How Fast Did You Improve?

[Dene]

2 years. Except when I started cubing, sub15 was considered very fast and sub20 was my only real goal.

 

[choza244]

I've been cubing for almost a year and I'm almost sub 20

 

[maggot]

it took me a little over a year. i was stuck at 45 for a long time, and 30 for a long time. then i took a break from it and did a lot of 4x4. when i came back, i was 20's and i quickly went to 15's... im 15's now.

i would just like to comment on the OP. 'it took me a little over 5 months to go from 45 to 12's', and yet videos posted on your youtube account show 6 months ago you were posting 20 second averages. so, is that not you in your channel? i just found this funny. your concept of time is distorted.

 

[Cyrus C.]

I'm 20s average, 2 years of cubing. I haven't improved for a year though, need to practice.

 

[TheMachanga]

I use to be kind of a twisty puzzle looking/buying and moddeer-ish kind of cuber. Then I changed to speed because it was too expensive.

 

[David0794]

1 year and 3 months...now I get a sub15 avg12 daily.

 

[Nestor]

I use to be kind of a twisty puzzle looking/buying and moddeer-ish kind of cuber. Then I changed to speed because it was too expensive.

I can relate to this: the only reason I speed is because I can't afford a constant influx of new puzzles (specially when earning in Dominican Pesos).

Every once in a while, though, I can get a couple of new puzzles and forget about speed until I've solved them.

 

[AnsonL]

from 45 to 12s in 5 months?thats insane..

 

[AvidCuber]

You could say that I have had very slow improvement since first solving the cube, as I first solved the cube in March/April/May (can't remember which) of 2008. However, I barely touched it for nearly two years, occasionally (meaning, whenever I saw it lying around on the table, which was maybe once every few months) solving it but I wasn't interested in it at all, really. I only started getting interested in speed around February/March of 2010 and currently average around 17-18, so you could say that it took ~3 years of cubing to get to 17-18, or ~1 year of speedcubing to get to 17-18.

 

[JackJ]

I've been cubing for 2 1/2 years and I average high 16's.

 

[da25centz]

7 months, from whatever i started at (sup-2 most likely) down do 28-29

 

[pappas]

It took me about 8 months starting from when I actually started speedsolving. I could solve a cube slowly about a year before that however. I seem to hit walls. eg. I steadily progressed to 15secs then got stuck there for ages then suddenly I got down to 13secs really quickly, now I'm stuck again.

 

[ElectricDoodie]

i would just like to comment on the OP. 'it took me a little over 5 months to go from 45 to 12's', and yet videos posted on your youtube account show 6 months ago you were posting 20 second averages. so, is that not you in your channel? i just found this funny. your concept of time is distorted.

He didn't say it was 5 months ago. He said it took him 5 months.
If his YT video is 6 months old, and he was 20avg, then 6 months ago could've been 4 months into his cubing. Which would equal 10 months of cubing. But, to get to sub15, it took him 5 months, out of those 10.

 

[XXGeneration]

I think this is a secret OP brag thread about their own improvement.

OT: Maybe 8 months to where I am now, about averaging 16.

 

[Zarxrax]

To those who have approached or reached sub-15 in less than a year, how much do you typically practice every day to reach that?

 

[RCTACameron]

I had been cubing for 1 and a half years on Christmas, and my first sub-15 avg 12 was in early December (I think). I avg 16-17 normally.

 

[ncube]

Started cubing with pogobat's tutorial fall 08.
Stuck with that for a year until I was ~40 secs.
Learned keyhole and 2 look oll/pll January 2010 and got to~30
Learned full CFOP over 2010 and got to the 20 second barrier last summer
Took a break that summer, got back to school, and improved like 2 seconds per month since
Now avg 13-15

 

[XXGeneration]

To those who have approached or reached sub-15 in less than a year, how much do you typically practice every day to reach that?

I'm almost sub 15, but not quite. My best Ao5 is 13.11 and my best Ao12 is 14.70.

I practice maybe 30 minutes a day now, with a formal timer and such. Back when I started, I was really bored and school so maybe upwards of an hour a day? But that was just when I was learning my methods. I think the most important thing to practice would be F2L lookahead. Even though it takes a lot of time every day, it can be practiced anywhere including on the bus to and from school, which is where I usually practice a bit.

 

[Dacuba]

I'm Cubing 8,5 months and yesterday I had my first sub20 10/12, just another example of average improvement speed

 

[Owen]

I'll probably never be sub-15.