One-Handed Training made my 2-handed average drop by 10 seconds!

[Akuma]

So I got bored of solving the cube with both hands so I started OH-solving a couple of days ago.
I mainly practiced OH when watching TV/movies or reading or soing other sutff and I gradually got better at it.
I mean, I am no pro - heck my OH solve is probably around 2 minutes at best but the fun thing started when I came back home and started timing my two-handed 3x3. My average was around 1 minute the last time I tried it, now - my average is 10 seconds LESS (48.62 seconds)

I can't really explain how this happend but I theorize that when solving it one-handed I started to be very selective about my moves, rotating the as little as possible and cut down on unneccesary movements - this is mainly because my hands experences really bad cramps when I cube one-handed for too long so I want to minimize the moves as best as I can.

This technique applied to my 2-handed solving decreased my solvetime average by 10 seconds at least!

I would gladly recommend people to start trining one-handed solving if you cannot get your 2-handed average to go any lower.

Cheers.

 

[Spitfire97]

I dropped 5 seconds off when My pinky was broken

 

[waffle=ijm]

this would not work well for me...Petrus OH and Roux 2H do not mix very well...

 

[elcarc]

oh made mines go up 1 second, and then down 3
wtf

 

[Spitfire97]

this would not work well for me...Petrus OH and Roux 2H do not mix very well...

why not ZZ or Fridrich OH?
Petrus OH just seems a bit off.
I use ZZ for OH, Roux/Fridrich combo 2H

 

[waffle=ijm]

this would not work well for me...Petrus OH and Roux 2H do not mix very well...

why not ZZ or Fridrich OH?
Petrus OH just seems a bit off.
I use ZZ for OH, Roux/Fridrich combo 2H

ZZ or Fridrich...HA...ZZ maybe, but I swore not to use fridrich as a main method even for OH. I'm sorry, but I really don't like the concept of the Fridrich, yes I support it but the concept seems bland to me.

Petrus is all 2 gen algs for me including all my PLLs with rotations....

and Roux/Fridrich combo...*sighs*

 

[cubeninjaIV]

OH made my avg drop by 1/2 a second... down to 16.5!!!!
i found that clock had an effct on my times too.

 

[anythingtwisty]

Hmmm. This sounds fishy to me. I think you may have just experienced natural improvement.

 

[Cyrok215]

this would not work well for me...Petrus OH and Roux 2H do not mix very well...

why not ZZ or Fridrich OH?
Petrus OH just seems a bit off.
I use ZZ for OH, Roux/Fridrich combo 2H

ZZ or Fridrich...HA...ZZ maybe, but I swore not to use fridrich as a main method even for OH. I'm sorry, but I really don't like the concept of the Fridrich, yes I support it but the concept seems bland to me.

Petrus is all 2 gen algs for me including all my PLLs.

and Roux/Fridrich combo...*sighs*

How, I thought Corners 2-gen was impossible?

 

[waffle=ijm]

this would not work well for me...Petrus OH and Roux 2H do not mix very well...

why not ZZ or Fridrich OH?
Petrus OH just seems a bit off.
I use ZZ for OH, Roux/Fridrich combo 2H

ZZ or Fridrich...HA...ZZ maybe, but I swore not to use fridrich as a main method even for OH. I'm sorry, but I really don't like the concept of the Fridrich, yes I support it but the concept seems bland to me.

Petrus is all 2 gen algs for me including all my PLLs.

and Roux/Fridrich combo...*sighs*

How, I thought Corners 2-gen was impossible?

whoops...with rotations I mean...