What's considered a "normal" rate of progression?

[Thomas.Caleb]

Bros the next Xuanyi Geng

Nuh uh

 

[cranberryjuice]

Nuh uh

Yuh huh

 

[icedcool55]

my rough progression (imo i have a very slow progression)

sub 1 - 8 months
sub 50 - 8.5 months
sub 40 - 9.5 months
sub 30 - 1 year, 2 months
sub 25 - 1 year, 8 months
sub 22.5 - 1 year 9 months
sub 20 - 2 years
sub 19 - 2 years 1 month

I now consider myself sub 18, maybe sub 17, after about 2 years, 7 months but have little recorded data to prove that for some reason.

I feel like my progress is slower too. This is good.

How much do/did you practice to get to this point? Specifically from sub 1 to sub 30 and all those inbetween.

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

Sub 5 in 2 days

i think he’s talking about 2x2 guys

 

[Martyt7777]

I think I started seriously speedcubing about 18 months ago. I glow ball 11-12 seconds now. I did average 50-60 seconds before that though

 

[That0newe1rdo]

I feel like my progress is slower too. This is good.

How much do/did you practice to get to this point? Specifically from sub 1 to sub 30 and all those inbetween.

I have (almost) 3000 (Recorded) solves in total, so not much, but thats mainly because I spent most of my time practicing off my PC and learning stuff rather then putting it into practice.

This is roughly 20 hours of practicing 3x3 btw over 2 odd years.

Also 3x3 is by far not my main event, so alot of my 3x3 practice is just me doing 4x4 + or OH - so probably another couple thousand 3x3 solves (technically)

I reckon that if I prioritised solving rather then knowledge then I would've reached sub 20 in a few months, assuming at one point I got a better cube then what I had at the time (carbon fiber meilong 3c). But then again it is very hard for me to learn algs, so I spend much longer doing it (im getting much better at it tho, ive learned 31 OLL algs in 2 days)

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

very hard for me to learn algs, so I spend much longer doing it (im getting much better at it tho, ive learned 31 OLL algs in 2 days)

WHAT
i shall address the elephant in the room

 

[Martyt7777]

very hard for me to learn algs

ive learned 31 OLL algs in 2 days

Im referring to the 1st quote btw

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

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Im referring to the 1st quote btw

im getting much better at it tho,

you missed some context

 

[Michael Wimberly]

I think I started seriously speedcubing about 18 months ago. I glow ball 11-12 seconds now. I did average 50-60 seconds before that though

So one day you were averaging 50-60 seconds and you woke up the next morning averaging 11-12? Lucky

 

[gruuby]

So I've been cubing for almost 11 months now and I glow ball 18 and my best ao5 is 14. I keep getting comments saying my rate of progression is fast, is it really? If so, what's considered "normal"?

it took me about 4 years to start averaging sub 20, but im also pretty sure i improve very slowly

 

[Martyt7777]

So one day you were averaging 50-60 seconds and you woke up the next morning averaging 11-12? Lucky

No I meant before 18 months I was averaging 50-60 seconds

 

[That0newe1rdo]

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Im referring to the 1st quote btw

btw i clarified that i am getting much better at it now, but it was a issue for the first year or so of cubing so I spent more time on that then actually cubing.

WHAT
i shall address the elephant in the room

its now 40/57 in 4 days btw

 

[Michael Wimberly]

i shall address the elephant in the room

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

btw i clarified that i am getting much better at it now, but it was a issue for the first year or so of cubing so I spent more time on that then actually cubing.



its now 40/57 in 4 days btw

if we do the math…
if you learned 31 OLLs in 2 days (insane), and you are a 40/57 OLLs in 4 days, then you learned 9 OLLs in two days

so you could just learn all of the other OLLs and be done with full OLL

 

[Sub20Soon]

if we do the math…
if you learned 31 OLLs in 2 days (insane), and you are a 40/57 OLLs in 4 days, then you learned 9 OLLs in two days

so you could just learn all of the other OLLs and be done with full OLL

"How to do full OLL in ONE WEEK" ahh video

 

[Martyt7777]

btw i clarified that i am getting much better at it now, but it was a issue for the first year or so of cubing so I spent more time on that then actually cubing.



its now 40/57 in 4 days btw

Just admit it we know you’re Yi Shen

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

"How to do full OLL in ONE WEEK" ahh video

just be good at memorizing bro
I mean i could have learned like two ZBLL sets by now if i didn’t put it off

 

[Sub20Soon]

Yeah im at 18 OLL algs rn (im starting with dot cases and i figured out the others)

 

[Michael Wimberly]

I'm at 28 OLL algs