Long ago someone solved a Rubik's cube in the school talent show and it inspired me to learn how to solve a Rubik's cube. Luckily my brother owned a Rubik's cube (Rubik's brand) which I thought was fast then (and here am I with a gan cube) and tried to solve it by myself with no help. I started with one color but smart me told me that its supposed to be solved layer by layer (I don't know how) and I solved one color but I didn't just solve a color I knew how to solve a whole layer! After solving one color I didn't know how to solve the second layer and I couldn't figure it out. It stayed like that for 2 years but then I thought that I needed to make progress so I learned how to solve it. My friend taught me how to solve it and it only took me 10 minutes to learn how and my first solve was only a few minutes. After learning how to solve a Rubik's cube, I improved my turning speed and became sub 1 minute. Then I decided to learn CFOP a few years later, and became sub-20. After learning how to solve a 3x3 Rubik's cube, I realised that other cubes had a connection to the 3x3 Rubik's cube so I figured out how to solve a 4x4, a 5x5, and a pyraminx by myself.
once I was on a psych ward and another patient brought a Megamix, they didn't remember how to solve it and I spent about 3 days learning how to solve it (i only knew the algorithms for a 3x3), it was really challenging and I had to start from scratch multiple times, but because I used my common sense to solve it I will never be able to forget the steps
those dan brown videos are how i learned, way back in 2007. what a blast from the past. thank you for that lol. i had completely forgotten about those videos
Before I learned how to solve the Rubik's cube, (by j perm's vid) I could only do the first layer, but I actually had some more advanced techniques that I'm still using such as using m moves to preserve edge pieces. I also found it easier to do all the edges first, essentially making the cross. I also learned to solve all the pieces correctly rather than just random pieces in random places
I solved a Rubik's cube on my own back in 1980, doing layer by layer. What helped was I would disassemble the cube and reassemble it solved, try a pattern of moves and see what changed to develop my own algorithms. Solving the first two layers wasn't an issue. For the last layer, I swapped front, back, or all four corners, using a 7 turn sequence where only the 4th turn is different: L' U' L F (U or U' or U2) F' L' U L or its mirror, with an 8th turn of U2 for (U or U') . I then flipped (twisted) two edges by swapping corners, then swapping back using mirrored move. I then twisted 3 corners using L' U2 L U L' U L U2 or its mirror. I then moved (3 cycle) edges by twisting and untwisting 3 corners using mirror move. Similar to other beginner methods that don't use middle slice moves, move (swap) corners to twist edges, twist corners to move (3 cycle) edges. I later figured out middle slice algorithms and switched to top, bottom, middle, turning puzzle 90 degrees for the middle edge solve.
Holy shit dude...you've played Zero Escape?!? Dude my ears perked up and I turned up my volume to do a double take when I heard the ZTD soundtrack. I knew you were a legend but I didn't know you were a FUCKING legend. Props. Banger series. You should check out the creator's other series "AI: The Somnium Files" if you haven't. The sequel recently came out. Another great series.
When you reflexively solved the 4 edge pieces with a move you'd already memorized and knew by heart, I figured out the rest of the video was you just messing around showing us how people who haven't memorized algorithms would do it! You should know that once you've learned a solve move, that you can't unlearn it. Me, I don't care, if some move solves a cube, I sure will take it! 😊👍
One should only try this when their brain gets developed fully, so it is kind of impossible when someone is just ten years of age. Because now we have a lot of patience and our thought can travel a long way through something.
10 year olds are capable of this kind of thought, they just aren't typically trained in the sort. Most adults couldn't solve a rubiks cube without unique puzzle solving knowledge
My friend has been trying to teach me to solve the Rubix cube for the past couple of days... only thing is, We've both been stoned so my brain just couldn't comprehend what he was saying
I did it, took me a few days without any kind of help, I think i couldve done it way faster had i used a pen and paper but that wasnt my goal, admitedly I had seen rubiks cubes before and knew some basics like how solveing a face is not just solving that face but that layer instead, then I tried the same with a 4x4 and took me more than a month but I figured it out eventually, Im currently trying to find a faster way since I whenever I solve it I can either get a position that I can solve as is, or a position I need to scramble the whole cube in a specific way to certainly a 100% of the times get a solvable position, I consider this a valid solution of a 4x4 but not an optimal one, still, I dont want any help, its way more fun this way.
can you please do a comparison on the gan 12 maglev and the gan 11. 🥺🥺🥺 because i am thinking on getting a new cube and i am confused on what i should get.
I solved a side maybe at 8 or 9 in the 80's. Then just put it down out of boredom. Picked it up out of boredom around 10 years later. Solved it easy. Looked at it from a different angle. Solved the center pieces and knew how reconfigure them when I messed up the corners. Then solved it and put it back down in boredom. Still not picked back up. Edit... women. Can't solve them.
Challenge: Solve all WCA puzzles (including clock) in a row, but after every move (or clock button push), you must swap to the next cube/puzzle in the cycle until you solve all of them.
Back in the day, before algos were commonly known, it was actually SUPER impressive for someone to be able to solve it. I remember a scene from "Pursuit of Happyness" where Will Smith's character was able to solve it through intuition alone.
