What times make you good?

[TheNextFeliks]

Bld:
Can't - Fail
6+ Noob please
4-6 Beginner
2:30-4 Medium Beginner
1:30-2:30 advanced beginner
1-1:30 Getting Faster
45-1 Not Bad
35-45 Really fast
30-35 Amazing
25-30 Expert
Sub-25 master.

 

[uberCuber]

So I'm a master in 5 months of cubing? I don't think so.

I was going to say exactly this. Why have I been working to improve so much at cubing for the last couple years if I was already a master after the first 5 months?

 

[qqwref]

"Master" should mean you have mastered the cube - you understand pretty much everything about it (well, everything you need to know to be fast) and you will not improve just by putting time in. Of course, the problem is that different people can master the cube and end up at different times. Feliks will end up sub-7, I might end up just sub-10, an older cuber might end up sup-15 or even sup-20. So it's probably not a good way to describe a time interval.

 

[Zamulacz]

So there is a hope for me, today I've made first time ever more than 5 solves 4x4 in row and I got 1:40s avg I didn't even made more than 50 solves on 4x4. So about times:
3x3:
sub1 - total beginner
sub45- something
sub30 - put some work on that, but nothing special
sub20 - decent
sub15 - good
sub12 - really good
sub10 - became to world class
sub8 - master of the cube.

 

[armoni2020]

This is my first post on this forum, so please be gentle. I've been cubing for 20+ years... longer than most of the top-ranked competitors have been alive. My personal best time is 15.86, and it is still fairly uncommon (maybe 1 out of 5) to get sub 20. I consider myself to be fairly knowledgeable with cubing in general, even coming up with my own method which is relatively slow but fun. But I don't consider myself an "expert" speed solver.

Interestingly enough, when I first broke 30 sec, the official world record at the time was 22.95 ... think about that for a moment... I've seen many posts here that consider that a noob time.

Physical limitations were brought up at one point, and I'd like to touch on that... In the interest of finding my own limitations, and also to practice turning speed, I decided to memorize a complete solve start to finish. With 42 turns, and no pauses to even look at what I'm doing, I've managed to get times around 10.5 seconds on average. No world-record runs for me

I think that a good scale might need to be based on the individual. Consider yourself "good" if you are better today than you were yesterday... not just in this hobby... but in all parts of your life.

Happy twisting