Situational Times

[dChan]

I'm wondering whether OH times are based on the situtaion or not? Obviously technique comes into play and is a big part of your times but is it also the situation of the scramble you get that determines your times? Regular speedsolving is all about how fast you can recognize a problem and apply a rule/solution to it to fix the problem. Whereas OH is more about finding the shortest way to do things. I can get 23 seconds by doing 53 moves to solve or 69 moves(my average number of turns). But would I be able to get 43 seconds OH with 69 moves? Probably not, I would think. But what do you guys think? Is it the situation or is it your skill as in speedsolving?

 

[gillesvdp]

I think that the cases you have have a greater impact on your overall time than in regular speedcubing.
This is dued, according to me, to the fact that you have more restrictions on the move you can do when you use only one hand.

However, your skills have a great deal to do with your times too. ;-)

 

[dChan]

So it would be more worth it for me to do pure Fridrich than my 3-look LL and the F2L I am doing now right? Because it would save some moves and simplify certain situations?

 

[gillesvdp]

I think you need to evaluate your current situation in order to decide what is best for you to work on.

What I recomment, especially when you reach the 40-45 seconds barrier, is to time yourself on different steps.
See how your average solve time is split into your CROSS, F2L and LL step.
Once you have done that, you will see where you can gain the maximum amount of seconds with as litlle work as possible.

Then we can talk.

 

[dChan]

lol.

Well my Cross is half and half. Sometimes it is almost as fast as my speedsolve cross the other half of the time it takes ten seconds just for cross!

And I also fine that OH times aren't as consistant as speedsolve times for me. 1 solve will give me 45 the next solve is 58, then I get 47 and suddenly I've got 1:10! I do get a lot of 40s and 50s but then I end up with these weird times. Although the weird times never go beyond 1:15.

 

[gillesvdp]

Mm ok. It is quite normal to suffer from large variation in your solving times when you are at that level.
As you mention, the solve time depends quite a bit on the cases you have.

So if you want to get faster AND reduce the variability, I would recommend to practice.
However, I am unable to tell you which part you should practice first since you didn't provide any information about your times.

Good luck ;-)

 

[Johannes91]

My SD is usually 3-4 for OH. I have never heard any reason why lower is better, everybody just keeps saying it without telling why. I prefer high SD because it means there's more room for improvement. But that's just me.

 

[pjk]

Originally posted by Johannes91@May 15 2007, 11:56 PM
My SD is usually 3-4 for OH. I have never heard any reason why lower is better, everybody just keeps saying it without telling why. I prefer high SD because it means there's more room for improvement. But that's just me.

The lower rhw SD, the more consistant you are. Consistancy is key in my mind.

 

[dChan]

I'll time my steps today than I'll tell you guys. I really want to improve!