Timmah's Target - Sub 1 minute

[Timmah]

RUBIK'S CUBE
9/4

10/4

YS3M
21/4

25/4

 

[Isaiah Scott]

Aight GL

 

[Caden Fisher]

Good luck! If you need any tips or have any questions, post them here. There are lots of very fast cubers on here that would love to help you. Myself included

 

[Garf]

Instead of watching the clock, there is a better timer called www.cstimer.net

 

[VincentCuber]

Instead of watching the clock, there is a better timer called www.cstimer.net

You can customize it with cubeheads video about cstimer

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Instead of watching the clock, there is a better timer called www.cstimer.net

yeah I was going to say this.

Try https://www.cubedesk.io/ tho, It has less scramblers but it saves your times on the cloud easily

 

[Timmah]

Thanks for the encouragement everyone!

And that timer is awesome. Definitely using that now not my iPhone stopwatch!

 

[Timmah]

Ok so I haven't started doing 'official' scrambles yet (should I?) just randomly scrambling and solving. Got a PB last night of 1:09. Considering my original target was sub one minute, I'm glad I'm almost getting it in single solves.

Some more data, just for record keeping purposes

Older averages:

16/4 5.75 mins
17/4 7 mins
18/4 5.8 mins
19/4 3.5 mins
21/4 2.89 mins
22/4 2.41 mins
23/4 2.44 mins
24/4 2.84 mins
25/4 1.98 mins
26/4 2.17 mins
27/4 2.03 mins

 

[OldSwiss]

If you do manual scrambles it can happen that you don't scramble it enough and still have blocks and stuff that makes the solve easier than with an official scramble.
If you watch the scrambling, you try to break up such blocks and make it harder than neccessary.

That's why we use machine generated scrambles.

But usually as a beginner you can't really take that advantage, so it's also OK to do manual scrambles.
There an other advantage of using official scrambles: You will learn the notation and have it easier to learn algs written in that notation.

Just keep on practicing and you will break the minute soon and go on to your next goal

 

[Timmah]

Thank you @OldSwiss, That makes sense. I have noticed there can be a wide range of difficulty with random scrambles. I might start using them to make times more consistent, if nothing else!

 

[Llewelys]

There is still a wide range of difficulty with randomly generated scrambles.
But yes, it's best to not handscramble when possible

 

[VincentCuber]

how close are you to reaching your goal now?

 

[Timmah]

how close are you to reaching your goal now?

Closer! And further away hahaha.

OK, so I've shaved about 30 seconds off my average since last post, and hit a PB of 1:04. But with the method I was using it's plateued around 1:30, unless it's a lucky solve. So I've started learning F2L. So a little slower at the minute as I learn that, but will re quicker once it's more intuitive

The below had my PB, but also a recent pw (personal worst LOL) solve 7 or 8 was like 3 minutes after I botched the last layer :rolleyes:

 

[Garf]

Closer! And further away hahaha.

OK, so I've shaved about 30 seconds off my average since last post, and hit a PB of 1:04. But with the method I was using it's plateued around 1:30, unless it's a lucky solve. So I've started learning F2L. So a little slower at the minute as I learn that, but will re quicker once it's more intuitive

The below had my PB, but also a recent pw (personal worst LOL) solve 7 or 8 was like 3 minutes after I botched the last layer :rolleyes:

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Well, keep practicing slowly and fast! Slow is to get used to the skills you are developing and knock out your bad habits, and fast is for you to practice the skills you developed.

 

[Timmah]

Cheers Garf, I am really liking F2L so far! Concentrating on getting the moves into muscle memory like other steps to slowly speed up

 

[cubenerd74]

Good luck on learning F2L!
At first, F2L can make you slower, but that's just bc you aren't used to it. Keep practicing, and you'll eventually become faster.

 

[SpedCube]

Have fun, that's the most important part! If you want any advice, I'm not great, but I can give you tips and help if you want!

 

[TheSpeedSkewber]

Enjoy the inital high of improving rapidly! It's an amazing feeling!

 

[Timmah]

So a bit over two weeks later, I've managed to hit under a minute solves!!!! I was so excited yesterday at the 55:36, then I hit 53:51 today!!!!

I know where I can still improve more, so even with just F2L and a sort of 'advanced basic' method, I know I can easily average under a minute, not just single solves

 

[Thisisacuber]

So a bit over two weeks later, I've managed to hit under a minute solves!!!! I was so excited yesterday at the 55:36, then I hit 53:51 today!!!!

I know where I can still improve more, so even with just F2L and a sort of 'advanced basic' method, I know I can easily average under a minute, not just single solves

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You'll achieve your goal soon!