Hi cubers!

[Beppe81]

Hi all!

I'm Beppe81, I'm 29 and I'm from Italy.. I've been cubing for a while, and now I'm interested more and more in speedcubing!

My PB is a little below 1 minute, but I'd like to improve..
I know beginner method and CFOP, with 2look OLL and 2look PLL

My cubes: original rubik, white maru (my main cube), mini diansheng, mirror block and a bulk cube I personalized with stickers home made!

At the moment I'm trying to improve cross and F2L

 

[RCTACameron]

If you're trying to improve cross and F2L, don't practice them separately. Try to lookahead to your first pair, or at least one of the pieces while making the cross. Also, make it on the bottom.

Edit: Also, welcome.

 

[Beppe81]

Thanks I'm going to do this, as well as trying to do the cross blind.. so it'll be automathic and I'll be able to look ahead better

 

[Zane_C]

Hi and welcome to the forums.
Cross blind will be a good step towards improving your cross and lookahead. When you decide to focus more on your last layer, some people make the mistake of learning more OLL algorithms first. PLL is a higher priority by far.

 

[Beppe81]

Thanks!!!

 

[theace]

Welcome to the forums. I guess everyone has already given you all the tips you'll need. All I'd recommend is a hardware upgrade. I'd say try the GuHong or the Type F - II. Many people like the Type A - V as well.

If you want cheapy, you could go in for the Ghost Hand - II. I hear it's good. Oh yeah, and this site ships for free

 

[Beppe81]

Thanks for your advices! I recently bought my Maru DIY, and it seems quite good.. I just tuned it and it has good speed and few/no pops, but I'm considering lubing it for more speed..

Maybe in the future, I'll try some of those cubes!

 

[bluedasher]

I'd say to improve F2L you really want to just familiarize yourself with your F2L cases and try to find the most optimal way to pair and insert your corner-edge pair. You should take no more than 8 moves to insert your F2L pair. When finding the most optimal pair and insert method really try to make use of all the empty slots while dong F2L. As far as the LL goes... Just practice finger tricks and get your LL down to around 10 sec. to about 12 sec. if you aren't in that range already. Really at your stage just practice. Do about 50-100 solves a day if you want to improve, and do around 25 if you just want to stay in shape. Just 3 months ago I was in your time range and now I'm around 20 sec. without learning any new algorithms. Once you get in the low to mid 30's start learning full PLL. Then when you get pretty much sub 20 start learning full OLL.

Hope this helped

Oh, welcome to the form.

 

[Beppe81]

Thanks, it really helps!

But is it possible to do 4 look LL in 12 seconds?

 

[bluedasher]

Thanks, it really helps!

But is it possible to do 4 look LL in 12 seconds?

Yes, I get 4LLL in around 10sec.

2 look OLL = 3-4 sec.
2 look PLL = 5-6 sec.

 

[Beppe81]

cool! I'll try to see ho fast I am at the moment!

 

[SuperStrawberry]

Thanks, it really helps!

But is it possible to do 4 look LL in 12 seconds?

Yes it is i got 2Look OLL in
1-3 secs
and
2Look PLL in
2-4 secs
which total to 3-7 secs