Driving force of getting to sub 10?

[Ksh13]

I got sub-10 in 1 year and 8 months. If you only consider the time I practised 3x3, I guess it took 1000 hours, give or take a couple hundred, but accounting for all events, 1600-1700 or so. This wasn't really much deliberate practice either, for the most part I have just solved a lot.

 

[Competition Cuber]

A good portion of this is not true. Im sub-10 with 2-look OLL, only planning cross in inspection, and fast TPS on F2L.

 

[EmperorZant]

A good portion of this is not true. Im sub-10 with 2-look OLL, only planning cross in inspection, and fast TPS on F2L.

I understand that you mean to say that you can be Sub-10 without planning more than a cross in inspection, but improving inspection helps a lot regardless; and while such advanced inspection is not required to be Sub-10, it still helps a lot

 

[shadowslice e]

A good portion of this is not true. Im sub-10 with 2-look OLL, only planning cross in inspection, and fast TPS on F2L.

OK. But would you be faster if you used 1 look OLL and planned more in inspection?

Exactly.

 

[Competition Cuber]

I understand that you mean to say that you can be Sub-10 without planning more than a cross in inspection, but improving inspection helps a lot regardless; and while such advanced inspection is not required to be Sub-10, it still helps a lot

I got sub-10 in 1 year, 4 months.

 

[Competition Cuber]

OK. But would you be faster if you used 1 look OLL and planned more in inspection?

Exactly.

9.35 ao100

 

[shadowslice e]

9.35 ao100

You don't seem to have answered my question.

I don't care how fast you are. You would be faster if you learned 1 look oll.

And incidentally I have a faster Ao100 if you're trying to imply that as you're faster you know better and I was sub-10 in a similar amount of time. But just imagine how much faster you could have gotten to sub-10 if you learned full OLL and better inspection.

In fact, if you are as good as you are implying then it is quite a waste that you haven't learned OLL yet.

 

[EmperorZant]

You don't seem to have answered my question.

I don't care how fast you are. You would be faster if you learned 1 look oll.

And incidentally I have a faster Ao100 if you're trying to imply that as you're faster you know better and I was sub-10 in a similar amount of time. But just imagine how much faster you could have gotten to sub-10 if you learned full OLL and better inspection.

In fact, if you are as good as you are implying then it is quite a waste that you haven't learned OLL yet.

^This

And don't take this the wrong way... we're not trying to say that you can't be Sub-10 with just 2-Look OLL, without fully optimizing cross-to-F2L transition, etc; people can be Sub-10 just on practice alone, regardless of what method they use or how many substeps there are when they solve (as long as the method is decent).

The point is, you shouldn't stop there; if you want to get better, you should learn everything you can to get yourself there faster, so you can make it easier on yourself. That's not to say that everyone is willing to practice and get as fast as possible; some people reach a certain speed and are satisfied, and I wouldn't force any mentality on them to keep improving. But I also don't want people who could easily improve to waste their potential. I think every cuber should be encouraged to become the best cuber they can be, because if you really care about something, you find time for it.

 

[Rpotts]

A good portion of this is not true. Im sub-10 with 2-look OLL, only planning cross in inspection, and fast TPS on F2L.

I got sub-10 in 1 year, 4 months.

9.35 ao100

Ok so I've gotta be honest, you've had 6 rounds of 3x3 in competition in the last 3 months, and all of them were between 13.xy and 15.xy averages, including some just over a month ago where you averaged 15. Maybe whatever practice you're doing isn't working as well as you think it is and you shouldn't be coming in here with blanket statements about other people's advice not being true.

 

[Competition Cuber]

Ok so I've gotta be honest, you've had 6 rounds of 3x3 in competition in the last 3 months, and all of them were between 13.xy and 15.xy averages, including some just over a month ago where you averaged 15. Maybe whatever practice you're doing isn't working as well as you think it is and you shouldn't be coming in here with blanket statements about other people's advice not being true.

Im getting off this thread now.