Attempting to Solve a Square-2 (With NO Help)

[@JudeStradtner]

Hey J Perm! I know this video isn’t about this but it reminded me of a different video you made. Your clock tutorial and ‘trying to solve’ video got me into clock a few months ago. Clock is now my main event and I am now world-class! (Ish) If you didn’t make those videos, I never would’ve gotten into clock, so thank you so much, you’re the only reason I am where I am today.

[@JPerm]

I normally don't condone clock but this is very wholesome :) Congrats on your progress!

[@chiken66]

@@JPerm hi jperm

[@caemmet]

@@JPerm Hola

[@Bart-bimpson.]

Hey wattzup jperm, love ur videos!

[@Chinesemax]

This man is legend and we all know that

[@player3024]

The square-2 took corner cutting too literally

[@JPerm]

LOL it took me a sec to understand this one

[@hehim-g2k]

same for corner twisting

[@שחררפפורט]

I'm literally lol (laugh out loud)

[@awesomedaniel]

“Corner CUTTING”

[@gerasimospikrakis7757]

It’s corner slicing now no more corner cutting

[@GigasGMX]

It seems like in general these puzzles have a thing where "version two" means "now with more possible turns!", but that ends up making them actually easier to solve (at least for you).

[@anventia]

That's a cool srategy of using commutators! When I figured out how to solve the Square-2 after the Square-1, I combined all the corner halves together arbitrarily first, then used an edge-cycling algorithm I made for Square-1 to cycle corner halves as if they were edges, until they were all paired up. This reduced the puzzle to a Square-1 and then I solved it from there. Cool to see another solution to the same puzzle!

[@m.yigitefe4891]

Yea reducing the puzzle to a square1 was what I thougt too

[@JPerm]

I probably would have tried reducing to Square-1... if i knew how to solve one

[@cub3r220]

Did you actually solve square one!!!😨

[@anventia]

@@cub3r220 Took me awhile, but I did figure it out without a guide, as did J Perm!

[@bilingualchad]

@@anventia I almost couldn't with a guide

[@madlad255]

1:46 "I'm gonna start - as always - by just trying to do something" - J Perm, 2022 Very inspirational quote, considering I usually start by trying to do nothing 👍

[@JPerm]

Sometimes I also do nothing, but that's only when I'm not recording 🤫🤫

[@the_horror_kid]

@@JPerm hey i love u j perm

[@26й]

@@JPerm hi Jonathan Permutation

[@SeegalMasterPlayz]

@@26й he hates being called johnathan permutation

[@26й]

@@SeegalMasterPlayz i know

[@DinoCuber]

The "solving cubes with no help" series gets better every time!

[@humdthepotato]

Yeah!

[@GamerGuild07]

Yea

[@ingplaysvr]

Mhm

[@gabrielmanapat793]

Yeah I hope he does this with all of his other non-wca puzzles that he bought before

[@astrospeedcuber]

Next he'll try to solve the cube in your pfp with no help

[@thestrangeguyelijah7258]

This guy has to be my favorite KZbinr, first he helped me solve a 3x3, then helped me learn new methods and algorithms, then he helped me use new finger placements. Thanks so much J Perm

[@iquityoutube]

brasil mencionado

[@jameschea.]

With the commutators you made, you should do square-2 bld! I know this doesn’t apply to you but if you know the parity alg you could just use that to swap pieces using setup moves because all pieces are basically edges

[@TrideGD]

This is my favourite series from you, I love it so much lol happy to see another!

[@imbadlydone5573]

Omg geometry dash reference????

[@VicDash78]

happy to see you here, truly gigachad preferences

[@tristandelaigue]

wysi

[@futbol_rolf9624]

Woahh!!! i did not expect to see you here. never thought two of my most active communities would have anyone in common! you should make cubing videos!!!

[@lemonadonGD]

​@@futbol_rolf9624Literally the same for me 😂

[@johangranados1809]

Watched your “How to solve a Rubik’s cube in 10 minutes” during quarantine just to learn how to solve. But then this started becoming a hobby even after quarantine and after watching your content for 2 years now and learning a lot from you o am now sub 20. Thank you ❤️

[@CrazyMurdock77]

Same but I'm worse. Been doing it as long as you but stuck around the 40 second mark. You are good keep going. 👍

[@johangranados1809]

@@CrazyMurdock77 thank you. 40 seconds isn’t too bad either, just takes a lot of practice to get to sub 20. But you’re doing a great job keep it up

[@marcopoloian3317]

Same!, i've been into cubing for almost 2 years i think and i'm sub 25 average but i usually get some sub 20s!, any tip for me xd?

