dbulger

not at all what you expect when you first get into it

How so?

Some great analogies.

I have, at times, known how to solve the cube (though I've never tried to do it fast), and it certainly was rather formulaic; I got no sense of "personality." But I can imagine that, to optimise for speed, you'd need to know lots more sequences, think ahead more, and also consider more of the cube at once.