What is the hardest barrier you've faced?

[theROUXbiksCube]

Sub12

 

[CubeCow]

I've only been cubing for about 2 months, but so far the hardest barrier was sub 1 min current my pb is sub 40 and average 55

 

[G2013]

It was hard for me to break the sub-1 in 4x4 and the sub-30 in 3x3. Sub-20 came almost immediatly after sub-30

 

[jms]

Sub-30 so far.

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

sub 11 was DEATH!!!

 

[mark49152]

I have hit a few barriers and the hardest is always the current one of course. However, I will say that I think the challenge becomes different when you get to around 20 seconds.

Above 20 seconds, most improvement is made by gaining competence, not speed. You get comfortable with the cube, learn your alg sets, learn to be efficient, and learn to recognize cases fairly quickly without hunting all over the cube. You make big improvements by pausing much less and making fewer turns, so you don't really need to turn that fast. Turning speed improves naturally with practice anyway, but you don't really need to push it because you make your gains in other ways.

At around 20 seconds, you are already competent. There are no longer such big wins to be made from improving efficiency. Maybe your recognition still has room for improvement, but the challenge shifts towards starting your recognition before you finished your last moves - lookahead - which is a more difficult challenge. Above all, you need to start turning faster, and that means not only pushing yourself beyond your comfortable speed but doing so while keeping composure, so as not to lock up or fumble the cube.

Maybe this comes at different stages for different people - for me it was ~20, but for you it might be ~25 or ~15 - but in my view it's the transition from learning to solve well to learning to solve fast that starts to present a more difficult type of barrier.

 

[molarmanful]

Sub-20 for sure. I was always so close to a sub-20 average, at around 20.01 or something like that, but never sub-20. And then a week ago, something clicked, and now I'm at 17 seconds.

 

[Rocky0701]

Sub 2:00 5x5

 

[Genesis]

Sub 3 6x6, took months of sub 3:10 before a sub 3 sniggle

 

[guysensei1]

Sub-3 6x6. After I got my first sub-3 single I suddenly improved and became sub-3 within days.

 

[MarcelP]

I think I am at the 20 seconds average (for 3X3) for a long while now. I think 6 - 8 months.. I have better days with long 19 averages but seem to return to 20 secs time after time. I hope I will ever break this barriere.

 

[Ranzha]

The sub-me barrier.

 

[Tao Yu]

Procrastination barrier for 4BLD.

 

[Suzuha]

Sub 20, because I've been right above sub 20 for a month and a half now. Other barriers took a few weeks.

 

[Dominic Diez]

becoming colour neutral is a killer. 1 month of doubting yourself, whether you can do it or whether you should give up. although, its sooooo worth it in the end. before being CN i averaged 25 seconds, now, 1 month later i'm sub 20 average.

 

[joshsailscga]

sub 3 sniggle

lol

 

[FailCuber]

becoming colour neung yourself, whether you can do it or whether you should give up. although, its sooooo worth it in the end. before being CN i averaged 25 seconds, now, 1 month later i'm sub 20 average.

lol you can't get 5secs faster cause your being CN, It's probably cause you practice. Cross doesn't take more then 5 seconds so it's not mainly because your CN.

 

[cashis]

Sub 10.

 

[Ordway Persyn]

so far sub 20 was the hardest for me, Im now about 19ish. It feels so good being sub 20

 

[Antonie faz fan]

sub 10 avg, sub 7 single, sub 6 single and sub 8 avg5