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\"\"<\/a>Since the early 1980s I have been fascinated by those tiny and clever coloured cubes\u00a0 invented by Ern\u00f6 Rubik.<\/p>\n

I got my first cube as a child and as almost every child back then I was able to solve one side, and maybe a second one. I wasn’t aware of solutions “by layer” until I got my first photocopy of an article published in the German magazine Der Spiegel<\/em> in Janurary 1981<\/a>. As for most of the German cubers, this was my first chance to solve that tricky puzzle.<\/p>\n

Since then I have always had one or more cubes, always keeping more or less interested in the topic. But with my lack of practice and a quite “antique” Layer-by-Layer<\/a> method I was far away from real “Speed Cubing”, being happy with any time close to 2 minutes. I just wasn’t willing to invest the time to learn an endless number of algorithms.<\/p>\n

The (r)evolution of speed cubes during the last years and the Netflix documentary “The Speed Cubers” gave me another kick to try to improve my solving speed. So I started to look for a faster but still easy enough method for that. Thanks to Youtube I found some tips for a first “4LLL<\/a> CFOP<\/a>” method for that.<\/p>\n

At the same time my son started with his first cube. So I started to look for simple methods to learn the cube for beginners like him.<\/p>\n

Most solutions use “letter based” algorithms which are used by most cubers around the world. But to start cubing, especially as a kid, this method of learning isn’t visual and intuitive enough. I am also a “visual learner” and not really comfortable with those algorithms. I prefer the graphic visualization with squares and arrows as used in that first Der Spiegel<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I didn’t find instructions of that kind, I started to create my own ones. That’s how the idea for this blog was born.<\/p>\n

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