How Long Did It Take You To Average Sub 20?

[RaresB]

I joined ss 1 year ago however i took a 5 month break from august to jan so it took me 6.25 months. I was 20-23 for about 2months then finally i broke that barrier and now i am 17.5 second avg

 

[cy2169]

About 8 months, I think? Biggest barrier was the sub-30.

 

[Systemdertoten]

I've now realized the big issues that kept me in the 20 sec. range were actually cross and turn rate, not look-ahead.

 

[Inf3rn0]

Just under 2 years for sub 20

 

[ben1996123]

maybe like, 7 years.

 

[TiLiMayor]

About 6 months, my biggest barrier was 40s (maybe because of F2L).

 

[Jostle]

Still haven't reached it.

Also, inb4 faz

 

[Rpotts]

about 3.5 years but less than two years of semi-active practicing.

 

[guinepigs rock]

im on 4 years and stuck at 30 to 45 im learning fridrich

 

[Vinny]

I would tcehnically say 5 months because that's when I started CFOP.

 

[choza244]

1 year, I joined the forum in 2008 but started speedsolving in 2010 when I got my first speed cube

 

[masteranders1]

For me, I've been cubing for about a year now, and I broke sub20 about 3 months ago. I was stuck at maybe 21-23 for a pretty long time; I was just stuck in the 20s for a couple months. To get faster, I just learned CFOP with full PLL and 2 look OLL. I learned all the PLLs last October in about a month (some of which I knew beforehand, but finished it in about a month). I might learn full OLL, but I'm averaging 17-18 with 2 look OLL, so it's not really necessary to be sub20. I just did a lot of practice after I learned full PLL, I didn't learn any new algorithms. My fingertricks improved, and my recognition and execution of the algorithms solidified over the months. I'm basically stuck at the 17-18 range, starting to gradually average 17.

 

[5BLD]

This is my third month of speedcubing and I average 18 seconds. I learnt how to solve it a long time ago, but then I never touched it again until two and a bit months ago.

 

[James Ludlow]

it took nearly 3 years to be consistently sub20

 

[clincr]

6 months, but I improved an Alot after and sub 14 after 9 months.

 

[goflb]

about 9 months, learning cfop in the process. now im stuck at around 17.xx

 

[BC1997]

I took me probably like, 9 ish months, and my biggest barrier was 21-23 second range

How did you guys get past that wall, I occasionally get 19 second times but its just too hard to break.

 

[Inf3rn0]

How did you guys get past that wall, I occasionally get 19 second times but its just too hard to break.

For me I just tried to turn a little bit faster and reduce pauses in F2L. It was a sudden jump down below 20 for me so just keep at it, you'll get there.

 

[Verack]

I learnt to solve it march 16 2010. Now I'm averaging 18-20. I hit a wall around 24 seconds, and I just recently got back into cubing

 

[Florian]

is started in May 2010 i was sub 20 4 Months later ( and 23 average official) and 5 Months late i was official sub 20 average now i'm official sub 14 and best average of 5 is 10.89