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Breaking sub-30 on 3x3

theace said:
I see! Thanks! Any advice for my 4x4?
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Try to sub-20 your centers and get your edges down below a minute. 4x4 is nearly all about look ahead once you learn how to solve it. I average about 1:40 which is right around you iirc. I know there's times I spend 5-8 seconds looking for the piece I need. Also drill your parity algs. If they're really slow they can add a lot of time to your solves.
 
what's iirc? Sorry but I'm quite the noob when it comes to acronyms!

So should I be slowing down while edging? Also, i use 2 edge pairing around the E slice. Should I stick to that or is there something that is more efficient. My long term goal is to sub 1 the 4x4. I love that cube!

Here's how I go about the entire thing:

White and yellow centeres followed by blue, red and green - orange in that order, always.

Position 2 edges on the e slice. Then, the one on the uw slice should have it's corresponding edge on the fw slice OR the one on the dw should have the corresponding on the bw slice on the opposite side. Then use the pairing move.

Is this fine or is there a better way to go about this? The f2l style 4 pairing slows me down to about 3 minutes as does m slice pairing. I can get centeres and edges done in sub 1:10 on most good solves. I have some sub 1s sometimes too. I lock up a lot during parity. I use the x4
 
danthecuber said:
I knew that it was sarcasm, I just didn't want the OP to think so. N00bies can't take that type of sarcasm, they just want an answer.
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danthecuber

1. You are a NOOb.
2. You are continuously regurgitating what you have read in other posts, but it is clear that in a lot of cases you have no first hand information.
3. Your main objective appears to be to get your post count high.
4. NOObs may well want an answer, but rather than get an informed answer, they get you.
5. It's time to stop posting.
 
danthecuber said:
If you clicked on find all posts you would see that he posted 20 hours ago.
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So, you said I was misinformed?

I clearly said, "I haven't seen him post," which doesn't mean someone informed me, nor that I said he doesn't post.
I clearly said that I am the one to not have seen him post.

:fp
There you go again, posting links to prove nothing.


Oh, and that other link of yours didn't have an "All posts" section.
Just this: "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms."
 
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devoblue said:
danthecuber

1. You are a NOOb.
2. You are continuously regurgitating what you have read in other posts, but it is clear that in a lot of cases you have no first hand information.
3. Your main objective appears to be to get your post count high.
4. NOObs may well want an answer, but rather than get an informed answer, they get you.
5. It's time to stop posting.
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I find it funny that danthecuber chose to ignore your post but continued to respond to ElectricDoodie's. So I guess I'll hop in here. danthecuber. Stop posting uselessly. You may answer one or two noobs questions correctly but all you do is link to another, more informed persons post. STOP POSTING. Did you get that? In case you didn't here it is again:


STOP POSTING

You don't know much about cubing. I'm not trying to be mean when I say that but I've been for over half of a year and I don't know all that much about cubing relative to some of our veteran members here. Learn from the veteran members and emulate them. By this I mean look at somebody like Chris Hardwick or Mike Hughey. Easily some of the most helpful members here. They can actually discuss many different topics from juggling to speedcubing to BLD to other random things in depth. Until you can respond to someones question without having to link someone elses response stop posting.

One more time for ya:


STOP POSTING
 
danthecuber said:
You're turning into a new lolben

I knew that it was sarcasm, I just didn't want the OP to think so. N00bies can't take that type of sarcasm, they just want an answer.
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:fp

So Doodle is faking his times? If you were trying to insult him I would have gone with the insult that hes the new TK421. But hes not. What I said has truth to it. You post way too much for your level of knowledge.
 
Sorry for derailing back to the topic but...

Twix said:
...and take like 6 sec on one of the harder pll's like the (G) perms, those get me the most.
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You should definitely work on your G Perms (since they come up 2/9 times), other than the y turns the main body of the G perm is super smooth on each of them. Try watching some slow execution videos by people like Breandan (Jammyman3014 on youtube) to get better finger tricks for them.
 
Tips on getting sub 30?

Okay, so I have been cubing for about two months (I learned how to solve one a few years ago, but only in the last 2 months have I been speedcubing) and have gotten my average to the 37-39 range, but want to get sub 30 for my average.

I usually finish my F2L in slightly under 30 seconds and then use 2 look OLL and 2 look PLL. Besides memorizing the full OLL and the full PLL, any tips for getting my average down to sub 30?

Thanks!
 
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