It was apparently considered extremely impressive how Will Smith actually learned to solve the Rubik's cube, and was able to do it for real in that scene. I think I remember seeing it in lists of celebrities having "hidden talents".
that isnt actually an example of someone solving it without algorithms and i'd think theres genuinely only a handful of people who have dedicated the time to do so including erno rubik
I like how your intuitive solution has more common steps from minor methods like Roux and ZZ. Makes me think that CFOP was more like a computer-oriented method that does not feels as organic as the alternatives.
CFOP is very easy to understand visually. Every step creates more solid blocks of color. It doesn't make the most sense as a puzzle solver, but for beginners it actually makes the most sense. Roux is like an optimization of corners first, and I guess that's why it's the most intuitive of the big 3.
I have memories of playing with a Rubik's brand cube at my grandmother's house as a kid, and of learning to solve during the pandemic of 2020. It's so fun to see you trying to work through the process!
I really thought this is an April fools video posted in a wrong month but I was wrong! that was really fun to watch as I finally saw an alternative solution to a 3x3x3 cube than the usual solve that I use! Very awesome video.
@daniyar I accidentally solved it, i mean i accidentally created some algs by just looking at one specific corner piece on first layer, moving it around and moved it back, that's how. It took me 2 months to " Accidentally" solve it. At that time, i just played for fun, really didnt expect to solve it, but i'm a speedcuber now, sub-10
Way back in either Christmas '97 or '80 I was given a present of an original Rubik's Cube. I solved it before leaving my basic army training at the back-end of 1980. The first two layers were easy enough although I did the 'F2L' upside down to CFOP. I seem to remember getting the top layer first in place then the sides. Eventually one day the cube came apart and I realised that, after putting it back together, I could work things out backwards. So I did this for a month or so and eventually had a set of moves which allowed me to complete the cube. I guess you might call these 'algs' these days! It was a really slow method of course and very repetitive but none the less worked. In 1981 I had a lucky solve one day where the last layer simply solved itself after the F2L. That one solve is my claim to fame as it was 32 seconds! Was it possibly the fastest up to that point? Considering that the first world record of 22 sec was set in 1982, I like to 'claim' so! By 1982 I was sub 60 sec all the time and I used Vasaline! Well at least my RC was quite quiet! 😂😂😂😂 At the beginning of 2020 I picked up the cube again but could not remember how to do that last layer. I had vague memories, but never really remembered what I used to do. Then one day my fingers just 'did' it! After some 40 years somehow my muscle memory kicked in. Then I found (probably) your channel and converted to the CFOP method. I have had a sub-15 lucky-solve once and at last am back to sub-60 but occasionally am around the sub-30. For me the big issue is all about seeing the colours during F2L. But it is slowly getting better with daily practise! Thank you JPerm for all the hours and hours you have entertained me! All I have to do is practise for the next 37 years so that I get sub-15 by the time of my 100th birthday! 😉
@@JPerm well that's my claim no matter what my sister says!! (long story 😂). The other day I was looking all cool cubing away in a train and this young lad leans across challengingly asking how long I had been cubing. I said "Oh... for a while." He told me he could do it really quickly and asked how quickly I could do it. I casually told him "... usually under 60 secs but I had subbed 15 once..." He said "Oh!" I don't know what I said that upset him, but he sort of disappeared up the isle and I didn't see him again.... youngsters these days! 😂😆🤣
I got a last layer skip recently in school, resulting in a 24 sec solve xD, it is gonna be my personal best for a long time i think, my second best time is 31 sec. (The entire last layer skip, oll + pll skip chance is 1/15500 if i'm not wrong)
i wish tutorials covered basic puzzle solving principles more rather then just making people remember the algorithms with no understanding of what they are doing. That is a great video
This is what I love about cubing. Sure you can memorize algorithms, and practice to the point of solving the cube in mere seconds. But the satisfaction that comes from actually figuring it out yourself is immeasurable! I've known how to solve a 3x3 for a few years now, but recently challenged myself to learn 4x4 & 5x5. And when I ran into the parity issues that come with reduction, I chose to try and solve it intuitively rather than learning the parity algorithms. And the satisfaction I felt when I finally found something that works made all the struggling worth it!
@@JPerm that's exactly what I did every time I get a parity.. then one day I decide to learn an alg for that.. and I try to break it in parts to understand what a hell was i doin.. and also try to see before hand and fix it before I end up with the last 2 edges..
@@Perrocko 4X4 parity is just kinda arghh XD, I can relate when solve naturallu (manually) by making it looks like 3X 3 solving then u just stuck with both sides swapped when others are correct
@@jofx4051 yes parity in a 5x5 it's easier .. and the centers missplaced happened to m alot till i learned from memory where do the go.. I was so relying on others cube to actually having the center stuck there but when you have a par cube 4x4 6x6 you actually have to place them correctly from scratch
@@JPerm That's exactly how I solve the 5x5 still. I figured out how to solve it on my own and just try to get my edges into a group of three to finish off so I don't have to worry about it :D. I really should learn to do it properly at some point...
