Help me 3x3x3 im stuck at 24/25 sec

[ZeeK]

i know f2l oll pll and ive been stuck at 24/25 avg so my question is there something else to get faster? because i have been practising for a while and cant get better.

and how to get faster ( i mean what to practice more and focus more).

 

[The Bloody Talon]

I hope this would help you.
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?14009-How-to-be-sub-20

 

[teller]

Know this: Escher's F2L Edge Orientation Guide

 

[buelercuber]

I hope this would help you.
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?14009-How-to-be-sub-20

this. seriously finally someone made a thread about this stuff.

 

[musicninja17]

BIGGEST TIP I CAN EVER GIVE YOU:

SLOW DOWN.
LOOK AHEAD.
and practice f2l thoroughly.

I can't bold the above enough. If you can't see the next pair in your f2l before you finish the one you're on, you're going too fast. Eventually you'll get comfortable with this. NO PAUSING.

 

[Selkie]

Like Teller, for my advice I would say read another of Escher's guides http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?27870-How-to-practice., then read again .. and again

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In all honesty that guide by Rowen has always helped me move off the plateaus I have hit. Admittedly I have only been speedcubing for 9 months and I am at averaging in the low 21's, still looking to break that elusive sub 20. Every time I hit a plateau I re read the guide and try and act on it.

Concentrating on weak areas works for me. Film yourself and your weak areas should be apparent watching it back. If its Cross or Cross to F2L transition do a bunch of BLD crosses. If your LL times are slow drill your algs. If there are pauses in your F2L do a loads of slower pauseless solves. Also doing painfully slow F2L is great, to learn how the pieces you are tracking move, you start to get to picture where the tracked pieces will end up rather than having to track them completely, you also get to start influencing the LL, avoid bad OLLs etc.

It may not be as fun and solving over and over but it really works.

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In general, practice should take into account several areas:

- Method - how you solve the puzzle.
- Technique - how your hands move the puzzle.
- Recognition/Look-ahead - what pieces you need to look for, how fast you can recognise them, and your familiarity with how they move.


Valuable practice is:

- Goal-oriented - what you want to achieve; both short and long-term aims.
- Structured - start with A, move on to B, concentrate on C, go back to A.
- Reflective - "x, y, z was weak last solve/session, try not to repeat the mistakes next solve/session/time I get that case".

It's often said that it is the perfectionists in any competitive sport that represent the best. If you don't naturally possess that attitude, adopt it.

Throughout each session, you should be constantly questioning all of your standards. If you can see nothing wrong with your solves then you probably see nothing wrong with being at your current speed. Change that attitude.

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There is a lot to be said just for that excerpt from the guide.

Oh and you should join Mike's Hughey's Sub 20 Race Thread ( http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?20037-Racing-to-sub-20 ). Always good to gain some extra motivation from other members of the community trying to achieve similar improvement

 

[BC1997]

-Make your F2L more efficient, learn some algorithms for annoying cases.
-Try to decrease the amount of cube rotations you make.
-Slow-down and look-ahead
-Get faster at PLLs
-This is not necessary but if you want learning full OLL may help (you don't have to do this) (I'd recommend learning 1/3 of the OLLs.

 

[Godmil]

Watch this video. Can you turn as quickly as that? In which case there is no reason you can't be sub-20 That's what I'm concentrating on at the moment, at full speed my Cross+ F2L used to be consistently 18-20 seconds. But forcing myself to slow right down (which ment I could optimise my insertions and look ahead) has my F2L now at about 13-15 seconds (Like 5 second improvement in two weeks).
Also try watching lots of F2L walkthrough videos to try to get some tips on optimising your F2L... This is one of my faves (and not an easy one to track down)even though I'm not sure at all what language he's talking.