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

[KongShou]

What you said is "it's no big deal". Actually it's a pretty awesome achievement to get that fast that quick.

If u did a poll, you would find that quite a lot of people get sub20 in a few months.

 

[mark49152]

If u did a poll, you would find that quite a lot of people get sub20 in a few months.

But usually with more than 5-10 mins per day of practice.

 

[SnowTMT]

I am not sub-20 yet, but I'm getting close.
It took me 9 days to get to sub-30 after practicing NONSTOP so maybe I'll reach sub-20 in a couple of days...

 

[AmazingCuber]

I am not sub-20 yet, but I'm getting close.
It took me 9 days to get to sub-30 after practicing NONSTOP so maybe I'll reach sub-20 in a couple of days...

I don't get how you are sub 30 and have a PB single of 31.77 ??!!

 

[Louie]

Really? 5-10 minutes per day, 90-120 days? That's a MAXIMUM of 1200 minutes, or 20 hours of cubing. Even if you started cubing at 20 seconds per solve, and could scramble and inspect in 10 seconds, that's a maximum of 2 solves per minute, or 2400 solves. And that's based on the upper limits of both of your estimates, and you solving in 20 seconds (on average) from the start. Far more likely, based on the figures given, that you'd have done between 800-1200 solves in that amount of time.

If those figures are accurate, that's the most incredible cubing accomplishment, and by a light year the fastest improvement, that I've ever heard of.

Is it possible, just possible, that you cube for > 5-10 minutes a day?

HAHAHA Post of the year! Thank you.

 

[SnowTMT]

I don't get how you are sub 30 and have a PB single of 31.77 ??!!

I forgot to update my signature :d

 

[Gordon]

19 months of cubing (not counting pauses) and not sub 20 yet. I had only 3 sub 20 solves until now.

 

[MarcelP]

If u did a poll, you would find that quite a lot of people get sub20 in a few months.

I highly doubt that. I just looked at Mats Valks WCA profile. I did his first competition on November 24th 2007 and had his first sub 20 average about 6 months later. I think Mats is not a regular fellow when it comes to cube genetics so I really doubt that.

Btw, I am closing on 2 years practice more than an hour per day, have reasonably good lookahead, but just no fast TPS. I am no way near sub 20.

 

[Furry]

I took a gigantic like 2 month break halfway through my road to sub-20. But took me around 380 days. Im just barely sub 20 with a 19-20 avg.

 

[Daniel Wu]

Hm.. I don't remember. I would guess that it took me somewhere around two years.

 

[ducttapecuber]

I just realized that I have been cubing for almost 2 years. Yet, I am not consistently sub 20. That is really sad...

 

[Nilsibert]

I started speedcubing in december 2012 I think. I remember that in february 2013 I was desperately trying to get sub 40. I broke the 20s barrier in the last 3 days. Right now my best avg of 5 in a session of like 30 or so is sub 19 or sub 18 most of the time, although right now I'm usually worse because I often forget OLL algs(I recently finished full OLL)

You'll get there guys, and it's an amazing feeling

 

[ILMZS20]

I highly doubt that. I just looked at Mats Valks WCA profile. I did his first competition on November 24th 2007 and had his first sub 20 average about 6 months later. I think Mats is not a regular fellow when it comes to cube genetics so I really doubt that.

Btw, I am closing on 2 years practice more than an hour per day, have reasonably good lookahead, but just no fast TPS. I am no way near sub 20.

what is your tps? because it really doesnt have to be that fast to get sub 20. i did a solve ( i think it was like 18 seconds so pretty much what i average) and my tps was right under 4. i might just try to turn faster and even if your lookahead isnt that good at the beginning it will get better with practice. i dont know if your already doing this but you pretty much have to get higher tps at some point to get faster so good lookahead on low tps is useless in my opinion

 

[ILMZS20]

what is your tps? because it really doesnt have to be that fast to get sub 20. i did a solve ( i think it was like 18 seconds so pretty much what i average) and my tps was right under 4. i might just try to turn faster and even if your lookahead isnt that good at the beginning it will get better with practice. i dont know if your already doing this but you pretty much have to get higher tps at some point to get faster so good lookahead on low tps is useless in my opinion

umm not i try to get faster, i mean you should try and do that

 

[ILMZS20]

umm not i try to get faster, i mean you should try and do that

again, of course i will try and get faster, but i mean.. well no one cares, you know what i mean

 

[Bindedsa]

4 months from about 55 seconds.

 

[Ultimate Cuber]

It took me about three months to get a sub 20 average.

 

[newtonbase]

I can confidently predict that I will never get sub 20s.

 

[TDM]

I can confidently predict that I will never get sub 20s.

I thought that when I first started, but it will happen. Keep going, you'll get there

 

[timelonade]

If I was to say I am sub-20 now, then it has taken me a good 5 years.

If you have patience, slow turning will make sense one day