tristof
Member
Hello,
I live in Liege, Belgium (20 minutes from Netherland, 40 minutes from Germany, 1h15 from Luxembourg and 1h30 from France).
I've been interested (obsessed?) in Rubik's Cubes since about the year 2000. I accumulated quite a large collection of puzzles over the years but always came back to the 3x3.
For this one, I was until about a year ago happy with the beginner method averaging about 1'25", never really trying to reduce it, thinking it would be too much work. But then, about a year ago, I decided to give it a try with a goal of reducing my average below 1 minute. I first focused on 2-look OLL and PLL but doing so, quickly realized that I absolutely needed to learn F2L too. After a couple of months, I reached my goal.
Recently, I learned full PLL and now have a 3x3 PB=31.155, ao5=37.377, ao12=41.305, ao100=46.754. I know I will soon have a PB below 30" but hopefully, could get an average below 30" if I keep practicing and improve my look-ahead ;-) Any tips would be appreciated.
Finally, I also taught my 8-year old son and he's learning much faster than me. After 5 months of cubing, he's averaging 1'10", regularly solving under 50" and even has a (luck) PB of 31", barely 0.5"slower than me.
Looking forward to nice discussions.
Christophe
I live in Liege, Belgium (20 minutes from Netherland, 40 minutes from Germany, 1h15 from Luxembourg and 1h30 from France).
I've been interested (obsessed?) in Rubik's Cubes since about the year 2000. I accumulated quite a large collection of puzzles over the years but always came back to the 3x3.
For this one, I was until about a year ago happy with the beginner method averaging about 1'25", never really trying to reduce it, thinking it would be too much work. But then, about a year ago, I decided to give it a try with a goal of reducing my average below 1 minute. I first focused on 2-look OLL and PLL but doing so, quickly realized that I absolutely needed to learn F2L too. After a couple of months, I reached my goal.
Recently, I learned full PLL and now have a 3x3 PB=31.155, ao5=37.377, ao12=41.305, ao100=46.754. I know I will soon have a PB below 30" but hopefully, could get an average below 30" if I keep practicing and improve my look-ahead ;-) Any tips would be appreciated.
Finally, I also taught my 8-year old son and he's learning much faster than me. After 5 months of cubing, he's averaging 1'10", regularly solving under 50" and even has a (luck) PB of 31", barely 0.5"slower than me.
Looking forward to nice discussions.
Christophe