Am I ready for...

[fourdown00]

Am i ready for competitions? i am averaging in the high 40's with the beginners method and I am having trouble transitioning to the fridrich method (can do it in about a minute twenty) totally intuitively. Thanks guys, and and comps near the Albany NY area?

 

[ExoCorsair]

You can never be too slow for competitions.

 

[Zaxol]

I always thought competitions were to have a good time and meet fellow cubers. Just like ExoCorsair said you really can't be too slow for competitions.

 

[jeff081692]

I have never been to one but I would imagine going would make you better because you meet all these great people that are fast and it might give you motivation to try a little harder and you would improve quickly.

 

[Lofty]

Go, I'm sure by watching other people and talking to them you can pick up a few tricks to help you get faster.
Everyone is a winner as long as you have fun!

 

[adragast]

I agree with previous answers... you are NOT too slow.

 

[Mike Hughey]

Actually, I slightly disagree with Exo here. If you can't solve the cube in less than 10 minutes, you're probably too slow to enter competitions. But if you can do it in less than 10 minutes, you're not too slow. So you definitely have nothing to worry about.

I'm still hoping I can talk my wife into entering the Virginia Open, and she had an average last week in our online competition of seven and a half minutes! But I must admit that I'm hoping she will be better than that by then. I'm hoping she can beat 4 minutes by then. (I want to enter competition times for this category: http://www.speedcubing.com/records/recs_fun_husbandwife.html.)

 

[masterofthebass]

I'm going to address the other part of you're question. There will be a competition at Cornell in the spring (from what I'm told from the members of the cube club there). Ithaca is relatively close to Albany from what I can remember. You should definitely come, and you will probably be better by then too.

 

[fourdown00]

about 3 hours i think, thanks

 

[Meeko]

Although you are solving the cube at 1 min 20 secs w/ fridrich method now, with practice you'll get used to it and soon be sub 1 min. I started on September 21st this year and now my average with fridrich is sub 35.

 

[fourdown00]

did you memorize?