How long did it take you to learn...

Everyone should at least try Roux. I don't think its really necessary to look into ZZ/Petrus very much.

Why do you say this? ZZ and Petrus can have potential if the user enjoys this method. You're just saying "learn roux" to everyone and not giving people a chance to find what method they want to use.
 
F2L?
Well, idk since F2L can always improve, so it is constantly developing
OLL?
9 or so months and counting? but it really depends how fast you choose to learn algorithms. Usually I don't like adding too many algs at once; I usually learn one, then wait a few weeks before learning another
PLL?
2-3 months? Again, depends on the rate at which you learn algorithms
under 30sec?
Less than a month. But I also had a pretty good background with multiple beginner methods
How much practice per day?
It varies based on what my schedule looks like or what I feel like doing. Usually anywhere from 90 seconds to a few hours.
 
Thanks for all the answer :).

Like i said in the first post i training on Fridrich F2L, should I continue with that or traning on 2-look-OLL/2-look-PLL first?
And if I should continue whit F2L do you know any good guides for F2L and for look ahead? And are there any algorithms to F2L?
 
Thanks for all the answer :).

Like i said in the first post i training on Fridrich F2L, should I continue with that or traning on 2-look-OLL/2-look-PLL first?
And if I should continue whit F2L do you know any good guides for F2L and for look ahead? And are there any algorithms to F2L?

Continue using intuetive f2l. Then once you feel comfortable move to 2-look-PLL, learning about an alg a day, wait about a week and move to 2-look-OLL and lean about an alg a day. During these 3ish weeks your f2l will improve because your look-ahead will improve. Look ahead is something that you kind of have to learn on your own. There are algs for f2l, but I would not learn then until you have finished full PLL and most of OLL. Learning it intuetively makes you realize what you are doing to the cube. I do highly suggest learning algs for complicated, high move count cases. I also learned f2l from monkeydude http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGeTtD4tB5w
 
Everyone should at least try Roux. I don't think its really necessary to look into ZZ/Petrus very much.

Everyone should try them all.
For OH, ZZ and Petrus are possibly the most efficient methods... Plus, it's not like you can't get fast with them. Take asmallkitten or uvafan. asmallkitten is definitely one of the best OH'ers, and he uses ZZ. UVAfan went from noob (40s) to fast (15s) in like 5 months using ZZ because that's his method. I'm sure the same thing has happened with petrus users too.
 
Yey i have reduce my time whit about 8-10 sekund the last 3 days and Im going to get my Zhanchi today :D

Times:

Avg of 5: 00,53,59
00:48.34
00:50.08
01:01.13
00:54.44
00:53.96

I know that its still not good times but Im getting better and better :)

EDIT: i mean 18-20 sekunds not 8-10 ^^
 
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Yey i have reduce my time whit about 8-10 sekund the last 3 days and Im going to get my Zhanchi today :D

Times:

Avg of 5: 00,53,59
00:48.34
00:50.08
01:01.13
00:54.44
00:53.96

I know that its still not good times but Im getting better and better :)

EDIT: i mean 18-20 sekunds not 8-10 ^^

That is really good! It took me 3-4 months of cubing before I was under a minute. What have you started learning?
 
I have start to learning 2-look-OLL and I have trained more at F2L.
I just built up my zhanchi and lubed it after Crazybadcuber's guide and its works super good but I have not gotten to it get.
 
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I haven't really cubed in a while (other than just picking it up and solving a couple). But I did PLL in about 2 weeks, and I learned about 40 OLLs in maybe a month of actually working on them? Plus about 4 months of getting used to them and forgetting them and looking them up and remembering them and forg...that process.
 
I used to cube a few years ago and could solve the cube but was not very fast. Just about 3 weeks ago I picked up the cube again. I had forgotten all the algorithms and had to re-learn them. In that time my average went from over a minute to sub-30. I don't remember how long it took me initially to learn the cube. I started out with the Dan Brown method from Youtube. Now I use Fridrich with 4LLL and am in the process of learning full PLL.
 
F2L can always be improved in my opinion, I got the concept in a day.
PLL took a week, but go slower than that.
OLL took a month, but go slower than that once again.
COLL, I'm about halfway through with, and it's been about three weeks. I think this is a good pace, about an alg a day.
30 seconds took a month.
I do at least an Ao12 timed a day, but usually more, and a ton of untimed solves.
 
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