How long did it take you to get fast?

[AlphaSheep]

I can't say how long it took me to get fast, because I'm not fast yet. How long did it take me to get where I am now? Here's the graph... What's important to notice is that I did more than 100 solves in the last week of June, but only a handful were under a minute.

Try to find some time for 10-20 solves each evening, and you'll get faster in no time.

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

2 months to get sub 20, 2 more months for sub 15, 2 more to get sub 13.5, and now its january and I am almost sub 13 (no doubt will be by the end of the month) and I've been cubing for 6 months and 9 days. To get fast quickly, you just have to obsess about the cube. Solve, solve, solve.

 

[VeeCee]

I started around the same time you did and am about as fast.

It's like any skill the more you practise the faster you get, I am learning 1 algorithm a day until I have PLL properly memorised and all 7 algs for the 2 look OLL properly memorised. I've noticed that my recognition of cases and turning speeds are getting faster, though lots of my practise is untimed solves whenever I have a few spare mins.

sadly I'm older than most cubers and have a business to run so don't have as much free time as I'd like, but hey. One of the things I like about cubing is I can practise at work inbetween stuff, I have a cube on my desk and I pick it up and solve it whenever I have 2 mins spare.

I've definitely had a couple of sub 1 min solves, though they were untimed ones so I don't know how fast they were exactly, but I can tell that I'm finding and inserting F2L pairs faster, or building Roux blocks faster than I was last week, and the OLL/PLL algs I have in muscle memory now are way quicker than the ones I need to pause and think about.

People learn things at different speeds, just keep track of your progress, set yourself realistic goals, keep practising and you'll be a lot faster before you know it.

 

[jms]

I can't say how long it took me to get fast, because I'm not fast yet. How long did it take me to get where I am now? Here's the graph... What's important to notice is that I did more than 100 solves in the last week of June, but only a handful were under a minute.

http://i.imgur.com/anM8k3g.png

Try to find some time for 10-20 solves each evening, and you'll get faster in no time.

That's a pretty cool graph. Very informative. Is it from cubetimer or something or did you plot it yourself?

2 months to get sub 20, 2 more months for sub 15, 2 more to get sub 13.5, and now its january and I am almost sub 13 (no doubt will be by the end of the month) and I've been cubing for 6 months and 9 days. To get fast quickly, you just have to obsess about the cube. Solve, solve, solve.

That's pretty fast. I am obsessing about the cube though. My girlfriend thinks I'm nuts.

I started around the same time you did and am about as fast.

It's like any skill the more you practise the faster you get, I am learning 1 algorithm a day until I have PLL properly memorised and all 7 algs for the 2 look OLL properly memorised. I've noticed that my recognition of cases and turning speeds are getting faster, though lots of my practise is untimed solves whenever I have a few spare mins.

sadly I'm older than most cubers and have a business to run so don't have as much free time as I'd like, but hey. One of the things I like about cubing is I can practise at work inbetween stuff, I have a cube on my desk and I pick it up and solve it whenever I have 2 mins spare.

I've definitely had a couple of sub 1 min solves, though they were untimed ones so I don't know how fast they were exactly, but I can tell that I'm finding and inserting F2L pairs faster, or building Roux blocks faster than I was last week, and the OLL/PLL algs I have in muscle memory now are way quicker than the ones I need to pause and think about.

People learn things at different speeds, just keep track of your progress, set yourself realistic goals, keep practising and you'll be a lot faster before you know it.

You sound a bit like me. I'm older than most cubers too, and I work full time. My cube is sat next to me on my desk and I try to solve every time I get a couple of minutes.

I'm pretty good at learning algorithms. I learnt 2 look OLL and 2 look PLL in a couple of days. But F2L is taking me longer to improve at. Sometimes I can do it OK, but other times I look at the timer and I'm on 3 minutes and I haven't even finshed F2L yet.

Most of my solves are untimed too. I don't think I've done much faster than a minute and a half though.

Are you doing Roux as well as CFOP then? I figured I'd learn CFOP first as there seems to be more tutorials and stuff for it online, and maybe try Roux when I'm a bit more competent.

