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[CrazyJoshsRubik]

Hello,

My name is Josh and I am join this website because, Well... I need some help

The past couple of months I really got back into cubing I learned Fredric, I learned 2-Look OLL & PLL, And Started learning to solve from all 6 Crosses, But now I have come to a point where I just cant get faster I have tryed for about 2 Months practicing every day and my time just is staying at ~50 seconds and I cant get faster........So if you have anything that you think you can help me with, or tips, or Ideas,it would help me out alot.

Thanks,
Josh

 

[ChickenWrap]

Try solving slowly, for example- solve as fast as you can without stopping once. Use a metronome to keep you on time.

Also, for each F2L case, look at the pieces without making any moves, then solve the case with your eyes closed. This should give you a good idea as to your weak spots.

Using these techniques, I got from 30seconds to 20 seconds in a month!

 

[CrazyJoshsRubik]

Thank You First 15 minutes and a Reply already

 

[Fawn]

Another note: when solving it slowly, pqy attention to how certain moves affect the rest of the cube. This os especially useful for F2L. Take a look on Youtube for some example solves by fast people (Feliks Zemdegs, Mats Valk, etc.). Just watching then solve slowly gave me the knowledge of creating and inserting F2L pairs very efficiently.

 

[Rocky0701]

Get your F2L really fast, and really use your inspection time until you get faster at your cross. Do you know full PLL? If not, wait to learn it until you get your times down to about 40 second average. If so, don't focus on it until you get better F2L and cross.

 

[AmazingCuber]

Welcome to the forums! Check out this thread to help you get faster: http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/s...-to-Get-Faster-using-the-Fridrich-CFOP-Method

 

[CrazyJoshsRubik]

Get your F2L really fast, and really use your inspection time until you get faster at your cross. Do you know full PLL? If not, wait to learn it until you get your times down to about 40 second average. If so, don't focus on it until you get better F2L and cross.

I haven't learned PLL but I have learned 2-Look PLL

 

[CriticalCubing]

You can get to less than 40 sec with 2 look PLL. Learn full PLL after you are less than 35 sec. That time is best but you can get to 28 sec - 26 sec with 2 look PLL (thats what I did )

I haven't learned PLL but I have learned 2-Look PLL

 

[sneaklyfox]

You can get to less than 40 sec with 2 look PLL. Learn full PLL after you are less than 35 sec. That time is best but you can get to 28 sec - 26 sec with 2 look PLL (thats what I did )

I say whenever you feel motivated, learn full PLL then later full OLL. I actually learned full PLL right off the bat and then full OLL not that long after. If I had to learn them now, I probably wouldn't feel motivated but I know I was at the time. Also, you can get to sub-10 with 2-look PLL if your cross and F2L are as good as Feliks'.

 

[WinterCub3r]

i learned one (somtimes 2) OLL cases every day, i would go through all of them everyday day that i knew, adding one everyday, somtimes taking freaks for harder one, then after all of those i started on the PLL doing the same thing. took about 3 moths and i average about 24.00. learning more F2L would be a good idea but the just dont make sense to me.

 

[crazygoodcuber]

f2l is your biggest key just practice that use the fewest moves you can learn different ways to insert ect ( anyone can be sub 20 with what you know ) at about 25 seconds I would learn full pll and go from there 2 look oll is just fine you can easily be sub 15 with full pll and 2 look oll and If you get faster than that start learning stuff like oll coll ect.

sources: cyoubix

 

[CrazyJoshsRubik]

i learned one (somtimes 2) OLL cases every day, i would go through all of them everyday day that i knew, adding one everyday, somtimes taking freaks for harder one, then after all of those i started on the PLL doing the same thing. took about 3 moths and i average about 24.00. learning more F2L would be a good idea but the just dont make sense to me.

But what I dont understand is how to learn OLL because there are 57 of them how do I learn it???

 

[Rocky0701]

You definitely shouldn't be worrying about OLL right now. Full PLL will improve your times more than learning full OLL, but nothing will improve your times more than working on your F2L. Do a few slow solves, and experiment with different ways to insert your pairs, and improve your F2L, then learn full PLL when you get your average to about 40 seconds. If i were you, i definitely wouldn't start worrying about full OLL until you are averaging about 25 seconds. I haven't learned full oll yet, but when/if you do get to that stage, i would just take it slow and learn a couple at a time, don't try to cram it all into your head. Also when learning PLL, don't try to learn it in any less than a week and a half, because you will begin to forget them, get them down to muscle memory where you don't even have to think about performing the algorithm and then learn the next one. You will also want to search around to find out what order you want to learn them, definitely make the N perms last.

 

[kcl]

I disagree. Sit down and learn PLL in a day. See what you remember the next day. Some will stick. Then focus on the ones that didn't the next day, and so on.

I learned full PLL in two days like this.

 

[CrazyJoshsRubik]

Ok so I guess I am going to try to learn PLL