[@Envi_sage]

Same I learned in quarantine too my pb is 15.01 so I taught my friend and after he trained for 2 month he got a 12 second solve

[@johangranados1809]

@@marcopoloian3317 Hey that’s awesome to here. One tip that I could give you that helped me was learning some F2L cases that always take a while to solve and full PLL. I do not know full OLL and do 2 look OLL but I do know some OLL cases so if I’m lucky I will get an OLL case that will get me a 15 or sub 15 sec solve, but knowing full PLL learning a couple of f2L , and some OLL and you should be able to get sub 20 with some practice

[@photography.renda1]

solving with no help is my favorite series so far, always makes my day better when jonathan permutation uploads

[@Yappinator5000]

Same

[@cub3r220]

I am just still completely blown away from when J perm solved the puppet cube and I don't know how you can have so much dedication and patients for the puppet cube,so I give all my respect to J perm!!!👍

[@vinstle]

"It needs to move a lot of pieces so I will call this a G perm" -Jperm 2022

[@talldinosaur]

it made sense

[@Radiumcuber]

lol its so true tho

[@maxim7685]

Your solving square-1 and clock with no help videos motivated me to try the events out too. i can confirm, square-1 is crazy but cool and clock kinda sucks. everyone have a great day

[@hostystickman]

3 years later: I solved a square 3

[@albertosteph1]

I literally went from sub 1 minute to sub 20 in only a few months all because of you.Thank you so much love the vid

[@antivire]

Scientists: “We need to figure out what we can possibly do to solve this issue or we’ll never cure this disease” JPerm: “I have a solution. There’s this thing called commutators”

[@sarvilpatel1005]

Underrated comment

[@cub3r220]

🤣🤣🤣

[@vagga2u14]

Modulators are the science equivalent

[@Noodles20FPS]

Ah yes, 1:46 "like always, im going to start by doing something" so, revolutionary. Amazing, incredible methods for solving. Rly gotta give it to u jperm

[@PowerPandaMods]

I would love to see you solve a Face Turning Octahedron "with no help". As the only platonic solid not in the WCA, it has elements of a cube, a skewb, and a pyraminx all rolled into 1 puzzle. It's been one of my most enjoyable puzzles to solve, but it sat unsolved on my shelf for a year.

[@MichaelDarrow-tr1mn]

icosahedron

[@cubermason8594]

As a square-1 solver, I will scramble it and solve it into cube shape first then solve the colors like the square-1.

[@graysonjacobs7027]

I love how he just welcomes challenges

[@Walker88963]

I really like this videos. Not because it's nice to see new cubes being solved but I learn more about the puzzles that I do or want to do. Great thinking btw

[@LSPGaming14]

Nice I can’t believe you’re trying an even harder square- cube series

[@axolotl7486]

you havnt even watched the video kid

[@RedCnMn]

It’s much easier to solve than the Sq-1 and much more intuitive for beginners

[@axolotl7486]

@@RedCnMn coming up with algs, doing comms, first layer, parity unless you know these from 3x3 but for a beginner i dont think so

[@LSPGaming14]

@@axolotl7486 I have tho

[@aidenchong4992]

@@LSPGaming14 18:54 He said Square-2 is so much easier

[@averagecubing8707]

Hi j perm, Thank so so much on all of your tutorials! I saw your video on how to solve a cube and I was shocked at the first time I solved it (it took me 3 days 😆) 3 month past and Im almost sub 20 with CFOP. I taught my sister how to solve a month ago and now she’s almost fast as me 😃. I’m Trying to learn full pll now… anyway I wish you the best on your amazing channel, and that’s all from me 👍

[@justacuber7147]

Jperm is the best

[@nickchesemore8325]

Not sure if you have had this suggestion before but it’d be interesting to see you attempt an edge turner like the curvy copter or any of its greater variants. It’s a very intuitive solve until you get to the other variants with skewb cuts which make it more interesting. It would be very cool to see your approach to such a puzzle

[@andrewculligan3623]

This is by far my favourite series on this channel. I get so excited whenever I see a notification for this series. Thanks j perm :)

[@Gaming1Doge]

wait, there are literally no corner pieces, HUH

[@kindafunnymonkey]

Watched the video where you unboxed the square 2 earlier and couldnt wait for this video. Also, I finally got my first GAN cube today! So far I love it.

