How Fast Did You Improve?

[CubicNL]

I started cubing a year ago, now I'm averaging 23-25sec normally.
But I was very naive... I started learning full OLL first, and after that I started learning PLL (If i see this now I really think, WTF?!)
I have recently switched to Colour Neutrality, so my times won't improve until I'm fully confident with CN.

 

[uberCuber]

I started speedcubing seven months ago, though I didn't seriously practice at all at the beginning. There was also a month recently that I barely practiced 3x3 at all, in which I focused on school and my only practice was with bigcubes. Currently I average 17-19 seconds.

 

[collinbxyz]

haha, I haven't reached that yet. I know, I stink...

 

[Zeat]

i reached sub 15 in 11 month aprox.

 

[Me]

Why isn't "Greater than 2 years" or "still not sub-15" an option? Is this thread discriminating towards people who aren't sub-15 yet!?!

 

[CubesOfTheWorld]

Maybe some new poll options:
Not yet
More than 2 years
Less than 4 months

 

[IamWEB]

From learning how to solve the cube - A year and 2/3-3/4?
From really getting into speedcubing - A year and several months.

Going by just the thread title, note this: ~1 minute to the 20s in 5 months? ~1 minute to 30s in 3-4 months I think...

 

[RyanReese09]

To those who have approached or reached sub-15 in less than a year, how much do you typically practice every day to reach that?

I saw a video of sub18 solve with slowww turning.

I resolve to only work on lookahead. Jumped from 30 to 26 in a few days time, and then a month later down to 20.

I actually work on my solves, finding fast F2L algorithms for hard cases, drilling my TPS. Nothing special. Really, until you hit sub15 it's not hard at all to improve.

 

[Rpotts]

Ryan, why did you quote Zarxrax if you had no intention on answering his question?

I went from pure beginner to ~27 in about 6 months. Took a long, long break where I never practiced, then came back and went from ~34 to ~17 in another 6 months. Over the second improvement period i went from ~11/21 PLL to full PLL and 2-look OLL to full OLL.

 

[RyanReese09]

Oh, I thought it said "how do you typically practice" instead of "how much do you typically practice".

Fail. The answer for me is ~ 1 hour each day of cubing in general, doesn't have to be pure 3x3x3.

 

[bobo11420]

Ive been cubing for almost two months and I am averaging around 32 seconds Ao12. I got to 1:15 avg with beginners after a week or so, then started to learn fridrich. My goal was sub 30 by 2 months but idk about that lol

 

[Sa967St]

About a year and a half after I learned how to solve the cube.

 

[BC1997]

Well,I started cubing on December 2009 ,but after a month I quit cubing.After about 6 months I started again and I was able to get a sub-1:30.At this point I learned about fridrich and was abe to get under 40 secs.Now after learning full PLL and lubin the cube I can get a sub-30 avg(like 26-29) and I have a PB of 16.83.6months or a year,I guess.

 

[hkne95]

Now, after 6 months of cubing i got my first sub 15 avg5
but my best avg12 is 16.15 and 17.01 avg50

 

[endofdaworld]

started cubing early last year.. probably in March...then I quit...in August I started cubing again...began using F2L and I know about 10 Pll's and 15 Oll's and I get sub-25 avg...so hopefully I can get down to sub-15 soon