Jessica Fridrich-very few fingertricks?

[speedcuber50]

Hi!

Yesterday I was watching some of Jessica's cubing videos from her homepage. While she certainly gets very fast times, it occured to me that she was using a very "rough" turning style, which she herself points out.

I tried watching the videos at half-speed so I could see them more clearly. Indeed she is using very few fingertricks.

Has this ever occured to you? Does this mean that it is possible to get sub-20 with no fingertricks? And how does she do it?

speedcuber50

 

[somerandomkidmike]

This is the old style of fingertricks. It looks really bizarre if you've never seen it before. Yes, it is very possible to get sub-20 without fingertricks. It's even possible to get sub-15 without fingertricks. It's just harder.

 

[Wassili]

I get better times when I turn slower than when I'm going as fast as I can. Lookahead is key, so yeah sub-20 is actually quite achievable without fingertricks, although I don't see why you wouldn't want to learn them, seeing as they're quite easy to learn.

 

[speedcuber50]

@Wassili I wasn't saying don't learn it, I was just curious...

 

[Wassili]

@Wassili I wasn't saying don't learn it, I was just curious...

Ok, sorry for misunderstanding you.