I’ll be getting my first 7x7 soon and maybe these insights can help with solving edge parity without algorithms. And maybe I can come up with my own for 4x4 edge parity algorithms.
I did a challenge like this a while ago and did it completely differently. Instead of banning any algs I knew previously, I only banned ones that I learned, but allowed myself to still use any that I found out just messing around. Because I first figured out how to do one side as a kid I just started with that. After hearing about f2l, I figured out a jank way to do it before learning how to do it properly, so I used that to finish the first 2 layers. For oll, I came up with a 2 flip alg using commutators for the cross, and came up with RU'L'UR'U'L for the corners. Then for pll I broke my first layer, put it back together and redid almost the entire solve to have a very long but working jperm alg. Then I used an edge 3 swap that I found before from just messing around and boom!
My uncle actually figured out how to solve the puzzle himself in the 80s, but he was a genius lol. I however had to watch your tutorial. Thanks for that, been cubing almost 2 months now and my PB is 31 sec.
@@CubingPenguin my PB now it's 18 something. Those last layer skips are super lucky and save a lot of seconds. Either way that's very impressive! Good for you!
I know you’re not going to see this but in the small chance that you do, I wanted to let you know that I got 4 of my Wisdom teeth out this morning. This video made me feel so much better and distracted me from any of the pain I was feeling. Thank you so much for making such great videos that cheer I’m sure not only me up, but I’m sure it also cheers many many other people. Thank you so much jperm!
I vividly remember what it was like when those things came out and we were all on our own as far as solving it went. I was an undergraduate math major at Caltech, and quickly pretty much everyone at Caltech had one, and was furiously working at figuring them out. At the time I was taking abstract algebra and we were required to do a term project. I couldn't think of anything interesting to do so went to my professor to see if he had any suggestions. I made the horrible mistake of bringing my cube with me, and when I asked him if he had any ideas for a project he said "The answer is in your hands", so now I not only had to figure out how to solve the damn thing, I had to tie it to group theory instead of just stumbling on a few algorithms and calling it a day or I'd fail abstract algebra. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, because my professor did agree that I could limit myself to the 2x2x2 cube.
Okay so hear me out.... What if we try to improve this system and call it J Perm speedcubing method? It may sound dumb but with the right scramble it could be really fast, right?
Damn, you did that relatively quickly. The first time I solved a Rubik's cube it took me 3 days (and I was spending like every spare moment on it). I was determined to solve it without help and I spent a lot of time writing down algorithms (with a really whack notation that I came up with myself and I now realize didn't cover a lot of cases :D). I ended up solving in a more traditional layer-by-layer approach - because the first thing I did when I got it was have a look to figure out how it worked and realizing the cube was made out of layers and not out of faces. Was so proud when I eventually accomplished it.
The cube I got, an Integear cube, came with an instruction ppamphlet that has ten algorithms on it for solving the cube, of which I memorized six, which is good enough for me. Plus an algorithm I picked up from Mathologer that rotates one corner in one layer, and messes up the opposite layer to compensate.
Hey J Perm, you’re trying to figure out this difficult puzzles, BUT... I have a challange! Why don’t you make a video getting better/faster at the..... SQUARE-1 You’ve been fearing it for a long time, but I think it’s time. “I Tried to Get Faster at The Square-1” It’s gonna be amazing.
Yes, finally! I've been waiting for such a video for a while now. I felt almost as excited when you solved it and now I wanna see you perfect your method. 😁
Jperm, I think you should do another video showcasing all of your cubes again. You have gained a lot of subscribers and cubes since then, including the holy grail: the 21x21. So pls do another video like that. Thank you!!!
This was a really interesting addition to the 'solving with no help' series, especially because I actually learned corners first before beginner's method
This challenge is impossible. It's like looking at a word and trying not to read it. For someone who can't read it's possible but for a literate person it isn't.
Kind of straight up 80s CF until cross on all sides. I don't think anyone would even try to do horizontal middle layer moves on a classic 80s Rubik's cube. What I did back then was just the following and a mirrored version to swap around 3 edge pieces, 1 in second layer and 2 in bottom (original move style to allow full palm turns): [ldR'rd'][R'dRr'd'] (probably messed something up in that :) Guess commutators were banned because its known algorithms. Otherwise I think they are more logical path to go, even when trying to figure things out. And you end up calling them 3 piece rotation/swap without messing any other stuff up.
This is actually very encouraging as I am still struggling to solve it on my own (no, I'm not going to just memorize known algorithms). I only just within the past few months have taught myself to intuitively solve the first two layers. But solving corners first is a method I've also explored.
Your method is actually almost exactly the same the one Minh Thai used in the 1982 World Championship. He would use Ortega to solve the corners, and then solve three edges each in the top and bottom layers, leaving one edge slot open to move the centers and edges around. Then he somehow would get the last two edges and solve the last four edges and centers. I don't quite understand the last step, but I think it's worth looking into.
