I would love to be a cuber if only I could work out how to solve one. I have tried reading and watching videos but it does not make sense. I did have a lesson from a cuber but only got halfway. I hope you have fun cubing.
I would love to be a cuber if only I could work out how to solve one. I have tried reading and watching videos but it does not make sense. I did have a lesson from a cuber but only got halfway. I hope you have fun cubing.
I tried when they first came out. I've never been able to understand them. Whatever it is you need to see, I don't see it. I expect it is a bit like sudoku or logic puzzles, once you see the patterns it is not so hard.
It's not that hard to solve. It just takes plenty of repetition, so that your fingers learn to do the moves by themselves, a bit like playing a musical instrument, or touch typing.
I learned it all from the guides on https://www.kungfoomanchu.com/. Once you can read the notation (which is pretty simple and is explained there), you just need to learn a couple of dozen "algorithms" and you'll be a cuber in no time.
The main thing is not to use the well-known (eponymous) brand of cube—they are expensive rubbish. Get yourself a nice speed cube from one of those big Chinese shopping sites for about a fiver and you're good to go. (Or fall down the rabbit hole.)
My two kids caught the bug when they were around 7–10 and they could both do it in under 40 seconds.
It's sort of a combination of pattern recognition, fidget stimming and dopamine mining, so I find it very relaxing and engaging. I never got fast, though. My fingers just don't have that kind of dexterity.
