Timmah's Target - Sub 1 minute

So a little update! I'm getting much closer to sub 30 now, which is still my next target. I keep telling myself the next target is the last one I'll aim for, but we all know how that goes!!

I'm still using a method somewhere in between beginner and CFOP, I don't remember ALG's easily so taking my time.

A question though - has anyone had an ALG completely drop out of their brain? I literally forgot the alg I used to use for swapping last layer opposite centres. I hadn't had it come up for a while, and couldn't for the life of me remember it so had to relearn!! I also found I needed to slow down SUNE because I kept stuffing it up. Have I reached my brains capacity for ALGS? o_Oo_O

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Timmah said:
So a little update! I'm getting much closer to sub 30 now, which is still my next target. I keep telling myself the next target is the last one I'll aim for, but we all know how that goes!!

I'm still using a method somewhere in between beginner and CFOP, I don't remember ALG's easily so taking my time.

A question though - has anyone had an ALG completely drop out of their brain? I literally forgot the alg I used to use for swapping last layer opposite centres. I hadn't had it come up for a while, and couldn't for the life of me remember it so had to relearn!! I also found I needed to slow down SUNE because I kept stuffing it up. Have I reached my brains capacity for ALGS? o_Oo_O

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Great job!

No, I very much doubt you have reached your brain’s capacity for algs. That happens to most of not all cubers. For example, I use CLL mostly for 2x2. One solve, I can execute an Alg as normal, but a few solves later I forget how to execute it, somehow. All in all, as long as you keep practicing that alg, it would be hard to forget it.
 
Timmah said:
So an amazing thing happened! I got a Sub 30 second time! slow for some people I know, but <30 was my next goal and am so happy to have made it!
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Awesome job!!! You are doing great, and everyone improves at their own time!! May you get many more sub 30s, because now you know that you can!
 
Timmah said:
So an amazing thing happened! I got a Sub 30 second time! slow for some people I know, but <30 was my next goal and am so happy to have made it!

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That must feel so good!! Do you use 2-look OLL and 2-look PLL? If not, I would strongly suggest that you learn it at this stage. I would also recommend that you start understanding intermediate intuitive F2L. What is your current goal?
 
It does feel great @Jennah :) I am using 2 look OLL/PLL yes. My biggest slow points are still F2L, specifically look ahead to next pair) and occasionally losing track of edges on cross :rolleyes:😄.

My current goal is to bring my average down. If I could have it between 30-40 seconds that'd be great!
 
Timmah said:
It does feel great @Jennah :) I am using 2 look OLL/PLL yes. My biggest slow points are still F2L, specifically look ahead to next pair) and occasionally losing track of edges on cross :rolleyes:😄.

My current goal is to bring my average down. If I could have it between 30-40 seconds that'd be great!
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Lookahead is very important, but before you master lookahead, you should work on your F2L solutions. I average 18 seconds and I still don’t do lookahead because my F2L solutions are not always ideal. Lookahead isn’t necessary until you average around 16-17 seconds, or when most of your F2L solutions are efficient.
I’m not sure if you know basic advanced F2L, and if you don’t I would strongly suggest this video.
After you feel comfortable with advanced F2L, then it is a good idea to start picking up more efficient solutions for difficult F2L cases. This is typically at the 23-25 second mark, so don’t worry about it too much right now, but I’ll give you a basic example of what I mean:
Look at the attatched picture. A beginner might do a U2, take out the edge, and set up the pair. The optimal solution to this case is actually to do (R U R’ U’) 3 times.

The point is, at your level (and mine) F2L efficiency is more important than lookahead.

Hope this helps!
 

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Timmah said:
It does feel great @Jennah :) I am using 2 look OLL/PLL yes. My biggest slow points are still F2L, specifically look ahead to next pair) and occasionally losing track of edges on cross :rolleyes:😄.

My current goal is to bring my average down. If I could have it between 30-40 seconds that'd be great!
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A good thing to help get better at the cross is finding all of your cross pieces in inspection and figuring out a way to solve them in around 7 moves. That way you’re only thinking of the moves and not the pieces themselves.
 
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A good thing to help get better at the cross is finding all of your cross pieces in inspection and figuring out a way to solve them in around 7 moves. That way you’re only thinking of the moves and not the pieces themselves.
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Agreed, and a great way to implement all of this into solves is to do intentionally slow untimed solves.
 
Ok it has been SOME TIME since my last update - being broken up with, selling a house, buying a car, buying a motorbike put a dent in my cubing time at the end of last year. I've still been solving, but very much plateued. My best mean of three using 2 look OLL/PLL CFOP is 44 ish seconds, and I haven't beaten that 29.416 I did in August.

My brain doesnt hold onto new ALGS very well I've found... I seem to have reached capacity :D So I thought I would switch things up and learn ROUX!

Let's hope I don't rue the day... *Cough*

It seems to work much better with how my brain works, and feels more me than CFOP. I'll give it a few days to learn and then time some solves and see how they go!
 
Cheers @pTr !

So, best time so far is 1:06 (first few timed solves were averaging 1:40-2:00) But I haven't been trying to break record speeds, just getting certain steps correct.

First two blocks are easy.

CMLL getting better - Sune/AntiSune more difficult to spot compared to CFOP.

I hadn't been solving the UL UR edges in LSE, so kept getting UA and UB perms at the end. Not a big deal as I know how to solve them from CFOP but technically not the 'right' way and more importantly, was taking a lot more moves to solve.

Now that I've got 3 cycle more sorted (see https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/roux-3-cycle-doesnt-work-or-my-brain-doesnt-work.94532/)

I can get through a solve consistently without pausing, so now just a matter of building up speed!
 
So it's a special day today! It's the 2-year anniversary of my first ever timed solve! 32 seconds with an ACTUAL Rubik's brand cube.

2 years on I've bought 2 speedcubes (recently bought a Gan) a chrome cube, and was given a chameleon for Christmas (haven't gotten around to solving it yet :D)

Roux is going well - times are coming down. I know all the steps of 2 look, it's just getting it into muscle memory now.

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Ok So two weeks of Roux down, and I am getting faster. Gradually :D

Quickest so far is a 39.8, on the 20th so 21 days in. And up till now 294 timed solves.

In comparison, my fastest CFOP was 29.4 about 8 Months in, and up till now 1788 timed solves.

The math would suggest I can beat my target of sub 30 average with some work!
 
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So strongest is first two blocks and as I'm doing 2 look CMLL, its pretty good too. LSE is my slowest 'thinking' point. I didn't know there was different versions of LSE, but I'm using what I gather is the 'standard'. Arrow, left and right centers to the bottom, solve middle intuitively.
 
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