News Archive
| 28-10-2007 | I rewrote the links section. It was growing large, so I split up the links into different categories and also added a few new links. |
| 23-10-2007 | solvethecube.co.uk is back online! Thanks for all the e-mails begging me to put it online again! Please report any broken links or other malfunctions. |
| 19-10-2007 | Together with Erik Akkersdijk, I broke the unofficial world record for teamsolving a Rubik's Cube! We caught it on tape too, see the videos section. |
| 09-09-2007 | There seems to be a problem with the imagecube images on my website. Thanks to the people who reported this. I will try to fix it soon. |
| 03-08-2007 | I have a little more time to practice now. I added some more averages to the cubelog. |
| 25-04-2007 | I finally broke 13 seconds for an average of 10 cubes! See the cubelog for details. |
| 23-04-2007 | After a long time of not breaking my 3x3 record, I finally broke my average of 10 today. Using a different cube, and I feel that one has potential. I added the average to the cubelog. |
| 16-03-2007 | Added pictures from my trip to Matt Walter in Canada. |
| 23-02-2007 | Updated all the applets to the newest version: RubikPlayer 5.2.1. |
| 22-02-2007 | I created NxN Imagecube. See what it does at the bottom of the tools section. |
| 21-02-2007 | I added a brand new blindfold cubing tutorial to the tutorials section. |
| 20-02-2007 | I added a brand new tools section. |
| 19-02-2007 | I added a brand new algorithms section. |
| 14-02-2007 | Solvethecube.co.uk has a new look!! I still have to make a few modifications, but most of it is working now. |
| 12-02-2007 | I removed most of the Java Applets from the Simple Solution. I replaced them with clickable images. Thanks to Lars Vandenbergh for creating imagecube. |
| 11-02-2007 | I modified the OLL page. All algorithms are now clickable and working. I am working on using this feature on other pages too, to reduce the number of applets on one page. |
| 09-02-2007 | During the holidays, I went to Canada to visit Matt Walter. Check out the team solve video we made! (Unofficially the fastest team in the world :)). |
| 09-02-2007 | After a while of not being able to upload files, I can now log in properly again. I modified the 'simple solution' because I had some people e-mailing me about step 5. I also added a Dutch translation of the 'simple solution', because I was not really happy with the other Dutch tutorial I provided. |
| 20-12-2006 | Hello everybody. I noticed the traffic has been increasing significantly over the past few months. Does anybody know which website is linking me? I am getting a lot of positive reactions, so thanks for visiting everybody!! Also, check out my Christmas message that goes out to all you cubers out there. |
| 29-09-2006 | To all visitors: I am very sorry for the lack of updates in the past few months. There are still many things about cubing I want to share with you, but unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time nowadays. I hope someday I'll be able to add more stuff to this site. The good news is: I am still alive and cubing!! Last week I went to the European Championship 2006 in Paris, and I won the 3x3 speedsolving event. Full results of the competition are available on www.speedcubing.com. |
| 12-05-2006 | I added a video of a full 3x3 average to the videos section. |
| 11-05-2006 | I did quite a lot of work for the site today: I rearanged the tutorial section. I added a Dutch Manual for the Cube, and I also added a section that lists all the algorithms that I use for 3x3 speedcubing. |
| 08-05-2006 | I posted pictures of the German Cube day 2006. Well, more pictures from the days around the Cube Day :). Enjoy! |
| 07-05-2006 | I recently won the 3x3 speedsolving event in two competitions. See www.speedcubing.com for more details and the results. To all the people that have been sending me hatemail: I am sorry for the lack of updates in the past months... I am planning to make a little update, but you will have to be patient. ;) |
| 17-04-2006 | Yesterday, I broke my Rubik's 3x3x3 Cube average record to reach fifth place in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top 10, with an average of 13.47 seconds. It's a great to be sub-14 :). I also broke my record in the Average of 100 cubes category. |
| 24-03-2006 | I broke my record for solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube (average of 10) today. After seeing a lot of people breaking their records, I am glad I finally broke my own record again. Average added to the cubelog. |
| 20-03-2006 | Join online competitions in the Competition Area of the Speedcubing Forum! |
| 20-03-2006 | www.solvethecube.co.uk passed 40.000 visits! Thanks for visiting everybody! It's very nice to see so many people interested in this site. |
| 21-02-2006 | I finally finished making a tutorial about commutators!! Go check it out! |
