Yeah I was thinking I would start when I am under 30. Some days I want to start sooner, and other days I want to wait until I am sub 20. I have considered just learning the dot cases for OLL right now, to save the extra sequence, but even for me that's probably only one second.
I'm organizing a competition in Arizona. The hardest part was finding a good venue. The best thing is that you get to pick the events and set the cutoff times.
Marcel, please, beat my average
At your speed, doing blind CROSS practice, and F2L practice (scramble cube do F2L and scramble again, over and over) can quickly take a few seconds of your average. Cross and F2L are the easiest parts to gain speed. I remember clearly doing 15 seconds over cross. That was when I was in the 1 minute range. Now I do cross plus 1F2L in 3 - 5 secs.. I never practiced speed on LL because I do not like spamming algs. When I repeat a PLL a few times, trying to make it faster, I tend to do other PLL's wrong since that last PLL that I practiced is becomming mussle memory for all my PLL's. LOL..
I agree with Marcel. There's no point delaying learning. Better to learn new things continuously and steadily, without rushing, but understand what are the most worthwhile new things to learn and prioritise them accordingly. I also took around a year to learn full OLL, but did the following analysis to work out which OLL groups were most worthwhile to learn, then learned those first:-
At 40 seconds a 1L OLL vs 2LL (or even 3LL in some cases) will shave on 5 - 10 seconds easily. At your speed it might result maybe in 1 seconds better averages.. If it was to me I rather be averaging 12 seconds wil 2 look OLL
Cool I'll check that out!
