How long did it take for you to get sub 20 seconds?

[CubesOfTheWorld]

Took me almost 2 years, with 0.5 of those years not being considered "speedcubing."

 

[WACWCA]

He can bump it if it's relevant and he doesn't want to make a new thread

 

[Absence]

I've been cubing on and off for about 5 years now. I'd say you can get from sub-30 to sub-20 in a few weeks if you really know what you need to work on.

I understand by saying keep on practicing it is a little generic, but it really is the only way to get faster.

 

[RhysC]

About 8 months or so.

 

[OLLiver]

5 months. but I had a months gap. My first sub 20 single took 6 weeks

 

[BananaSlayer64]

~10 months, ik that's not fast but I do every event I can, so I don't have as much time for 3x3

Same, took me about 10 months but I barely practice 3x3 xD

 

[AlphaSheep]

Tricky question... my first sub-20 average of 5 was about 14 years after my first solve, 2 years after I decided to start speedsolving, and about a year after I started putting in serious practice. My sub 20 mean of 100 was about seven months after the average of 5.

 

[Ordway Persyn]

globally? if so then about 10 months with the first 5 not really speed cubing that much.

 

[asacuber]

10 months

 

[hamfaceman]

Maybe 6 or 7 months.

 

[Speedsolver2002]

Well, my average is yet about 31 seconds, and my method is as follows-
1. Beginner's cross
2. First Layer
3. Second layer
4. Two look OLL
5. Two look PLL
But I've started with F2L but it slows me down a LOT!!!
And I've also started learning some PLLs too, but I learned the Whole method in about 1 to 2 months...

 

[Renox]

Well, my average is yet about 31 seconds, and my method is as follows-
1. Beginner's cross
2. First Layer
3. Second layer
4. Two look OLL
5. Two look PLL
But I've started with F2L but it slows me down a LOT!!!
And I've also started learning some PLLs too, but I learned the Whole method in about 1 to 2 months...

You should learn F2L. Your times will worsen, but once you get used to it you'll be faster.
After a while, there's only so fast you can actually go with an lbl method

 

[ViliusRibinskas]

About 1 year after I learned how to solve a cube, but when I started speedsolving it seriously and started doing timed solves, so about 10 months. I know full PLL, 31/57 OLL's and doing cross on left most of the time.

 

[Please Dont Ask]

I took a little over 3 months to get my first sub 20 avg

 

[Speedsolver2002]

Thanks

 

[biscuit]

I took me a year and a half... I guess I'm just slow to learn?

 

[b0ssGuy23]

From my first solve, around 9 months. But when I started speedcubing and taking this seriously, more like 4.

Kinda fast I guess, but I don't do too many events (I can solve every event that doesn't include BLD and Clock), but I only practice 2-4, OH, Pyra, Skewb, and Square 1 and I practice 3x3 the most

 

[NeilH]

it took me 8 months

 

[G2013]

Years and years (6-7 years, I don't remember exactly...) to reach sub-30,
and then less than a year to reach sub-20. That happened at early 2013.
After that, I became sub-15 I think around mid-2014,
got sub-14 in 2015,
and now, at early 2016, I'm sub-12.5

So I almost halved my times in 3 years... And yes, I've been cubing since almost a decade and I'm still not sub-10 D:

 

[Hssandwich]

About a year I think.

Also

Just learnt Skewb EG-1

I can't tell whether this is a joke or supposed to be EG-2...