There's one thing I have just been trying for the first time today, so I'll tell you how it worked in a week or two. I just got the idea by reading this post. When I was younger I used to take piano lessons. I find piano, or music in general, very similar to cube in a way. You need to learn algs composed of moves ( partitions composed of notes ), you repeat them until you know them, you have the notion of rhythme and so on. Anyway, one thing that changes, is that a piece of music will always contain the same notes, whether the cube got different notes each time you play it ( different scramble ).
So the idea was to actually work on one piece at a time. Therefore I just do the same scramble 5 times, then time it, move to another one that I solve 5 times, time it, and so on. At least today, I could drastically decrease my times this way ( I'm more or less 40:xx-ish, so there's big room for improvement ). I found that the solve I timed was done with ease and calm to get faster times in the end. Not a revelation since I did it 5 times before. But the good point in doing this, is to show yourself you can go further, and more importantly, you can work on one thing at a time. Today, most of the time, out of 5 solves, the 3 last ones were almost always identical. In the first one I take my time to get a good cross, then find the best F2L pair, solve the F2L with as few cube rotations as possible and so on. On the one or two next solves I usually found out one or two details I might have missed on the previous solves which allows me to optimise it a little, and sometimes find better way to solve my F2L pairs.
I'll keep doing a few of these everyday for the next two weeks, see how it helps and will come back to give feedback. Did anyone already try something similar ? Any comment or suggestion is appreciated.
So the idea was to actually work on one piece at a time. Therefore I just do the same scramble 5 times, then time it, move to another one that I solve 5 times, time it, and so on. At least today, I could drastically decrease my times this way ( I'm more or less 40:xx-ish, so there's big room for improvement ). I found that the solve I timed was done with ease and calm to get faster times in the end. Not a revelation since I did it 5 times before. But the good point in doing this, is to show yourself you can go further, and more importantly, you can work on one thing at a time. Today, most of the time, out of 5 solves, the 3 last ones were almost always identical. In the first one I take my time to get a good cross, then find the best F2L pair, solve the F2L with as few cube rotations as possible and so on. On the one or two next solves I usually found out one or two details I might have missed on the previous solves which allows me to optimise it a little, and sometimes find better way to solve my F2L pairs.
I'll keep doing a few of these everyday for the next two weeks, see how it helps and will come back to give feedback. Did anyone already try something similar ? Any comment or suggestion is appreciated.
