POLL: Most difficult time barrier to break!

[buelercuber]

sub 20 was realy hard for me. extremely hard for me, i've been at like 24 then one day i just started to be sub 20, i'mi serious never had a normal average that was close to 20

 

[AJ Blair]

It took me 16 months to drop from 22 to 19, with constant practice...I don't know what it was, but I finally broke through...that was in September of last year...since then I have become sub-15...I don't know what took so long in the beginning...

 

[michaelfivez]

about 2 weeks to get sub 1 minute, then 3 months for sub 30 and now 2 months later I'm about 22 sec, so it's all easy I guess. but I think the lower you go the harder.

 

[timelonade]

I sit at about 25 AVG on a decent day, then other times sit at about 27.. I am dying for a sub-20 AVG, need to get some more consistency with my look ahead for F2L and PLL and I think that'll shave SOME time off. My TPS sucks as well ;_;.

 

[cubersmith]

I think I may have just broken sub 20 today after 3 months of trying

 

[chrissyD]

Sub 20 wasn't that hard for me just had to learn and get use to full oll and that was it and that only took me a few weeks from 23-24 average

 

[Kian]

The next one, always.

 

[jrb]

Just got my first sub 20 average yesterday, so I can tell I'm getting close, but I've been stuck under 25 seconds for months.

 

[5BLD]

For me, there were two difficult barriers to break.
Sub-minute was hard because it was all so new to me.
Sub-20 was hard because I was just becoming an expert and had to really 'steer myself' to a certain overall style, which I am developing now.

Sub-15 was fairly easy...

 

[Engberg91]

I was about 22.xx a very long time so sub-20 was really hard for me.
then sub-15 was even harder i was around 16.xx for about 2-3 months.
now i try to be sub-13 and its f*cking impossible!

 

[cuberkid10]

Sub 20 was very difficult for me. After that, 19-15 passed very fast.

 

[Enter]

for me it was sub 20 sub 15 was easy sub 12 is hard! sub 11 not yet sub 10 must be hard!

 

[Samania]

Sub-20 fosho :\

 

[tx789]

sub 30

Spoiler

2 year bump

 

[Andri Maulana]

i stuck with sub 20 barrier more than 2 months...

But now i've been stuck with sub 15 barrier more than 4 months !!

S**t, it very suck. What must i do to pass the barrier?

 

[Nostra]

Sub-20 was clearly the hardest for me. sub-1 -> sub-25 was a quasi-linear progression. Then, I stucked at 21 avg. Once I broke the sub-20 barrier, the progression from 19 to 13 was quite fast. I'm now trying to break the 11 barrier which is quite difficult for now, but it'll fall soon!

I'm pretty sure there is a psychological effect when we are close to a barrier. I was stuck at 21 for like 2 months, and when I broke the sub-20 barrier, I went down to 17ish in like 2 weeks. I guess we could see the same kind of effect with the world record. It stays about 10.xx for a while, then Feliks arrived (on his majestic white unicorn). Right after him, dozens of people broke the sub-10 avg...

 

[Godmil]

Took me 6 months (nearly half my cubing time) to get from sub30 to sub25, but I think it's going to be easier to get sub-20 now.

 

[xabu1]

I don't feel that I am qualified to answer this, as I haven't broken 2 of those barriers, as far as I know, sub 20 is the hardest, I broke sub 30 really easily, then my improvements just stopped at 23...

 

[Vinny]

I voted sub 15 because ever since I basically broke the sub 20 barrier in late February, and I was just about sub 30 in October. I'm having trouble breaking the sub 15 barrier right now, and I'm averaging from 14-low 15s so I'm almost there.

 

[Phlippieskezer]

Everything up to sub-20 came effortlessly and subconsciously for me. For sub-15 (which I think I broke just yesterday... Yay), I actually had to drill.
I've been improving a lot in the past 1.5-2 month(s). Woot.

P.S.: The time I was stuck at the longest was 30, but 15 was the hardest.