School's over. I have another couple months to do nothing until a bunch of psychologists decides on my future in the next 4-10 years on the basis of my drawings of people, homes, trees and all this psychological crap.
Life was pretty meaningless in the last month and that's how I like it, or at least that's what I thought.
Err... anyway, i'm bored and I decided that in exactly 7 days I will be able to solve a Rubik's cube in less than 5 minutes, on average.
So how do I do it? I found lots of internet sites with nice applets and whatnot, but all of them seem to assume too much about my capabilities.
Even in the best of them, I manage to get lost after a few steps.
My problem is that my "visual understanding" is very poor. All those sites think that after one example of a move I can figure out how and when to use it in the future, while at best the only thing I can do is to stare on the damn thing and try to convince myself not to give up.
Books are out of the question since our city library sucks and i'm not going to spend any money on this.
The first poster who finds a REALLY good site that explains everything from step 1 to the end in enough detail and simplicity for a 5 year old to understand, and with lots of pictures... will choose a sig that I will use for the next week.
Life was pretty meaningless in the last month and that's how I like it, or at least that's what I thought.
Err... anyway, i'm bored and I decided that in exactly 7 days I will be able to solve a Rubik's cube in less than 5 minutes, on average.
So how do I do it? I found lots of internet sites with nice applets and whatnot, but all of them seem to assume too much about my capabilities.
Even in the best of them, I manage to get lost after a few steps. My problem is that my "visual understanding" is very poor. All those sites think that after one example of a move I can figure out how and when to use it in the future, while at best the only thing I can do is to stare on the damn thing and try to convince myself not to give up.
Books are out of the question since our city library sucks and i'm not going to spend any money on this.
The first poster who finds a REALLY good site that explains everything from step 1 to the end in enough detail and simplicity for a 5 year old to understand, and with lots of pictures... will choose a sig that I will use for the next week.
). Be careful which way of thinking you take on. An approach that gives quick results may actually handicap you later, as in the Phonics method of learning to read.
