Personal Practice

[uyneb2000]

Before I was sub-10, I would occasionally do slow solving with a metronome or something. After that, I just sat down and solved. Once you get to a certain speed, slow turning won't help you get faster, and you just need to let yourself progress over time. I did focus a bit on what I was bad at. I have a bad LL, so to compensate, I made the most out of inspection and try to look up to my first or second pair of F2L, which is what I credit for me getting to my speed.

 

[Seanliu]

Before I was sub-10, I would occasionally do slow solving with a metronome or something. After that, I just sat down and solved. Once you get to a certain speed, slow turning won't help you get faster, and you just need to let yourself progress over time. I did focus a bit on what I was bad at. I have a bad LL, so to compensate, I made the most out of inspection and try to look up to my first or second pair of F2L, which is what I credit for me getting to my speed.

Lol yea my LL takes nearly 50% of my time. 13 sec Cross+ F2L then around 5~7 sec LL.

 

[DeeDubb]

You should probably learn H Z and U perms - they do come up sometimes.

Nope, nope, and nooooope...

Actually, I never learned the Z perm, and I still don't know the MU Algorithm (I know the RU Alg for OH CFOP), but recently, I wrote down how I WOULD do a Z perm if it ever came up (it almost never does, unless I do something wrong), and actually, it's optimal. So I intuitively figured out an optimal 10 move Z perm without ever looking at the algorithm. I would intuitively do an 8 move H Perm (which is only 1 move from optimal).

The reason they almost never come up is the step right after EO is placing UL and UR edges. Once they are placed, there's no way for any LL Perm to exist, so the perm would have to show up immediately after EO, which almost never happens.

I see a lot of CFOPers playing with Roux end up with U/H/Z, but they are not doing efficient UL/UR placement which is why it pops up.

I'm pretty unique in this aspect because I didn't learn CFOP before Roux. Roux was my first speedsolving method.

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

Nope, nope, and nooooope...

Actually, I never learned the Z perm, and I still don't know the MU Algorithm (I know the RU Alg for OH CFOP), but recently, I wrote down how I WOULD do a Z perm if it ever came up (it almost never does, unless I do something wrong), and actually, it's optimal. So I intuitively figured out an optimal 10 move Z perm without ever looking at the algorithm. I would intuitively do an 8 move H Perm (which is only 1 move from optimal).

The reason they almost never come up is the step right after EO is placing UL and UR edges. Once they are placed, there's no way for any LL Perm to exist, so the perm would have to show up immediately after EO, which almost never happens.

I see a lot of CFOPers playing with Roux end up with U/H/Z, but they are not doing efficient UL/UR placement which is why it pops up.

I'm pretty unique in this aspect because I didn't learn CFOP before Roux. Roux was my first speedsolving method.

Yesh. My first speedsolving method was petrus. I wanted to learn it because I thought that since it has the lowest movecount, it would be the fastest. Then i figured out that i cant build a 2x2x2 block.

 

[theROUXbiksCube]

my first speed solving method was Petrus and I could fully plan 2x2 but sucked at EO, so I switched to CFOP then Roux.
I just hit around sub-15 with Roux in about 8 months cubing and 6 months using Roux ;v

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

my first speed solving method was Petrus and I could fully plan 2x2 but sucked at EO, so I switched to CFOP then Roux.
I just hit around sub-15 with Roux in about 8 months cubing and 6 months using Roux ;v

Exact same as you, but I only used petrus and cfop for 10 minutes. Got bored. 4 months sub 15 : ).