What am I doing wrong?

[AlphaSheep]

I also can only plan out two of the cross pieces in inspection because it takes me too long.

Doesn't matter, do it anyway. Even if it takes you 2 minutes to plan out a cross, try it. You'll get better at that very quickly with practice. Also, don't bother timing your solves at this stage. Take time to plan out how you want to solve your F2L pairs more efficiently. It doesn't matter how long you take, as long as you're not wasting too many moves. Speed will come naturally as you become more and more familiar with the cases.

 

[jaysawn]

Doesn't matter, do it anyway. Even if it takes you 2 minutes to plan out a cross, try it. You'll get better at that very quickly with practice. Also, don't bother timing your solves at this stage. Take time to plan out how you want to solve your F2L pairs more efficiently. It doesn't matter how long you take, as long as you're not wasting too many moves. Speed will come naturally as you become more and more familiar with the cases.

Just by doing an ao12 I have gotten better at my cross and slightly better at my f2l. I got a pb of 44 seconds just in those 12 solves.

 

[CuberCritic]

Even if you were to do it intuitively, that would help significantly. That way, you're not memorizing more algorithms on top of what you already know.

 

[CuberCritic]

Just by doing an ao12 I have gotten better at my cross and slightly better at my f2l. I got a pb of 44 seconds just in those 12 solves.

Congratulations!!

 

[Randomno]

There's a serious problem if you've been stuck at a minute for 2 years.

 

[jaysawn]

There's a serious problem if you've been stuck at a minute for 2 years.

I've already established that.

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

There's a serious problem if you've been stuck at a minute for 2 years.

This doesnt help... so yeah just keep working on cross and f2l.

 

[cashis]

Slow progression isnt a problem, dont listen to them!! You'll do fine. Yeah but congrats on those things, keep trying to plan out your full cross. Eventually, you'll get fast enough to where you can do it in the legal inspection time

 

[jaysawn]

I did some F2L-only practice solves. I found out that on average it takes me 33.192 seconds for f2l alone. Most people solve the entire cube faster than that.

 

[penguinz7]

I did some F2L-only practice solves. I found out that on average it takes me 33.192 seconds for f2l alone. Most people solve the entire cube faster than that.��

Wrong, most people (+7 Billion) do not even know how to solve a cube.

 

[Randomno]

Slow progression isnt a problem, dont listen to them!!

Yes it is.

 

[jaysawn]

Wrong, most people (+7 Billion) do not even know how to solve a cube.

I meant in the speed cubing community. Lol

 

[Dene]

Just by doing an ao12 I have gotten better at my cross and slightly better at my f2l. I got a pb of 44 seconds just in those 12 solves.

I said 50.

 

[jaysawn]

I said 50.

I know. I just had finished 12 at the time.

 

[jaysawn]

In my ao50 (1:02.47) I got a new on of 40.07. Thanks for your tips guys. They're really working!

 

[jaysawn]

*pb

 

[cashis]

Glad youre improving.

 

[Dene]

In my ao50 (1:02.47) I got a new on of 40.07. Thanks for your tips guys. They're really working!

Heh good boy. Now that there is some real practise. Try and get in as much as possible over the next few weeks and I guarantee you'll see huge improvement.

 

[jms]

I'm not sure what you've been doing the last 2 years, but if your PB has got better by about 20 seconds after one a050, then I'm guessing you haven't been practising enough up till now.

 

[theROUXbiksCube]

I'm not sure what you've been doing the last 2 years, but if your PB has got better by about 20 seconds after one a050, then I'm guessing you haven't been practising enough up till now.

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