My 3x3 Training Schedule

[UnReLaTeD]

My 3x3 Training Plan to get sub 15

First off, I'm new to this forums, so this is my first post! I've been cubing for a year, but only I haven't been worried about my speed that much, just something to do with my hands when I'm bored. My average is 35 seconds, and I want to get that down to 15 seconds. I find the best way for me to train is to make a definetive schedule and follow it.

Currently, this is what I know:

• 5-12 Move Cross
• Intuitive F2L
• 2 Look Oll
• Some PLL [10/21]

These are my goals

• 8 Move Max Cross
• Advanced F2L
• VHF2L
• 1 Look OLL
• 1 Look PLL

And here's the Schedule

• Week 1: Cross and Look Ahead
• Week 2: F2L and Look Ahead
• Week 3: F2L & ZHF2L and Look Ahead
• Week 4: ZHF2L and Look Ahead
• Week 5: OLL and Look Ahead
• Week 6: Oll and Look Ahead
• Week 7: PLL

I might change the schedule slightly depending on how long it takes to learn each of these things, but I plan to report back here on any updates and benchmarks.
If anyone here has any suggestion on what else to learn or changes I should make, please share! I would also appreciate any info on VHF2L or inserting the last lair while solving Oll, as I'm a bit confused on it as of right now. Also, would learning Roux/Petrus/Heise or any other methods help increase my times? I currently use CFOP.

 

[ChickenWrap]

Personally, I am not a big fan of scheduling things out like this. Take as much/little time as you need until you improve at each step before moving on. 1 week might be too much time for cross, but 2 weeks would be too little for OLL (for example).

Personally, I average 2 seconds for cross, 10 for F2l, and 8 for LL. I cut my F2L times in half over a month by just doing a ton of solves where I turned slow. Maybe dedicated practice works well once you have fast overall times and a good idea of specific things you need to work on, but until then, just practice lookahead and turn slow, then gradually build up your turn speed. Also, just learn an alg or two a day until they are all memorized.

 

[jeff081692]

VHF2L is not necessary for your current goal. Knowing a few basic sledgehammer cases could be helpful.

This video should be all you need for edge control at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjf6-_7TSPM

Just make sure you keep doing normal solves in addition to your other practice. When I spent too much time practicing one step it slowed down my other parts of the solve when I went back to full solves. Nowadays I do 1 hour of solves and 1 hour of learning/practicing my weakest part of the solves. I would start with PLL and learn a few algs a day and that would make half your solves a little better. The faster you learn the rest of the algs the faster you can get practice with the recognition in normal solves. The cross and F2L will get a little more efficient the more solves you do but the Last layer won't improve much until you know complete fridrich. And so taking the first weeks to improve cross and F2L separately doesn't seem like the best idea in my eyes despite it being a bigger percentage of the solve than last layer.

That's just my suggestion and I know there are plenty of ways to get better so do whatever you feel is the most fun.

 

[brian724080]

Seven weeks is barely enough to master half of the topics listed. Go ahead and throw out 1-look OLL and "ZHF2L" (I think it's VHF2L) and focus on optimizing cross, F2L, and learning PLL. Personally, I think you should learn advanced cross first, followed by full PLL. That will definitely get your times down to about 25 seconds, then, you should try to improve on F2L to get sub-15.

 

[UnReLaTeD]

Personally, I am not a big fan of scheduling things out like this. Take as much/little time as you need until you improve at each step before moving on. 1 week might be too much time for cross, but 2 weeks would be too little for OLL (for example).

Personally, I average 2 seconds for cross, 10 for F2l, and 8 for LL. I cut my F2L times in half over a month by just doing a ton of solves where I turned slow. Maybe dedicated practice works well once you have fast overall times and a good idea of specific things you need to work on, but until then, just practice lookahead and turn slow, then gradually build up your turn speed. Also, just learn an alg or two a day until they are all memorized.

VHF2L is not necessary for your current goal. Knowing a few basic sledgehammer cases could be helpful.

This video should be all you need for edge control at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjf6-_7TSPM

Just make sure you keep doing normal solves in addition to your other practice. When I spent too much time practicing one step it slowed down my other parts of the solve when I went back to full solves. Nowadays I do 1 hour of solves and 1 hour of learning/practicing my weakest part of the solves. I would start with PLL and learn a few algs a day and that would make half your solves a little better. The faster you learn the rest of the algs the faster you can get practice with the recognition in normal solves. The cross and F2L will get a little more efficient the more solves you do but the Last layer won't improve much until you know complete fridrich. And so taking the first weeks to improve cross and F2L separately doesn't seem like the best idea in my eyes despite it being a bigger percentage of the solve than last layer.

That's just my suggestion and I know there are plenty of ways to get better so do whatever you feel is the most fun.

I don't plan on following this schedule strictly, it's just an overview and bound to change. I may even cancel it if I find it's better for my personally.