[@bilingualchad]

Actually, you don't need to have white and yellow solved, just "reduce" it to a sqr-1, much like a NxN, where you reduce to a 3x3

[@Shinky00]

Just giving a shoutout as I’m recently started cubing (at age 41 😂) and your content (and website) has been an amazing source of motivation. I’m also proud to be supporting a fellow Canadian :-)

[@amsprich]

When you're making a mistake like having blue to the right of red when yellow is on top or I see things like the h perm at the end.... it really makes me want to buy this puzzle. Same with the puppet cube. 🤣 Obviously I would not be able to do this faster or better, but for whatever reason... that feeling of catching one or two things empowers you and you want to buy the puzzle so you can solve it and prove it to yourself. Great sales tactic!

[@TotallyNotConnorFR]

The fact that he can take the time to figure it out without just giving up is just insane. I would have given up after 2 minuets. Good job! Keep up the hard work! also omg his brain is so much bigger than mine

[@LegendaryLuan]

Hi J perm! Thank you so much for your great tutorials! Just got a solve in 36 seconds for the first time (was around one minute when I started learning cfop with your tutorials a couple weeks ago)! You’re the greatest cuber ever! Btw, do you think I can go to a competition yet?

[@thepizzagod420]

go to a comp dude. it will be awesome no matter how fast you are

[@thecuber4824]

yes go we all believe you

[@gdawg_1122]

this man is on a whole other level, he solved a square 2 layer by layer. like what thats crazy

[@CubeATime-AKAEddieArtze]

Haven't watched yet but I know this is going to be a very cool video 😃

[@UPermOfficial]

hi

[@airguitarsalesman]

Just solved my new square 2 for the first time. I truly envy your ability to solve puzzles intuitively. Amazing.

[@katzenmadchen8520]

hey, did you ever got left with everything finished but 2 pieces left unsolved? One in the top layer and one in the bottom, so the commutator from j perm doesnt work?

[@curiousNic]

Commutators for the win! The Square-2 looks twice as fun to solve.

[@B_B_8]

I love these type of videos. Trying to solve certain cube without any help

[@lenn_man]

Hey Dylan, I would hope to see you revisit sq-1 someday cuz the concepts aren't SO foreign to 3x3 and lookahead is actually quite easy, and I feel like you could easily avg sub-30 within a short amount of time. I got my first sq-1 4 days ago and got a sub-30 single within 2 days after learning!

[@LETS-IMPROVE-EVERYDAY]

Yeh but he just do these puzzles for fun ofc he can get sub 20 but at the same u can learn puzzles in 1 to 2 DayZ but he does them by his cube knowledge(btw congrats on sub 30)

[@TheMessyDeskxyz]

Oh! I was just re-watching the square-1 video yesterday. Now we get a sequel ❤

[@caemmet]

J-perm, you made me, and many others CUBERS, we are thankful for u showing us how we solve our first cube. You are, and always will be, the best cuber ever.

[@trulycubing]

So true!

[@caemmet]

Yass💅

[@snowyfolfskyroo2739]

I am not cringing at anything other than the fact that you hold the wide center piece in your hand instead of the short one. Great video! Love your content!

[@dom0_2007]

In 10 Years: Attempting to Solve a Square-11 (With NO Help)

[@gamelab5894]

Hey J Perm this is the first upload of yours after me subscribing you. I am your new subscriber and I am gonna like this video for remembering this video. You are my favourite cuber now. Hope your channel will grow. Your new fan😘

[@harvv5706]

Hey J Perm! Love the video. Could you do some more example solves with 3-Style? I also challenge you to solve 3x3 but upside down.

[@adisendo6069]

1:21 actually thx. This helped me solve 2x2 without any 2x2 video, tutorial or instructions. somehow i rotated corners the right way and then just swap them using only this

[@photography.renda1]

his reaction when he realised he got parity 😭😭

[@scripted_glitch418]

Jperm, I think you’re right about Max Park controlling his speed so he can keep breaking world records. He just tied the 4.86 average! Can you make a reconstruction please.

[@mehargarg1991]

I got my first sub-30 thanks to you. Like even if a beginner would watch your content he'll be 50 times better than before. Thankk youu

[@CrazyMurdock77]

Sub 30. Well done you, that is brilliant. I'm a 40 second boy. I want to be faster, I need to learn to look ahead.

[@ExplorewithAarav]

Hi Jperm! You and a few more KZbinrs, but mainly u, we’re my inspiration to continue trying and trying! I subbed to u longg ago and I really love ur vids! Keep it up! U never fail to give a smile on my face! ❤❤

[@Char-editz7]

J perm thank you so much for all the hard work you put into your Video’s.I would never have been able to solve a Rubin’s cube without you.You are really funny which helps me get through solving cubes thank u to you so much😊

[@Char-editz7]

Rubik’s

[@MikoNotb]

You know it is a good video when J Perm tries to solve a puzzle with no help. You know it is a better video when J Perm does a timed solve on it!

