Well in the weekly competition I decided to give the one hand challenge a go. As you can tell by my times I am a novice cuber using beginner method and no/little previous experience in one-handed (I have actually only ever attempted one hand once prior and that time took me 20+ minutes on a Warrior W).
I am happy to say that my times were improving as I went along. My first solve I attempted left handed since I seem to gravitate to doing things left handed despite being right handed. After switch to right hand it did seem to go a lot more smoothly. Not sure if cube made a difference but I used the GAN X first, then switched to the GAN XS when I switch to right handed. I feel like the X doesn't have a good as grip as the XS.
I learned one valuable thing and that was my 3x3 solving in general is based largely on muscle memory and not really understanding how the pieces moved in conjunction with one another. As I completed out the five solves I started to better understand how they were moving. Making the yellow cross seemed to be the biggest challenge, as I could never seem to figure out how to move the pieces - I would end up just messing everything up and have to fix a white corner and edge piece a couple times then I would get lucky that the cross would be solved after fixing what was mixed up!
I am happy to say that my times were improving as I went along. My first solve I attempted left handed since I seem to gravitate to doing things left handed despite being right handed. After switch to right hand it did seem to go a lot more smoothly. Not sure if cube made a difference but I used the GAN X first, then switched to the GAN XS when I switch to right handed. I feel like the X doesn't have a good as grip as the XS.
I learned one valuable thing and that was my 3x3 solving in general is based largely on muscle memory and not really understanding how the pieces moved in conjunction with one another. As I completed out the five solves I started to better understand how they were moving. Making the yellow cross seemed to be the biggest challenge, as I could never seem to figure out how to move the pieces - I would end up just messing everything up and have to fix a white corner and edge piece a couple times then I would get lucky that the cross would be solved after fixing what was mixed up!