You just need to solve both pieces at the same time. First you put one of the pieces in the solve position then you drop it from the slot but you need to drop it in a way that it aligns with the other piece so that when you solve the other piece the drop piece will also be solve. It is the same method of breaking up and solving it another way but the setup is to make sure that dropping one edge aligns it to another edge so they can be solve together.
A few years ago, I actually decided to try this on my own. My thoughts were also to solve the corners first, so I did that, using the algorithm which I invented R U R' U' y L U L' U, which did a 3 cycle of corners. I solved a lot of edges, and used the algorithm M' U M U2 M' U M which is a 3-cycle to solve the remaining edges. It's unbelievable how similar our methods were!
When I had no idea how to solve the last layer of the Rubik's cube, I came across a video where the cube was solved in a different way. Building 2x2x2 blocks and expand it to 2x2x3, leaving one edge free to push up the rest of the edges to the point of solving all the edges leaving several corners unsolved. A few years after I learnt the beginner's method, I came across another video where someone had a tutorial on how to solve a Rubik's cube without memorization, it is the same thing (though he solved the first two layers slightly differently, solving one layer first, then insert three of the edges, leaving one edge to solve all the top edges), he taught me commutators. Eventually I understood how commutators was done. I learnt these from the following channels. Phillip Brocoum thepuzzledmagician
That title confused me at first but this was a fantastic video idea!
Hey kewbix
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Hi Kewbix please reply
And that's why he's better than max park
Hi Kewbix
Long ago someone solved a Rubik's cube in the school talent show and it inspired me to learn how to solve a Rubik's cube. Luckily my brother owned a Rubik's cube (Rubik's brand) which I thought was fast then (and here am I with a gan cube) and tried to solve it by myself with no help. I started with one color but smart me told me that its supposed to be solved layer by layer (I don't know how) and I solved one color but I didn't just solve a color I knew how to solve a whole layer! After solving one color I didn't know how to solve the second layer and I couldn't figure it out. It stayed like that for 2 years but then I thought that I needed to make progress so I learned how to solve it. My friend taught me how to solve it and it only took me 10 minutes to learn how and my first solve was only a few minutes. After learning how to solve a Rubik's cube, I improved my turning speed and became sub 1 minute. Then I decided to learn CFOP a few years later, and became sub-20. After learning how to solve a 3x3 Rubik's cube, I realised that other cubes had a connection to the 3x3 Rubik's cube so I figured out how to solve a 4x4, a 5x5, and a pyraminx by myself.
once I was on a psych ward and another patient brought a Megamix, they didn't remember how to solve it and I spent about 3 days learning how to solve it (i only knew the algorithms for a 3x3), it was really challenging and I had to start from scratch multiple times, but because I used my common sense to solve it I will never be able to forget the steps
Let me nominate him as the smartest cuber ever .........
wait there isn't even someone good enough to compare!
those dan brown videos are how i learned, way back in 2007. what a blast from the past. thank you for that lol. i had completely forgotten about those videos
can you make a video showing/explaining all the pll/oll fingertricks and algs?
Dan Brown was the OG! I watched his video on how to solve the cube way back and it was life changing.
Before I learned how to solve the Rubik's cube, (by j perm's vid) I could only do the first layer, but I actually had some more advanced techniques that I'm still using such as using m moves to preserve edge pieces. I also found it easier to do all the edges first, essentially making the cross. I also learned to solve all the pieces correctly rather than just random pieces in random places
2:36 what i did is moved down the 2 corners then put the edge in and get the line back up
I solved a Rubik's cube on my own back in 1980, doing layer by layer. What helped was I would disassemble the cube and reassemble it solved, try a pattern of moves and see what changed to develop my own algorithms. Solving the first two layers wasn't an issue. For the last layer, I swapped front, back, or all four corners, using a 7 turn sequence where only the 4th turn is different: L' U' L F (U or U' or U2) F' L' U L or its mirror, with an 8th turn of U2 for (U or U') . I then flipped (twisted) two edges by swapping corners, then swapping back using mirrored move. I then twisted 3 corners using L' U2 L U L' U L U2 or its mirror. I then moved (3 cycle) edges by twisting and untwisting 3 corners using mirror move. Similar to other beginner methods that don't use middle slice moves, move (swap) corners to twist edges, twist corners to move (3 cycle) edges. I later figured out middle slice algorithms and switched to top, bottom, middle, turning puzzle 90 degrees for the middle edge solve.
Holy shit dude...you've played Zero Escape?!? Dude my ears perked up and I turned up my volume to do a double take when I heard the ZTD soundtrack. I knew you were a legend but I didn't know you were a FUCKING legend. Props. Banger series. You should check out the creator's other series "AI: The Somnium Files" if you haven't. The sequel recently came out. Another great series.
Challenge: Take a middle and corner piece it and scramble it (switch corners too). And try to solve it.
How interesting!
At first i was so confused when saw the title
But it's a fantastic idea,i like it!
Someone should speed solve using this method
00:38 the true definition of teaching it to your self
Jperm: let me give you a very cryptic inefficient tutorial of 3 style.
hey J Perm , can you upload a tutorial on " skewb "advanced !!!
