Speed Cubing: Your First Solve
Like Duolingo, but for Speed Cubing: Your First Solve. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Layer-by-Layer Solve and Developing Speed. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Speed Cubing: Your First Solve
- Center pieces are physically attached to the core and cannot move relative to each other
- The color of the center piece is the only permanent indicator of what color that side will be when finished
- The Daisy acts as a staging area where white edges face up around the yellow center
- Moving edges from the yellow face to the white face requires aligning the side colors first
- Center pieces dictate the final color and are fixed
- The sequence of the Daisy method
- A cross is only 'correct' if the side color of the edge piece matches the center piece of the side face
- Center pieces dictate the final color of a side
- Matching only the white side of the edge creates a broken cross that prevents the rest of the cube from solving
- Identifying a correctly aligned cross edge
- The move consists of four specific rotations: Right clock, Top clock, Right counter, Top counter
- The sequence of the Daisy method to form a cross
- Repeating this move eventually returns the cube to its starting state
- Corner pieces have three stickers and must match all three adjacent center colors
- Placing a white corner in the wrong spot will scramble the side colors even if the bottom looks white
- Recall of the Sexy Move sequence
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Speed Cubing: Your First Solve the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
How do you know which color a side of the cube is supposed to be when you're finished?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where Speed Cubing: Your First Solve takes you
Go from a scrambled mess to a solved cube. Learn the foundational moves, finger tricks, and pattern recognition used by the world's fastest cubers.
- 1
The Layer-by-Layer Solve
- The Foundation: Cross and Corners
- Completing the Cube
- 2
Developing Speed
- Finger Tricks and Hardware
- Mental Speed and Look-Ahead
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Speed Cubing: Your First Solve is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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