Methods Vs. Solve Times (Project!)

[mande]

Name: Nikhil
Nationality: Indian
Age: 19
Method used: Fridrich (about 45/57 OLL's), average about 26.5s.
Best/worst solve time: 18.53/anything above 35s.
Time cubing: Since February 2008
Progression: Stayed at an average of 70 for about 5-6 months, then consistently averaged about 35 secs, till my first official comp (the only one yet). Then I learnt finger tricks, and within a month started averaging about 25-28s and stayed there.
Favourite event: 3x3 BLD
Speedcube: Storebought Rubik's Brand
Projected "potential": 3x3 speed: sub 18

 

[toast]

Name: Kevin Belleville
Nationality : Half White(and lots of other things) and half Chinese
Age: 14
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich:17-18s Petrus: About 25 Roux: Around 35-40
Best/Worst Solve Time: Best: 9.69 Worst: like 3 days when I first got one?
Time cubing : December 26, 2007
Progression: Like a little over a year. I wasn't really aware of this community until June/July 2008
Favourite Speedsolve event : 4x4. I like the parities that come with it.
Speedcube: C4Y/Clone/Type A(Not all mixed together, but it depends.)
Your projected "potential"?:I want to be sub 14 And sub-1 on 4x4.
Any other useful information!: Nope.

 

[Faz]

Name: Fazrulz
Nationality Aussie
Age: SUB 15
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich:12-13
Best/Worst Solve Time: 7.3x lucky 8.5x non lucky
Time cubing: Started in March 08
Progression: Very very fast
Favourite Speedsolve event 4x4
Speedcube: type c
Your projected "potential"?: sub 10 average

 

[ChromisElda]

Name:
Nationality: Indian
Age: 15 - 20 ;P don't want to give the exact one
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich - 34seconds
Best/Worst Solve Time: Best: 27 seconds, worst (within the past 2 days): 45seconds
Time cubing (how long, when did you begin...?): Began end of November 2008, practise on average 1 hr a day from then, but a lot more now.
Progression: How long did it take you to get where you are now? What were your times like? What did you change? What around you changed?
Took me about a hundreds hours, 15 - 20 youtube clips, badmephisto's website as well as cubefreak, three 3x3 cubes, a 4x4 and a 5x5. I started with times of 5 minutes, cut that to 2 minutes... eventually to 1:15 and then learnt fridrich. So far practised with fridrich for just under 2 months.
Favourite Speedsolve event (I'm going to focus on 3x3x3, but this is good for "extra" data): 3x3x3, but if it's for watching purposes, then team solving.
Speedcube: (OH, speedsolve, BLD, whatever, list them all if you like!)
Your projected "potential"?: (Random, eh?) Er... aiming to get sub 20 seconds average, but would be happy with sub 25 as well.
Any other useful information!:

 

[suhas2112]

Name:
Nationality: Indian
Age: 15 - 20 ;P don't want to give the exact one
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich - 34seconds
Best/Worst Solve Time: Best: 27 seconds, worst (within the past 2 days): 45seconds
Time cubing (how long, when did you begin...?): Began end of November 2008, practise on average 1 hr a day from then, but a lot more now.
Progression: How long did it take you to get where you are now? What were your times like? What did you change? What around you changed?
Took me about a hundreds hours, 15 - 20 youtube clips, badmephisto's website as well as cubefreak, three 3x3 cubes, a 4x4 and a 5x5. I started with times of 5 minutes, cut that to 2 minutes... eventually to 1:15 and then learnt fridrich. So far practised with fridrich for just under 2 months.
Favourite Speedsolve event (I'm going to focus on 3x3x3, but this is good for "extra" data): 3x3x3, but if it's for watching purposes, then team solving.
Speedcube: (OH, speedsolve, BLD, whatever, list them all if you like!)
Your projected "potential"?: (Random, eh?) Er... aiming to get sub 20 seconds average, but would be happy with sub 25 as well.
Any other useful information!:

Hey do you live in india? If so, where?

 

[rahulkadukar]

Name: Rahul Kadukar
Nationality India
Age: 21
Speedcubing Method: LBL with 3Look LL:35-40
Best/Worst Solve Time: 27.xx non lucky
cubing: Started in August 08
Progression: Very very slow, Have done 10 x 10 x 10 and have UWR 12
Favourite Speedsolve event Multi Blind
Speedcube: type a
Your projected "potential"?: Maybe Sub 10

 

[rachmaninovian]

Name: Nicholas Ho
Nationality : Singaporean
Age: 17
Speedcubing Method: random blockbuilding or f2l with 2/3 look LL
Best/Worst Solve Time: Best: 13.09 Worst: probably 35s?
Time cubing : since june 2007 though I knew how to solve the 3x3 in '05 and forgot how to the next year.
Progression: lol sub 40 by september 07, sub 30 april 08, sub 25 july 08, currently ~23
Favourite Speedsolve event : 4x4/5x5
Speedcube: Japanese DIY kit.
Your projected "potential"?: sub 1 average 4x4 and sub 1:50 average 5x5 using my cage method?
Any other useful information!: probably the fastest cager at the moment come on how many people here use cage?

