Between "speedsolver" and "n00b"

[Crzyazn]

Yeah i started cubing about 3 months ago and just recently got the courage the join a cubing forum.

So i've managed to learn intuitive F2L with 3 Look LL and my times have gotten down to around 32sec.

But it appears that improvement has slowed to a crawl.

Here's a video of an example solve by me, to help the real pros give me some tips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUTus_uY1Vw

 

[Brian Le]

Practice, practice, practice.

 

[Leo]

The best thing you can do at that point, which is the stage I just recently got out of, is to slow down and practice looking ahead. You'll soon be able to look ahead while going fast.

 

[fw]

I think 32 sec is pretty good for 3 months.. I was not even close to 32 sec after 3 months Just keep practicing and be patient!

 

[Dcuber]

that's fast for f3 months (me 4months
speed up ur f2l, i think that's ur main prob. SLOW DOWN AND LOOK AHEAD~Macky
be sure to move imediatly to 3 look last layer
overall~superior (for three months)
u can easily get sub 25

 

[RobinBloehm]

I was at your stage about 3 weeks ago, what helped me most were really slow F2L parts, everytime I had no timer available. That cut another 5 seconds off of my times and now I'm at 27-28 seconds average-average (signature is out of date, have to update it soon ).
Maybe you should look for some stupid F2L cases that annoy you and learn algorithms for them. But again, slow down, as I saw in your video, you raced through a single F2L-pair, then stopped up to two and a half (!) seconds (second F2L-pair) - took as long as inserting the pair.

So F2L is the part to work on, your cross looked not that fluently, too, so perhaps you should try some "blind-crosses" from time to time to practice this, but it's maybe this particular solve only.

I cannot give you any tips on last layer, maybe someone else has got some, I average about 10 seconds for 3-look last layer, currently learning Full-OLL, so maybe this can cut 2-3 seconds

 

[sahunhong]

hey... i got 26 secs at 1 month

cross not too fast.... work on that. try to have it < 3 secs..

good luck!!

 

[Todd]

Hey we have the same keyboard (except mine is HP branded, but hp=compaq)


Anyway.

I was at about 35-30 seconds after months and i was stuck there for a while.

My suggestions:
Lube ur cube
Learn PLL
Get quicker at F2L
Learn OLL

And really just practice. We all get stuck on various averages...

 

[Lotsofsloths]

I use the same method as you do and average 22ish.
So there is about 10 seconds of improvement.
First things first: IMPROVE your F2l, its a really good way to shave off 3 seconds if you know what your doing.
I know saying looking ahead is kind of blank so I'll put it this way: Try and solve 2 pairs with the same consistency as one pair, that concept REALLY helped me when I was averaging 32ish.
As for your last layer, practice and make up finger tricks that fit your hands along with the algorithm your using, that will be a good advantage also.

 

[Todd]

So you can average 22 with a 3 look last layer?

 

[AvGalen]

People can average far below 20 with a 3 look last layer.

I have averaged 23.5 with a 4 look last layer and keyhole and I am a slow twister!