Improving my time

[Forcemaster]

I've started cubing about a month ago after I watched some vids on youtube, looked for my old one (had one lying around for years), luped it up with some vaseline & started solving it.

I've got a 1:30 average at the moment, and I'm going to look into Fridrich to increase this time, now I was wondering what the best way to handle it was?

Intuitive F2L, learn all of the algs, learn only PLL/OLL algs, ... Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[griz]

intuitive f2l then gradualy learn all the oll and pll's

 

[Theromy]

I started 1 month ago aswell, I learnt fridich a week or two in and I learnt it like this. First I learned the T Perm and the Y Perm, I then solved the cube a few times by solving f2l intuitively and just the T/Y Perm for the PLL. I then printed out the sheet of all 21 PLL algorithms and worked through them.

It took me about 2 weeks to learn all 21 PLLs but sometimes I have to look back an make sure I'm about to perform the correct one.

Now I practice me F2L, usually by trying to solve it fast but I've tried the metronome technique. When I feel I'm ready I'll learn the OLL algorithms (I only know 4 at the moment)

I learned the Petrus and Roux method but I'm slow at those. ^^

 

[aznfury]

I learnt Fridrich like this: First, I learned the U and A perms. Next, I learned intuitive f2l, then like 20 olls, all the plls, and all the olls.

 

[TimMc]

Definitely work on the F2L stage. It's all well and good to say it should be intuitive but if your intuitive method is somewhat slow it might be worth looking at how other people do it. I find that stage alone takes up 50% of my solve time :-/

 

[Lotsofsloths]

Heres what I'm gonna do
Intuitive F2L(did)
Learn FRU...and FUR...(did)
Learn the 6 or 7 OLLs for cross on top already solved.(almost did)
Learn all the 21 PLLs gradually.
Come back and learn the other 50 OLL's

 

[clincher]

If you really want fast times I suggest intuitive F2L and all oll and pll

 

[Darshen]

Heres what I'm gonna do
Intuitive F2L(did)
Learn FRU...and FUR...(did)
Learn the 6 or 7 OLLs for cross on top already solved.(almost did)
Learn all the 21 PLLs gradually.
Come back and learn the other 50 OLL's

Then learn some F2L algorithms for the tricky cases that take a lot of intuitive moves.

 

[brunson]

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