How Long Did It Take You To Average Sub 20?

[James Ludlow]

I have been cubing for over 3 years and never got sub 20.

I'm only about 2 1/2 and counting i think. In my defence, I do know how to solve a lot of different puzzles - my time is not just taken up by speedsolving.

 

[rubiknewbie]

Sub-30 is easy. Sub-20 is difficult as hell!

 

[Thomas09]

Less than a year. About 9 months.

 

[TeddyKGB]

I'll let you know when I get to sub-20, i've been cubing for almost 7 years!!!
although, i've taken breaks for months at a time, and didn't care about getting any faster until a few months ago.

 

[Tim Major]

First solved cube: July 26 2009 (I'm pretty sure)
Sub 20 average of 12: March 12 2010. Though, that was my first a12 in a while.

 

[Innocence]

I've been cubing 9-10 months, but not consistently to improve. I've only really been doing that as of late. And I'm almost kinda sub-20. On a good day.

 

[koreancuber]

6.5 months. Yayz! (yesterday was my first sub-20 AO12)

 

[nickvu2]

You guys should really be speaking in terms of estimated hours. There's going to be a big difference between doing a couple solves every other day for a year while watching tv, and training for three hours daily for a year. This is why researchers typically use hours of intentional practice when speaking about expert performance.

 

[Sir E Brum]

3 months

 

[thackernerd]

how long did it take you to get sub 20?

I started cubing abiut 4 months ago and i cant sub 20 and i was wondering how long it took you guys to get sub 20.

 

[Systemdertoten]

I've been cubing for over 1.5 years now. I just broke sub-20 a couple of days ago.

 

[JyH]

Got into speedcubing around October. Averaging 17 right now. The biggest wall was the 20-23s range. It felt like I was never going to get past that.

 

[Systemdertoten]

Got into speedcubing around October. Averaging 17 right now. The biggest wall was the 20-23s range. It felt like I was never going to get past that.

Actually, my biggest wall was from 24-27.

 

[gbcuber]

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

 

[uberCuber]

Almost exactly 5 months after I started

 

[caseyd]

im going on three months and am stuck at 25, all I need though is better lookahead, which is probably what you need, so I reccomend practicing on the worst cube you own, so you turn slower and can lookahead, its what im doing and its helping

 

[Jedi5412]

I had a break from 3x3 about 3 1/2 months at 27 ish then after the months break from leaning cll and getting sub 4.3 on 2x2 and megaminx my times has droped to 23-25. The biggest wall was 30's.

I hardly practice 3x3 so im unaware of any further boundaries. I would of been sub 20 if i knew Full pll and could sub 4 cross

 

[JackJ]

I'm approaching 3 years of speedcubin', I hit sub 20 like 1.5 years after I started.

 

[AJ Blair]

2 years, was stuck at 20-22 for about 13 months...then finally broke through about 5 months ago...then got stuck at 18, then broke through about three weeks ago, averaging low 16 now...

 

[Zarxrax]

I'm still going for it, and you can see when I started from my join date there.
I think my turning speed is my biggest issue. I'm just slow.
Currently learning my OLLs, and that should cut about 2 seconds off my times and help me get there.