Finally a sub-minute solve

[SRV88bluescuber]

Hey everyone! I recently started getting into cubing about a month or so ago and started out with the beginner's layer-by-layer method (obviously) and have progressed quickly to include finger tricks to get quicker. I am rather reluctant to memorize all the algorithms for the OLLs and PLLs but maybe someday I will. I hope to progress to the Fridrich F2L method soon, but it may take me a while to get the hang of it. I was hoping you advanced cubers could provide some comments on my cubing style, which can be viewed below or by going to my youtube channel: youtube.com/SRV88blues. Please give me some pointers! I was hovering around 1 minute solves for a while but just recently got a sub-minute solve on video. Please check it out.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vwBPaSPPUbY

 

[DavidWoner]

okay you need to stop doing the R'D'RD method IMMEDIATELY!! here is a link to the site i used when i first learned: http://peter.stillhq.com/jasmine/rubikscubesolution.html
i think it does a pretty good job of showing the last layer method for beginners that is generally approved by speedcubers. once you get the hang of it (less than a week) it will probably halve the time it takes for you last layer. there are only a few algs and they are very easy.

also, when you decide to learn fridrich f2l, try to teach yourself intuitively first. there are guides for this, i think there is a link to one on that page i listed above. learning intuitively is way easier than memorizing a bunch of algorithms. i think figuring out your own algs/methods is the most rewarding part of cubing, except of course breaking time barriers(45 sec, 30 sec, 20 sec etc). once you are comfortable with your method, you can look up algs to optimize your slow cases. at first your fridrich f2l will be slower than your lbl f2l, but don't be discouraged, you just have to keep at it.

good luck, and congrats on your first sub-minute! use that site i gave you and you'll be seeing them a lot more often! i have been cubing for 9 months, but did not get serious until 5 months ago(i was about where you are). progress comes fast when you practice so keep it up.

 

[Raffael]

you should take a look a this,too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbKvOXE__CM

Before that, I was using a bunch of algos for Fridrich F2L, afterwards I started understanding, what was going on.
(Btw: thanx, Erik!!)

Oh, I would also suggest:
Stop the fingertricks and start looking ahead.

 

[SRV88bluescuber]

Thanks guys! Those links are definitely helpful. I agree that intuitive F2L is much more rewarding because it gives you freedom to choose how to insert the edge-corner pairs. I've seen other tutorials on youtube explaining the F2L but haven't seen the one in the link above so I'll add it to my favorites. I'll also start working on the last layer algorithms in the beginner solution instead of doing R'D'RD because even though I can do them kind of quickly, the cases where all 4 corners need to be done involving 4 turns per corner robs me of valuable time. Thanks again!

 

[Mohammad96]

thats good i think you should have learnt the thrawst's begginers method instead of dan browns because if you learnt thrawsts last layer it would be easier to switch on to fredrich i suggest u to learn the thrawsts last layer from now on instead of building on the dan browns method (like me i wasted time learning the method too much) but when i switched to thrawsts the last layer method i got my time to 40's in 3 weeks.

Look at my video - http://youtube.com/watch?v=J1uLRcJmt28