What am I doing wrong?

[pipkiksass]

Thanks, I'll try this!

 

[speedcuber50]

perhaps his 3 second T-perm is including recog, which seems fair.

No it's not. My recog is usually under half a second. (In fact I usually can't differentiate between the start of the recog and the start of the alg.)

BTW I've also been working a bit on drilling some algs, but all that happens is my cube locks up.

 

[sneaklyfox]

No it's not. My recog is usually under half a second. (In fact I usually can't differentiate between the start of the recog and the start of the alg.)

BTW I've also been working a bit on drilling some algs, but all that happens is my cube locks up.

Practice more than a bit and don't give up.

 

[speedcuber50]

Well now I've scrapped the alg drills because my cube kept locking/popping and I couldn't really get it to turn any faster (even though my brain could manage it). However, I've found that slow turning gives me much better lookahead (as does solving my rather stiff 4x4 LOL!), so now I have another question:

How long should I practice slow turning for before I start to speed up again?

 

[sneaklyfox]

Well now I've scrapped the alg drills because my cube kept locking/popping and I couldn't really get it to turn any faster (even though my brain could manage it). However, I've found that slow turning gives me much better lookahead (as does solving my rather stiff 4x4 LOL!), so now I have another question:

How long should I practice slow turning for before I start to speed up again?

Until you are so comfortable that your turning is very smooth and flowing from one to the next without feeling like your brain has to rush to find the next F2L pair. Then you can gradually go a little faster. Sometimes this works well but sometimes you may have to push yourself (your brain) a bit. Still work on going slow but maybe a little bit faster than that or it will be too comfortable and then your brain will get into a relaxed mode.

 

[speedcuber50]

But what about the lockups?

 

[~Adam~]

However, I've found that slow turning gives me much better lookahead (as does solving my rather stiff 4x4 LOL!)

Is that the Dayan + MF8 from puzl that I explained to you had to be completely disassembled, the excess plastic removed from the inner 2x2 core and rebuilt while lubing everything?

If you do it properly it will be fantastic with the only major drawback of popping regularly.

 

[speedcuber50]

The 4x4 is the dayan which no-one ever told me to do anything with it; all I was told was to "get a shenshou because the dayan sucks". (That, by the way, is the problem which I have with the "one-answer" threads.)

But the cube which I'm talking about which "locks up" is my Zhanchi.

 

[~Adam~]

I am reserving this post to quote myself later when I have my laptop infront of me because I did my best to give you the information you needed which I later complained that you completely skipped over in another thread.

About the lock ups, it may be because your tensions are not equal, too tight or too loose.
If so strip the cube down to the core with centres and adjust the tensions checking they are all equal by pulling the centres away from the core and 'eyeballing' the distance.

However more likely it will be that you aren't turning very accurately.
You could practice with a cube with much tighter tensions to get you used to having to complete every turn or just keep drilling algs.

 

[DAcuber]

But what about the lockups?

get a guhong or a lingyun they never lock up guhong pops less

 

[speedcuber50]

I did my best to give you the information you needed which I later complained that you completely skipped over in another thread.

I think a moderator deleted it because I got a warning about posting two very similar threads, but only because the first one was moved to "The 4x4 help thread", so I got rubish answers and posted again.

 

[pipkiksass]

get a guhong or a lingyun they never lock up guhong pops less

There is no cube that never locks up. I have a Guhong, which used to lock up during my PLLs because I turn roughly. I also have a ZhanChi and a FangShi which lock up far less during my PLLs. Not because the cubes 'have' less lock ups, but because they're more closely matched to my turning style.

I bought the Zhanchi to fix my problem. I struggled to control it at first, which resulted in me having to turn with more control. When I go back to my Guhong, I now have less lockups. The cube hasn't changed, I have!

I think this is a personal thing, so everyone needs to experiment to find a cube that suits their turning style; however in general lockups are a result of style, not cube. As your turning style improves, so your lockups will reduce naturally.