F2L

[password1313]

Hallo, greetings from Latvia

I'm a young cuber Im cubing abaut 3 months I can do the all F2L with Fritrich method, but realy slow, what king of tips can you can recommend to me me best time is 1.06 solving all cube in advanced method, I can solve F2L in 40 seconds please some tips to get my time better. Thanks!

Ps. Sorry for bad English.

 

[Rubiks560]

One thing you can do is look ahead and look for the next egde and corner get your finger speed faster learn 2 look oll and 2 look pll then full pll and then full oll and you will start to get faster from that

 

[password1313]

I am using 2 look oll an 2 look pll, but the f2l is realy slow abaut 40-50 seconds

 

[Rubiks560]

Hmm then i would just get your cross done and practice just f2l and speed it up

 

[password1313]

jus sit all day doing f2l all over ?

how long it takes you to do F2L?

 

[Novriil]

Use metronome. It's very useful.. I know cause about month ago I got my F2L better with it. start with slow and go faster.

Greetings from Estonia to the south-neighbors

 

[Rubiks560]

I would just practice it till you get faster and the mertnome does help

 

[password1313]

ok im going to try thanks

ps. Im just using a stopwach to see progress

 

[Nukoca]

Here's an online metronome:
And one you can download:

 

[password1313]

ye, but how is that hoing to help?

 

[shelley]

A metronome helps you practice a consistent rate of turning, as opposed to turning really fast for short bursts and then pausing to look for your next pieces, which slows you down a lot. By regulating your turning speed, you give yourself time to look ahead.

Start off at a relatively slow tempo and solve the cube doing one move per beat. Try not to stop and keep looking ahead for your next moves. (This mostly applies to F2L; last layer algs don't require as much lookahead, so feel free to go at full speed.) If you can keep up with the tempo without stopping, try it a little faster.

 

[Novriil]

you scramble the cube... put the metronome on (start with 45 or even less when you are bad at this) and turn on every beat one time. Try not to rush and look ahead while solving the other steps. If you do it and don't need to stop and miss a beat during the F2L then add some tempo... You can add by 5 or by 10... I did by 10 but first ones I did 5. Try...

 

[Rubiks560]

Everytime your hear a beat turn a face and try to not miss one beat

 

[IamWEB]

You need to already know how you'll pair and insert the corner and edge (which comes from pure practice), and then while you do that, you can look around to find the next corner and edge, and 'track' them as you solve the current pair.

Remember, you'll need to know how to solve the current pair without looking at it, so that you can 'look ahead'.

And finally,

practice, practice, repeat. ;P

 

[Cuber1974]

Remember, you'll need to know how to solve the current pair without looking at it, so that you can 'look ahead'.

I think this is a key point!

 

[password1313]

My problem is I cant track peaces, on 40 in that metranome I can but when its little bit faster I cant

 

[Poke]

keep practicing until 40 become easy.

 

[password1313]

10: 00:39.21 x
9: 00:37.10 x
8: 00:42.59 x
7: 00:41.25 x
6: 00:45.22 x
5: 00:33.07 x
4: 00:41.84 x
3: 00:27.38 x
2: 00:48.17 x
1: 00:44.92 x

My onely F2L times

 

[Faz]

I'm part Latvian!
Woo

 

[Novriil]

I'm part Latvian!
Woo

Hi! I'm from Estonia

anyway practice with 40 then. Do it as long as you want and then try to do it a bit faster.