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I have been timing my F2L and cross. I am basically about 8 seconds average on cross and about 40 second F2L. The biggest problem I have is finding pairs especially the second and third. I'm sure this comes at least partially from having bad cross times which leads to no cross look ahead.
 
don't time your self... Seriously when you are slow with f2l the best thing is to go away from the timer and just try to be as efficient as possible.

EDIT: Will you be coming to Lawrence pysph3r? If so I will help you with F2L and your cross.

P.S don't think your to slow to go to comp. Learn at the meet up Saturday and look up stuff on youtube. At your times you should improve fairly quick and why not go to comp?
 
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It's just a weird Hangul that I have. I know I could go but I don't want to be doing minute long solves while other people do 20 seconds.

You are probably right about f2l and timing. My biggest problem is pair recognition which is easier practiced without a timer.
 
Psyph3r said:
It's just a weird Hangul that I have. I know I could go but I don't want to be doing minute long solves while other people do 20 seconds.

You are probably right about f2l and timing. My biggest problem is pair recognition which is easier practiced without a timer.
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Ah don't worry about it. You'll probably easily be sub 50 by then and the last competition in Lawrence had 8 people that averaged higher than 50. I think if you want to go, you should go. Don't worry about your times. It's just a fun experience whether you are fast or not. Doing untimed solves do help because then you feel less pressured by the timer.
 
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Let's see how I progress. If I can get to an Ao12 of sub 50 by then I will compete. Otherwise I will just hold off until the next one.
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If you go I and others (that are much faster than me) can help you. No one will judge you and if they do remind them that they were at that stage too. I can send you a TON of links of fast people saying that if you can solve it in under 10 minutes go! Here is one buy Noah Arthurs a good cuber and big on youtube. It's the FIRST thing he talks about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI0xfY5N0ZU He says it a lot better than I could. Watch the rest too as it's a good video
 
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If you go I and others (that are much faster than me) can help you. No one will judge you and if they do remind them that they were at that stage too. I can send you a TON of links of fast people saying that if you can solve it in under 10 minutes go! Here is one buy Noah Arthurs a good cuber and big on youtube. It's the FIRST thing he talks about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI0xfY5N0ZU He says it a lot better than I could. Watch the rest too as it's a good video
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That was a very good video. I like the part where it says not to give up haha because I feel like F2L is a mountain.
 
Great meetup this morning. Had a corner table at Lamar's and Dan's gang, Rocky, Myself, and Girl Cuber showed up. Had a nice little discussion about cubing. Some 3x3 races and a big 6 cube relay. I really enjoyed meeting all of you and want to meet back up soon.
 
I bought you a cube haha. I learned a lot. It is hard to learn anything specific in an hour but Rocky and I talked about look ahead quite a bit and how to get down with practicing F2L.
 
With the level you are at you really should not be to concerned with look ahead. While it's not bad simply drilling f2l and slow solving are what you should focus on now. Learning is different for every one so take this with a grain of salt

EDIT: Thank you for buying the cube! One thing is how will we recognize each other at the comp? You guys have met but you don't know what I look like and there is supposed to be close to 100 people there (or was it 80 projected?) Do you know you will be wearing something? We could chose a place to meet up or something. IDK open to suggestions

We could make a KCubing sign like at airport pick up :p
 
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biscuit said:
With the level you are at you really should not be to concerned with look ahead. While it's not bad simply drilling f2l and slow solving are what you should focus on now. Learning is different for every one so take this with a grain of salt

EDIT: Thank you for buying the cube! One thing is how will we recognize each other at the comp? You guys have met but you don't know what I look like and there is supposed to be close to 100 people there (or was it 80 projected?) Do you know you will be wearing something? We could chose a place to meet up or something. IDK open to suggestions

We could make a KCubing sign like at airport pick up :p
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I guess I do agree with what you're saying about look ahead. It really only comes into play when you already can recognize and execute cases pretty fast, because it's better to do that than to try looking for the next pair at your speed.

Since I haven't met you yet either Biscuit I think we should all post on here what we'll wear a day or two before hand so it's easier to recognize each other like that. I will probably just hang out at a table with Dan and his kids and whoever else is at the table anyway, so you should be able to find me.

Dan was thinking that it would be cool to do one more meetup like a week or so before the comp just for fun so maybe we could do that too.
 
I will see if I can come but getting out there can be a bit tough with the schedule our family has. It's possible I might be able to come with a friend of ours but she ha a life too

also I just got this pyra scramble U L' B R r' u' got a 5.28 which is a PB (yeah I stink)
 
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5.28 is nothing to snub your nose at. My PB pyra is like 1:20 haha... then again I don't actually know how to solve it yet so it is just me playing with the pyra trying to figure it out.
 
I agree with the lookahead thing. But recognizing cases and the like will come with time. The main things that are killing my times right now are not being able to find the 2 cubies for the F2L pair and doing dumb things like unslotting and splitting solved pairs. The first comes through look ahead and the second comes through not being dumb haha.
 
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