Progress time-line

[DarkArcher]

Yea... you can try moving the pieces slower but having a more fluent spotting, you'll find that your timings are about the same as fast choppy solving.

 

[badmephisto]

Yea... you can try moving the pieces slower but having a more fluent spotting, you'll find that your timings are about the same as fast choppy solving.

sometimes even much better! it freaks me out occasionally because it seems to be a contradiction, but sometimes if i try going slower, i end up with almost exact same times, if not better.

 

[hdskull]

u don't need to buy a metronome, just go to metronomeonline.com or onlinemetronome.com one of those has a free online metronome

 

[ExoCorsair]

yish, I want a video.

 

[Johannes91]

he is a wrister. the only finger trick he can do is R U R'.

What does that exactly mean? Does he regularly use index fingers for U-turns, or only in that specific move sequence? I'd like to see a video, too.

 

[yish]

chue helped me set up a topic. >< you can see it there.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/v/0GhmPdMTOOE <--- link

 

[Pedro]

I've cubing for more than 2 years now and my best average is 14.11...

it doesn't seem possible that you got to 15 seconds in 4 months...not even Harris Chan did that

seriously, you must cube all day long to do that...and I still don't think it's possible

 

[yish]

well, the cube craze hit my school in june. so i competed against people who were faster than me and was forced to improve ><

 

[chue.hsien]

but 2 weeks for average 19 to 13(and averaging around 15)? thats better than harris lol.

 

[amateurguy]

I feel REALLY like a newbie here. I had a really old cheap cube that sort of broke a few years back, but that's when I learnt how to solve a cube (took me 1 hour ) A new good cube came for my birthday this year, so I learnt up speedcubing. Oh well, 2 months of speedcubing:

1st day - 10 mins
2nd day - 5 mins
1 week later - 2.5 mins
1 and a half weeks later - 2 mins
2 weeks later - 2.5 mins (Tried new method: after cross, flip cube upside down. Yes, I am THAT newbie-ish)
3 weeks later - broke 2-minute barrier
About 5 weeks later - 1.5 mins
7 weeks later - 60 secs

My newbie method (learnt from Jasmine Lee's solution page):
Cross (at the top) --> 1st layer corners (I try to catch a Fridrich pair if I see one) --> 2nd layer --> 4-look LL (Orient edges --> Permute corners --> Orient corners --> Permute edges)

And I'm just beginning to hit a sub-1 min average What should be by next step?

 

[Jason]

I'm not an expert but I reckon you should figure out f2l intuitively (nothing stops you looking-up some algs, as long as you understand what they do) and just systematically practice f2l when solving from now on

 

[jeanpaul4289]

I been cubing almost for 1 month and a half, this is my log..:

Average Times:
Nov 1 - like 10 mins ( i dint remember)
Nov 2 - like 5
Nov 6 - 1.04 mins
Nov 12 - 55. 33 secs
Nov 18 - 48.81 secs
Nov 24 - 42.23 secs
Dec 4 - 38.75 secs
Dec 11 - 34.67 secs
Dec 20 - 31.29 secs

i thinks this is a quicks progress, tell me yours opinions please ...
Note: i practice 1 or 2 hours everyday

 

[cmhardw]

I just think it's funny to see how quickly people improve nowadays. I've consistently been one of the slowest to improve at speedcubing, even though I've practiced nearly every day the entire time I've been cubing. I've found over the years though that often I practiced hard and not smart, meaning I worked very hard to figure out better finger tricks to my bad LL algs rather than just learning better LL algs.

It took me about a year to get sub-30 on average, then another 3 years 10 months after that to get my first sub-20 average. From there I took about another year to get sub-18, then another year to get sub-16. My personal best average now is 13.89 but I typically average in the mid 15's with the occasional 14.xx average on a good day. I practice mainly BLD cubing nowadays so I am very happy with that, but I would still like to improve and achieve a sub-15 average in competition.

So for those who think they are slow to improve, there are others of us out there. Not everyone is a cubing robot, there are indeed some of us regular humans out there too ;-)

Chris

 

[FU]

I started with toys R us LBL method in mid sep until around mid oct, i started on fridrich. My timeline is something like:

Mid-Sep 1:40
Mid-Oct 1:00
Start of Nov slightly below 30
Start of Dec low 20s
Mid-Dec 19.44 best average

i will try to make the timeline more accurate when i decide to flip through the tonnes of Average 10 of 12s .txt files i have in my comp

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

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.

An 8-9sec F2L isn't "godly" in my opinion.

If you only know 15 OLLs and 5 PLLs, that was a lucky case in the video, then.

 

[MiloD]

I started mid august with petrus on 3x3:

4 weeks for 1 minute average
3 weeks for 50 seconds
3 more for 40 seconds
4 weeks for 30 seconds
I'm at 27.xx now

5x5 was much jumpier but i went from about 8 mins to 4 in 3 to 4 weeks.

4x4 started at about 4:xx. went down to mid 2's rather quickly, and stayed there for about 3 weeks, i don't practice this one much becuse my cube locks up a lot and 5x5 is more fun

blindfolded progress is still very easy. If i do 10 solves in one day i can lower my times by 30 seconds. however i'm lucky if i do 2 in a day mostly because i find the whole thing tedious.

 

[Stefan]

chue helped me set up a topic. >< you can see it there.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/v/0GhmPdMTOOE <--- link

You're a cheater. At "two" during the countdown you clearly make a D turn.

 

[Dene]

chue helped me set up a topic. >< you can see it there.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/v/0GhmPdMTOOE <--- link

You're a cheater. At "two" during the countdown you clearly make a D turn.

Hmm, yes this is true, the visible corner changes from red to yellow. Can't do that!!

 

[MiloD]

idk ...i don't trust this guy for some reason, theres something fishy about the video and his posts...

 

[brad711]

I've been speedcubing for a little less than 2 months. (In 2004 I learned to solve, but averaged 1:30ish. I didn't cube from 2004 until November 2007) My times dropped like a rock as soon as I learned Friedrick, and I am at 25 record and 35ish average.