LOOK HERE if you avg <20

[darthyody]

Right now I average 26 seconds. I have learned all 78 of the OLLs and PLLs. What I'm wondering about is a few minor things that I haven't found discussed.
Is it worth working on 2-side twists like (U D, U D', F B, F' B, L R, L R', etc.), 1-side double twists like (U2, F2, R2, etc), and also doing the PLLs I tend to turn the entire cube to orient it so I can do the alg instead of using U spins to orient it. Are these things that will lower my average by .01 of a second or are they worth practicing to do fast?

 

[Crzyazn]

Work on F2L

 

[badmephisto]

damn! you made me look!

when do the 2side twists ever come up anyway?

 

[mrbiggs]

What a horrible thread title. About 60% of threads fall under that heading.

Anyway, you should figure out your time breakdown to give you an idea of what to work on. I'd bet $10 it's F2L, but if you have an eight second cross that might be a better idea. You seem to want to average sub-20 from the thread title, implying that you want to knock 6 seconds off your time. Odds are very good that specific applications of fingertricks aren't going to do that.

Are they worth practicing to do fast? I don't know, someone better than me will probably be able to answer.

Will they make you as fast as you want to be? Probably not.

 

[MTGjumper]

You know all OLL and PLL, right? What's your recognition and execution of these steps like? because there is no point in learning algorithms that you can't recognise and execute quicker than you would be able to doing 2-look OLL.

If this isn't the case (well, there's always room for improvement) improving your cross and F2L will improve your time. Aim for 3.5 second cross and 12 second F2L for now.

And yes, a question mark can be used as a comma.

 

[MHordecki]

For me, it was all about lookahead during F2L. Buy a metronome (or use http://www.metronomeonline.com/) and increase your bpm(imho 170bpm should be ok for sub20) while solving F2L (do not train LL with metronome cause it's pointless).

 

[blah]

You seem to think that finger speed is slowing you down. I highly doubt so. You don't need to turn like Yu Nakajima to sub-20, ever seen how Shelley does it? Check this out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2lpR9foG8w.

Don't ask why, she was the first person that came to my mind when I thought of smooth cubing without much finger speed, other guys who are smooth have good finger speed too so they wouldn't work very well as counterexamples to Yu.

It's called lookahead.

 

[hdskull]

You seem to think that finger speed is slowing you down. I highly doubt so. You don't need to turn like Yu Nakajima to sub-20, ever seen how Shelley does it? Check this out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2lpR9foG8w.

Don't ask why, she was the first person that came to my mind when I thought of smooth cubing without much finger speed, other guys who are smooth have good finger speed too so they wouldn't work very well as counterexamples to Yu.

It's called lookahead.

I think she pauses too much still. If you want to see amazing, THIS is amazing. That inspires me to do better, took at how slow and smooth that is.

 

[blah]

Sweet! How many moves were there in that solve? It's like oh-my-god smoothly amazing.

Edit: I meant amazingly smooth See how amazed I was I even failed to construct a proper sentence?

 

[hdskull]

Sweet! How many moves were there in that solve? It's like oh-my-god smoothly amazing.

Edit: I meant amazingly smooth See how amazed I was I even failed to construct a proper sentence?

Yea, that's when I started to believe slowing down gets you faster, lol.

Shelley is really calm though. I suck at competitions.

 

[fanwuq]

Both Shelley and Edouard Chambon are amazing. I like that style of cubing. They gave me hope of getting faster. Really after watching this, Nakajima's cubing videos look really awkward.

 

[MistArts]

Both Shelley and Edouard Chambon are amazing. I like that style of cubing. They gave me hope of getting faster. Really after watching this, Nakajima's cubing videos look really awkward.

I combine this style and some of my variated VHF2L and get very close to sub-20. Btw, Fanwuq, do you want to race to sub-20?

EDIT: I look here because I was sub-20....on 2x2. Very soon to be sub-5.