When you reflexively solved the 4 edge pieces with a move you'd already memorized and knew by heart, I figured out the rest of the video was you just messing around showing us how people who haven't memorized algorithms would do it! You should know that once you've learned a solve move, that you can't unlearn it. Me, I don't care, if some move solves a cube, I sure will take it! 😊👍
Rubik: takes 1 month to solve his own cube
J perm: takes 20 mins
This is the detailed explanation I have been looking for 🎉thank you!
You should solve it into a superflipped pattern
One should only try this when their brain gets developed fully, so it is kind of impossible when someone is just ten years of age. Because now we have a lot of patience and our thought can travel a long way through something.
10 year olds are capable of this kind of thought, they just aren't typically trained in the sort. Most adults couldn't solve a rubiks cube without unique puzzle solving knowledge
Make a video for how to solve a 4 by 4 pyramid Rubik's cube
Now this is what we could genius:)
Try making a new 3x3 method, using the algorithms that you made in this video!
My friend has been trying to teach me to solve the Rubix cube for the past couple of days... only thing is, We've both been stoned so my brain just couldn't comprehend what he was saying
With LBL, the first 2 layers are completely intuitive without algorithms. So start there.
I am 13 and thanks to you I Know how to solve it pretty quick (about 2minutes and a half)
Solving the cube for first time gives son much joy..
nice selfless promo i think ill go follow that too
This hurts my brain like its sooo complex but supposed to be easy
Great news everybody! I finally solved a 3x3 faster than J Perm!
Solve a 21 * 21 30 times or get sub 4 or else solve every WCA puzzle 100 times
please make a new video on which cube is best for cubing
I did it, took me a few days without any kind of help, I think i couldve done it way faster had i used a pen and paper but that wasnt my goal, admitedly I had seen rubiks cubes before and knew some basics like how solveing a face is not just solving that face but that layer instead, then I tried the same with a 4x4 and took me more than a month but I figured it out eventually, Im currently trying to find a faster way since I whenever I solve it I can either get a position that I can solve as is, or a position I need to scramble the whole cube in a specific way to certainly a 100% of the times get a solvable position, I consider this a valid solution of a 4x4 but not an optimal one, still, I dont want any help, its way more fun this way.
what cube that you commonly use while taking a video
By the way, I figured out the algorithm for the last case you had intuitively, so I would say it is fair for you to use it...
can you please do a comparison on the gan 12 maglev and the gan 11. 🥺🥺🥺 because i am thinking on getting a new cube and i am confused on what i should get.
I solved a side maybe at 8 or 9 in the 80's. Then just put it down out of boredom. Picked it up out of boredom around 10 years later. Solved it easy. Looked at it from a different angle. Solved the center pieces and knew how reconfigure them when I messed up the corners. Then solved it and put it back down in boredom. Still not picked back up. Edit... women. Can't solve them.
That’s what I used to do
please do your 2022 mains
Do a speedsolve with your solution
I always save a piece like that when solving white I don’t solve white cross
Good job because now you have 1500 comments in 9 days
So, this is useful when we create new method without getting any help
Me looking at this thinking it’s rocket science
Edit: this video is actually helpful because of this I just solved my first rubies cube ever!🎉
This is genius
Challenge: Solve all WCA puzzles (including clock) in a row, but after every move (or clock button push), you must swap to the next cube/puzzle in the cycle until you solve all of them.
ooooh i like that
that would be cool
Yes pls
that's a cool idea
This needs more upvotes
I can’t believe Jperm finally solved a Rubik’s cube. I hope he releases a tutorial soon
he already has done one!
this video mightve been recorded before that one and he wanted to help others before showing him learning it by himself
@@woolsword8200 r/whoosh
@@woolsword8200 it was a joke 😅
@@makerofeditsmov i know, i was waiting for someone to actually read my reply correctly.
@@woolsword8200 oh okay 💀
99% Of people who saw this video in their recommended looked at the release date first.
Why is this so true😂
@@expl0sions13 damn bro one year later I find this comment
@@PellyPlayoh
Ok, so I'm in the 1%
@@GabrielCraioveanu same
Back in the day, before algos were commonly known, it was actually SUPER impressive for someone to be able to solve it. I remember a scene from "Pursuit of Happyness" where Will Smith's character was able to solve it through intuition alone.
I thought he did an old version of cfop? Correct me if I’m wrong
@@EG0909 yes ig more like the beginners method
It was apparently considered extremely impressive how Will Smith actually learned to solve the Rubik's cube, and was able to do it for real in that scene. I think I remember seeing it in lists of celebrities having "hidden talents".
that isnt actually an example of someone solving it without algorithms and i'd think theres genuinely only a handful of people who have dedicated the time to do so including erno rubik
“Corners have the least freedom”
Center pieces: “am I a joke to you?”
I think he meant the pieces that can move to a different position.
@@stellastoyfun9658 yeah, but still
What are you, a corner piece rights activist??
Time for a new activism movement!
@@JPerm Yes. Yes I am.
I like how your intuitive solution has more common steps from minor methods like Roux and ZZ. Makes me think that CFOP was more like a computer-oriented method that does not feels as organic as the alternatives.
