and why you wouldn't just get an amazing cube right from the start is because by the time you're actually good and you can take advantage of an amazing cube , there may just be a better one already .

Now , once you have a good cube , you'll want to start timing your solves .

There are tons of timing software out there .

But CS Timer dot net is the one that I use .

Unlike a stopwatch .

It also keeps all of your times recorded and tells you your best time , your best averages .

And you can also switch to a different session if you're doing a different puzzle .

So you don't mix the times together .

It can also give you random scrambles depending on the puzzle you're doing can change the way it looks .

There are so many features and that's why I recommend it when I'm at competitions .

Either way you do L prime ru F U prime L and they should go into a position , orange , white , orange , white where you can line them up and put them in the top layer .

One important thing to note is that whenever you have two pieces kitty corner like this , two corresponding pieces , green , yellow , green , yellow kitty corner and then you line them up , you need an unsolved group in the top here to replace with in the middle layer for this will not work .

Let me show you why I have this solved .

I'm going to move this up here .

There's no unsolved group to move down .

So no matter which group I move down , whenever , whenever I realign the centers , I'm going to separate that edge group .

So what I need to do is with this , I need to look over here for this unsolved one , move this into the top layer and then group that together replace a soft layer , rotate that out of the way and then move this so that this unsolved layer comes into the middle row .

It takes a little bit of getting used to .

But with practice , I have faith you'll get it .

The knowledge that I have so far armed you with should be able to get you to this point where you have every single piece lined up .

And it's basically like a three by three Rubik's cube .

Except sometimes you'll get this , you'll get where you have two unsolved corner groups like this uh green , orange , green , orange , blue , orange , blue , orange and where they're across from each other , this is the only really major algorithm you need to know for this .

And it goes like this , you hold this in the front and you do D star R F prime , you our prime F D prime star and then they should solve themselves at this point .

What once was a scrambled four by four by four ?

Rubik's cube is now a scrambled three by three by three , Rubik's cube and you can solve it as such .

Let's get jiggy with it .

I know I got this .

And then the algorithm is to you star to star to you two little L to you .

Two L star to you star R , you prime L to you our prime , you R L prime U prime L to you R prime .

That's gonna be this way you L prime you and that'll solve parity case number one .

Here we have parody case number two where everything on the cube is solved except this piece is flipped to solve this parody case .

Use this long beastly horrible stinky algorithm .

Two R star two B to you star to you our prime star , to you , our star to you .

Two F our star , two F L prime star , two B two R star .

And that will flip that around and you should be able to solve it like normal .

Here we have parity case number three where this wedge is flipped from this wedge , even though the entire blue side looks like it's solved from the top .

See , see what you do is you hold it with either one of these in the front and you do this algorithm two little R to you .

Two little R , two U star , two little R too little you and that should solve it .

Here we have parody case number four where this piece is flipped with this piece and the rest of the cube is salt .

Hold it in the front and do this algorithm to you .