How long did it take for you to get sub 20 seconds?

pcwiz · Mar 23, 2008

Hi Everybody

I get an average of one minute per solve (I use LBL method) and I'm wondering how long it took you speedcubers to get sub 20 seconds from when you started to solve the Rubik's Cube. I'm starting to learn Fridrich and those algorithms I've learned helped me a lot. So when you guys got sub 20, did you know full fridrich or what?

hinges · Mar 23, 2008

i suggest you use the search function for these type of queries cause they have been asked a lot times (me included)...

well this how it breaks down...

after learning the f2l you start learning the 2,3 and 4 look for the last layer...(use the search for this)

meaning slowly learning all the algs...thats it...

and after you got the basic 4LLL down you go for learing all the plls then all the olls...

though you can get sub 20 w/o all the olls and plls...

and the time taken to get to sub 20 depends on practice really...you wont get magically sub 20 even if you know full fridrich...

depends more upon the cuber than the method...

i am by no means a sub 20 solver...when i came to the forum i couldnt go down from 1:30 and now i am averaging abt 45-48 secs...and thats because i havent really got down my looking ahead thing...else i can get sub 35 (did separate time for each stage)

currently i am learning all the plls (10/21)

guess its practice that plays the big role than anything else....

pcwiz · Mar 23, 2008

I know all of that already

1. I searched these forums "getting sub 20" and I found no results.

2. I didn't ask HOW to get sub 20, I ask how LONG did it take for someone to get sub 20.

3. I already know all the steps to getting sub 20, I've posted it before.....

(No offense for all of this

)

hinges · Mar 23, 2008

well uhmmm then my bad...but ill stick to what i said...depends on the cuber mostly...

Crzyazn · Mar 23, 2008

It's taken me 3.5 months to get down to sub30 with average of 25....

progress is painful now >_<

Todd · Mar 23, 2008

There was a very similar topic a month or two ago....

And it all depends on the cuber and how much time they have.

Personally it took me like 8 months or something, but i only get say 2 hours a week to cube. In the other topic like this there were people who got sub 20 in 2 months...

pcwiz · Mar 23, 2008

Sorry

hinges said:
well uhmmm then my bad...but ill stick to what i said...depends on the cuber mostly...

I'm sorry I was kind of mean saying all that. But great advice!

pcwiz · Mar 23, 2008

Okay

Todd said:
There was a very similar topic a month or two ago....

And it all depends on the cuber and how much time they have.

Personally it took me like 8 months or something, but i only get say 2 hours a week to cube. In the other topic like this there were people who got sub 20 in 2 months...

I joined like a week ago and I didn't find anything in the searches...

How do you know how long you cube? Do you set aside 2 hours every week?

No I'm just kidding.

Oh okay well I don't get to cube a lot (although I do it at school and my friends telling me "get off the cube!" everyday) so it'll probably take me like 4 months.....

pcwiz · Mar 23, 2008

Thanks for replying!

Crzyazn said:
It's taken me 3.5 months to get down to sub30 with average of 25....

progress is painful now >_<

Thanks for replying!

alexc · Mar 24, 2008

It took me about 130 days, so about 4 months.

Leviticus · Mar 24, 2008

it took me to get a single sub 20 solve about 3-3.5 months

ExoCorsair · Mar 24, 2008

I'm not there yet, not consistently. Full PLL, something like 13/57 OLL learned...

First sub-20 solve was probably close to 10 months of speedsolving.

Lofty · Mar 24, 2008

my first sub-20 average I think took me about 9 months. But I wasn't cubing for a couple of those months and already was sub-25 OH (if i remember correctly)

jtjogobonito · Mar 24, 2008

It took me about 10 months to get a sub 20 average. I knew all PLLs and 20 or so OLLs.

Lotsofsloths · Mar 24, 2008

jtjogobonito said:
It took me about 10 months to get a sub 20 average. I knew all PLLs and 20 or so OLLs.

Its gonna take me another month to get a consistent sub 20 average, so about 7-10 months would be ideal.

Arget · Mar 24, 2008

My first sub twenty solve was this month so three months, but i'm still around a 27 second average.

Durben · May 13, 2008

It took me two months to get a sub-20 average.
Now I'm averaging sub-15. But I don't know all the OLL yet.

Harry · May 13, 2008

Durben said:
It took me two months to get a sub-20 average.
Now I'm averaging sub-15. But I don't know all the OLL yet.

How come? Are you skipping school for cubing

Just joking

pcwiz said:
Oh okay well I don't get to cube a lot (although I do it at school and my friends telling me "get off the cube!" everyday) so it'll probably take me like 4 months.....

Oh yeah me too

.....

Durben · May 13, 2008

It's summer here and I have nothing to do so I cube all day. Even though my hands are already tired.....
I was still averaging 24-26 seconds last month in my first competition (look at my WCA profile).... But I made it to Sub-15 this week.

fanwuq · May 13, 2008

Durben said:
It's summer here and I have nothing to do so I cube all day. Even though my hands are already tired.....
I was still averaging 24-26 seconds last month in my first competition (look at my WCA profile).... But I made it to Sub-15 this week.

That's amazing! Last summer, I cubed every day and was stuck at 1 min (LBL) with no improvement. Learning new methods did reduce my times a lot. I don't really practice speedsolving constantly though. Most of the time, I randomly play with the cube or don't have it with me.

How long did it take for you to get sub 20 seconds?

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