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Weekly discussion thread (Oct 23, 2023) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi everyone! Any exciting plans this week? Any new cubes or comps planned?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m using https://www.speedcubedb.com/a/3x3/OLL atm

I didn't know about this site and, just from skimming it a bit, I'm impressed. I've just come back to cubing after a 3-year long pause and didn't catch up with the times, so thanks for the link, I've bookmarked it also.

Which is a great little resource, just a pity it’s on Reddit.

Yeah, sucks to be a cuber and wanting to be away from Reddit, because the r/cubers sub was actually one of my favorites.

PLL just makes my brain hurt, hopefully OLL will help with that.

It definitely will. Some PLLs are just combinations of shorter OLLs (take the T perm, which is a sequence of a T OLL and a fish-shape OLL), so it'll definitely help you out. Also, the fact that there're way fewer algs in the PLL set will make it a breeze (hopefully) after you grind through OLL, so maybe that'll help out your motivation. Still, I think it's a bit odd to learn OLL first, but it seems fine and even good now that I think about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah the speedcube db is great because it's all in sections so you can pick say Fish Shapes and just concentrate on them.

As for PLL or OLL first debate, I'm already doing 2 look so the idea is to get down slowly to 1 look. I keep going back to Guitar analogies and it doesn't really matter the order on Guitar that you learn once you have a solid foundation. I really am treating Cubing the same way.

When I get bored of OLL I'll go to PLL and switch back again. It's a way of staving off the boredom while teaching my muscle memory.

I'm already at a point where I'm getting a little frustrated at forgetting some OLLs so it won't be long. Thanks to you I'm learning T perm first