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Congrats, that's an awesome average! I wish I was that fast. I don't time myself often, but when I do, I usually end up somewhere around 15 seconds. My efficiency is not bad, but my hands are just too slow.

I agree about beginner tutorials. There are some decent Roux tutorials, but they are mostly not targeting complete beginners. I believe it should be possible to make a Roux-based beginner method that is even simpler than the popular layer-by-layer beginner methods most new cubers learn. If you think about it, it seems almost obvious. If efficiency is not a concern, the first two blocks of Roux have to be simpler than the first two layers of a layer-by-layer approach, since you are solving a subset of the first two layers. CMLL is also obviously simpler than the CFOP last layer. The only thing that remains is the last six edges, and that's simple enough that I think beginners could figure out by trial and error. With the right simplifications (at the expense of efficiency) and good pedagogy, I therefore think Roux is ideally suited for teaching to complete beginners. Unfortunately, nobody has done it yet.



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