Time barriers

[krnballerzzz]

17 seconds for about 1-2 months :\. Then one day i went sub 16.5! It was fun

 

[Faz]

17/18 seconds
11.5 seconds (still working)

 

[byu]

I have a problem...my times are very inconsistent. I can get some solves under 30 that are not lucky solves but other times theyre over 35. It doesnt seem like im delaying any time between solves. My problem?

Work hard an practice*3 and you'll get it eventually.

 

[Cride5]

40sec avg was a big psychological barrier for me I've been stuck in the 40s for a month!! Finally broke that evil 40s barrier with a 37.25 average of 20. Also broke sub 30 with a 28.66 (non lucky) ... woot

Lookahead during eoline, F2L, OLL and PLL deffo seems to be helping ATM!

 

[gpt_kibutz]

sub 20
I have been in 20.xx for months!

 

[eastamazonantidote]

The big ones I've encountered are 60 seconds, 40 seconds, and 20 seconds.

After 60 is broken, you just fly through the 50s down to about 45 in less than a week (happened to everyone I've spoken with), but then you get stuck at 40-45 for about 3 weeks. This is the point where your algorithms become second nature, and after breaking that, you fly down to 30.

After that, the speed becomes truly ridiculous to any non-cuber, so of course there will be barriers, but I feel that it was mostly training my eyes to keep up with my fingers, so the "barriers" only lasted a week. At about 20, I hit a WALL.

I've been stuck at 20.xx, just like luisgepeto above me, for months. It hurts, but I've been starting to X-Cross and am working on finishing my OLLs (heh, heh I need to learn the dot cases) as well as doing massive amounts of PLL time attacks and cross solves. I'm sure 15 or 16 is also a big problem.

 

[ThatGuy]

I've basically broken 30 sec now. I just did an average of 4 and got 29.99. lql.

 

[shelley]

What is lql? Shouldn't it be just lq, or lqtm?

My major barriers were at 40, 30, 23-25, 20, 16-17

 

[jzengg]

20 was the biggest barrier. After I passed that, the next few went by very quickly. Now, the barrier is sub 15.

 

[ThatGuy]

lql: laughing quietly loudly

 

[Haste_cube]

1 min for 4 days, and break to 40s, then 35, and now I often get sub 30

 

[dakimfo137]

im stuck on a barrier, where i cannot break 30....... i average 34-37 and on good ones i get 31s, but i cannot BEAT 30!!!!

 

[ThatGuy]

im stuck on a barrier, where i cannot break 30....... i average 34-37 and on good ones i get 31s, but i cannot BEAT 30!!!!

have you watched badmephisto yet?

 

[dakimfo137]

yeah, that's where i first learned my fridrich. my f2l is getting better. i linger on an almost full pll memorization except for G and N perms, and a 2OLL 90% of the time and a 3OLL 10% of the time...

 

[ThatGuy]

wow. you're exactly like me. No G or N perms, and 2LOLL/3LOLL

 

[Cride5]

The big ones I've encountered are 60 seconds, 40 seconds, and 20 seconds.

After 60 is broken, you just fly through the 50s down to about 45 in less than a week (happened to everyone I've spoken with), but then you get stuck at 40-45 for about 3 weeks. This is the point where your algorithms become second nature, and after breaking that, you fly down to 30.

After that, the speed becomes truly ridiculous to any non-cuber, so of course there will be barriers, but I feel that it was mostly training my eyes to keep up with my fingers, so the "barriers" only lasted a week. At about 20, I hit a WALL.

I've been stuck at 20.xx, just like luisgepeto above me, for months. It hurts, but I've been starting to X-Cross and am working on finishing my OLLs (heh, heh I need to learn the dot cases) as well as doing massive amounts of PLL time attacks and cross solves. I'm sure 15 or 16 is also a big problem.

Deffo agreed with the 60 and 40 barriers!! If I can get into 20.xx avg i'll be happy. I'd imagine that breaking the 20 barrier requires super-fast fingers and/or a super-hardcore set of algs like ZBLL!!

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

The big ones I've encountered are 60 seconds, 40 seconds, and 20 seconds.

After 60 is broken, you just fly through the 50s down to about 45 in less than a week (happened to everyone I've spoken with), but then you get stuck at 40-45 for about 3 weeks. This is the point where your algorithms become second nature, and after breaking that, you fly down to 30.

After that, the speed becomes truly ridiculous to any non-cuber, so of course there will be barriers, but I feel that it was mostly training my eyes to keep up with my fingers, so the "barriers" only lasted a week. At about 20, I hit a WALL.

I've been stuck at 20.xx, just like luisgepeto above me, for months. It hurts, but I've been starting to X-Cross and am working on finishing my OLLs (heh, heh I need to learn the dot cases) as well as doing massive amounts of PLL time attacks and cross solves. I'm sure 15 or 16 is also a big problem.

Deffo agreed with the 60 and 40 barriers!! If I can get into 20.xx avg i'll be happy. I'd imagine that breaking the 20 barrier requires super-fast fingers and/or a super-hardcore set of algs like ZBLL!!

Uh... no? Why would it? There are people that use 2 look OLL and can average 14 seconds. Of course, being totally comfortable with ZBLL will definitely get you faster, but you can't be serious about your opinion that something as ZBLL is necessary to average sub-20... Nobody in the whole world knows total ZBLL. Nobody. Yet there are 783 people that have an official sub-20 average?

 

[Mr Cubism]

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3x3 single: 27.93 avarage ca 40 sec. (2009-05-05)

 

[d4m4s74]

I've been stuck in the 30-40 area for months

 

[ManasijV]

I dont remember any barriers as such other than 22. Till then there was always more and more to learn which increased my time. After 22 i learnt all OLL's and my times range from 15-20 mostly because i never practice my LL. But after i get a sub 10 F2L I surely will. ( currently ~12 and working pretty hard) Look ahead is the only way you'll improve. so patience is the key.