[@JustCubingOfficial]

This puzzle is from another universe when it’s scrambled lol

[@bawkslawd]

I love imagining these videos played backwards where it's a really long scramble and then a speedy solve

[@schwii6896]

The long awaited sequel

[@anandmylavarapu7026]

Yes

[@ThunderAceYT_wt]

Save

[@pengusplayz5756]

The long awaited type 3 diabetes

[@Bart-bimpson.]

Jperm, you”re videos always make me happy!

[@firewolf9976]

I can’t solve the square 1 so how am I gonna solve the square 2

[@dLANCH27]

Square-1 is easier but square-2 is more harder, so try the square-1 first before the square-2, okay?

[@Helio_Asou]

Nice! Loved to see a solution that isn't the usual redux method. What I do is really similar: First solve the first layer intuitively, then cycle one by one the pieces of the second layer with an alg that I got while solving a Time Machine. The interesting part is that, as far as I used that method, I can get no parities at all or I can get consistent parities, depending if I go clock-wise or counterclock-wise when solving the second layer

[@RealG2Cuber]

Why not try and solve the 3x3x3x3 with no help?

[@aditplayz1014]

So… 3x3 Hypercube/Tessarect

[@Cpt_Dave]

This guy is way too smart man.

[@willbagthegreat]

3:25 What if you used the bottom to pair up the piece you want to move into the top with the piece it kicks out, then move them both into the top and they are solved? Is that possible?

[@colegillgrass3373]

Yes but woulnt it then kick out more pieces next, its be a lot of pieces to keep track of to solve a whole side that way.

[@rudrodeepchatterjee]

Your "Trying to solve with no help" videos make me wish I had the funds to buy myself a new puzzle cube everytime I finish one, and try to solve it without help(currently stuck in Puppet V1), but That's a wish far from realization. I only get one cube per year(somewhat cheap ones only). I am, however, confidant, thanks to you, that I will buy more cubes in the future.

[@pawegrzanka5494]

Would you try to solve a 4D rubiks cube without help? I can provide a link but I'm pretty sure it's Magic Cube 4D or Magic Puzzle 4D and it's free. So that would be solving a 3x3x3x3 :D Edit: Noice commutatorz

[@KsCreamPies]

I love your videos j perm. Like back in 2020 I learned how to solve the rubiks cube from your video and I've watched you ever since. And just a couple weeks ago I leaned 2 look cfop from your tutorials. And I got a new pb of 32 seconds. Thank you for all the entertaining content and helping me solve the rubiks cube. Keep up what your doing and have a good day.

[@pengusplayz5756]

I predicted that you were gonna try this challenge when i saw your last video, amazing

[@Masterhecker]

This is literally the best youtube channel ever

[@sophiegrey9576]

I find it really cool how you manage to adapt 3x3 speed cubing knowledge to something so drastically different. I'm not a cuber, just a spectator, but I find it super cool

[@addy_the_drummer5248]

“Solving cubes with no help” J-perm: COMMUTATORS

[@olivres.speedcuber]

as a square 1 speedsolver-ish i think its very impressive that he found a way to do a commutator

[@CrazyMurdock77]

What's your time?. My Square 1 is my only unsolved puzzle. I solved it once, but then scrambled again. Doh! It's well hard.

[@olivres.speedcuber]

@@CrazyMurdock77 i average around sub 12 its really fun you should give ti a try

[@mobolajiolu-james3160]

That's really nice, every video you make is sometimes better than the last.

[@DashSpiderJumpscares]

Coincidentally I got back into cubing and mariokart on the exact same day (2 days ago), discovered this channel for the first time, and discovered shortcat for the first time.

[@derpydinoxyx]

That’s a pretty cool way of solving it although it’s very complicated as opposed to just reducing it down to a sq-1 although seeing as you don’t exactly know how to solve one of those this was a great way to figure it out!

[@RedCnMn]

He also could have used the pll alg he figured out in the Sq-1 video and switch every piece similar to the simple commutator alg since every piece can be solved the same way. But yeah, using redux would have been much faster

[@NoTeMetasConPou]

For some reason i find dylans voice soothing. It calms me down

[@miniwizard5522]

Easy tip for SQ-2 >> 1.make a cross on bottom. 2. F2L 3. OLL 4. PLL

[@zeinette_]

JUST GOT MY JELLY CUBE!! Its veeeryy smooth it hascute soft colors. It may be hard to recognize, but I definetly recommend. It is very cheap, especially on aliexpress, 2 ollars with 5 dollar shipping. Came in 2 weeks to Turkey. Btw no reviewer talked about this but it also has a spring system. It feels so stable, but also fast. Corner cutting is not that much but still very good. Makes sound but I actually like it. But still a little silent. ASMR cornercutting sound for me. Very stable when arrived. Really cute box too. If you buy it you wont regret it. Im too excited.