| 13-02-2006 | I added pictures from my trip to the World Championship 2005 in Florida. |
| 30-01-2006 | I recorded a video of a full average of 10 cubes (12 cubes solve, average of middle 10). You can watch it in the videos section. |
| 26-01-2006 | After more than 5 months, I finally broke my 3x3 (average of 10) record again!! |
| 26-01-2006 | www.solvethecube.co.uk had 30.000 visits in less than a year! Thanks for visiting everybody! |
| 25-01-2006 | No cubing and no updates for a long time... I had some other things on my mind. But I started practicing again yesterday. I added a new average to the cubelog. Fluency and consistency is gone, but that will come back with practice. |
| 20-05-2005 | Fotoshop... The death of the real. |
| 05-12-2005 | I added a new section with finger tricks to the tutorials section. |
| 05-12-2005 | www.solvethecube.co.uk passed 20.000 visits recently. Thanks for visiting everybody! |
| 17-11-2005 | I switched to a new guestbook... The new guestbook is somewhat uglier, but it is spam-proof. |
| 16-11-2005 | Yet another blindfold solving video added to the videos section... Demonstrating a very nice souvenir I bought in Florida :). I also added a commercial video that shot a while ago. |
| 10-11-2005 | Yesterday I got back from the World Championship! I had a great time over there. I got to meet some very nice people. Even though I have been into cubing for about 2 years now, I learned a lot of new things about the puzzles. Thanks to all of you for inspiring me and giving me a great time!! If you have any pictures that I might like because I look good on them, please share them with me :). |
| 31-10-2005 | Tomorrow, I will be on my way to Orlando Florida! I don't expect to be able to update my site when I am there. Good luck to all cubers who are going the the World Championship 2005! I am looking forward to meeting all of you. |
| 30-10-2005 | Added some nice pictures that I made at the Dutch Championship 2005. |
| 30-10-2005 | I uploaded a video of my live television appearance (together with Ron van Bruchem and Ton Dennebroek) of two days ago. |
| 29-10-2005 | I had a great time at the Dutch Championship today. I was in such a good shape, and the crowd was very enthousiastic. I think this was pretty good for my self-confidence. |
| 27-10-2005 | The 'NRC Handelsblad' published a nice article (in Dutch) about the Dutch speedcubers. |
| 25-10-2005 | After a little more practice, I improved again with blindfold cubing. I added a new blindfold solving video. |
| 21-10-2005 | I have been working on my blindfolded cubing the past few days. It's not very spactacular, but I made a video to replace the old one. It shows what I can do on average. I hope to cut down the memorisation time by practicing... I also hope that I can recall the information faster with practice, so I can speed up the solving time as well. |
| 06-10-2005 | After a period of very little practice, I started training a bit more serious. I am slowly getting back to my good old shape... I hope I can maintain this shape during the next few weeks. I added a new average to the cubelog. |
| 02-10-2005 | I 'solved' the problem with the guestbook being spammed all the time. This means you may have to wait for a while before your message is displayed in the guestbook. Sorry I didn't have time to work on any updates lately ;). |
| 01-09-2005 | I rewrote the simple solution for solving the cube completely. It is now more friendly for beginners. I added more tips, the patterns are easier to recognise, and the algorithms are easier to memorise! |
| 29-08-2005 | I added a new pictures section to the website! Thanks to Lars Vandenbergh for letting me use his Image Gallery script. |
| 24-08-2005 | www.solvethecube.co.uk passed 10.000 hits today! Thanks for visiting everybody! |
| 23-08-2005 | Today was a nice cubing day. I had a mini-meeting with Michael Fung, one of the Dutch cubers. We had quite a lot of 5x5 races, and I broke my 5x5 record at least three times. I also shot a nice 5x5 video, you can watch it in the videos section. I added some other videos and deleted some old ones as well. |
| 10-08-2005 | The old 4x4 video was a bit out-dated, so I made a new one to replace it. Check it out in the videos section. |
| 25-07-2005 | I broke my record for solving Rubik's Cube (average of 10) to reach fifth place in the Unofficial Speedcubing Top 10. |
| 15-07-2005 | Chris Hunt made a new website with a very nice video database, containing speedcubing videos of a lot of different cubers. |
| 08-07-2005 | I have added two brand new tutorials! One of them contains all the OLL-algorithms I currently use. The other one is a page with some basic tips for speedcubers. Check them out ;). (Thanks to Lars Vandenbergh for giving me permission to use his OLL-images) |