 

[boiiwonder]

name: Antonio
Nationality: half Jamaican half American
Age: 18 ( Finaly!!!)
Method: Roux 14 - 15 average Petrus 20 - 25 average
Best/Worst solve time best unknown / worst 2 months
Time cubing: Speed= 1.5 years Overall= Very long time
Favorite event= 4x4 speed (ive never been to a comp. though)
Speedcube: 80's studio cube
Your projected potential: sub 50 4x4 average, Try to get a sub 10 with petrus

 

[Kian]

Name: Kian Barry
Nationality: American
Age: 23
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich with 2 Look OLL
Best/Worst Solve Time: best nonlucky is 14.xx, worst normal times now are 23-24ish
Time cubing: first solved a cube november of 2006, started really speedcubing in janurary 2008
Progression: 50ish in january, sub 20 in november, haven't done much more recently
Favorite Speedsolve event: depends on the day but i guess 5x5 right now
Speedcube: type a
Your projected "potential"?: uh, i'd like to go sub 15, i think that's doable
Any other useful information!: not really.

 

[Odin]

Hey Abr71310, when you’re done with this project can you post your final results? I would love to see the conclusion of this.

 

[somerandomkidmike]

Name: Michael Swan
Nationality: Canadian
Age: 16
Speedcubing Method(s): Corners first, Petrus, and Heise (for different events/situations) (Cage Variation for big cubes)
Best/Worst Solve Time: Best: 13.34 full step 12.02 lucky Worst: Any thing above 28 seconds
Time cubing: August 2006 or 2007? i have no idea... I actually decided to start when I was on the beach.
Progression: I am getting random improvements.
Favourite Speedsolving event: FMC (any size cube), 5x5 speedcubing
Speedcube: Storebought cube (can't get anything else)
Your projected "potential"?: To average 12 seconds with Corners First (I think it's possible)

 

[Edmund]

Edmund Rothfus
14 years old
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich F2L with 2-Look Oll and full Pll average: 17-19 seconds
I started cubing Feb 08, so one year ago
Fav Event would have to be 2x2 or Magic. Fewest moves sounds fun but i've never done it. I like 2x2 and Magic because they are both quick. Magic= under 2 seconds and 2x2 = under 7 seconds
Speedcube: Diansheng with Cubesmith Stickers
I started off by learning from the book. I averaged 75 seconds. Then I learned Fridrich F2L and got down to 45 seconds
Over the summer I decided to learn an algorithm a day. After less than a month I knew every pll. Oll i learned all 2-look in one day
Potential: Consistant sub 4's in 2x2, 3x3 BLD, and Magic under 1 second average. As far as 3x3 goes, just sub 17 av and sub 30 OH av.

Good luck on your project

 

[abr71310]

Hey Abr71310, when you’re done with this project can you post your final results? I would love to see the conclusion of this.

I sure will; the mark or my actual conclusions?

Hopefully the "bias" I take won't affect the sampling too much, but we'll see, right?

Good luck on your project

Thanks so much!!!

 

[Alpha Shenron]

Name:
Nationality: American
Age: 18
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich- 53 second avg
Best/Worst Solve Time: Best time: 26.30 Worst Time: Over 2 mins
Time cubing: I was completely new to cubing last month sometime near the end of January 2009.
Progression: I've did the Beginners method for a day or two but I wanted to solve it in 20 seconds so I looked up Speed Solving methods and found the Petrus Method. I didn't like it so I researched further and found the Fridrich Method (which I like very much).
Speedcube: Store Bought Rubik's brand lubricated with Silicone spray and soon DIYkit Type F
Your projected "potential"?: 20 second average after learning the rest of the Oll algorithms (know about 10 so far and full PLL and F2L).
Any other useful information!: I'm getting a 7x7

 

[chrisness]

Name: Chris
Nationality: Scottish
Age: 19
Speedcubing Method(s): Fridrich
Best/Worst Solve Time: Best: 8.88 lucky/10.04 non lucky, Worst: Any thing above 15 seconds
Time cubing: Since March 07
Progression: Down to 30seconds in 3 months, sub 20 average of 100 within 9 months
Favourite Speedsolving event: 4x4
Speedcube: D
Your projected "potential"?: Sub 45 4x4 average...

 

[abr71310]

Added new "questions": if you happen to be browsing through again and see them (or for you new people who haven't answered yet!), please edit your posts to make my life easier.

Sorry for not including this before!!!

