Well, as things would have it, my teachers assigned (collectively) 3 projects to be due next week. As I want a freer weekend, I've sacrificed my cubing time to get work done, but I feel an update on my position in needed.
I am in the process of creating my own COLL and some of the PLLs on Cube Explorer (I'll use aCube when I want slice moves). So far I've come up with 4 cases I find faster. My next post will probably be my complete set of PLLs, hopefully in a PDF with images and commentary, but I doubt I will find time to do everything. After that I'll post COLLs so you can do your final layer even without knowing every single case.
I'm finding time on the bus to work on my recognition skills for the last layer (my F2L is pretty solid). Please don't expect this process to go quickly, because I will only publish algs when I am 100% confident in my ability to recognize them, and I'll probably update in bunches.
17 February 2009
15 February 2009
Getting Started
I guess this is the beginning. I've decided to undertake maybe the hardest task in the teenage world: balance sports, school, and the most intense Rubik's cube solving system while still retaining 8 hours of sleep.
I've been cubing now for about 4 months, but only seriously for the past 3 weeks. I almost got serious over Christmas-excuse me winter-break, but that never happened. I just got in over my head trying to learn 3 methods at once (for the record: Roux, Fridrich, and Waterman). I got my Fridrich 4-look last layer down before a week had passed and even dropped my time to about 30 seconds. Then the school work piled back on and baseball workouts started, and I quickly found myself going from 3-4 hours of cubing a day to about 20 minutes, but I was still making progress.
Then I jammed my right index finger. I was playing basketball and, as they say, shit happened. As it was, it was a pretty bad jam and I struggled mightily with everyday tasks (being right handed) and couldn't cube. Now, after 2 weeks off, I see that that was a very bad thing. My brain is still extremely fast at remembering algorithms and my fingers have a 24.13 second solve in them, but my recognition, already the worst part of my solve, disintegreated. The combination of sub-20 brains, sub-25 fingers, and sub 60 eyes has led to recent solves of approximately 55 seconds, mostly because I keep my fingers ahead of my eyes.
So that's where I am as of today, February 15, 2009. I have decided to undertake in learning the Zborowski-Bruchem method, a system devised by Zbigeniew Zboroski and Ron van Bruchem requiring exactly 800 algorithms to execute. Currently, no one knows every algortihm, though several are pursuing the cause. I hope to not only learn the method but master it.
My plan: to create a blog to track my progress through all 800 algorithms (some of which are reflections, so it's more like 650) and create the one-stop-shop for all things Z-B: algorithm optimizations, helpful images, and a final product that gives the case, various fast algorithms, the image, and an applet to walk you through everything. How long will it take? My goal is to finish the entire process by January 1, 2011-almost 2 years from now. Keep in mind that is more than one case per day, so this will be no small challenge.
Now, I am doing this so you, the reader, can improve your Z-B solving time. I am following the examlple of Chris Hardwick and Jason Baum, both who created blog-like resources to moniter their progress. However, I will do one thing vastly different from those two - I will learn the ZBLL first instead of the ZBF2L. Why? I'll explain later.
So, please sit back, relax, and enjoy as I grind through 800 algorithms of Rubik's cube wonders. I will not post every day, nor every week. But I can promise my posts will be detailed and worth any wait. You cannot expect to learn this method in even a year, so please be patient.
See you in the future,
eastamazonantidote
I've been cubing now for about 4 months, but only seriously for the past 3 weeks. I almost got serious over Christmas-excuse me winter-break, but that never happened. I just got in over my head trying to learn 3 methods at once (for the record: Roux, Fridrich, and Waterman). I got my Fridrich 4-look last layer down before a week had passed and even dropped my time to about 30 seconds. Then the school work piled back on and baseball workouts started, and I quickly found myself going from 3-4 hours of cubing a day to about 20 minutes, but I was still making progress.
Then I jammed my right index finger. I was playing basketball and, as they say, shit happened. As it was, it was a pretty bad jam and I struggled mightily with everyday tasks (being right handed) and couldn't cube. Now, after 2 weeks off, I see that that was a very bad thing. My brain is still extremely fast at remembering algorithms and my fingers have a 24.13 second solve in them, but my recognition, already the worst part of my solve, disintegreated. The combination of sub-20 brains, sub-25 fingers, and sub 60 eyes has led to recent solves of approximately 55 seconds, mostly because I keep my fingers ahead of my eyes.
So that's where I am as of today, February 15, 2009. I have decided to undertake in learning the Zborowski-Bruchem method, a system devised by Zbigeniew Zboroski and Ron van Bruchem requiring exactly 800 algorithms to execute. Currently, no one knows every algortihm, though several are pursuing the cause. I hope to not only learn the method but master it.
My plan: to create a blog to track my progress through all 800 algorithms (some of which are reflections, so it's more like 650) and create the one-stop-shop for all things Z-B: algorithm optimizations, helpful images, and a final product that gives the case, various fast algorithms, the image, and an applet to walk you through everything. How long will it take? My goal is to finish the entire process by January 1, 2011-almost 2 years from now. Keep in mind that is more than one case per day, so this will be no small challenge.
Now, I am doing this so you, the reader, can improve your Z-B solving time. I am following the examlple of Chris Hardwick and Jason Baum, both who created blog-like resources to moniter their progress. However, I will do one thing vastly different from those two - I will learn the ZBLL first instead of the ZBF2L. Why? I'll explain later.
So, please sit back, relax, and enjoy as I grind through 800 algorithms of Rubik's cube wonders. I will not post every day, nor every week. But I can promise my posts will be detailed and worth any wait. You cannot expect to learn this method in even a year, so please be patient.
See you in the future,
eastamazonantidote
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