| 01-07-2005 | About one week ago, I went to the UK to visit Dan Harris for a couple of days. We had a very good time, and we also got to practice some teamsolves! We also made a video of us doing a teamsolve. I uploaded it to the videos section. |
| 15-06-2005 | I had my very first, non-lucky sub-16 average today! I felt something like this was going to happen for such a long time... |
| 13-06-2005 | While racing Dan Harris on MSN (with a webcam), I broke my record for solving the cube (average of ten attempts). New average added to the cubelog. Thanks for encouraging me, Dan! |
| 01-06-2005 | I added yet another very nice speedcubing video to the videos section. Can you do that 3-cycle faster? :). I removed the link counter script, because there were some problems when linking to .avi files. |
| 25-05-2005 | After not cubing that much for a little while, I took my cube, and proved to myself that I can still do it! New average added to the cubelog. |
| 16-05-2005 | I added two videos of me solving cubes at the German Open 2005, including the last few minutes of a blindfolded solve! Thanks to Alexander Ooms and his family for recording and sending me these! |
| 03-05-2005 | Sean Connolly posted his report with pictures on his website. (Click on Rubik's Cube -> German Cubeday 2005). Check out the before and after pictures of me solving three cubes in a row on the third page. |
| 28-04-2005 | Dan Harris has uploaded a nice collection of pictures from the German Cubeday 2005 to his website. (Update: he also posted a very nice report). |
| 24-04-2005 | I just got back from the German Open / German Cube Day 2005. I broke two Dutch records (for speedsolving and one-handed solving), and I broke my personal record for solving Rubik's Cube blindfolded (it was about 10 minutes and 25 seconds). It was too bad I didn't make it to the finals, but I guess the finalists just deserved it :). I think full results of the German Open will be posted on www.speedcubing.com tomorrow. |
| 13-04-2005 | The DIY cubes (Rubik's 3x3 Assembly Cube) are available again! I ordered some more of these great cubes, right after hearing this news. |
| 07-04-2005 | I gave the website a new layout. It does not use frames anymore. If you see anything unusual, such as dead links, please let me know. Hopefully search engines will have less difficulty with my website now. |
| 04-04-2005 | From now on you can leave a message, give feedback or ask questions, using the new guestbook! I also made some small changes to make this website look better in Mozilla Firefox. |
| 03-04-2005 | I broke my record for solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube (average of 10) this weekend. |
| 03-04-2005 | www.solvethecube.co.uk passed 1000 visits this weekend. Thanks for visiting everybody! |
| 29-03-2005 | Today, I had my very first sub-17 average! Check the cubelog to see the times. |
| 28-03-2005 | I did some really nice averages the past few days (I broke my record twice). I added some of them to the cubelog. |
| 24-03-2005 | I added another beginners solution that does not require a lot of reading. I also made one 'tutorial' section that contains three tutorials. |
| 24-03-2005 | I added two averages to the cubelog. The first one (20-03) shows the influence of not cubing for a while. The second one (21-03) was done after practicing a bit more (I almost broke my record with that one). I don't average under 18 seconds every time now, but I am in the process of getting there. |
| 23-03-2005 | I haven't been able to work on any updates for a little while. I also didn't cube a lot the past few weeks, because I have been very busy studying. But today, I added a movie of me solving Square-1. I got slightly lucky, but I think it's a nice video. |
| 24-02-2005 | I added a new video of me solving Rubik's Revenge (4x4) to the videos section. |
| 20-02-2005 | I competed in today's Sunday Contest. I added the result to the cubelog. |
| 18-02-2005 | I broke my record for solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube (average of 10). I added the average to the cubelog. |
| 17-02-2005 | I added a whole new section called 'Getting faster...'. It's like the 'Part 2' of the beginners solution. It includes videos to show how I perform the algorithms. If you have any comments, send them to jnoort[at]gmail[dot]com. |
| 14-02-2005 | I added a new one handed cubing video. I also solved a problem with the video of me solving the Mini Cube. |
| 11-02-2005 | New video added to the videos section. I also added thumbnails. |
| 10-02-2005 | New average added to the cubelog. It has been a while since I did a full average, but today I grabbed my stackmat, and took an average. |
| 30-01-2005 | Domain name www.solvethecube.co.uk is now working! I also added a counter. On advice of other cubers, I also made some small changes. Feel free to send your comments on my page to jnoort[at]gmail[dot]com. |
| 27-01-2005 | New website launched. I also registered a new domain name today. |