rubicscubetutorial

May 18, 2023 6:47 PM

I'd like your recommendations for a beginner's Rubics Cube tutorial—well produced with a competent teacher. thx
posted by partner to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (5 answers total)

RuWix's beginners method.

Ruwix is a treasure trove of all things cube.
posted by toxic at 7:02 PM on May 18, 2023 [1 favorite]

I don’t think the basic beginner technique changes much but learning to solve a Rubik’s cube was one thing I did during COVID.

This is the tutorial I kept coming back to.
posted by bitdamaged at 7:30 PM on May 18, 2023 [2 favorites]

I used RuWix and CubeSkills, the former for written instructions and the latter for explantory videos. There’s really no shortage of great stuff on YouTube, my favorite cuber there is Jperm. But you really can’t go wrong with the beginner method, just depends on who you find that explains things in a way that makes most intuitive sense.
posted by skewed at 7:41 PM on May 18, 2023

Seconding the Wired tutorial bitdamaged linked to above. It was easy to just learn his notation, so after a while I was referencing my notes.
posted by Dotty at 5:22 AM on May 19, 2023 [1 favorite]

There are tutorials for speed, and then there are tutorials for reasoning. I prefer the latter style of solving because it relies less on memorizing algorithms, and for me there's no better than the way twistypuzzling approaches his puzzles.
posted by soonertbone at 12:28 PM on May 20, 2023