Cfop algorithms are the furthest things from being organic/intuitive lol
@@blakethenoobie1433 they agreed and emphasised that part
@@blakethenoobie1433 that’s what everyone has said.
well zz can be even more crazy often compared to cfop but yea
CFOP is very easy to understand visually. Every step creates more solid blocks of color. It doesn't make the most sense as a puzzle solver, but for beginners it actually makes the most sense.
Roux is like an optimization of corners first, and I guess that's why it's the most intuitive of the big 3.
I have memories of playing with a Rubik's brand cube at my grandmother's house as a kid, and of learning to solve during the pandemic of 2020. It's so fun to see you trying to work through the process!
i actually also learned to solve this in 2020 since i was bored out of my mind and i didnt have any way of playing video games
it makes me feel like your a pro cuber and jperm is noob cuber beacuse of the way you talk and I hate it
lmao so I wasnt the only one who learned to solve the cube on 2020
@@bonemasked3925 nah bro the pandemic made everyone try new things. I guess rubiks cube was a popular hobby everyone picked up
Lol i also learn to solve a cube in 2020
Edit:funfact my first ever cube is a white yj guanlong 3x3
I really thought this is an April fools video posted in a wrong month but I was wrong! that was really fun to watch as I finally saw an alternative solution to a 3x3x3 cube than the usual solve that I use! Very awesome video.
it was made on funny number day (6/9) thats why this exists
@@in4init3vr 4/20 is also one and its my birthday (april 20th)
There's something oddly satisfying seeing you solve a 3x3 as if it was a new puzzle
19:59 “I am now finally a real cuber” this means 99% of us aren’t real cubers since we didn’t figure it out on our own 😭
SAD
And since we watched this video we must find a different solution if we wanted to try the challenge
I actually solved a 3x3 by myself when i was 12, 5 years ago. If you want to know how i did it, just ask me.
😭😭😭
@daniyar I accidentally solved it, i mean i accidentally created some algs by just looking at one specific corner piece on first layer, moving it around and moved it back, that's how. It took me 2 months to " Accidentally" solve it. At that time, i just played for fun, really didnt expect to solve it, but i'm a speedcuber now, sub-10
Way back in either Christmas '97 or '80 I was given a present of an original Rubik's Cube. I solved it before leaving my basic army training at the back-end of 1980. The first two layers were easy enough although I did the 'F2L' upside down to CFOP. I seem to remember getting the top layer first in place then the sides. Eventually one day the cube came apart and I realised that, after putting it back together, I could work things out backwards. So I did this for a month or so and eventually had a set of moves which allowed me to complete the cube. I guess you might call these 'algs' these days! It was a really slow method of course and very repetitive but none the less worked. In 1981 I had a lucky solve one day where the last layer simply solved itself after the F2L. That one solve is my claim to fame as it was 32 seconds! Was it possibly the fastest up to that point? Considering that the first world record of 22 sec was set in 1982, I like to 'claim' so! By 1982 I was sub 60 sec all the time and I used Vasaline! Well at least my RC was quite quiet! 😂😂😂😂
At the beginning of 2020 I picked up the cube again but could not remember how to do that last layer. I had vague memories, but never really remembered what I used to do. Then one day my fingers just 'did' it! After some 40 years somehow my muscle memory kicked in. Then I found (probably) your channel and converted to the CFOP method. I have had a sub-15 lucky-solve once and at last am back to sub-60 but occasionally am around the sub-30. For me the big issue is all about seeing the colours during F2L. But it is slowly getting better with daily practise!
Thank you JPerm for all the hours and hours you have entertained me! All I have to do is practise for the next 37 years so that I get sub-15 by the time of my 100th birthday! 😉
What an amazing story! You held the world record in my heart
@@JPerm well that's my claim no matter what my sister says!! (long story 😂).
The other day I was looking all cool cubing away in a train and this young lad leans across challengingly asking how long I had been cubing. I said "Oh... for a while." He told me he could do it really quickly and asked how quickly I could do it. I casually told him "... usually under 60 secs but I had subbed 15 once..." He said "Oh!"
I don't know what I said that upset him, but he sort of disappeared up the isle and I didn't see him again.... youngsters these days! 😂😆🤣
I got a last layer skip recently in school, resulting in a 24 sec solve xD, it is gonna be my personal best for a long time i think, my second best time is 31 sec. (The entire last layer skip, oll + pll skip chance is 1/15500 if i'm not wrong)
@@heitorcar-geometrydash8362 if the chance is 1/15500 then I must be lucky
@@Jordan.... yes, probably xD
The non-cubers are finally right, you need a high IQ to solve a Rubiks cube :O
Remember
i wish tutorials covered basic puzzle solving principles more rather then just making people remember the algorithms with no understanding of what they are doing. That is a great video
Next video: Trying to do the R U R' U' algorithm (With NO Help)
Fun fact: making "one side" is actually part of a method called "ECP." the first step is to do Edge Orientation plus one face.
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I didn't know tha!
