Road Block

[CubeLord]

I average around 29 28. I've hit this road block that no matter how much you practice, you won't improve. I need halp.:fp

 

[Anthony]

no matter how much you practice, you won't improve.

lies.

Seriously though, everyone hits "road blocks" at one point or another. If you keep practicing eventually you'll improve.

 

[Caedus]

There have been literally hundreds of threads on this topic and the answers are all the same.
Practice going slow.
Practice.
Use a metronome.
Practice.
Look ahead.
Practice.
It's all been said before.

 

[iSpinz]

I hit that too.Just practice.

 

[jms_gears1]

i hit that EVERY time i improve just practice, realize you can get better, figure out what you need to work on. then do it.

 

[waffle=ijm]

don't you just hate that. Here you are putting all your effort into the cube and how does it repay you? It punches you right in the face with a time barrier. You know, I don't think it's fair that the cube just punched you in the face. You have to show it that you're the boss. Punch it back in the face by breaking that time barrier.

Go PRACTICE! but practice like this

 

[Zane_C]

Precisely, practice and improve your look ahead

 

[teller]

don't you just hate that. Here you are putting all your effort into the cube and how does it repay you? It punches you right in the face with a time barrier. You know, I don't think it's fair that the cube just punched you in the face. You have to show it that you're the boss. Punch it back in the face by breaking that time barrier.

Go PRACTICE! but practice like this

Good sentiment and good link...blah's are wise words. Practice doesn't make perfect...practice makes PERMANENT.

 

[cincyaviation]

the hard thing is forcing yourself to practice that one thing without getting distracted

 

[MichaelP.]

I just got past my 20 second road block. IN YOUR FACE JUSTIN!

OT
Practice with the passion of 1000 burning suns.

 

[Meisen]

I average around 29 28. I've hit this road block that no matter how much you practice, you won't improve. I need halp.:fp

I've been exactly where you are, and i've felt the same pain as you do.
It actually felt like this was the end of my cubing career. It wasn't possible for me to get faster....

Now, some months later my average is regularly sub 20, and now i feel like this is the end.... hehe.

The best way to improve (in my opinion) is to realise that you do not yet have an optimal way of doing X, X being for instance cross, f2l, oll or pll (if you use fridrich, but you get the point), and then search for ways to improve the way X is executed.

This approach will help you shave of seconds faster than just solving the cube over and over would.


As a sidenote. In one of Badmephisto's videos he talks about how the pieces seems to jump out of the cube, or something similar.... he only sees the relevant pieces, not the irrelevant.

This made me feel like he was probably a savant, or had asbergers syndrome or something, but first hand experience has shown me that this is simply an effect you get from actively trying to look ahead

Conclusion: Don't give up. Just play around withe the cube. It will require time to get better, but if you invest this time wisely, you WILL get faster!

 

[Deleted member 2864]

As many people said, everybody reaches them. I had a block a little your time too, and I fixed it with full pll. I quickly reached a new one at 23 seconds, so I did full oll. At 20, I was stuck for 3-4 months. I finally solved that with better f2l execution.

 

[dillonbladez]

i finally beat my block at 30. the look ahead should help tons. seriously. even coming from a noob, like me, the look ahead will help. metronome help a little, but not much. at least for me. i dunno how you compare, but on holidays and weekends i practice for like 5 hours.

 

[jms_gears1]

well Ive hit a block at ~23-26 seconds.

what im doing is repeatedly solving the FB, looking for better ways to build the 1x2x3.

for the most part i can solve it in 9 moves and no more than that.