How do I get sub 15 on 3x3?

[Hades139]

Yes, learn full PLL. Learn F2L algs for awkward/slow cases. Make sure you go slow and look ahead.

Do you have a good place to find F2l algs?

 

[OliverSW]

Learn full pll before oll. And take Oll in segments, like learn all oll with all edges oriented then learn all m shape cases then all p shape and go like that through it

 

[Rocky0701]

Do you have a good place to find F2l algs?

The wiki, but only for very awkward cases. Then full PLL and OLL and you should be able to get down to like sub 17 pretty easily and sub 15 with a lot of work.

 

[Berd]

I'm running the 3x3 race to sub 15 thread. Come aolong and race!

 

[pdilla]

Learn & Practice full PLL, every alg sub-3. Practice cross down to <2s. Practice F2L down to <9s, mainly lookahead. Practice LL down to <6s. Practice.

This. Forget about full OLL until your F2L is better

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

I'm running the 3x3 race to sub 15 thread. Come aolong and race!

About 4 months too late.. I struggled with that in november. Race to sub 10 anybody?

 

[Berd]

About 4 months too late.. I struggled with that in november. Race to sub 10 anybody?

You can run it!!!

 

[NewCuber000]

I'm Sub-15 on certain days, some days averaging 15.xx. But on my good days, my cross is 2-3 seconds (I should really work on that...) F2L is like 9 seconds average (inc. cross), and my LL is like 5 seconds average unless I get like an N-Perm or certain G-perms. For your cross I'd look at advanced cross videos and getting it under 8 moves all of the time, and try to look for your first pair during the cross (practice by doing the cross blindfolded). For your last layer I think just learning PLL will help, and then getting all your algs under 3 seconds (Most under 2). For F2L just work on our lookahead obviously and recognition. And as others have previously said here, learn F2L algs for weird cases. Oh, and learning X-cross isn't necessary, but it definitely wouldn't be a bad idea.

 

[Randomno]

Learn full pll before oll. And take Oll in segments, like learn all oll with all edges oriented then learn all m shape cases then all p shape and go like that through it

Pretty sure he knows all edges oriented OLLs to know 2 look.

 

[Wylie28]

http://badmephisto.com/oll.php i learned them from here, this is a pretty good order to learn them in. I like they way he orders them by triggers

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

You can run it!!!

Naaaahh i'll wait for ryan to do it. And I think I need to get sub 11 first...

 

[GuRoux]

Naaaahh i'll wait for ryan to do it. And I think I need to get sub 11 first...

wow, if you're goal within a few months is sub 11, that means you're probably really close to ryan's speed.

 

[Blacksworn]

Do you have a good place to find F2l algs?

I find this website very handy for F2L alrogithms ^^

 

[The Italipino]

What Should I Improve On To Be Sub-15

So today marks the 4 month anniversary since the first time I ever solved the Rubiks Cube.

Today I got a PB Average of 16.68

(14.68)
15.67
18.02
16.35
(18.56)

A normal 17 second solve would consist of:

Cross: 2

F2l: 7

Oll (2 look): 5

PLL (Full): 3

I use to the Gans 356, my pb single is 11.18 full step.

Ive been stuck at getting 17-19 second averages for a week now and its extremely frustrating because my improvement is sowing down drastically
However, I think within the next 2 weeks, I could get at least one sub 15 average with your help.

Any advice is much appreciated.

My question is, does everybody get stuck where I am around 4 months into cubing?

Not seeing my numbers go down is annoying.

Thank you.

 

[NeilH]

Turn faster during OLL

 

[TDM]

So today marks the 4 month anniversary since the first time I ever solved the Rubiks Cube.

Today I got a PB Average of 16.68

(14.68)
15.67
18.02
16.35
(18.56)

A normal 17 second solve would consist of:

Cross: 2

F2l: 7

Oll (2 look): 5

PLL (Full): 3

I use to the Gans 356, my pb single is 11.18 full step.

Ive been stuck at getting 17-19 second averages for a week now and its extremely frustrating because my improvement is sowing down drastically
However, I think within the next 2 weeks, I could get at least one sub 15 average with your help.

Any advice is much appreciated.

My question is, does everybody get stuck where I am around 4 months into cubing?

Not seeing my numbers go down is annoying.

Thank you.

You average 17, but your PB Ao5 is 16.68? That doesn't seem right...

Learn full OLL. It's a lot of algs, but they're very short and most of them are really easy. They'll also help you a lot; 2-look OLL is very slow for some cases.

 

[mark49152]

Your progress is great for only 4 months.

You could learn full OLL, and your cross is a bit slow compared to your F2L, so practice that.

 

[The Italipino]

Normally when I pick up the cube, i can knockout a 17 average pretty easily. Not sure how I got a 16 but it happened.

 

[MoyuFTW]

You could easily improve on your OLL. Work on the dot cases first because the 2 look version is slow

 

[JustinTimeCuber]

I average 13.

You need splits like (for 15)

Cross: 2
F2L: 7
OLL (1 look): 3
PLL (1 look): 3
All steps count recognition, and PLL counts AUF, thus entire solve is counted.

The only step you really need to work on is OLL, for now. A 9 second total F2L is pretty good for someone with a 17 average, but your OLL is just bad. When I averaged 17, my F2L took around 11 and a LL of 2.5+3.5=6. You 1 look OLL will REALLY speed you up. Learn the algs. Many of them are easy, and there aren't that many really bad ones.

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Alright, now I need someone to help me. I don't know what, if anything, I should be learning. I'm stuck (not quite, I'm slowly improving but it is still kinda discouraging because I only improve by like 0.1 each week) at a 13.2 average. My splits are:
Cross: 1.9
F2L: 6.9
OLL: 1.8
PLL: 2.6
Any tips? Thanks.