From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Tue Mar 30 16:55:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil (sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil [132.250.84.38]) by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1-mod) with SMTP id QAA25175 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:55:25 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu From: whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang) Subject: Re: Inventing your own techniques Date: 30 Mar 1999 14:55:07 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-Id: <7dqokb$43e@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: wheeler@cipr.rpi.edu (Frederick W. Wheeler) writes: >For me, the most fun, and the ultimate challenge, in cubing comes from >figuring out how to solve the puzzle in the first place. I avoid >published and posted techniques. I'd really like to hear from people >on this list on how you go about inventing new moves and techniques or >how you feel about learning to solve a puzzle on your own. After I understood conjugation well enough, I have never invented a move that I can in all honesty call "new" -- although they may appear "new" to others. The only new part is just applying it to different types of moves and seeing what the result is. -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- She ran by screaming "No, I run by moving my feet rapidly, you idiot!"