 

[StachuK1992]

Name: Stachu Korick
Nationality (Doesn't really matter but still): USA
Age: 16
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich(Full PLL, 2step OLL, f2l cross...backwards order; haha...25 sec) Petrus (about 25 seconds...full PLL, again)
Best/Worst Solve Time:
...Best: 12.92 LL skip; 16.99 Not lucky
Best Average (of 5): 22.82
Best OFFICIAL average (of 5):28.67
Method used in official: Fridrich
Time cubing: ugh...since Nov. 2007, and about 20 min practice a night avg.
Progression: I got sub 1 in about 3 weeks, sub 45 in another month, sub 30 like 3 months ago
Favorite Speedsolve event :3x3/BLD/magic
Speedcube: Same cube for every 3x3 event...Transparent Blue type C FTW! (used at all comps. so far)
Your projected "potential"?: with current method, about 15 seconds, but will take A LOT of practice(another year? )
Any other useful information!:Large walrus

 

[Lord Voldemort]

Name: Nitin Prasad
Nationality (Doesn't really matter but still): Living in the U.S, but I'm indian.
Age: 15
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich - 25 seconds
Best/Worst Solve Time: Best - 15.78 secnds, Worst is usually 30-33 seconds.
Best Average (of 5): 21.88 Seconds
Best OFFICIAL average (of 5): N/A (I'll update this tomorrow )
Method used in official: N/A
Time cubing (how long, when did you begin...?):I think it's been 4 months total, I started in October sometime.
Progression: Uhh.... I was about 1:30 at the end of October, I was sub 45 on 12/7/08, I was sub 30 on 1/12/09, I was Sub 25 on 1/31/09
Favourite Speedsolve event (I'm going to focus on 3x3x3, but this is good for "extra" data): 3x3x3 2H
Speedcube: Currently, I have a storebought, used for normal 3x3x3 speedcubing, and a type D that I lent to my friend for now but I will use for OH.
Your projected "potential"?: I think I can go sub 20, maybe 16-17 seconds average bit of work?
Any other useful information!:
I'm good at math, only saying so because I've noticed that the vast majority of speedcubers have certain amounts of aptitude in math.
I practiced 1-2 hours until I was Sub1, not I practice for maybe 40-45 minutes a day, but I also just do a few solved in between homework

You know, reading through these, at least half of us think we're going to be sub 10 average... Optimism's fine, but really? I honestly don't think I can even turn a cube that fast, that would have to be almost 5 tps the whole way through.

EDIT: You should add a question for an estimate of practice a day/week.
Also, I was wondering why we don't have a Male/Female thing on here (for the people thewant to, obviously)

 

[dChan]

Name: Daniel Chan
Nationality: American
Age: 16
Speedcubing Method: Fridrich
Best/Worst Solve Time: 12.96/23.65
Best Average (of 5): 17.65
Best OFFICIAL average (of 5): 23.44
Method used in official: Fridrich
Time cubing: 2 Years/February 2007
Progression: How long did it take you to get where you are now? What were your times like? What did you change? What around you changed? (That last one is for old-school cubers from the 1980s ^^): Approximately 1 year(taking breaks from cubing into consideration). My times when I firsts started learning Fridrich were in the 50 to 60 second range. I changed my method to full Fridrich and learned to look ahead better(though I can still improve a lot).
Favourite Speedsolve Event: One-Handed Solving
Speedcube: Black DIY Type A(I actually have no idea what kind of cube I use. I bought it from Leyan Lo, that's all I know)
Your projected "potential"?: Uh, 12 seconds? Not sure how to answer this.
Any other useful information!: I like magic.

 

[wzrds3]

Name: Tyler Aas
Nationality: American
Age: 19
Speedcubing Method: CFOP (intuitive F2L, 4-look LL)
Best/Worst Solve Time: 34.73/~55s (worst is the typical slowest in an avg of 12)
Best Average (of 5): ~42s
Best OFFICIAL average (of 5): N/A (never competed)
Method used in official: N/A
Time cubing: ~5 months of deliberate training, 2 years since I started cubing
Progression: How long did it take you to get where you are now? What were your times like? What did you change? What around you changed? (That last one is for old-school cubers from the 1980s ^^): After 1 or 2 months of cubing with my 1st cube, I got to around 1:10 on average. I then learned about lubrication and other methods (Fridrich, Petrus) and started to focus my attention on learning algorithms and looking ahead. I took a break when I got into college, but now I'm working on getting faster again.
Favourite Speedsolve Event: N/A
Speedcube: Black DIY Cube4You Type A I, lubricated with puzzleproz.com lube.
Your projected "potential"?: My current goal is sub-25, but I hope to get sub-15 some day.
Any other useful information!: While I prefer Fridrich, I would like to learn a more unconventional method like Heise (or Thistlethwaite, lol), as I think that I should keep my options open.