[@DownUnderCuber]

Nice video man, as someone who can speed solve a square 1 but never attempted a square 2 my approach would be a reduction method, solving the square 2 into a scrambled square 1. For not much square 1 knowledge you did a frigging awesome job man, well done! Watching your videos is also why I started my own channel, you're an inspiration to a 40 year cuber 🤣

[@JJAG3]

You should make tutorials for more cubes! Your tutorials are honestly the best on KZbin and I wish you had a tutorial for some of the harder cubes

[@mrflammable4664]

Only 30 minutes and already 8.9k views. Keep up the good work

[@AmbisinisterSSBM]

I've been marathoning a bunch of these and it's making me want to buy a bunch of these lesser known cubes and try to solve them myself lol, kind of funny how this sort of wraps around to the experience of trying to solve a 3x3 for the first time

[@mohummedal-basrawi9289]

What you did there was the beginners blind folded method. It was like choosing any buffer piece from the top and doing an alg to replace it then potting it in the correct place

[@jplays8934]

When you get lost you just have to go back to square-1! I just did my first CFOP solve so I'm proud of myself.

[@abd-aljaleelidlibi5394]

hey j perm your video was just right in time. i am not really in cubing anymore but everytime you upload i still watch your video instantly becouse your videos are really cool keep it up! btw. i still havent forgotten about the video that you wanted to make about the smartcubes the last update was in the 21x21 video

[@Gaming_IS_Magical2022]

6:00, for the yellow-blue edge you could just turn it directly to the slice layer and to the alg you do

[@roboticgamer1012]

Hey just thought you should know that speedcubeshop is selling the GAN power pod which is $25 for GAN packaging

[@paulmartin5178]

Did you see the GAN13 MAGLEV coming soon... Also if you turn the top layer counter clockwise by 1 piece when in cubeshape the inner corners act the same as edges. Using J perm square 1 notation here is a J perm algorithm: U3 R2 U3 D3' R2 U3 R2 U3' R2 D3 R2 U3' R2

[@tayserbinjafor1569]

It's just like solving "Time Machine" puzzle in the same way.

[@MilanRubiksCube97]

Try solving a curvy copter. It's all commutators up until the last step. Very fun puzzle, I'm proud I figured out how to solve it!

[@theepiccarrot7]

YOOOOOO JPERM !!!!!! i love your vids

[@nabibbs2402]

This brings me back nostalgia, that square -1 video is oldd

[@MorkovkaZa50]

J perm: says the word pizza Me: finally understands the puzzle 0:48

[@ciarascubes]

Really enjoyed watching this. Hoping to figure out how to use this knowledge for puzzles I might get it the future. Love you videos btw.

[@KickEditz-d1k]

J Perm, u make everything look too easy! YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION!!

[@tymz-r-achangin]

I can rebuild engines, build a computer, and sort through my wife's emotional blabberings during her time of month BUT that stuff in this video surpasses my brain's ability to comprehend it and so I'm just left with say WOW over and over again

[@void2258]

So thinking about the Square 1 and square 2 (and I looked up and there is a "square 3" although it's less standardized). But they all play with the top and bottom layer slicing but leave the middle layer alone. Why not cut each of the middle layer blocks in 2 with a square 1 top and bottom? I would think that would make things interesting. It would have more permutations than the square 1 but wouldn't lose the move restrictions completely as the square 2 does, so you would have to work around them.

[@K15A6]

Hey j perm, i started cubing 10 months ago, and thanks to your videos helping me, i got a pb of 35.7 last week! I just want to say thank you :)

[@LyuboRyuk]

Square 2 is a lot of fun!!! I can't wait to see how Square 1 works and the other cubes named in the video

[@CatherineKimport]

Saving this one to watch later, I literally have one of these in the mail, I don't want any spoilers!

[@CubeCollector]

jperm is now an expert at the squares

[@CrazyMurdock77]

You are so clever. What is obvious to you is definitely not obvious to me. I'm down to about 40 seconds now for a standard cube solve. Only need to me 10x faster.

[@blockshift758]

23:19 WHEN YOU SEE IT! WHEN YOU SEE IT! WHEN YOU SEE IT!WHEN YOU SEE IT! WHEN YOU SEE IT!