Anyone have an explanation for this?

[pelnied]

Yesterday my best time was 52 seconds with an average of about 1 minute. Today i just picked up my cube and timer and the first solve was 47.9 smashing my best time. I was so excited and just now i solved it and got 46.44 then 44.26. So i now have my best ever time 8 seconds better than my previous record and idk how i got it. Im just turning so fast now and im getting like an average of 50 seconds. I still need to learn 2 Look OLL and maybe Fridrich F2L soon so how do u guys think my time will be then?

 

[PCwizCube]

Congratulations on your progress! It's a great feeling.

When you first learn Fridrich F2L, your times will temporarily get worse (maybe by 10-20 seconds). But if you practice hard, in a few days your times will start to get better.

 

[pelnied]

at the moment i barely understand Fridrich F2L and it takes me about 5 minutes just to solve F2L with it at the moment and havnt spent more than 10 minutes with the videos and trying along. but in the future i should be good at it.

 

[PatrickJameson]

You'll get that sometimes. Sometimes you will be stuck at a time for weeks without getting any better then all of a sudden you will be getting amazing times. Just keep at it, you'll keep improving.

 

[pelnied]

thanks guys, so whats some things to remember with the Fridrich F2L? i kinda understand how you want to do it but am having trouble orienting the corners and then getting the edges behind them right and dont understand how you would put the egde behind the corner without messing up other corners

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Yeah, when you're still slow (50+), you will eat through your times. There were a few occasions where this sort of thing happened to me

 

[DcF1337]

I think this is normal. Last year, when I just started cubing, when I first timed myself I was 2:30+. The next time I timed myself (which was a few days later), I was 1:30.

You'll reach sub 40 in no time!

 

[d4m4s74]

I got from 56 to 45 average in one day too, (though I use LBL)
the day before I even got a 31
It probably happens pretty often

 

[cubedrummer67]

It's totally normal to fluctuate like that, especially in the beginning stages of speedcubing. When I started cubing, I went from 4 minutes to 2 minutes in one day, and got progressively better each day. Fridrich F2l is awesome if learned and practiced correctly. It takes a lot of discipline, and the most important thing to develop when learning Fridrich f2l is look ahead. Look ahead is basically just looking ahead while solving to see what you have to do next, thus being prepared for it and preventing stall times (when you have to stop and look around to see what to do). The best way to practice looking ahead is to do a lot of slow solving. That is to say, turn the cube slowly and practice finding the next pieces you will use while placing others. I know I kind of went off into a big f2l lecture there, so I'll just stop right now.