How Long Did It Take You To Average Sub 20?

[Eleredo]

Glad to see I am not the only one out there who's having a hard time to get sub-20. I've been cubing since March 2010 and my best Ao100 was 23.xx.

However, I have to admit that I have been kind of lazy though. All I learned was 2LOLL and 2LPLL and I thought that'd get me decent times. A week ago, I decided to finally get serious after two years and kick this lazy habit of mine once and for all. I'm now learning full OLL and PLL (with the latter one almost being completed).

I'll no longer time myself now though until I know every single algorithm.

 

[~Adam~]

Just under a year after learning F2L but about 14 years after solving a cube and 18 months after learning the beginner's method.
I like to count from when you progress from the beginner's method since I doubt many people (if any at all) have averaged sub 20 with a beginner's method without previously learning more advanced techniques.

 

[NaeosPsy]

7-8 months of wanking around after learning begginer's method. I would have trained totally different if i had to do that again.

 

[Sillas]

1-2 years. I'm cubing since 19th Sept 2010, and I turned sub-20 (avg of 100) in the begin of this year.

 

[Ninja Storm]

It took me just around 5 months. Then again, I learn visual things quickly and I practiced around 200 solves per day.

 

[Crazycubemom]

Till now I haven't official sub 20 yet , It's easy to get sub 20 even sub 15 @ home but official sub 20 won't come
I'm not expecting sub 20 anymore, it makes me nerves, Que Sera Sera. If sub 20 to come is WELCOME @ My Official competition(s)

 

[TheWitcher]

Who voted 1-2?

 

[blackzabbathfan]

Who voted 1-2?

Could've been Feliks. He got a Sub-20 Ao5 after two months.


I learned to solve about four years ago. Subtract 3 years to November 2010. Started Speedcubing there and and about 14 months later I hit sub-20.

 

[dr01d3k4]

I haven't reached sub-20 yet - I'm still working on getting sub-30. My PB is 27.93 and my only other sub-30 is about 28-29 (can't remember) - most of my other times are between 30 and 45, with an Ao12 of 38.42 (all self-scrambled though). I'm currently learning PLL - I know 11 algs so far and then I'll learn OLL of which I already know 7 (the corner-only OLLs for 2-look OLL) and I'm also working on my F2L lookahead as I know I do take quite long pauses whilst solving F2L - my full F2L and cross normally takes about 30 seconds unless I'm lucky.

 

[balloon6610]

I finally finished learning full fridrich and sub 20 after 4 month of cubing I think because i practice a LOT and learning algorithms EVERYDAY. In my opinion everyone can sub 20 if they really want to be and have enthusiasm to do People say i am a weirdo for practice 50-100 solve everydays but i think that's why i progress fast

 

[tozies24]

I started cubing in march 2010. I got down to 30 seconds in that summer I think. I got down to 20 seconds at the beginning of the summer of 2011. A couple weeks ago I got a sub 15 ao100 but I don't know if I can repeat that right now.

 

[teller]

I was stuck at about 21-22 for years, with endless ridiculous practice. I figured out what my problem was: I kept learning new things, and they would slow me down while I digested them, and just as I started to speed up I'd learn something new, and the cycle would repeat. If you just do the most brain-dead F2L possible, with a fixed cross, and only one alg per case in the LL, you'll be sub-20 before you know it. But the tortoise will eventually beat you.

 

[cannon4747]

i hardly used to practice when i first started. i'm coming close to two years of cubing and i'm only just now getting close to the sub 20 mark. i average about 21. i've only started hardcore practicing recently in 2012.

 

[Mal]

It took me a year.

 

[tx789]

I've cube for 3 years and am not sub 20

 

[CUBENERD101]

How long did it take you to reach sub20?

How long it took u to get sub 20

 

[WBCube]

I think a few months. Sub-15 is really what's killing me right now

 

[ducttapecuber]

Well... I started cubing in March. I am just about sub-20 now! So about 10ish months!
If you have any questions about getting sub-20, PM and I'll help!

 

[tx789]

4 years and counting still aren't and I first learned in feb 2009 though it was July 2010 before I really started to try to get faster

 

[Kirjava]

It's another "generate a list of random numbers" thread!