1: understand what’s going on with the Rubiks cube algorithms
2: work out I could solve a cube with just two algorithms
3: design and learn those two sequences
4: learn enough technique to do two thirds of the cube
5: solve the cube from first principles
My record time to solve was about 6 or 7 minutes, but it was using my own sequencing so I’m way prouder of that than just loading things from memory.