Harris Chan Sub-20 w/ 3-Look LL!

[dChan]

Harris Chan
(23.01) 20.23 17.91 21.72 19.33 22.13 18.99 17.17 21.19 18.34 22.58 (16.13)
Today I got my first ever sub 20 average solves. I started on Halloween of last year. I was doing this as I'm sick (got some cold from my classmates) for the Sunday Contest. I'm only using 3 looks LL although I know some other OLL cases.

In 91 days he achieved these times. Man, with a 3-look LL too. That's amazing. He even had a 16 in there!. I wish I could do that. I started in February so I can still make it to be this but man it seems impossible!

 

[sgowal]

Don't be that jealous... It took me around 450 days to get to that level. It really depends on how much time you can give to the cube.

 

[dbeyer]

Seriously, a 3LLL isn't that big of a deal. I mean you're adding about 4 moves on aveage to the to a normal OLL alg.

When FRUR'U'F' is you first look, a sune for your second look, and a J perm as PLL, what's so hard about that?

 

[David]

That really is awesome. His F2L has to be insanely fast. No worries though I've been cubing for almost 3 years and I'm almost at that level it really does depend on how much time you spend on the cube. It really is a good F2L he proves it right here.

 

[dChan]

Cross plus F2L for my is 3 sec + 13= 16 sec! How am I supposed to lower that. 13 second for keyhole is already hard to get to, now I have to go sub 10 F2L to get a fast time!

 

[pjk]

That is a lot of practice during those days. It really depends on how much you can practice. Matyas obviously practices a ton, as he has been going for a little over a year and is top in the world in most categories.

Also, you will realize when you get sub-20, like around 19 seconds, that it really isn't that quick. I am around 18/19 and I feel extremely slow.... lots of room of improvement. Getting sub-19 avg with a 3LLL is actually very doable. Continue to practice and you will eventually realize it Good luck.

 

[dChan]

I wish my times would just drop down to the sub-19 zone! I haven't been cubing for long so I guess I won't expect that too happen, but I wish it would. Time to practice, practice, practice!

 

[pjk]

Yes, all about practice. And don't give up. It took me forever to go from sub-25 to sub-20....

 

[Harris Chan]

Ah that record lol. Actually I knew a couple of the easy OLL cases at the time, and my 2 step OLL was done in one look, because I knew the 2 OLL algos that i had to do (got familiarize). Now that I think of it, 19s is actually pretty easy, even with slow turning. Just don't hesitate/pause too much.

 

[dChan]

That's pretty good Harris. I'm trying to learn all the 'no edge oriented' OLLs that way if I mess up I can do the OLL in one look still. I'm sort of doing a 2/3-look because I havn't learned all the ZBF2L cases for what I' doing. I hope I can get as fast as you did.

 

[joey]

Originally posted by Harris Chan@Apr 27 2007, 08:52 PM
Ah that record lol. Actually I knew a couple of the easy OLL cases at the time, and my 2 step OLL was done in one look, because I knew the 2 OLL algos that i had to do (got familiarize). Now that I think of it, 19s is actually pretty easy, even with slow turning. Just don't hesitate/pause too much.

Would you make a slow solve video? Like one step stop, but without explaining, and still getting a sub-20 solve, that would be good to study!

 

[Tomarse]

I've been cubing a month today and i've got 50 sec avgs, i've only just recently learned intuitive f2l, i really need to study diagrams, but i am useless at remembering stuff after my car accident, so this is actually really good for my head :]