[Help Thread] CFOP Discussion

Dude, I have the same problem, I learned everything you said, but I'm at about a minute as well. I only have a storebought, so I just bought a lingyun, thinking it was the cube, but I guess not. Whats a good schedule to practice though? Like how often a day, how long, how many times a week?
 
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Thank you very much

mmitchev said:
Dude, I have the same problem, I learned everything you said, but I'm at about a minute as well. I only have a storebought, so I just bought a lingyun, thinking it was the cube, but I guess not. Whats a good schedule to practice though? Like how often a day, how long, how many times a week?
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That depends on your goals, how much free time you have and how quickly you tire. I personally only practiced for maybe an hour and a half each day during the school year, but I am doing about 3-4 hours now that school is out. I would say that if you want to get better quickly, you need to either practice more or learn how to practice efficiently for more info see :http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?27870-How-to-practice . I try to do both if possible.There is no one answer however.
 
jskyler91 said:
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That depends on your goals, how much free time you have and how quickly you tire. I personally only practiced for maybe an hour and a half each day during the school year, but I am doing about 3-4 hours now that school is out. I would say that if you want to get better quickly, you need to either practice more or learn how to practice efficiently for more info see :http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?27870-How-to-practice . I try to do both if possible.There is no one answer however.
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sometimes i can cube for 5 hours straight but other times i find it hard to stay on task, and i get sidetracked. Any suggestions?
 
mmitchev said:
sometimes i can cube for 5 hours straight but other times i find it hard to stay on task, and i get sidetracked. Any suggestions?
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Well first of all, make sure to read that thread I linked you to, because I would probably repeat all of that to you. In general, know what you want from speedcubing and have an achievable goal. If you want to beat Felik's wr that's great but first set a slightly lower (higher in times) goal. If you are at 1 minute, make it your goal to be sub 45 by the end of 1 month. If you practice a reasonable amount (1-2 hours) a day, this should happen. Then for the next month make it maybe sub 35 or 40 and continue like that til you feel that you are happy with you times. Just realize that once you hit sub 25 you will need to start expecting less of a time change (maybe 1-2 seconds a month) and after you hit sub 15 you will need to do some serious practice/learning to advance at all.

One important thing though is to make sure that you are constantly learning new things and critiquing yourself. Youtube and this site's Wiki is your best friend for information. Don't be too hard on yourself, it will all come with practice. There will be many days where you will be stuck at the same time , but just keep practicing and make sure to record yourself so that you can see your pauses and flaws. Also watching other fast cubers can help you as well.

As to the concentrating thing I would just say have a goal and don't just do solves ad nausium, actually practice what you are doing.

Hope this helps
 
I'd say it is just a matter of practice... you are using a good method, and sub-40 is definitely not unreasonable to ask for. But it is difficult to "cram" to replace practice. My first solve was like 10 minutes, and then as I practiced, my recognition times naturally went down for my method, and my turning became smoother. I didn't even practice a lot... maybe thirty minutes a day, tops. Before I knew it, I was at 45 seconds. You just have to let everything sink in. But since then, progress has slowed a bit. Strangely enough, slow-turning may help your times too by reducing recognition time and pauses in the solve.
 
General tips for speedcubing?

Hello fellow speedcubers! (I don't know if I can call myself this actually).

I have been rubik's cubing for a while and I have managed to get myself under the 30s bracket but I can in no way manage to get under 30 seconds. I have been using the fridrich method all along and am using the official cube from the rubiks cube company. I would appreciate it if you guys could give me some general tips on how to increase speed, I am also open to learning new methods if that will decrease time.

Thanks!
 
peatar said:
I have managed to get myself under the 30s bracket but I can in no way manage to get under 30 seconds.
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Uh what?

Anyway, it seems like you're doing pretty well :). You say you're using the fridrich method, but are you using full oll/pll? 2look? intuative or alg f2l?
From just knowing your times (which I'm not even sure I do) it's hard to tell you what you need to improve.
There's sooooooooo many threads like this and about 5 have been made in the past week so it'd be best to just search for some other threads like this and take the advice others have given that relate to what you need to do.
 
Search funtion and forum browsing all the way.

Also check out Badmephisto's youtube channel, starting with "how to become a speedcuber".
Then you'll immeadeately know some of the lingo and can tell us about your LL method.
 
Help Needed!

Hi, I'm having trouble getting faster... I know 6 OLLs, 4 PLLs, intuitive F2L. I could do the cross, OLL and PLL as fast as the average cuber, but my real problem is at F2L. Any tips for tracking a pair? Any tips/tricks in general? I seem to take a long time when searching for the next pair I find. I've known F2L for at least 2 weeks now, and I am desperate to get better. Heellp me! Thanks in advance! -doompickle
 
doompickle said:
Hi, I'm having trouble getting faster... I know 6 OLLs, 4 PLLs, intuitive F2L. I could do the cross, OLL and PLL as fast as the average cuber, but my real problem is at F2L. Any tips for tracking a pair? Any tips/tricks in general? I seem to take a long time when searching for the next pair I find. I've known F2L for at least 2 weeks now, and I am desperate to get better. Heellp me! Thanks in advance! -doompickle
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If you have a lot of trouble tracking a pair, the issue is that you haven't practiced enough. As stated by Sahid Velji, 2 weeks for intuitive F2L is not that much, and the more you practice the better you'll be at finding pairs, and the faster you'll get. Practice for a few months (I know, sounds like a lot, but not really) and I'm pretty sure your F2L time will drop by a lot. Also, once you get decently fast at F2L (cross + F2L = 15-25 seconds), I highly recommend to start learning looking ahead, if you haven't already. It's a CRUCIAL technique that you NEED to learn to be able to be fast and if you get good at it, it will help you A LOT.

Also, as stated by Sahid Velji too you should be more patient and just practice a lot more. There are many people on these forums who practice everyday for months and only improve by like 2 seconds or less, so don't complain! :D

Hope that helps!
PCwizCube
 
doompickle said:
Hi, I'm having trouble getting faster... I know 6 OLLs, 4 PLLs, intuitive F2L. I could do the cross, OLL and PLL as fast as the average cuber, but my real problem is at F2L. Any tips for tracking a pair? Any tips/tricks in general? I seem to take a long time when searching for the next pair I find. I've known F2L for at least 2 weeks now, and I am desperate to get better. Heellp me! Thanks in advance! -doompickle
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Step One: Calm down, no one can get F2L in 2 weeks. It took me a few weeks just to UNDERSTAND F2L.

anyway, I'm sure people have said this over a hundred to a thousand times, maybe more, but seriously slow down. When you are putting in a pair don't be like:
"OMGOMGOMG ITS A SUPER EASY CASE SO I CAN EXECUTE IT RLLY FAST!!!..........-_- crap, where's the next pair?"

You slow down your execution, increasing your recognition time causing better lookahead, so that you don't stall to look for the next pair.

Another mistake some cubers do is that when they see a very easy case, they go really happy and it's like an adrenaline rush. All of a sudden, they go VERY happy and say "OMG EASY CASE" and then, they forget what to do. An easy cross? Sure, but never forget to track other pieces WHILE enjoying your victory of easy cases.
 
Sg.Speedcuber said:
any websites for x-cross?
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i actually dont recommend learning x cross because it waste more time than u gain although it worth when there is an easy x cross case. so what i mean is that dont force an x-cross and its all intuitive.
 
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