Going for 30 seconds to sub-25

[pjk]

For those of you who have done so, he did you do it? Of course practice is key. I often get can 12 second F2Ls, and still have a 30.xx second solve. This mainly means my LL lacks. So a better question is, how do you improve your LL one handed? Any special techniques. Thanks in advance.

 

[Lofty]

Yay! I fall in this category now!
It took me a loooong time to do this. Ok maybe not too long about 3 months. For OLL not much I can say, mine stinks too. I learned a few new OLL's for ones I felt were extra bad but most I just have to stick with bad OLL's.
PLL is great tho. I learned new algs for probably over half of my PLL. I am a big fan of LUR algs and now use those for most PLL's. Most all of the algs I use have been discussed on here. I do lots of OH time attacks and practice the same alg over and over and over and take averages of the individual ones.
Kind of a lot of words for learn new algs and practice each alg I'm just excited about my sub 25 last night

 

[AvGalen]

If OLL_oh is that bad, why not start a OLL-time attack?

 

[Lofty]

You are right Arnuad! I will start this tomorrow!

 

[Jack]

I am having the same problem as you... My slow LL makes it hard to get sub 30 without easy LL cases. Maybe I should practice PLL time attack more.

 

[Lofty]

OLL time attacks are not near as fun as PLL time attacks... I think I need to learn the OLL's better. I think I think too much during them by watching where the pieces go instead of just executing. OLL time attack will fix that.

 

[AvGalen]

Well, I can do all my OLL's One-Handed in about 45 seconds so I guess I have the record

 

[Harris Chan]

Need one hand algos? Check Sebastien Felix's "Absolute Mind" website:

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/absolutemind/pll1h-angl.html

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/absolutemind/oll1h-angl.html

This is something to excited about!!

-Harris

 

[Lofty]

Wow some of those algs are tempting to switch to!
D turns are way easier to perform than are F or B.

Edit: If I were to change any of my algs I would pick up the T and the G's mainly because I already use most of the other ones

 

[watermelon]

Harris, would you happen to know whether Sebastien OH cubes with his right or left hand? Which hand are these algs intended for (I'm thinking left)?

 

[Harris Chan]

I think he uses left hand for OH. So...you're using right hand right Mitchell?

 

[edd5190]

Try to learn MGLS. CLS in place of OLL basically means 2-gen OLL. That is great for OH!

Well, I can do all my OLL's One-Handed in about 45 seconds so I guess I have the record

Isn't that with 2-look OLL?

 

[masterofthebass]

Yeah, Mitchell uses his right hand...

Arnuad's record is 45 sec with his 9 OLLs. I he said that he can do all of his OLLs, so I guess it's true.

 

[Lofty]

All of those algs look like they are set up for use on the left hand. The U PLL's kind of give it away.
Edit: haha I just figured out why a lot of the algs weren't working for me... those lower case letters aren't used as double layer turns like the w's are...

 

[AvGalen]

Yeah, Mitchell uses his right hand...

Arnuad's record is 45 sec with his 9 OLLs. I he said that he can do all of his OLLs, so I guess it's true.

Do you really think I am that slow? 5 seconds for an OLL? No, when I said all, I meant all 10, not just 9!

 

[Johannes91]

those lower case letters aren't used as double layer turns like the w's are...

I don't understand why some people deliberately use their own notation that's incompatible with the common ones.

PJK: I improved a lot by practising scrambling.

 

[Lofty]

Johannes: I am pretty sure I have seen this notation elsewhere. Actually only talked about in a discussion on notation in either the beginner or speedsolving section.
At first I was very excited about the algs on Absolute mind but after practicing then some I could not get them as fast as the algs I use now. Of course since I picked algs for cases I could use improvement on so for them to be slower isn't very good. I think I will just practice my F turns with my thumb. A cube rotation or two is not always worse than a 2-gen after all.

 

[Johannes91]

Johannes: I am pretty sure I have seen this notation elsewhere.

Yes, some people use (f), but I have never seen just 'f' alone.