From ybanezs%geds@mhsgate.salem.ge.com Thu Oct 27 16:22:05 1994 Return-Path: Received: from ns.ge.com by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for /com/archive/cube-lovers id AA04610; Thu, 27 Oct 94 16:22:05 EDT Received: from thomas.ge.com by ns.ge.com (5.65/GE Gateway 1.26) with SMTP id AA15091; Thu, 27 Oct 94 16:02:04 -0400 Received: from carsdb.salem.ge.com by thomas.ge.com (5.65/GE Internal Gateway 1.26) with SMTP id AA00792; Thu, 27 Oct 94 16:22:01 -0400 Received: from mhsgate.salem.ge.com by salem.ge.com (4.1/SMI-4.1)id AA29388; Thu, 27 Oct 94 16:21:48 EDT Received: by mhsgate.salem.ge.com from NetWare MHS, SMF-70via XGATE 2.12 MHS to SMTP Gateway (XSMTP Module) Message-Id: <71F79C380105AED1@mhsgate.salem.ge.com> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 94 16:20:08 EST From: Ybanez Sheldon To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Solution.. X-Mailer: XGATE 2.12 MHS/SMTP Gateway I have been able to solve the Cube in under a minute... but that was years ago when my reflexes and memory was better in Junior High... now I pull the old cube out for limbering the fingers... and seeing how much I remember the solutions... now they are so ingrained in me... I no longer remember them as separate moves.... but a conglomeration of twists and turns... the book --the title I can't remember-- I originally learned from, showed the solution as a TOP to BOTTOM approach... doing the first top layer... then the center edges... and then completing the last layer... I noticed then Mihn used the top, bottom, middle approach... when he won the World's Cube solving championship on the show 'THAT"S INCREDIBLE', which was also advocated by the solution book that was available from the address that was included with the original cubes... so then I was able to solve it either way... finding the latter approach a little faster... now the Revenge I can solve in about 5 minutes... maybe quicker, but I never really bothered to accurately time myself... I only learned the one way to solve the 4x4x4 cube... from Mihn's book. Now since I joined this mailing list I have been inundated with all these algorithms.... how do I translate them? Being a neophyte to cube 'theory' its pretty frustrating trying to figure out what all the letters and numbers mean... and what they are trying to achieve.... can anyone help? thanks in advance... ,,, ______________________________________________________ (o o) _________ +----------------------------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-------+ | Sheldon Ybanez [ybanez-s@salem.ge.com] GE Drive Systems Salem, VA | | Always "Remember. No matter where you go, there you are." 88 | +======================================================================+