Damn
I mean, OLL is just making one side with a bunch of restrictions
@@Chinesemax yeahh
This is what I love about cubing. Sure you can memorize algorithms, and practice to the point of solving the cube in mere seconds. But the satisfaction that comes from actually figuring it out yourself is immeasurable!
I've known how to solve a 3x3 for a few years now, but recently challenged myself to learn 4x4 & 5x5. And when I ran into the parity issues that come with reduction, I chose to try and solve it intuitively rather than learning the parity algorithms. And the satisfaction I felt when I finally found something that works made all the struggling worth it!
Figuring out parity is rough! I would have just restarted anytime I got parity haha
@@JPerm that's exactly what I did every time I get a parity.. then one day I decide to learn an alg for that.. and I try to break it in parts to understand what a hell was i doin.. and also try to see before hand and fix it before I end up with the last 2 edges..
@@Perrocko 4X4 parity is just kinda arghh XD, I can relate when solve naturallu (manually) by making it looks like 3X 3 solving then u just stuck with both sides swapped when others are correct
@@jofx4051 yes parity in a 5x5 it's easier .. and the centers missplaced happened to m alot till i learned from memory where do the go.. I was so relying on others cube to actually having the center stuck there but when you have a par cube 4x4 6x6 you actually have to place them correctly from scratch
@@JPerm That's exactly how I solve the 5x5 still. I figured out how to solve it on my own and just try to get my edges into a group of three to finish off so I don't have to worry about it :D. I really should learn to do it properly at some point...
I’ve been cubing on and off for ten years now and I have to say, this was so insightful
I’ll be getting my first 7x7 soon and maybe these insights can help with solving edge parity without algorithms. And maybe I can come up with my own for 4x4 edge parity algorithms.
I did a challenge like this a while ago and did it completely differently. Instead of banning any algs I knew previously, I only banned ones that I learned, but allowed myself to still use any that I found out just messing around.
Because I first figured out how to do one side as a kid I just started with that. After hearing about f2l, I figured out a jank way to do it before learning how to do it properly, so I used that to finish the first 2 layers.
For oll, I came up with a 2 flip alg using commutators for the cross, and came up with RU'L'UR'U'L for the corners.
Then for pll I broke my first layer, put it back together and redid almost the entire solve to have a very long but working jperm alg. Then I used an edge 3 swap that I found before from just messing around and boom!
Bruh
Great idea👍, but J Perms idea was definetly harder.
70th like, I'm not nice..
Commutators would have been nice. But I had to ban them since I technically already use every commutator as an algorithm for blindfolded...
@@hattu2374 no need to compare
My uncle actually figured out how to solve the puzzle himself in the 80s, but he was a genius lol. I however had to watch your tutorial. Thanks for that, been cubing almost 2 months now and my PB is 31 sec.
Sammeeeeee
Woooooo!!! 3 cheers for almost sub 30 PB's!!!!
Same
I've been cubing for 27 days and my pb was 23 sec with a last layer skip
@@CubingPenguin my PB now it's 18 something. Those last layer skips are super lucky and save a lot of seconds. Either way that's very impressive! Good for you!
I know you’re not going to see this but in the small chance that you do, I wanted to let you know that I got 4 of my Wisdom teeth out this morning. This video made me feel so much better and distracted me from any of the pain I was feeling. Thank you so much for making such great videos that cheer I’m sure not only me up, but I’m sure it also cheers many many other people. Thank you so much jperm!
Im leaving this comment so if you get notified, you will probably be greatful for how painless your jaw/face is compared to back then.
"oH I JuSt pEeL Of tHe sTiCkErS"
Plot twist: This was filmed over 10 years ago
Erno Rubik himself took a month to do this
Wait wait wait If you go to 0:33 he says he learned to solve from his own tutorial
I thought it was April 1st when I looked at the title
I learnt myself to solve the cube in 1981 and invented my own algorithms, some I still use today
Nobody :
Ernö Rubik in 1974 :
Hey, JPerm!
If someone named b perm commented have you forgotten about me?
I vividly remember what it was like when those things came out and we were all on our own as far as solving it went. I was an undergraduate math major at Caltech, and quickly pretty much everyone at Caltech had one, and was furiously working at figuring them out. At the time I was taking abstract algebra and we were required to do a term project. I couldn't think of anything interesting to do so went to my professor to see if he had any suggestions. I made the horrible mistake of bringing my cube with me, and when I asked him if he had any ideas for a project he said "The answer is in your hands", so now I not only had to figure out how to solve the damn thing, I had to tie it to group theory instead of just stumbling on a few algorithms and calling it a day or I'd fail abstract algebra. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, because my professor did agree that I could limit myself to the 2x2x2 cube.
Yikes
Fun.
Okay so hear me out.... What if we try to improve this system and call it J Perm speedcubing method? It may sound dumb but with the right scramble it could be really fast, right?
