You shouldn't base your progress on a "Super Blessed" solve. My best solve is 28s, but I'm not a sub-30 solver. Learning a new method will slow down your times in the short run. I use full Fridrich, including all OLLs and PLLs but I'm a much slower solver than many, many people that use 4 look LL.
How come you are slower? I thought fridrich method is the fastest?
Learning a new method doesn't necessarily make you faster. Say you learned the entire Fridrich method, which is about ~112 algorithms, and then your normal speed was one turn per second. Then since the Fridrich method averages ~55 moves, you would get a 55 second average. All this means, is that to get fast, you have to practice. Another method may make it easier to GET faster, but you still have to practice. The layer by layer method with 4 look last layer has been proven to get times of a sub 20 second average, but that is difficult to achieve.
The Fridrich method is not necessarily the fastest method. It is the most popular speed cubing method used, and is the method the fastest cubers use, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's the fastest. Other method may be faster, but not a lot of people have tried them out yet.
There's a lot more to work on than learning new tricks, I know it better than most. I've delayed moving to ZB or MGLS because I have *way* too much room for improvement before an expert method is required.
Waddya mean by ZB or MGLS? Btw, if you say sub-30 solve have 'way too much improvement', how about me? Walah we...........[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't worry about ZB or MGLS right now. Those are advanced ways of solving the cube. When I say advanced, you should get a sub 15 average before learning ZB (don't know about MGLS).
Yeah a sub 30 solve needs a lot of improvement - times have been proven to lower than 11 second averages. Yes you need improvement, but at your level, improvement is VERY easy. When you start getting 30 averages, improvement speed slows down....
