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The realm of cubing that sparked my interest this month.
🕑 Added 2020-11-24 10:13:15 +0000 UTCIt's a big struggle every month to make a post here for some reason, that I've just been forgetting to do it. I think it's more realistic if I just make these posts shorter, so here it is!
Making the top 10 facts video about the Rubik's Cube was extremely time consuming; surprisingly it took as long as one of the animations do. However, what was going to just be 1 video has opened up an entire rabbit hole of interesting stuff I never bothered to look at before! Having no competitions has slightly diminished my motivation to practice cubing, but I can definitely see this as an opportunity to learn more and expand the types of videos I make.
Originally I was going to go much more in-depth for each topic of the video, but then I realized some of the more interesting ones (like God's number) couldn't be done justice in a compilation. I ended up glossing over a lot of the interesting and thought-provoking details to just say the main facts, which is neat because it got a lot of people talking in the comments and asking me about stuff. So I think I'll make a future video for whatever I think is interesting there.
I've been feeling lately like I don't want to be making as many tutorials as before. While making a tutorial is a lot easier than the more creative stuff, each new thing I can teach is obviously less important to learn than whatever I made years ago, as I started with the more important stuff. In the future maybe I'll revisit some of them and make updated tutorials based on what I think then, such as for the how to be sub-x series.
But lately I've really been feeling the cube theory (+ inevitably some history), especially with less competition pressure. I also think this stuff is just widely appealing and can be a fun way to teach some mathematical + logical thinking. Because when you really get down to it, a lot of cubing can just feel like pattern recognition and fast fingers, which isn't entirely true, but it can definitely be a fun detour to look at some stuff about the cube that is simply interesting.
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I just joined your patreon for this exact reason. Watching your videos has inspired me to learn as much about cubing as possible. I'm not fast or competitive, but I want to personally master the science of cubing. Would love to sponge as much knowledge on this topic as you can possibly share. Would also love to know how you learned and where your resources are.
100% agree regarding interesting facts, also love your revisited PLL and OLL tutorials, as new cubes are more friendly for S/S’ moves and its cool for casual solves.
