Taking the feedback for the official run of my Ignite Speech, I included two more slides on how the solving of the cube is actually done. However, even then, 30-45 seconds is nowhere near long enough to explain how this complicated puzzle is solved. To be honest, even using the entire 5 minutes would not have been enough time to do an entire speech on how to solve the Rubik's Cube. When I first learned how to solve the cube, it took me at least five hours of trying to figure out the original instruction manual that I found online, and many many more hours to remember the steps.
The above is an excerpt from the original manual that I used to learn how to solve the Rubik's Cube, that you can find here in PDF form: http://lghttp.38568.nexcesscdn.net/8013252/pdf/uploads/general_content/Rubiks_cube_3x3_solution-en.pdf
Even then, this is not the exact method that I use to solve the cube today. People often refer to the method described in the manual as "Beginner's Method," a form of CFOP, which I talked about in my speech, broken down into more steps for simplicity. Even then, I use a slightly different variation to solve the cube known as "ZZ," created by Zbigniew Zborowski in 2006. At this point, the exact methods that I use get extremely technical, so I won't go into them here.
I also talked about the Roux method in my presentation. This method, although not used by many of the top speedcubers, still has the potential to be really fast - and also looks the coolest in my opinion! In fact, if I could go back in time, I would have probably decided to learn Roux simply for its aesthetics in turning style. An example of what I mean can be found in the video below.
As you can see, the Roux method uses a lot of "middle" layer turns, which looks very nice, to me at least. For more information on all the methods I mentioned, see the links below.
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