How to practice

[cxinlee]

Wrong. If you get wrist pain, rest immediately. Unless you enjoy pain and want it for a few weeks...

I believe it may be permanant.

 

[mark49152]

I believe it may be permanant.

Not necessarily, although if you get it once you might be at higher risk of getting it again.

 

[TomH]

Why am I so inconsistent?

I average just under 30 seconds frequently, normally around 27-28 seconds. The problem is, my consistency is terrible. My last average of 12 ranged between a 23.21 and a 34.44. how can i work on this? i understand practice makes perfect, but has anyone else had this problem, and if so, how did you fix it?

 

[applemobile]

Consistency comes with time. Presumably you use cfop, untill you have every pll and OLL at the same speed, you will always be inconsistent.

 

[TheNextFeliks]

I average just under 30 seconds frequently, normally around 27-28 seconds. The problem is, my consistency is terrible. My last average of 12 ranged between a 23.21 and a 34.44. how can i work on this? i understand practice makes perfect, but has anyone else had this problem, and if so, how did you fix it?

I am at the same point and same scenario. Just practice I guess.

 

[Ross The Boss]

lol, i was thinking about making the same thred. my times range between 15 and 27 seconds some times. i sure it will balance out eventually.

 

[TomH]

awesome, thanks c: figured it was the olls and plls. in the process of getting all of my plls memorized right now. And yea i searched the topic and no one else was talking about the problem and it was kind of discouraging xD glad to know its normal!

 

[Divineskulls]

I've noticed that some people are just naturally more consistent than others. I'm very inconsistent with every event I practice. For 3x3, I range from 11 second avg5s to 15 second avg5s sometimes. Even with megaminx, a normal avg12 for me has 3-4 sup-1:00s and 4-5 sub-55s. I know some people that are super consistent, and have always been that way. One person off the top of my head is Chris Wall, whose PBs(5/12/100) for mega are within like 3 seconds of each other, which I think is insane.

The good thing about being inconsistent, though, is that you can get singles that are much faster than your avgs. The bad thing is obviously that someone who is inconsistent doesn't get avgs that are...well...consistent.

tl;dr If you are naturally inconsistent, sometimes you can't help it.

But at your level, it's very possible that you'll become way more consistent with practice.

 

[hkpnkp]

how can i increase my finger speed ?

 

[Escher]

Just get as familiar as possible with turning the cube quickly, whether thats through drilling your PLLs or just holding it and turning randomly as fast as you can while you do something else like watch TV... You're training a set of muscles, just like any other physical hobby - it will come with time and repetition.

 

[brian724080]

how can i increase my finger speed ?

I could achieve 10+ TPS in a few days of getting my cube, because I play piano and cello. If you don't, you just have to drill your finger tricks.

 

[hkpnkp]

Just get as familiar as possible with turning the cube quickly, whether thats through drilling your PLLs or just holding it and turning randomly as fast as you can while you do something else like watch TV... You're training a set of muscles, just like any other physical hobby - it will come with time and repetition.

thanks

 

[pichuncha]

Thanks for this information. This was really helpful for me!!!!!

 

[cubingboss]

I would like to be sub-20.
My cross is about 3-5 seconds.
My F2L is about 10 seconds.
My LL is about 8 seconds.
What should I practice?

 

[Escher]

I would like to be sub-20.
My cross is about 3-5 seconds.
My F2L is about 10 seconds.
My LL is about 8 seconds.
What should I practice?

Well, you should realise that this information doesn't tell me what you need to practise - perhaps that's something I should add to the OP.

Some generic advice would be to work on getting your f2l to 12 seconds - this doesn't require learning; just creativity and lots of repetition and play. Figure out new tricks for your crosses, test different approaches, learn how to use keyhole etc. Just have fun basically. Then you can improve your last layer with simple learned material easily.

 

[jeff081692]

I would like to be sub-20.
My cross is about 3-5 seconds.
My F2L is about 10 seconds.
My LL is about 8 seconds.
What should I practice?

If that is the way you want to go about getting better, then from another thread a generic breakdown of your solves should strive to be around 12% cross, 62% F2L including cross, and 38% last layer.
for 20 seconds that would be

Cross: 2.40
F2L (including cross): 12.4
LL: 7.6

extra stuff
F2L no cross: 10
Cross+1: 4.9

compare those numbers to yours and see what is most off and there you go.

I know a lot of people say just do full solves since you practice everything but every once in a while I check my solves against the ratios of arbitrary goals and focus on that step more closely during my solves and check out reconstructions and slow down videos of fast cubers to see if I can pick up any new ways of executing certain movements that are awkward for me.

 

[CriticalCubing]

How you found that ? Can you give me a link ?

If that is the way you want to go about getting better, then from another thread a generic breakdown of your solves should strive to be around 12% cross, 62% F2L including cross, and 38% last layer.
for 20 seconds that would be

Cross: 2.40
F2L (including cross): 12.4
LL: 7.6

extra stuff
F2L no cross: 10
Cross+1: 4.9

compare those numbers to yours and see what is most off and there you go.

I know a lot of people say just do full solves since you practice everything but every once in a while I check my solves against the ratios of arbitrary goals and focus on that step more closely during my solves and check out reconstructions and slow down videos of fast cubers to see if I can pick up any new ways of executing certain movements that are awkward for me.

 

[jeff081692]

How you found that ? Can you give me a link ?

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/s...bing-training-that-yields-systematic-progress

 

[CriticalCubing]

Thanks a Lot

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/s...bing-training-that-yields-systematic-progress

 

[suhoon]

Helped a lot!
Thanks!