AHHH! F2L is RAISING my average!

[Radu]

Yes. I agree with brunson. Trying F2L increased my times by about a minute the first week or so. But you'll never get faster with that technique until you force yourself to use it in a real solve. So, try to bear with the poor times for a while. Keep using F2L, and you'll be impressed with the results soon enough.

Good advice!

 

[Dark_Cube]

Rubiks fan. These were two seperate trials when it took me 45 moves my time was different so I will have to find a way to count moves and do a time... Hmmm I will just count moves like 5 times and get an average for you and then solve f2l like 5 times and get an average time. Would this be a semi accurate assessment?

 

[PCwizCube]

Rubiks fan. These were two seperate trials when it took me 45 moves my time was different so I will have to find a way to count moves and do a time... Hmmm I will just count moves like 5 times and get an average for you and then solve f2l like 5 times and get an average time. Would this be a semi accurate assessment?

Yeah...

 

[Novriil]

Ok just timed the cube breakdown. With layer by With f2l it takes 1 minute 40 seconds for f2l
F2l took 42 moves

Ok man, you must be completely wrong, because 40 moves on 1 tps does not equal 100 seconds. Either you're counting your moves wrong, or you turn at like 0.4 tps. Tell us which one it is

And what does bl mean? Are you trying to say the last (aka 3rd) layer?

F2l took 42 moves counting all the u2's and oll took 8 moves and pll took 25 moves. Idk if this is avg or not?

Why don't you count the number of moves for like 5 solves?

I believe that there are like 10 second pauses between F2L.. I don't think of any other reason to get such a tps and such times.

 

[Dark_Cube]

I do have quite an ammount f time between my f2l moves I'm just going to work on it. Thanks for the help you guys have given me.

 

[Gazzdog]

How I am getting faster is to practice when ever you have the chance and to think about every move you make. This helps a lot because you learn the situations and how to overcome them with ease. Also track pieces or just keep in mind which piece you are going to fill in next. You don't need to only watch that piece but just keep it in mind. Thanks what i'm trying to do to get faster and its working. Hope this helped

 

[JTW2007]

If you averaged around a minute before learning F2L, then chances are you don't have enough experience with the cube to employ Fridrich F2L to its full benefit. In order to look ahead, you need to know what to look ahead for, which requires a lot of practice or experience. I would say, switch back to your old method, and get as fast as you possibly can with that (I would guess that would be around a 35 second avg.), then learn Fridrich or another advanced method, and I think you'll have much better luck.

 

[fundash]

If you averaged around a minute before learning F2L, then chances are you don't have enough experience with the cube to employ Fridrich F2L to its full benefit. In order to look ahead, you need to know what to look ahead for, which requires a lot of practice or experience. I would say, switch back to your old method, and get as fast as you possibly can with that (I would guess that would be around a 35 second avg.), then learn Fridrich or another advanced method, and I think you'll have much better luck.

I disagree...well not me, but the people who gave me advice about
F2L, they said that its good to learn it when your around a minute, because even if you can get faster with LBL, Fridrich will still take a long time to learn, and you will take longer till you even get back to what you used to be.

 

[JTW2007]

If you averaged around a minute before learning F2L, then chances are you don't have enough experience with the cube to employ Fridrich F2L to its full benefit. In order to look ahead, you need to know what to look ahead for, which requires a lot of practice or experience. I would say, switch back to your old method, and get as fast as you possibly can with that (I would guess that would be around a 35 second avg.), then learn Fridrich or another advanced method, and I think you'll have much better luck.

I disagree...well not me, but the people who gave me advice about
F2L, they said that its good to learn it when your around a minute, because even if you can get faster with LBL, Fridrich will still take a long time to learn, and you will take longer till you even get back to what you used to be.

I think that it probably varies from person to person. I didn't slow down that much when I learned Fridrich, but I kept doing all timed solves with LBL until my Fridrich was faster. There's nothing wrong with learning more than one method at once.

 

[fundash]

If you averaged around a minute before learning F2L, then chances are you don't have enough experience with the cube to employ Fridrich F2L to its full benefit. In order to look ahead, you need to know what to look ahead for, which requires a lot of practice or experience. I would say, switch back to your old method, and get as fast as you possibly can with that (I would guess that would be around a 35 second avg.), then learn Fridrich or another advanced method, and I think you'll have much better luck.

I disagree...well not me, but the people who gave me advice about
F2L, they said that its good to learn it when your around a minute, because even if you can get faster with LBL, Fridrich will still take a long time to learn, and you will take longer till you even get back to what you used to be.

I think that it probably varies from person to person. I didn't slow down that much when I learned Fridrich, but I kept doing all timed solves with LBL until my Fridrich was faster. There's nothing wrong with learning more than one method at once.

Aren't you only learning one method while just practicing the other?

I guess this could be true...I am only going to be working on fridrich for awhile...i hope both me and the thread starter get faster

 

[JTW2007]

If you averaged around a minute before learning F2L, then chances are you don't have enough experience with the cube to employ Fridrich F2L to its full benefit. In order to look ahead, you need to know what to look ahead for, which requires a lot of practice or experience. I would say, switch back to your old method, and get as fast as you possibly can with that (I would guess that would be around a 35 second avg.), then learn Fridrich or another advanced method, and I think you'll have much better luck.

I disagree...well not me, but the people who gave me advice about
F2L, they said that its good to learn it when your around a minute, because even if you can get faster with LBL, Fridrich will still take a long time to learn, and you will take longer till you even get back to what you used to be.

I think that it probably varies from person to person. I didn't slow down that much when I learned Fridrich, but I kept doing all timed solves with LBL until my Fridrich was faster. There's nothing wrong with learning more than one method at once.

Aren't you only learning one method while just practicing the other?

I guess this could be true...I am only going to be working on fridrich for awhile...i hope both me and the thread starter get faster

I would argue that if you're practicing a method, you're learning it, but that is a debatable point.

Off-Topic: I like your new avatar.

 

[fundash]

If you averaged around a minute before learning F2L, then chances are you don't have enough experience with the cube to employ Fridrich F2L to its full benefit. In order to look ahead, you need to know what to look ahead for, which requires a lot of practice or experience. I would say, switch back to your old method, and get as fast as you possibly can with that (I would guess that would be around a 35 second avg.), then learn Fridrich or another advanced method, and I think you'll have much better luck.

I disagree...well not me, but the people who gave me advice about
F2L, they said that its good to learn it when your around a minute, because even if you can get faster with LBL, Fridrich will still take a long time to learn, and you will take longer till you even get back to what you used to be.

I think that it probably varies from person to person. I didn't slow down that much when I learned Fridrich, but I kept doing all timed solves with LBL until my Fridrich was faster. There's nothing wrong with learning more than one method at once.

Aren't you only learning one method while just practicing the other?

I guess this could be true...I am only going to be working on fridrich for awhile...i hope both me and the thread starter get faster

I would argue that if you're practicing a method, you're learning it, but that is a debatable point.

Off-Topic: I like your new avatar.

Off-Topic: Thanks, i have been using it for awhile for youtube...

On-Topic: I understand... basically though, i think he should just practice F2L, thats what i'm doing...i only actually watched badmephisto's vids yesterday...