Time to get sub-20 AVG?

TomTom · Sep 16, 2014

How long did it take YOU to reach sub-20? Also, what are some tips you have to anyone who isn't sub 20? Also, i'm making this in a new thread instead of the "One Answer" thread for the fact that i want people who are about 20 AVG to be able to come here and find things that will help them.

JasonDL13 · Sep 16, 2014

I'm not average sub-20 yet. But I guess some tips are to average 25-30 using Fridrich F2L. Then learn full pll.

Again. I don't really know. I would rather focus on other stuff, like BLD or Memory Sports then learn full pll. It's not that important to me to get sub-20.

NooberCuber · Sep 16, 2014

It took me 4 months to get sub 20 from around 1:00 when i started speedsolving
Now, 5 moths later, I'm averaging around 13.5 secs

As for tips
I would say just practice practice practice
I didn't really start looking at learning look ahead or anything "advanced" until I was sub 20
I just did tons of solves.
Maybe look at learning full OLL. While not mandatory for sub 20 or even sub 15,
it's definitely worth learning.
I will it make learning algs a lot easier in the future.
For instance, I wanted to learn a new G(c) perm
and I was able to learn it in 5 minutes.

GuRoux · Sep 16, 2014

took me about 2-3 months, but i knew the beginner's method many years before. probably the best thing to do to get you under 20 is switch to roux.

NooberCuber · Sep 16, 2014

GuRoux said:
probably the best thing to do to get you under 20 is switch to roux.

lol

obelisk477 · Sep 16, 2014

It took me a full 6 years to get sub-20; with intermittent spurts of interest of course. But hey, I made it! Now I'm almost sub-17. What's interesting is that I wasn't sub 20 until the beginning of this summer, when I picked up my cube and somehow dropped 2 seconds after maybe a year of not cubing really at all.

PJKCuber · Sep 16, 2014

It took me about 2 months to get my 1st sub 20 single and 4 to get a sub 20 avg12. I am very very very close to globally averaging sub 20. How to get sub 20? Practice, look ahead and spam tps on LL.

TDM · Sep 16, 2014

It took me about four months to get to low 20s, then I stopped cubing for a few months, and I stayed around 21-22. I got my ShuangRen about 9 months after I started and that immediately brought my times down to sub-20. My old ZhanChi wasn't very good...

goodatthis · Sep 16, 2014

NooberCuber said:
It took me 4 months to get sub 20 from around 1:00 when i started speedsolving
Now, 5 moths later, I'm averaging around 13.5 secs

As for tips
I would say just practice practice practice
I didn't really start looking at learning look ahead or anything "advanced" until I was sub 20
I just did tons of solves.
Maybe look at learning full OLL. While not mandatory for sub 20 or even sub 15,
it's definitely worth learning.
I will it make learning algs a lot easier in the future.
For instance, I wanted to learn a new G(c) perm
and I was able to learn it in 5 minutes.

Dafuq how do you drop from 20 to 13.5 in a month

TDM · Sep 16, 2014

goodatthis said:
Dafuq how do you drop from 20 to 13.5 in a month

He didn't; it was 1:00 -> 4 months later, 20 -> 5 months later, 13.5. So 9 months total.

TomTom · Sep 16, 2014

for anyone wondering about what i have been looking like, i got my first speedcube on august 4th, the fangshi, about 3 weeks ago i bought the aolong v2, and since i got the fangshi, my times are down to half(i was above a minute, im now around 30 seconds avg, 25 on a good day, in a month, so im hoping by the end of the year to be sub-20

Marvin · Sep 16, 2014

I started 4 years ago and had a huge pause so it doesn't really count, but at the start of this summer I was at about 35 seconds, less than 3 months later I'm at ~18s.

guysensei1 · Sep 16, 2014

started serious speedcubing ~end of last year, got sub-20 february (first sub-20 ao5 at a comp. weird)

PixelWizard · Sep 16, 2014

I'm very close to my first Sub-20 Avg of 100. I got my first Sub20 Ao12 after about 6 Months of cubing, my first Sub20 Ao5 after 5 Months and the first Sub20 Single after 3 to 4 Months!

After every step, I was really happy

Tim Major · Sep 16, 2014

AVG already is sub 20...

kcl · Sep 16, 2014

2 months.

Please Dont Ask · Sep 16, 2014

3.5 Months since I began cubing...

Filipe Teixeira · Sep 16, 2014

it took me almost a year to get from 1:25 to 19s avg100

NooberCuber · Sep 16, 2014

TDM said:
He didn't; it was 1:00 -> 4 months later, 20 -> 5 months later, 13.5. So 9 months total.

Just out of curiosity is my progress normal fast or slow?
Should I be faster than what I am at 9 months?

TDM · Sep 16, 2014

NooberCuber said:
Just out of curiosity is my progress normal fast or slow?
Should I be faster than what I am at 9 months?

9 months is about the same as how long it took me, and I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong) that's about normal, maybe a bit slow. Some people like Kennan and Feliks only took two months, whereas a couple of people I know have been cubing longer than me (2 years) but still average ~30. Everyone improves so differently that it's hard to define 'normal' improvement.

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