 

[VeeCee]

Are you doing Roux as well as CFOP then? I figured I'd learn CFOP first as there seems to be more tutorials and stuff for it online, and maybe try Roux when I'm a bit more competent.

Yes.

I'd probably progress faster if I stuck with 1 method, and my CFOP solves are faster than the Roux solves, I'll keep up both though and see how it goes.

CFOP is make cross > do F2L > spam algs Roux is Do 2 blocks > spam algs so on paper Roux ought to be quicker.

Deedubs Roux vids are great for learning Roux and there's loads of great Roux threads here.

 

[AlphaSheep]

That's a pretty cool graph. Very informative. Is it from cubetimer or something or did you plot it yourself?

I use prisma to record my times, but I plotted the graph myself.

 

[jms]

Yes.

I'd probably progress faster if I stuck with 1 method, and my CFOP solves are faster than the Roux solves, I'll keep up both though and see how it goes.

CFOP is make cross > do F2L > spam algs Roux is Do 2 blocks > spam algs so on paper Roux ought to be quicker.

Deedubs Roux vids are great for learning Roux and there's loads of great Roux threads here.

Hmm... maybe I'll give Roux a try myself. I'll take a look at Deedubs vids. Thanks.

 

[GuRoux]

Why? Roux's two blocks are essentially completing F2L with two edges left out.

i think he is referring to the fact that roux has less moves than cfop and has no cube rotations.

 

[VeeCee]

Why? Roux's two blocks are essentially completing F2L with two edges left out.

True but as GuRoux said, you don't rotate the cube at all for Roux, and you kind of learn that method from the start. I spend a lot of pause time when I'm solving CFOP rotating the cube to find pieces to connect, or even rotating the cube to insert pairs/look for next pieces.

I'm just saying it ought to be faster 'on paper' - I know that in practice the fastest people use CFOP, I know that you can solve CFOP with zero rotation. In practice both methods seem about as fast as each other at the end of the day.

I just think for me seeing as I'm just starting to learn then learning 2 methods for not a lot more than the price of one seems like a good idea.
I think that the rotationless method for Roux will help me to stop rotating the cube as much in CFOP solves, and finding pieces to block build helps my CFOP F2L recognition, so why not.

 

[Tracks]

My wife got me a Rubik's speed cube a couple of months ago just for fun. I've learned CFOP with 2-look OLL, and I get between 1:15-1:45. I don't see myself progressing as fast as a lot of people here, but then again, I'm 42. Any other older guys getting into this? How are your times?

 

[theROUXbiksCube]

A good friend of mine who is 45, I believe MarcelP on SS is avging 19 with CFOP but switched to Roux which is more fun for him and is averaging 30, he'll be sub30 by the end of this month, I bet it.

 

[rjcaste]

I've been cubing for about 5-6 months, gotten sub-18 averages, and my global average is around 18-21 seconds. Don't worry about methods or anything yet, you're still a beginner, I'm absolutely positive you will improve if you practice.

 

[nalralz]

Is sub-13 good for cubing for 1 year and 2 weeks?

 

[cmhardw]

It took everyone here years to get fast, and it will take you years to get fast. Don't be impatient. It's a super long journey you've just begun. Keep practicing and don't give up, and eventually after a long time you'll get there.

This is really good advice. I like this post, and I very much agree with it.

 

[Artic]

Is sub-13 good for cubing for 1 year and 2 weeks?

Not really. You should be sub 10 by now.

 

[Carbon]

Its been a year for me and im almost sub 15.

 

[Seanliu]

4 months and 21 secs... Is that normal?

 

[jms]

I've been cubing for about 5-6 months, gotten sub-18 averages, and my global average is around 18-21 seconds. Don't worry about methods or anything yet, you're still a beginner, I'm absolutely positive you will improve if you practice.

Thanks. I seem to be slowly getting faster. My average has dropped by about 10 seconds since yesterday.

edit: Just got a timed single PB of 1m15s!

 

[nalralz]

Oh. What should I do to be sub-10? No one has told me what to do to be sub-10.

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

Not really. You should be sub 10 by now.

Wat the heck? What type of post is that? Sub-13 is great for a little over a year. Very few people have gotten sub 10 global average after a year.