Damn, you did that relatively quickly. The first time I solved a Rubik's cube it took me 3 days (and I was spending like every spare moment on it). I was determined to solve it without help and I spent a lot of time writing down algorithms (with a really whack notation that I came up with myself and I now realize didn't cover a lot of cases :D). I ended up solving in a more traditional layer-by-layer approach - because the first thing I did when I got it was have a look to figure out how it worked and realizing the cube was made out of layers and not out of faces. Was so proud when I eventually accomplished it.
i didnt manage to solve rubiks cube without help, but i did discover the sexy moves by myself
The cube I got, an Integear cube, came with an instruction ppamphlet that has ten algorithms on it for solving the cube, of which I memorized six, which is good enough for me.
Plus an algorithm I picked up from Mathologer that rotates one corner in one layer, and messes up the opposite layer to compensate.
Hey J Perm, you’re trying to figure out this difficult puzzles, BUT... I have a challange!
Why don’t you make a video getting better/faster at the.....
SQUARE-1
You’ve been fearing it for a long time, but I think it’s time.
“I Tried to Get Faster at The Square-1”
It’s gonna be amazing.
Haters:BuT hE iS uSiNg U aNd R mOvEs ChEaTeR
Me, a beginner that just bought a Rubik's cube: 🤡🤡🤡
i felt his pain at the when he could have solved it
Yes, finally! I've been waiting for such a video for a while now. I felt almost as excited when you solved it and now I wanna see you perfect your method. 😁
Lol you are doing like a beginner jperm 😂😂 btw you are the sponser
Jperm, I think you should do another video showcasing all of your cubes again. You have gained a lot of subscribers and cubes since then, including the holy grail: the 21x21. So pls do another video like that. Thank you!!!
J perm: Today i am gonna solve a Rubiks cube with no help
Also J perm: But i already know how to solve it
This was a really interesting addition to the 'solving with no help' series, especially because I actually learned corners first before beginner's method
Oh my god this is insane I can’t believe your attempting this challenge I clicked right away I know how much you struggle with this kind of thing.
Yeah I've had this 3x3 cube sitting on my shelf for years. Could only ever solve 1 side
@@JPerm ikr
This challenge is impossible. It's like looking at a word and trying not to read it. For someone who can't read it's possible but for a literate person it isn't.
J Perm in 2025: Attempting to solve the RUBIK'S CUBE BLINDFOLDED (With no help)
he already has practiced blindfolded and is faster than me solving it normally
@UCP54F1fJKtMADrnKROHeqUA /s
@@DeathDoesThings he means coming up with his own method like he did here.
@@schmaffew2343 👍
"Sometimes that's how you succeed, you just don't try until you know you can probably do it." - J Perm 2022
Kind of straight up 80s CF until cross on all sides. I don't think anyone would even try to do horizontal middle layer moves on a classic 80s Rubik's cube.
What I did back then was just the following and a mirrored version to swap around 3 edge pieces, 1 in second layer and 2 in bottom (original move style to allow full palm turns):
[ldR'rd'][R'dRr'd'] (probably messed something up in that :)
Guess commutators were banned because its known algorithms. Otherwise I think they are more logical path to go, even when trying to figure things out. And you end up calling them 3 piece rotation/swap without messing any other stuff up.
Who’s here in 2024?
Dude shut up
Me
This is actually very encouraging as I am still struggling to solve it on my own (no, I'm not going to just memorize known algorithms). I only just within the past few months have taught myself to intuitively solve the first two layers. But solving corners first is a method I've also explored.
m.youtube.com/@TALENTZONE222
2:04 why is this concept so complicated for people when i try to explain it
wasn't expecting zero escape music to start playing after everything else being presumably stock music, I love zero escape
Your method is actually almost exactly the same the one Minh Thai used in the 1982 World Championship. He would use Ortega to solve the corners, and then solve three edges each in the top and bottom layers, leaving one edge slot open to move the centers and edges around. Then he somehow would get the last two edges and solve the last four edges and centers. I don't quite understand the last step, but I think it's worth looking into.
You just need to solve both pieces at the same time. First you put one of the pieces in the solve position then you drop it from the slot but you need to drop it in a way that it aligns with the other piece so that when you solve the other piece the drop piece will also be solve. It is the same method of breaking up and solving it another way but the setup is to make sure that dropping one edge aligns it to another edge so they can be solve together.
A few years ago, I actually decided to try this on my own. My thoughts were also to solve the corners first, so I did that, using the algorithm which I invented R U R' U' y L U L' U, which did a 3 cycle of corners. I solved a lot of edges, and used the algorithm M' U M U2 M' U M which is a 3-cycle to solve the remaining edges. It's unbelievable how similar our methods were!
When I had no idea how to solve the last layer of the Rubik's cube, I came across a video where the cube was solved in a different way.
Building 2x2x2 blocks and expand it to 2x2x3, leaving one edge free to push up the rest of the edges to the point of solving all the edges leaving several corners unsolved.
A few years after I learnt the beginner's method, I came across another video where someone had a tutorial on how to solve a Rubik's cube without memorization, it is the same thing (though he solved the first two layers slightly differently, solving one layer first, then insert three of the edges, leaving one edge to solve all the top edges), he taught me commutators.
Eventually I understood how commutators was done.
I learnt these from the following channels.
Phillip Brocoum
thepuzzledmagician
Bro at 10 yo smarter than me 20 yo 💀💀💀