Am I progressing well?

[Innocence]

I would say the biggest barrier you have is practise. There is no reason you should not be sub20 after a year of solid cubing... unless you have not been cubing solidly.

I have been cubing for a year.

Solidly?

 

[kprox1994]

I would say the biggest barrier you have is practise. There is no reason you should not be sub20 after a year of solid cubing... unless you have not been cubing solidly.

I have been cubing for a year.

Solidly?

I guess not enough. Fairly solidly, I took a break for about 2 months though. I haven't put all that much time into learning new algs. I have been putting off 1-look pll for a while now.

 

[FatBoyXPC]

How much practice a day would you call sufficient? My look ahead is terrible, but I made an F2L cube with all LL stickers removed (of course except the center on the D [well technically now U face?]). I find that my times for F2L have been consistently better than 19 seconds (which for a little while I was hitting 17s F2L but then it went up to 19-21 out of nowhere...even when going slow...), usually 15ish. Now my problem is that my stickers are different shades of colors than my tiles (full cube) so whenever I do a full solve my F2L is usually terrible (22s or so).

I'll soon be getting some new cubes, and it clearly shows I need to practice with my full cube as well as F2L cube.

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

Sorry to spill the beans, but the 1 look last layer was a joke. A reasonable step for you is 1 look PLL and 2 look OLL (one to flip a couple edges, if needed, so you have all edges good or all bad, then one look to orient the remaining cubies).

 

[bigbee99]

to just answer your question, you should be a little bit faster. In my opinion, you should be around 30.xx

 

[JeffDelucia]

Honestly full PLL is well worth the time. Id say that if you learned full pll and practiced your f2l a bit you could be sub 25 easy.

 

[jackdexter75]

I am almost sub 15 and only know 2 look LL.

Wow you of all people can't do 1-look LL?

last time I checked 2 look ll was 1 loook pll and 1 look oll.... and 1 look LL is not very common??

 

[jackdexter75]

To be quite plain with you. You are a little under avg. I'm under 25 sec and I've only been speedcubing for maybe two months. Cubing in general for 4. But just keep at it we all grow at different rates. As do we get faster at different rates. Just keep it up. =)

 

[AngeL]

Honestly, I don't think its about the length of time you've been at it as much as the quality of practice you've been putting in. From your posts, it sounds like you haven't been at it for hours every day in a really concentrated way. So, yes, you have been cubing for a year, but its not the same year as someone who was consistently practicing faster methods, doing 50 solves every day, etc.

The good news is that you already have decent times and lots of experience, so if you WANT those sub-30 and 20 times, you're already partway there. So, increase your practice time, but don't just make it idle practice. It needs to be concentrated, focused practice. Do 50 solves a day, but don't just rush through them as fast as possible. Slow down, make smooth and calculated moves, and try to improve your look ahead as much as possible. ESPECIALLY on F2l. Really, you shouldn't even need to look at your current F2L pair while you're solving them. You should just know how to solve it and already be on the lookout for the next pair and how to solve them. If you're not at that point yet, slow down and really focus on look-ahead. It's the fastest way to drop time off.

 

[Bierproever]

Honestly, I don't think its about the length of time you've been at it as much as the quality of practice you've been putting in. From your posts, it sounds like you haven't been at it for hours every day in a really concentrated way. So, yes, you have been cubing for a year, but its not the same year as someone who was consistently practicing faster methods, doing 50 solves every day, etc.

The good news is that you already have decent times and lots of experience, so if you WANT those sub-30 and 20 times, you're already partway there. So, increase your practice time, but don't just make it idle practice. It needs to be concentrated, focused practice. Do 50 solves a day, but don't just rush through them as fast as possible. Slow down, make smooth and calculated moves, and try to improve your look ahead as much as possible. ESPECIALLY on F2l. Really, you shouldn't even need to look at your current F2L pair while you're solving them. You should just know how to solve it and already be on the lookout for the next pair and how to solve them. If you're not at that point yet, slow down and really focus on look-ahead. It's the fastest way to drop time off.

Some very solid advice^^, blindfolded cross also helps!!

 

[dada222]

Intuitive F2L is slower at first, but when you get used to it gets so fast. Just practice.