The Solve Critique Thread

[A Leman]

Use inspection time and plan more of the Solve. you did about 3 turns before you stoped. you should at LEAST plan the cross.With practice you can plan Xcross and track a pair.That will make a world of difference.
The Tps between pauses was good and over time those f2l pauses just go away.
The y2 Uperm was very bad, Learn R'UR'U'R'U'R'URUR2 or Auf into your PLL's. rotating to your PLL may seem to save moves, but realize that y is slower than U
Hope this helps. The first part is the most important. The moves I now before I solve give me the chance to keep my lookahead ahead of my turnspeed.

 

[uniacto]

I like your turning style. Slow down a bit, like other people have said. I noticed that during your F2L stage, you could insert the pair pretty fast, but the pauses slowed you down.

As for PLL, I can't really critique you on that, because I've only learned 2 Look + 3 other PLL's, but I would suggest an alg a week, which is what I'm trying to do, I'm just lazy like you. haha.

 

[bluecloe45]

Just slow down and look ahead. Practice.

 

[Johnnyman318]

Your Cross-F2L transition was rough, and there were some pauses in F2L that didn't need to be there. I'm sure you've heard this many times, but slow down and look ahead. It helps a lot. Maybe try the metronome thing. To be honest, the metronome didn't help me much, but I'm just one case. Also learn full PLL and maybe get a start on OLL. Good luck!

 

[cubingawsumness]

You seem to move in snaps. Like you move super fast (say an insertion R U R'), then pause for 2 seconds, then make another snap. So basically go slower and look ahead, like everyone else says.
Welcome to the forums!

 

[god of rubic 2]

Turn more smoothly, predict where the pieces will go and learn full PLL.

 

[Ágoston Török]

Very good turning style! I see a very good potential in that. You just need a lot of practise.

 

[Ton]

You turn no2 with a lot stop and go, each time after you executed F2L / OLL you pause as you turn to fast for you current skills as you are looking for the next thing to do

So slow down with and practice look ahead and let each action smoothly follow the next steps, improve your first steps cross+ F2L you lost a lot of time now in these phases, in general a cube rotation slows you down so try to avoid a cube rotation

I have proof that slowing down works... see my PB record
Once you done the above you can increase turning speed in each step

Success
Ton

 

[Isaac Paurus]

Help with sub 40/ sub 30, solve videos to critique

Hello, I average about 44 seconds. I would really like to be sub 30, so I have this video of 3 solves for you to critique what I can do better thanks
[youtubehd]HK2XlHKbYBM[/youtubehd]

 

[cubingawsumness]

Hello, I average about 44 seconds. I would really like to be sub 30, so I have this video of 3 solves for you to critique what I can do better thanks

The classic turn slower; look ahead is my advice for you.
Practice F2L cases a lot until you get them in your muscle memory. Then don't rush your solves and try to look for the next pair while working on your current one.
Your cross could also be better. Try to plan as much of it as you can during inspection.

My personal advice is really just to practice more, do more solves. At this speed, you just need to become more familiar with F2L cases and how pieces move around. Speed will come soon enough.

Good luck!

 

[Shagun Kala]

Hello, I have been cubing from 4 months now and I am averaging 35 seconds right now to solve a 3x3 rubiks cube...
This is my 30 seconds solve video...Please give me some tips..

THANKS

 

[Noahaha]

Hello, I have been cubing from 4 months now and I am averaging 35 seconds right now to solve a 3x3 rubiks cube...
This is my 30 seconds solve video...Please give me some tips..

THANKS

I'm no expert when it comes to eyes-open solving, but I would recommend trying to turn more smoothly and develop better finger tricks. You should get a Dayan cube or loosen the cube you're using currently since making one turn at a time is very inefficient. Also now would be a good time to start learning PLL if you don't know it already.

 

[Shagun Kala]

I'm no expert when it comes to eyes-open solving, but I would recommend trying to turn more smoothly and develop better finger tricks. You should get a Dayan cube or loosen the cube you're using currently since making one turn at a time is very inefficient. Also now would be a good time to start learning PLL if you don't know it already.

Buddy i have already learnt 19 of the total PLL's...
And Will make my Cube loose..

Thanks...

 

[Noahaha]

Buddy i have already learnt 19 of the total PLL's...
And Will make my Cube loose..

Thanks...

Just watch some slow motion videos of fast people solving. You'll notice that their turns are not choppy like yours. One turn should flow from the one before it.

 

[JonnyWhoopes]

Just watch some slow motion videos of fast people solving. You'll notice that their turns are not choppy like yours. One turn should flow from the one before it.

And even cubers we would consider "choppy turners" are really just making short bursts of fast flowing turns.

 

[acohen527]

Would wearing a go-pro on my head while solving be a good angle for a critique video?

 

[Ninja Storm]

Would wearing a go-pro on my head while solving be a good angle for a critique video?

That'd work extremely well, as long as you don't move your head that much during recording.

 

[acohen527]

This is my video. I use Petrus and average around 30 seconds. I just recently got my first sub 30 entry into the race to sub-30. I know 8 PLL's. Please critique me! (no, that does not mean tell me to switch to CFOP) I also messed up on the last solve and didn't want to edit it out.

Sorry about inspection on the last couple of solves... they were really bad scrambles for a Petrus user.

 

[Ninja Storm]

This is my video. I use Petrus and average around 30 seconds. I just recently got my first sub 30 entry into the race to sub-30. I know 8 PLL's. Please critique me! (no, that does not mean tell me to switch to CFOP) I also messed up on the last solve and didn't want to edit it out.

Sorry about inspection on the last couple of solves... they were really bad scrambles for a Petrus user.

With the first solve, I saw a couple of things.
1. White top, green front. Remember that.
2. Your turning seems to be a bit too fast; slow down a tad and focus a bit less on what comes next.
3. Petrus isn't really known to be the fastest method out there; don't want to force you to, but feel free to try CFOP and Roux.

 

[mDiPalma]

This is my video. I use Petrus and average around 30 seconds. I just recently got my first sub 30 entry into the race to sub-30. I know 8 PLL's. Please critique me! (no, that does not mean tell me to switch to CFOP) I also messed up on the last solve and didn't want to edit it out.

Sorry about inspection on the last couple of solves... they were really bad scrambles for a Petrus user.

If you stick with Petrus and finish learning the PLLs, I advise learning at least the H and Pi COLL sets. These will force edge-PLLs (U, H, Z perms) and increase the likelihood of a PLL skip. These COLLs are easy to recognize and very ergonomic to execute, leaving you with a very favorable PLL.

For my serious 2-hand sessions recently, I solve around 90% of the solves with ZZ and 10% with Petrus (whenever the eoline is crap or there is an easy 2x2 block in the scramble). I average ~13 and ~16 respectively. ZZ and Petrus are very similar in stepwise approach, and the movecount for each is largely comparable. The only vast difference between ZZ and Petrus is that ZZ requires zero cube rotations. I'm not going to suggest that you switch methods. But if you ever have a free moment or two, look over this page and do a few untimed exploratory solves. It can't hurt. And if you ever get a scramble with a sucky first block, take a risk and ZZ it out.

And I'm Matt from the bookstore cubemeet by the way.

Good luck!