[Unofficial] Yay finally under a minute average!

[phases]

Avg of 50 went well suprisingly average of 57.4

Awesome!

 

[Dark_Cube]

Yeah! Getting better and better each day. look ahead is really a crucial part I'm starting to get my cube constantly moving. Got a very lucky solve of 30.27 today!

 

[hawkmp4]

congrats. I recently started too. after a week I hit 1:02. it took me at least another 3 weeks to post a sub minute average. it gets harder and harder to shave off time.

It does

Being stuck at 30 is very annoying.

I'm stuck at just under sub-30 too. It's a little frustrating but I think I'm very slowly getting faster. I just got a new PB average of 5 last night, so I think that's a good sign.

Oxymoron alert!

No...think of pouring molasses. That slowly gets faster.

 

[chris410]

Hey Chris glad to hear I have another beginner with me we will get there my friend I'm working on slow consistent solves right now.

Any tips you find please share, I am still figuring out the small things that end up saving time. I am hoping to get to consistent sub 1 minute times by the end of the week (of course...that depends on what time I have)

Last night I did several solves but could not break 1 minute but was close. As others have said, I am sure it is a matter of practice. I took the advice of solving one F2L pair while looking ahead at the next pair, I see how it works but I need to continue to work on it. Work does not leave me much time to cube as I would like :-(

 

[chris410]

Yeah! Getting better and better each day. look ahead is really a crucial part I'm starting to get my cube constantly moving. Got a very lucky solve of 30.27 today!

Congrats! Looks like you are light years ahead of me already...congrats!

I will work on the look-ahead...the F2L is my crutch now (OLL/PLL) I am decent and the cross I have improved so the look ahead seems key.

 

[Dark_Cube]

Haha the lucky solve was mainly f2l pairing was very easy and my bottom layer I only had to do two looks on so that's how that happened. But yes the look ahead is helping me a lot! Do you have a good cube as well?

 

[chris410]

I have a diy cube which is pretty good. I think what is holding me back is the look ahead and oll/pll recognition. I plan on working on both this week so hopefully, I will improve by the weekend.

 

[ArcticxWolf]

Do you guys do genuine 2 look oll or the fishy method?

IMO, it's much easier just to learn all 7 cross algs and just do pure 2 look, in terms of OLL.

R U Ri U R U2 Ri

(U) Li Ui L Ui Li U2 L

(U) R U Ri U R Ui Ri U R U2 Ri

R U2 R2 U R U Ri U2 R U R Ui Ri

(U2) R2 D Ri U2 R Di Ri U2 R

r U Ri Ui ri F R Fi

Fi r U Ri Ui ri F R

I used the images from cubezone, so the stuff in brackets is just needed so that you're doing it from the correct side : )

 

[teller]

r U Ri Ui ri F R Fi

Fi r U Ri Ui ri F R

Forgive me, but I actually discourage these two; especially for beginners, and offer these two instead:

x' (R U' R') D (R U R') D'

x' (R U R') D (R U' R') D'

They're just as fast, easier to execute (in my experience beginners stumble with the double-wide turns), and the combination of the two yields a perfect E-Perm PLL for free:

x' (R U' R') D (R U R') D' (R U R') D (R U' R') D'

Or the E-Perm yields two free OLL's...whichever, right?

 

[Dark_Cube]

I use all the algorithms artic wolf suggested. Although tellers two look much faster for me. I struggle with F and F' my thumb is just retarded. I always have to regrip and hit it back with my ring finger :/ So maybe I should use tellers idea?

 

[Dark_Cube]

Yay dropped my average by ten seconds this week. Down to 47 keep it comming! I had the luckiest solve of 19 seconds as well. It's been a good week!

 

[Muesli]

Yay dropped my average by ten seconds this week. Down to 47 keep it comming! I had the luckiest solve of 19 seconds as well. It's been a good week!

Wow. That must have been one lucky solve! My lucky PB is 19.99 seconds.

 

[Dark_Cube]

Aye my cross gave me one f2l pair then the last layer solved after my first look oll I was very excited.

 

[krazedkat]

Good job. Congrats on making it passed that barrier. My friend averages 50 seconds now ...

 

[Dark_Cube]

Thanks! Now it is time to get sub 40! Haha see you in two weeks

 

[Colton7909]

Way to go man. I've been there. I know how it feels.

 

[Tim Major]

Aye my cross gave me one f2l pair then the last layer solved after my first look oll I was very excited.

I'm guessing you had a T OLL and then a PLL skip? Is the algorithm you used F R U R' U' F'?

 

[Dark_Cube]

Yep. That's what I used Haha nice!

 

[daniel0731ex]

i actually thought that this guy is talking about 4x4 when i saw the title ><

 

[Dark_Cube]

Wow it posted 3 times... Sorry about that....