Sound advice for new players.
How to Foldit is a series of ten Foldit blog posts aimed at new players. The posts were created by Foldit developer joshmiller (also known as devjosh) in 2020 and 2021. The series was created before the major Foldit updates of late 2021 and late 2022, so some references are a bit dated.
The post How to Foldit, Part 1: What’s a Protein? starts the thread, and each installment is posted as a new reply.
The complete series of How to Foldit posts is listed below. Some posts contain large images, which can be slow to load. The links below should usually get you to the right spot, but you may need to scroll a bit in some cases.
- How to Foldit, Part 1: What’s a Protein?
- How to Foldit, Part 2: An Eye for Beauty
- How to Foldit, Part 3: Tools of the Trade
- How to Foldit, Part 4: Putting the Fine in Refinement
- How to Foldit, Part 5: Seeing the Problem
- How to Foldit, Part 6: Mastering Objectives
- How to Foldit, Part 7: Learning the Lingo
- How to Foldit, Part 8: Cooking Your Fold
- How to Foldit, Part 9: Black Belt Folding
- How to Foldit, Part 10: Thinking Like a Scientist