How to be sub 20

[cuberkid10]

How To Be Sub-20:

PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!!!
I only know 17 PLL's, and I dont even know all of 2 look OLL, and Im sub-20. Practice...

so u sometimes do the sun alg 2 or 3 times to get the oll done?? i really want to know because i know all pll and half oll and still get 25s jeje

Thats basically what I do. For example, the triple sune. I do a regular sune, a U' and then a reverse sune to do the OLL. I've memo'd those patterns, so there are no pauses there.

My F2L is only 11-12 seconds, which gives me about a 6-7 LL..

 

[Chrisadws]

I would suggest learning those 13, they will really help for your hard cases

 

[yockee]

Hands down, the VERY BEST site for F2L algs, as well as algs from different angles, is www.cubestation.co.uk

 

[yockee]

cross

I avg like 40. I really gotta work on my cross though, lol. Sometimes it takes like 6-7 secs :fp Good tips here! But I still can't get how to be able to do all four cross edges "on the same time"

If you want to see some pretty good cross examples, in addition to a tripple x-cross, I have a video on my you tube channel, called color neutral walkthrough solves. My channel is Xxoxia. It'll give you a good idea on how to do efficient crosses.

 

[Rpotts]

Hands down, the VERY BEST site for F2L algs, as well as algs from different angles, is www.cubestation.co.uk

macky's site is better
http://www.cubefreak.net/speed/cfop/f2l.html

dan harris' is pretty good, but not the hands down, very best

don't forget the wiki [wiki]f2l[/wiki]

 

[RyanReese09]

Really i just practiced to achieve sub20

i average 18ish flag (sometimes 18.2 sometimes 17.9x)

10-11 second f2l (on an 18 second solve, lower f2l times = faster solve)
OLL really depends, on average I'd say OLL in 2 seconds (on average)
recognition+execution= the rest of the time
i can sub3 most PLLs (most I can sub2 but N(b) i 2.6, and N(a) is around 3.1)

 

[person123]

How to sub-20?

helloooooooo


okay, so i average about 23 seconds, maybe less sometimes. you can see my cubemania graph thingy, im astrokillernaut. I know 38/57 olls approximately,and average 11-12 seconds on f2l average, sometimes less, or more :O. i know all plls, and my cross is okay. i might post a vid later, dont have time right now,


thanks you1!!?!?!?!!?!

 

[cyoubx]

My F2L is about the same, and I average 18 consistently. So maybe try executing LL faster. Also, try going slow in Cross + F2L. After all, you only need about 3 tps to get sub 20.
I was stuck at 23 for a couple weeks as well. One other thing that helped me was thinking about getting 5 seconds faster, rather than breaking 20. If you have a mindset to break 20 seconds, you'll start to slow improvement when you get to 21 sec. Instead, by making it "5 seconds faster," it's an arbitrary number that you constantly shoot for, so you completely forget about the "barrier."

 

[Zarxrax]

You mentioned in your own post that you dont know all the OLLs yet. I would think that if you finish learning those and keep practicing, you will probably get to sub-20...

 

[dimwmuni]

I think all that you need to sub-20 is finish learning the OLLs and work on PLL execution. Also practice F2L slowly it should help.

One other thing that helped me was thinking about getting 5 seconds faster, rather than breaking 20. If you have a mindset to break 20 seconds, you'll start to slow improvement when you get to 21 sec. Instead, by making it "5 seconds faster," it's an arbitrary number that you constantly shoot for, so you completely forget about the "barrier."

That is a really good idea, I've never thought of it that way.

 

[Louis McDonald]

You mentioned in your own post that you dont know all the OLLs yet. I would think that if you finish learning those and keep practicing, you will probably get to sub-20...

Im sub 20 and know only the cross olls and line olls, (18sec) when you get down to its just practise

 

[qqwref]

Step 1: Learn the rest of OLL.

Step 2: Turn at least this fast:

 

[freshcuber]

Wow that vid is crazy lol. Dudes just sitting there mega-chill doing like 3tps. It helps that he can speed up his PLL and OLL execution in case he gets close to 20 but still extremely impressive. Lesson officially learned.

 

[avgdi]

I've never seen that video before, but it was really helpful.

 

[Away]

I wish I had your problem. I'm 23s avg as well. I have an 8 second cross average.

 

[FatBoyXPC]

You must have an amazing F2L + LL to get 23 seconds on an 8 second cross. 5s for LL (which is pretty fast) would you put at a 10s F2L. My F2L + cross is around 12-13, I'd like it to get around 9-10.

 

[FatBoyXPC]

My F2L + cross is 12-13 and I'm kind of sub20 (quite a few averages of 50 sub20 and a lot of averages of 5 and 12 that are sub20, officially not yet though, plan to change that at Dayton).

 

[blakedacuber]

i avg 21 and my f2l takes 13-15 seconds Ive beeen stuck at this for around 4 or 5 months any tips?

 

[lorki3]

i avg 21 and my f2l takes 13-15 seconds Ive beeen stuck at this for around 4 or 5 months any tips?

How many OLL's do you know? For the rest its just practise.

 

[blakedacuber]

35 but for some its quicker to do 2look cause i terrible t them like the one with all corners oriented and no edges