Time barriers

[ThatGuy]

lol. i have a friend named kian.

 

[noblsheep]

i was stuck at 35 for roughly 2 weeks. frustrating.

 

[Nukoca]

1:30, 1:10, 1:00, 50, and my current barrier is sub 40.

 

[Rawn]

1:10, 40, 30, 20.

Getting sub-20 took the longest a few months at least. Maybe even 1/2 a year.

 

[Kian]

lol. i have a friend named kian.

REALLY? I've only met one other Kian ever. And he pronounced his name Like "Key-on" and it was of Persian origin. Mine is pronounced like "Key-in" or Ian with a k, i say. Mine is Gaelic.

 

[ThatGuy]

my friend was key-on. but there is also a kion in his year. lol.

 

[chimpzi]

1. sub1minute.
2. 50
3. 40
4. 35
5. 30
6. 25 [i'm currently trying to break this one, still unstable.]

 

[coolmission]

For some reason, I CANNOT get under two minutes on 4x4. My average and single best times are only a few seconds apart, I always get 2:0x.xx but I can't get under 2 minutes.

SAME!

stachu, you absolutely can. your 3x3 times indicate that.

what is holding you up from sub 2? what's your time breakdown like?

If I can do centers + edges in 60-65 seconds, I usually get sub-2 minutes. Depends on wether I get NP/PP. PP seriously throws me off. I average around 2:0x.yz

 

[Mike Hughey]

Averaging 30 seconds was my biggest barrier. I learned all the OLLs to finally break through it. After that, it's gotten a bit easier to get better - it's still true that my progress is slow, but not as slow as it was before breaking through the 30 second barrier.

 

[Odin]

1:15, 60, 50, 40, now im stuck in the 30's

 

[Nilxchaos]

Well now I am getting in the high 40's - low 50's range. But give it a week or so to get in 40's consistently.
It took a little while to get under a minute, put together with the fact that I started Fridrich too early (1:15 range). So I probably should have stayed with Dan's method, or switched to Thrawst for a bit. About now is when I should have started Fridrich.
But Oh Well. What's done is done.

 

[Hadley4000]

60, 40, 30, 25, 20.

 

[Shamah02]

60, 30, 25, and 20 was the hardest by far. I remember I was averaging like 20-22 with 2 look OLL and then I learned full OLL in 2 months and broke that barrier. Now I'm at 16-18.

 

[E.drid]

I'm pretty newb, only having been cubing really for about 5 months total, without getting past 4LLL ever.

I encountered a few barriers, one of which I broke consistently starting today.

90 (When I was uber newb)
60
45
40 (Broken today)

I actually got an Avg. today that looked like this:

39.53 (second sub-40 ever)
54.47 (I messed up my cross)
39.06
37.00
49.28

And I was about to quit speedcubing, too!

(EDIT: I didn't realize that there were so many responses from so many other, more experienced cubers! Well, whatever, hopefully the help of someone around your same times will help.)

 

[Nuber Cuber]

I've been around 35, sometimes more like 32-33 for months now. I do not practice to much but when I do it is for long periods of time. I get a sub 30 probably every 6 or 7 solves.

 

[Daniel Wu]

45, 35, 27, 21, and now 18.

 

[holypasta]

i improved pretty quickly from 150 (my first week cubing) to 60, and got stuck there. i finally broke into the 50s, and began steadily improving once again. currently, i'm stuck averaging 45 -- probably because i'm too lazy to memorize PLLs.

 

[ThatGuy]

I have a problem...my times are very inconsistent. I can get some solves under 30 that are not lucky solves but other times theyre over 35. It doesnt seem like im delaying any time between solves. My problem?

 

[Aeonstorm]

Dam, I really want one of those, but my parents will never buy me a super-smooth rubik's cube, cos they think I cube too much already.

 

[Tomarse]

I can break sub 20, but its not regular enough, I average about 19 - 20 seconds lol