POLL: Most difficult time barrier to break!

[ILMZS20]

I was stuck at an average of 22-24 for several months Now I've switched method, and I'm almost back to this speed again... hopefully I can actually improve consistently rather than randomly. But I'd definitely say sub-20 was the hardest barrier for me, just because that was when I got to the time when repeatedly solving didn't help. And it still doesn't.

yes it helps alot, but i think what happens is that you dont improve as fast as you used to and really feel it. i was also stuck at like 27, then lower 20s and i also didnt feel improvements for kinda long times, but i kept on solving without really worrying about my speed just trying to do f2l better, it felt like doing the same pointless thing over and over but its so important to just keep practicing, especially when you feel like you are stuck cause thats when you really need to practice. all i can is say is that its totally worth it and i am like always sub 19 now, on good days even sub 17 and sometimes sub 16 and im at a point again where i can see myself getting faster and faster, especially since i havent even learned full oll. hope that motivates you just dont stop or something cause when you say like "no way im stuck here f*** this" and then look back like some month later and see that other people have gotten so much better and you say to yourself "i could be way better right now aswell why did i stop" then its the most frustrating thing ever. i had that happen on other hobbys ^^

 

[Selkie]

Hardest barrier - Sub 17 Ao100.

The path from learning to speed solve right down to sub 19 was pretty linear to be honest and was sub 19 within 10 months. Took another 5 months to get to sub 18. Another 1 year and 8 months to shave the next second off to get to sub 17.

I often blame slow progression now on old hands but there is still room for improvement in cross/F2L transition and look-ahead and even turnspeed.

I suspect it will take a whole lot longer to get from current average (16.6-16.8) down to my aim of sub 15 though.

 

[ChickenWrap]

My hardest is a consistent sub-6 for 7x7...I have ***** recognition on my SS7 The stickers are so dull, but I am replacing them today...hope it will help....

 

[applemobile]

Sub 7. I just don't think I'll ever achieve it.

 

[dannah]

sub-40 is the hardest i have had so far, i still have not done it, there may be ahrder barriers later on but i do not know yet

 

[MennoniteCuber1]

Gotten a few sub-20s, been nearly a year since I started cubing (I started with a really bad beginner's method). Still working on the 20 barrier and have been for the past few weeks.

 

[Hssandwich]

Sub 15 was really easy for me , I just practised loads

 

[Randomno]

Sub-25 cos I've gotta learn boring algs.

Or improve look-ahead but that's sounds even less fun. :/

 

[NewCuber000]

Sub-20, easily.
I've only been Sub-20 for 2 months and I already have a sub-15 average of 5 However, going from 25 to 20 took about 4 I think. Plus, all I had to do was practice.

 

[theROUXbiksCube]

Im trying to break sub 20 right now, its a pain, look ahead is fine but slow and I consistently get 20s gonna get that pb 19.xy Ao100 soon I can feel it in my gut

 

[IQubic]

I'm sub 40 with CFOP, but I want to switch to ZZ where I'm in the high 50s. So I don't know how to vote.

 

[lerenard]

I'm actually gonna say sub-40 (so far) I was stuck there for a few months, and now I'm hovering in the low 30s with common times between 25 and 40 (no consistency....) but I don't feel stuck. I'm definitely improving and I feel like there are plenty of things that I feel I could be doing better and I know how to practice them in a constructive way, so now it's just a matter of how much time it will take. But my practice isn't too focused on getting faster, that's kinda just a side effect xD

 

[G2013]

If I could have chosen 2 or more, I would have selected "30" and "15", but the hardest for me was becoming sub-30...
I was above 30 until I became full fridrich. Then the day after I became full, I was averaging 29!!!
Then it was just practice, and 29 became 27, then 25, etc. until I was about to break the sub-20 barrier. It wasn't hard, I just practiced look-ahead. Then 19, 18, 17, 16, 15.... 15, 15... I was in 15 and I couldn't go any faster. Just when I got the WeiLong I, finally, broke the sub-15 barrier definitely (with my other cube, the Fangshi ShuangRen, I was sometimes sub-15, but not always).

And all that happened from Jan 2013 to Sep 2014!!!!!

 

[Antonie faz fan]

where is the sub 10 choice?

 

[TDM]

where is the sub 10 choice?

The poll (or at least the thread) was made in 2009, before anyone had even got one sub-10 official average. Adding that as an option at the time would be like saying 'sub-6' now.
(but I think that it should be added as an option in the poll)

 

[RedAgent14]

Still working on sub-40. Right now I'm working on my cross/f2l, and also working on tricks to memorize the oll.

 

[Myachii]

For me, sub-20 was ridiculously easy. So many people told me that it would be a massive wall, and even getting a 19.9x second solve would be nigh on impossible. But in my honest opinion, it was a whole lot easier for me to get sub-20 than it was to get sub-30. I think the wall people talk about you hitting at sub-20 hit me at sub-30 instead. I'm ~19 average now, so sub-15 is proving very difficult for me to average.

 

[lerenard]

The poll (or at least the thread) was made in 2009, before anyone had even got one sub-10 official average. Adding that as an option at the time would be like saying 'sub-6' now.
(but I think that it should be added as an option in the poll)

Why was everyone so bad back then???

 

[TDM]

Why was everyone so bad back then???

Why is everyone so good now???

 

[lerenard]

Why is everyone so good now???

Well, what has changed since then? CFOP has been around for years as have most of the main methods, you have to have look ahead to be sub20, were the cubes just worse quality? Worse training methods? I'm confused.