The "I just made sub-20" thread

[krnballerzzz]

I was sub 18 in 6 months. Sub 16 was hardest for me to break (1-2 months to break). Now I'm working on consistent sub 11 (4 years).

 

[abr71310]

Holy geez Andrew, you're a beast...

I've been cubing like 9 months and have yet to break sub-20 consistently...
I guess for averages, I'm not too close, I have a lot to learn in terms of lookahead and solving F2L pairs simultaneously...

 

[endless_akatsuki]

ugh...simultaneous f2l pairs are too much for me (that's part of the reason why I'm stuck...that and having a bad LL).
Jeez, people are so good at improving. It was still hard to improve after sub-20. Actually, I think I am just inferior or I have a somewhat lack of motivation.

 

[Sa967St]

Sub-20 was probably one of the hardest barriers for me too, I was stuck at 20-21 for 2 months if I remember correctly. After that, sub-19, sub-18 and sub-17 were only barriers for 1-3 weeks each. Sub-16 and sub-15 were by far the hardest barriers for me, and it took a loooooot of practice to break them. Now I've been stuck at 13-14 for the last 6-7 months

 

[pjk]

I was stuck between 21-24 for like 4 months. From there I got down to 16.xx pretty easily. I have at 14-15 for awhile now, but that is because I haven't practiced enough. I can do 15.xx avg's pretty easily, and 14.5x avg's at least once a day when I'm warmed up. I'm still working on going sub-14 avg... my best is 14.19 of 12.

 

[daniel0731ex]

i think i could break the sub20 easily if i switch from lbl to full fridrich

the problem is, i couldn't learn ful fridrich

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Just got my very first sub-20 average

 

[JLarsen]

Glad to hear it was so quick for some others, but my journey from ~20 to ~17 was long and gradual.

I yeah it took me 5 months I believe. Although getting to sub 20 took me a very long time to break. I'm currently around 17's and 16's when I'm doing a tiny bit better than usual. I just recently started getting a lot more 16 averages though, and I stopped caring so much about 3x3 so god knows how long it will take for sub 15. I anticipate some time a year from now to be honest. I'm not worried either, ErikJ took 5 years to get to his awesome 13.

Edit: Dae Ja Voo, cmon now avg of 5? My best avg of 5 is sub 15....it doesn't mean that much go for the gold.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Edit: Dae Ja Voo, cmon now avg of 5? My best avg of 5 is sub 15....it doesn't mean that much go for the gold.

Hahahah! Come on, baby steps

 

[rahulkadukar]

All I can remember was that everything (improvement) went fast after getting sub 20 average.

This is nice to hear as I am approaching this barrier. Finally some good news. But I have been stuck in the 20's for like 6 months now.:confused:

 

[csdoplr]

i jump around from 28-22 its weired but i am learning 1 oll a day so i hope soon

 

[JLarsen]

Edit: Dae Ja Voo, cmon now avg of 5? My best avg of 5 is sub 15....it doesn't mean that much go for the gold.

Hahahah! Come on, baby steps

Good luck with average of 12!

 

[Shamah02]

Sub-20 was probably one of the hardest barriers for me too, I was stuck at 20-21 for 2 months if I remember correctly. After that, sub-19, sub-18 and sub-17 were only barriers for 1-3 weeks each. Sub-16 and sub-15 were by far the hardest barriers for me, and it took a loooooot of practice to break them. Now I've been stuck at 13-14 for the last 6-7 months

I completely agree with this. Sub-20 is hard, but Sub-15, 16 consistently is HARDER. I've gotten one sub-15 average and it was lucky so I don't even want to count it. If I did an average right now, it would probably be 16ish.

 

[elimescube]

Just got my very first sub-20 average

Ahh! Hooray!

EDIT: I suppose I should say something useful too. I've been sub-20 for almost two years now, but progress since breaking the illusive barrier has been slow. This is because I lose interest in 3x3x3 rather often, and work on other puzzles, hence becoming poor (relatively speaking) at 3x3x3 and a better (but not all that good) "all-rounder".

Good luck to all those of you who are PAINFULLY close to reaching your goal. Don't give up!

 

[Hays]

I broke 20 in about 4 months. It was after breaking 20 that I dropped time a lot slower. I think breaking 15 consistently is definetaly a better goal. I average 15 now, so close!

 

[Roux-er]

Statistics for 07-13-2009 13:02:28

Average: 19.75
Standard Deviation: 2.46
Best Time: 16.77
Worst Time: 25.98
Individual Times:
1. (16.77) F R' F R2 U F R2 U' R2 B D F2 D2 U2 B' D2 F U' F U R B2 F' R2 F2
2. (25.98) D U L F L2 F2 L2 R D B F2 R2 F U2 F L U2 B' R' F L R2 U' L' R'
3. 19.38 R2 B F2 R2 D U2 L R B' F R2 U2 R' D' U2 R B' F D2 U2 R' F2 R' D' U
4. 16.95 D2 U' L' U2 R2 B F D' B2 F2 D' L B' L' F U L2 B D2 F2 D R B F2 D2
5. 22.93 B' F' D U B' D2 U R2 D U2 L2 F' R' U2 B' F2 L' R' D U F L R F2 R

First sub 20!!!!! Woot!

 

[waffle=ijm]

Sub-20 took me 2 years

 

[Gurplex]

LOL i cant even break sub-20. I gave up on 3x3
Big cubes for the win!

 

[jcuber]

Big cubes for the win!

+1

I hate 3x3. I am not sub-20 yet, I think I have only ever had 1 sub-20 average. The last time I picked up a 3x3 was 2 weeks ago. I'll try a session today and see what happens now that I know full pll (yes I learned full pll on bigcubes).

 

[mark3]

You will never be the best at big cubes unless you get good at 3x3. That is if you use reduction.