How fast were you guys after one year of speedsolving?

[Rocky0701]

So I have been cubing for a little over a year now, and I am averaging sub 20 on 3x3, 1:15 on 4x4, 7 on 2x2, 45 on OH, and 3 on 5x5. How fast were you guys from the moment you first learned how to solve the cube, to now? The poll will only be for 3x3, but when you post you can put different events too.

 

[Randomno]

I had long break, but it's still been roughly a year since I started (bit less I think).

I'll just say sub-30 in the poll because I'm well under sub-45.

 

[TDM]

I averaged ~17 after a year, but I did have a break of a couple of months.

 

[Coolster01]

I averaged about 15

 

[SolveThatCube]

So I have been cubing for a little over a year now, and I am averaging sub 20 on 3x3, 1:15 on 4x4, 7 on 2x2, 45 on OH, and 3 on 5x5. How fast were you guys from the moment you first learned how to solve the cube, to now? The poll will only be for 3x3, but when you post you can put different events too.

Well, I first learned how to solve the cube a while ago (2009 maybe) but only did it for a month.

I stated up again in feb last year and at feb this year I think I was averaging 13-14 seconds.

 

[GuRoux]

sub 12.5 with roux.

 

[AlexTheEmperor]

I have been cubing for approx. 8.5 months and average around 16 seconds but sometimes 17 for 3x3.

I guess you could say I had the most idealized start to cubing since at school in year 9 I was bombarded with media footage of the 2013 World Championships and the image of Feliks solving in the region of 7 seconds stuck with me more than it did my other classmates. I had owned a really cheap substitute for a rubik's brand which was ironically called a 'Speed cube' for a few years and could solve F2L with LBL and had sort of lost interest. There was this other boy who brought a cube in and it basically went from there, we both got black Zhanchis, learnt CFOP, we drove each other on with our competing times. Then in August this year, we went to our first comp.

A mathematical interpretation of my progress:

1:30 to 18.5 in 8 months =

90 - 18.5 = 71.5 secs in 8 months;
71.5 / 8 = 8.9375 secs in 1 month.

Hence by January 2015;

5 * 8.9375 = 44.6875 secs in 5 months;
18.5 - 44.6875 = -26.1875 secs.

I will be the first person to average negative sub-30.

 

[cmhardw]

It took me about eight months to learn OLL/PLL, and I remember after a year from when I first started that I had recently learned the last of OLL/PLL and made a big jump in times from ~45s average to low 30s. After a year of cubing I was on the cusp of going sub-30.

 

[goodatthis]

I don't really think that the moment you learned how to solve a cube is the same as when you started speedcubing. A lot of speed cubers learned a while before they ever timed themselves, so I think you might want to change the OP to say "when you started speedcubing"

Since I haven't been cubing for a year yet, and I avergae about 18, Im not going to vote, but I think I might be close to sub 15 if I practice a lot until the end of the year. I've currently been cubing for 10 months, and I hit sub 20 at around 8-9 months.

also, linear regressions don't work too well for cubing (not even exponential regressions work to well IMO, I was supposed to be sub 20 in May when I averaged 30ish)

 

[Lazy Einstein]

I have only been cubing for 11 months pretty much today. Had 2 3week-ish long breaks because of exams.
My 3x3x3 PBs are: (1/5/12/100) 9.6/16.85/18.42/19.56

 

[XTowncuber]

like...30 lol

 

[kcl]

roughly 11

 

[giorgi]

As I was keeping track of My PB's My avg of 5 PB from the month I started after year that month was 12.31 so I would say around sub 15

 

[CiaranBeahan]

I was really early 20s but not sub 20 after a year.

 

[Cale S]

I used LBL and EO, EP, CP, CO for LL for about a year, and averaged 30-35 with a 21.31 single. Then in December of last year (about the same time I started BLD) I learned F2L and 4LLL with OLL/PLL and averaged sub-20 in a few months.

 

[IRNjuggle28]

Well, I've been cubing for 1 year plus a few weeks. My PBs are 10.11/12.81/13.48/14.78.

5x5 1/5/12/100 is 1:21.05/1:36.71/1:41.07/1:46.28, and 7x7 1/3/5/12 is 4:06.61/4:09.78/4:12.29/4:22.43. I've only been doing big cubes for 8 months. How fast are others at big cubes after that amount of time?

 

[mark49152]

(not even exponential regressions work to well IMO, I was supposed to be sub 20 in May when I averaged 30ish)

Exponential makes sense as long as you converge it on some sensible eventual value, and not on zero.

A while ago I tried fitting different lines to several months of my averages, and found the best fit was exponential converging on 15 secs. Maybe that's my limit.

 

[elrog]

Haha... After 4 years I'm still only sub-30. I'm sure after a few averages of 5, I'd get a sub-25 average, but I very rarely time my solves. I'm sure that if I tried, I could get sub-20 pretty quick, but I still don't know what method I want to be my main.

 

[MineKB]

I'm only sub 17ish and I've been cubing for 5 months.

 

[Please Dont Ask]

Im sub 20 ....(but its not been a year yet)