How long did it take before you were sub40?

[Dapianokid]

A week or so. No more than 2 weeks. I knew all the main speedsolving methods and most of the obscure/impractical ones before I was even sub-1 min. I started focusing on the actual application and practice of speedsolving once i was avging 50 seconds. I'm now on the brink of sub 10 (my best Ao100 is 10.00! So furstrating) after just under 5 months.

 

[NoobyCuber]

It took me 6 months after I started speedcubing to drop to sub40. However it only took me a month to drop from over a
minute to below 40 seconds.

 

[TDM]

Took me a month from starting to solve a cube, then another month to get sub-40.
After 4-6 months I was averaging 21-22, and then stayed there until 9 months. Then I got a FangShi, and my times dropped 2 seconds. They then stayed there for another two months, then a few weeks ago my averaged went down a second in less than 24h. It was about the time I started doing some slow turning solves.

 

[PokemonEggs]

I think it was 4-5 days. But I'm going to say 1 week to be safe. It was mostly because I learned F2L on the 3rd day i believe.

 

[TeddyKGB]

Right around a month maybe a little more.

 

[TheZenith27]

I think it was under 2 weeks.

 

[NZCuber]

I got a sub-40 second average on Snyder method 1 in the 3-4 months then I learnt F2l and got between 34 to 38 seconds in the first week.

 

[sneaklyfox]

Honestly, I can't remember. I just know that by the 3-month mark, I was about 34-36.

 

[nibble4bits]

.Practicing like 20 solves daily got me to sub-40 in one and a half month since I began cubing

 

[JackJ]

I don't understand how people can progress so quickly! One to two weeks?! That's pretty ridiculous. I think I hit sub 40 at about 6 months. I know after one year I averaged 32 seconds.

 

[kcl]

I don't understand how people can progress so quickly! One to two weeks?! That's pretty ridiculous. I think I hit sub 40 at about 6 months. I know after one year I averaged 32 seconds.

You probably practiced a normal amount. I've done a good 2-3 hours of practice.. For the 10 months I've cubed.

 

[natezach728]

5 months i think

 

[brian724080]

Sub 40 4x4?

 

[stoic]

About six months from I learned to solve for a sub-40 single; about eight months to be sub-40 globally.
I improve slowly...

 

[TDM]

You probably practiced a normal amount. I've done a good 2-3 hours of practice.. For the 10 months I've cubed.

I cube for probably twice that each day, but never actually do any serious practise. I did some slow turning solves for a few days once.

 

[kcl]

I cube for probably twice that each day, but never actually do any serious practise. I did some slow turning solves for a few days once.

I cube a lot more than that also, but I guess 2-3 during the school year because school is dumb lol

 

[pipkiksass]

I cube less than an hour a day on average (more during the week, almost none at weekends). Just looked at my solve history - first sub 40 was just over 2 weeks, first sub 40 average (of 12) about a month. Progress has slowed since, coz I don't practice properly, I just cube!

 

[TDM]

Progress has slowed since, coz I don't practice properly, I just cube!

I do this as well, but it isn't good for speed (although I don't really care about speed). I've had two sudden jumps in my times, one by 2s and one by 1s, but other than them I haven't progressed at 3x3 since June/July. I feel like if I did practise properly at the weak points in my solve (cross, cross-F2L transition, lookahead during F2L, OLL TPS/learn some more algs, and learn that last PLL), I could improve a lot faster than I am at the moment.

 

[thesolver]

2 and a half half to 3 weeks after first solve...

 

[ILMZS20]

i think i got sub 40 in 1-1.5 month or so. i learned how to solve a rubiks cube in mid september last year i think and i remember getting a 32 single and 38avg when i got my zhanchi at my birthday which is 24th november. i have a pb avg of 16.69 now and normally i get 19, idk if thats good or not, but i dont really care