Time barriers

[Deleted member 2864]

60 (was stuck on that for like a month before fridrich)
40 (had to work A LOT on recognition to break sub 40)
23-ish... I averaged 26 before. All OLL's memorized, it dropped me to 24, but I still can't seem to break it consistently.

 

[TurbulentTurtle]

My biggest barrier was solving the cube. That barrier lasted about 17 or 18 years.

 

[Unknown.soul]

Currently I am trying to get sub-30. I am at the point where I need to learn more algorithms (no I don't know full PLL yet, (11/21 ) I have to focus on school)

No you're not. I used 2-look oll and pll to get sub-25 averages.

Well then my F2L sucks.

 

[JTW2007]

40, 30 (AARGHH, that had to have been months of practice to break), 25, 20.

 

[Jacco]

I guess I've never really seen times as barriers until I was trying to get sub-20and today I've broken 15s (14.72). I don't think getting sub-14 average will take too long. (we are talking about averages of 12 right?)

 

[soccerking813]

Yea, I guess that now looking at it, I haven't really hit any barriers yet. I guess you could say back when I was averaging about 55-1:00 using FULL beginners' method it was kinda a barrier. But I wasn't really serious back then.
Since then I pretty much breezed by 40, was at 35 for about 4 days, and now am averaging about 29 average of 45. I hope it keeps going like this.

 

[Thompson]

60, 40, 30 , 22-23, 18, 17

 

[Three Days Grace Fan]

right now i'm stuck at the 60s barrier. i think it's because i haven't used any other method besides the one taught by Dan Brown. i'm wanting to learn fridrich though.

 

[ThatGuy]

are there any good example slow solve videos around? i can't seem to find any on youtube. It just seems that my f2l is really inefficient.

 

[coolmission]

I currently average around 26-28 sec average. So 25 is a tough one for me, and has been for a month now.

 

[DavidWoner]

I was stuck at about 22 for 3 months, and around 17 for 2 months.

 

[Lotsofsloths]

sub20 average of 12 was probably the hardest, and most rewarding once I broke it. Sub15 was hard, but you knew it was gonna come.

 

[ThatGuy]

Another question: for those who didn't learn 1L OLL and PLL until they couldn't get any faster with 2 looks, how fast could you get down to?

 

[StachuK1992]

You'll drop about 2 secs. probably, but that fluctuates depending on your TPS and recognition, of course

 

[ThatGuy]

what about algorithm to intuitive f2l?

 

[leeho]

Lets see...barriers...60 seconds, sub 40, sub 35, sub 25, sub 20 and now...sub 15 averages. Im almost there! Need to practice more and learn those god damn OLLs =.= x]

Another question: for those who didn't learn 1L OLL and PLL until they couldn't get any faster with 2 looks, how fast could you get down to?

Its fully possible to get sub 15 averages with 2 look OLL. Not sure about PLLs.

 

[ThatGuy]

and-- how many moves does your f2l take? how much should f2l take?

 

[crispy1337]

my average for F2L minus cross is 32 moves. Right now my total average and barrier that I am experiencing is 30 seconds. Which I have gotten some some sub-30 averages, but 90% of my averages are 30.xx, and I know my F2L is to blame for breaking this barrier.

 

[Deleted member 2864]

I currently average around 26-28 sec average. So 25 is a tough one for me, and has been for a month now.

You'll get there eventually. I averaged 26 for 3 weeks. I memorized all olls so i broke it, but you can probably not memorize them and still break it.

 

[Kian]

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?