Progress time-line

Your progress really depends on how much you love cubing, and how much you want to get fast. I subbed 20 in less then 7 months, and right now on my 9th, I average 17.xx

Yish, I believe you are finger tricking. From what you said, about the tiggers, that's all it is. The index fick. It just seems so much more because we do it smoothly, like R U2 R' U2. It looks like we are finger tricking everything, but we really are just spinning U with our Index.
 
i just broke sub 25 and have been cubing since april, i try to cube purely for speed and but by doing this i have fun, also i have kept a log for pretty much every week since i started. Doing the sunday cotest is a good way to improve as i always try to beat what i got the previous week.
 
I been cubing for 4 months now, and today i took my average down to 27 secs=D Lately my times have dropped fast and i hope they will continue doing that:P
 
I'm going to try that sunday contest thing, and work hard to beat my previous. Over the past week my average has dropped from 35-30 seconds. About 3-4 weeks ago I was amazed that I got 45 seconds on a lucky single solve. :D

Today I've no been 3x3x3ing much, my 4x4x4, 2x2x2 and square 1 arrived. Learnt how to solve all of them today (2x2x2 pretty much general knowledge, 4x4x4 had to learn parity and some tips on getting edge pairs, Square 1 I just fiddled around with since there are barely any tutorials for it that I could find and understand)
 
i keep on forgetting if i started speedcubing in mar or in may, -__-, but then i just realized when i started speecubing i had be doing sunday contests, so i looked back, and i started in May after SAT.

so here:

sub 40: 1 month(started at around 50 seconds, because i knew how to solve the cube before i started speedcubing)

sub 30: 1 more month.

sub 20: 2 more months, today, i got my first sub 20 avg, and i think it was only because i was in good condition, and everything went smooth.

so yea, i don't cube a lot, maybe 20 solves a day at MOST.

and i'm also interested in how to get from 20 to sub 15...... no even 2 weeks, if i can get to that in 4 weeks, i'm fine. haha. maybe it is possible...

oh btw, i know about 35 OLLs ? i don't use everyone of them that i know, because it takes too long to recall. and all PLLs.

EDIT: also, i got my sub 20 by accident, i was just gonna time separate parts of CFOP using huskyomega's timer, haha.
 
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Kind of amusing that so many people's fastest solves are lucky solves... My quickest lucky solve (PLL skip in my case)is only like 23 seconds and my quickest is 20s (sune OLL + U' Perm)... I almost feel left out, i get a pll or oll skip and i look at the time only to be disappointed.

Anyway...

How long are you people able to spend on it? Personally only about an hour or so a day.
 
yish is my schoolmate, and even though he doesnt perform well(purposely =D) when i challenge him, his F2L is godly. and i mean it.

he knows around 15 OLLS, and maybe 4-5 PLL. his PLL=my LL in school, but i don't how he manages to sub 15 that way. without olls and plls, i believe his f2l is 15- 6~7 = 8 to 9 seconds. cross+f2l in 8 to 9 seconds? possible sumtimes for me, but very seldom. PLUS he is a wrister. the only finger trick he can do is R U R'.

now call that holysht. OMFG. Go make some videos goddammit.
 
cos i take a long time to warm up.. and nah i get sub 15, if i meet OLLs (one FuRRuF, then solve) and a pll which i know. if i get a pll like a G, then i am seriously gged (pun half intended), i have to swap corners and solve edges. which will bring me down to 19, and if i am really unlucky, my cube pops or i get a 20.

and f2l, just practice la :P
 
got la :P but i recover my timing with even faster timings. i got my nice 10.09 during that average run.
 
out of curiosity, how do you people keep track of your averages?

for me i use JNetCube. useful little tool. is anyone different?
 
I use JNetCube as well. I reckon I'm going to keep a log of all my results from now on, using sigmaplot or some other spreadsheet application, to measure my progress, and come out with some crazy stats for a laugh!! I'll see if there is any 1/f noise in my progress
 
Time for a more realistic progress report lol... Anyway I started cubing sometime in july 2007, so I guess it has been about 3 months since then. My average is currently 35s. I was a little unlucky in a sense because I had to switch speed cubing methods for F2L specifically from Petrus (inefficiently done Petrus) to Fridrich. As many know, Fridrich F2L needs alot of practice, maybe even more than PLLs.

I hit a time barrier of 36s average with the Petrus F2L + 3 LLL, so I decided to move onto Fridrich F2L + 3 LLL because I just couldn't do many finger tricks with Petrus F2L. Switching was really hard as I had to settle for slower averages when I knew I could do better with another method I know. I was tempted to stick with Petrus F2L, but I endured and my effort finally paid off since I'm able to achieve similar averages now with Fridrich F2L. In addition, I know that there's still potential to get faster based on spotting time unlike the Petrus F2L I once used. However, due to upcoming major examinations, I will have to discipline myself and limit my cubing everday. Wish I had picked speedcubing up last year... I would have had more time on my hands then.
 
I finished learning the pure Fridrich method a couple of weeks ago (All OLL and PLL). Although it has lowered my times, my F2L is so rubbish that it seems superfluous, hehe!! When I try to go fast I just sieze up and panic. I become unable to spot the pairs. I might buy a metronome or do yoga
 
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