Practicing

[cubernya]

Alright, so I'm going on a field trip for school and it has a 7 1/2 hour bus ride each way (sounds fun doesn't it?)

Basically, I was thinking just bring an alg sheet (full PLL) and try to learn some algs during the amazing 15 hours on the bus
However, the one thing I was thinking is to start timing F2L and practicing look ahead...

The algs seem like a good idea to me, while I think F2L could wait a little longer


(If anyone needs to know I average around 45 seconds, CFOP, 4L-LL


Edit: As a side note, if you have any tips on becoming color neutral, feel free to post them

 

[Dacuba]

Learning full PLL in 7hours isn't a good idea, since you will forget most of them. And if not, your head will hurt.
Make slowturning, lotsa slowturning and look ahead. And learn about 5 Plls, some more if you feel comfortable, that's fine.

 

[cubernya]

Well I wasn't going to learn all the 14 PLLs I don't know I was just going to do some

 

[Goosly]

Practise F2L with slow turning and look ahead so you can do F2L without pauses. Remember that you should not look at the pieces that you are solving, but only looking for the next pieces.
Also try solving each F2L-pair BLD (so look at your cube, solve a pair bld, look again, solve the next pair bld, and so on). That will help the look ahead, for you won't need to look at the pieces you solve, but search for the next ones, as already mentioned.

Btw, I average between 20 and 25 seconds using CFOP 4-look-LL too

 

[ZamHalen]

To train yourself to be CN you're going to want to do several untimed solves with no inspection time limit. And all you have to do is look for the "easiest cross" with a minimal moves. Other than that you have to make sure that you don't go back to to your old habit while still being able to use your old cross color when it is efficient. I hope this helps.

 

[5BLD]

7 1/2 hours? I can imagine that... 15 hours of cubing without being interrupted by anyone...

I'd say either:

Practice lookahead in F2L, and try to become colour neutral... Just solve where the easiest cross is.

Or print out Gilles Roux's tutorial and read it over and over until you understand it.

Or learn blindfolded/ practice OH.


That's what I have done on long journeys to field trips. Except I still can't do BLD.

 

[Akash Rupela]

On a moving bus, looking at the cube for long is going to give you an unpleasant vomittish feeling( i get it in 10-15 minutes of cubing in my car). So I would say, learn some PLLs from home before the trip, (dont overlearn, just as many as you can, like say learning 6-7 wont take more than 3 hours), once u are done with that, while sitting in the bus, just practice them over and over. In this way you can keep talking to everyone all the time and at the same time, u can cube and put those PLLs into muscle memory. Once u are convinced about muscle memory.
In case you dont face any such problems i mentioned, then obviously work on the look ahead part, that is what actually makes you faster. Rest is just learn and get fast thing. But this needs practice

I lol'ed that 5"BLD" cant do BLD

 

[cubernya]

(so far) it appears as though I should be learning some PLLs, then drilling F2L look ahead (all color neutral of course)

Plus I'm probably going to attempt 1 blindfold solve (can't imagine how that will work LOL)

 

[Goosly]

On a moving bus, looking at the cube for long is going to give you an unpleasant vomittish feeling( i get it in 10-15 minutes of cubing in my car).

That depends on the peron.
We went to Italy last year (6th year of high school), which was like 15 hours on the bus, and 15 hours back again. I was cubing, gaming, watching movies, solving sudoku's and stuff like that like all the time. Didn't really give me any unpleasant vomittish feeling at all.

 

[cubernya]

Yeah, some people hate that, but for some reason I'm able to do like anything in a car

 

[reyrey]

I suggest learning the similar PLLs (inverses, reflections) together - about 2,3 a day (Gs last).

About CN, I started practicing it about 2 months ago, and my white cross is still better.
I suggest doing slow solves, following this:
1. Figuring out which cross is best to perform (Or already done, don't mind the inspection time and don't time the solves yet, inspection time will come with practice)
2. Doing F2L slowly and trying to look ahead
3. LL isn't that big of a difference when OLL is concerned, but some PLLs will require you to adapt a little.

I believe the F2L and inspection are the things you need to work on the most (I'm not a master myself, but I have a 2~4 seconds difference in my averages between White CFOP and CN CFOP)


Concerning F2L, I myself didn't learn any alg YET, but I think that after I'll get used to CN completely and learn full OLL (And maybe CMLLs for Roux) I'll try to see some better cases for certain situations, however at this point I wouldn't recommend it.


Hope you'll understand everything I wrote here, and think about it.
Basically, I believe you should do breakdowns, see what costs you the most time (F2L should be about half the solve, cross 4 seconds at your average, OLL and PLL about 5 each MAX).

 

[Akash Rupela]

Lol Ok now i know why i m afraid of roller coasters and big merry go rounds

 

[Cubenovice]

Other.

Print out Joel van Noorts tutorial on Old Pochman BLD.
Work for me during an intercontinental flight