Kirjava
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I hate it when a thread drifts like this.
No, I'm familiar with that fallacy. Wikipedia itself says "[t]he fallacy only arises when it is claimed or implied that the authority is infallible in principle and can hence be exempted from criticism" and I am NOT saying that a fast person's advice is infallible. What I'm saying is that a slow person's advice about solve optimization is worse (in the sense of less likely to be correct/useful), because most people who really understand it would be able to apply that knowledge to their own solves.
They're not the same group of people, for sure, because being a good coach requires teaching/coaching skills. That probably wasn't the best analogy. What I'm saying is that, if someone is slow at solving, it usually means that they don't have the personal experience to understand what is involved in being really good at it, and so they're probably going to be wrong about the best way to lookahead/fingertrick/inspect.you most certainly don't have to be a pro player to be a great coach. Being a good coach and a good player are different entities.
Not to sound mean or anything, just considers what is written, not who is writting, you'll write less ****. And that's considering what is written, no who's writting.
Um, when the person giving advice is around 30 seconds...no one will listen. The faster you are the more credible your cubing statements will be. That's a simple fact of life, there's no getting around it. Would you take advice from someone who is at 80 seconds on how to get faster at F2L? Well your answer would probably be yes just to spite me, but that's hardly the point.
i think this thread is not about giving advice, they are just bouncing ideas around for what works for them. its up to you to judge wether you take their statement with a grain of salt. if it is their 3x3 avg, then so be it. dont read any of stachu's posts, because hes just a noob then.
Statue averages 16. That's not all that bad.
You seem to assume I draw the line at people who are very fast, but that's not true. Basically, I think everyone can get down under 20 seconds; if you are young (under 30 or so, let's say) you should be able to get down near the 15 second mark on average. This is with full Fridrich (or the equivalent) and some lookahead and fingertrick ability. Someone who's gotten down to that level probably understands optimization and lookahead tricks; someone who's still over 20 seconds probably doesn't, because they're still at the point where they have a lot of pauses in their solves. You definitely don't have to be down near Faz speed to have a full understanding of what it takes to be fast; in fact, I'd say that the biggest difference between someone with a global average of 13-14 seconds and someone with a global average of 8-9 seconds is turnspeed.You have some people who know an incredible amount of cube theory, methods, algorithms, anything that helps cubes really, and some of those people aren't "that fast."
Everyone always says "practice practice practice". I cannot seem to break the 20 second barrier (I've been here for about.. a year? Though, granted, I have a laundry list of things more important than cubing). I want/need to get better at F2L, mostly finding pairs as I think I can execute the insertion rather quickly.
How do you guys actually PRACTICE finding them? I feel like just repetitively doing f2l is somewhat helpful but it has no benefit over just repetitively solving the entire cube.
biggest difference between someone with a global average of 13-14 seconds and someone with a global average of 8-9 seconds is turnspeed.
However, as I'm not that fast, so this advice is complete crap. But knowing that kanneti does the same will change this crappy crap into golden crap. Maggically. I'm not sure excatly why yet, ask EricReese for more details about that particular point, he seems to know a lot about crap.
I really don't see what's wrong with stating that faster people are more likely to have good advice...
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