What was the hardest barrier for you?

[Musselman]

its not much of a barrier, but i am soooo lazy at algs. i dont think i will ever learn all OLL, and i plan on cubing till im like 50...lol. but i still dont know all PLL and some how i have a 23 sec avg ..wtf. but i think getting a single sub 20 was the hardest. O and learning F2L was a *****.

 

[hdskull]

OH! After reading Musselman's post, I realized my HARDEST BARRIER is learning OLLs, haven't finished learning them yet, darn. Will finish by WC next year, haha.

 

[Swordsman Kirby]

OH! After reading Musselman's post, I realized my HARDEST BARRIER is learning OLLs, haven't finished learning them yet, darn. Will finish by WC next year, haha.

Meh, circumvented by purposely ignoring hard ones. Partial edge control, anyone?

 

[iploman]

For me sub 20 single took ages to achieve. Still sub 25 average is something beyond my skills.

 

[ccchips296]

for me, sub 15 (havent done yet)...........ive been like 15-16 seconds for like 4 months now...i dont seem to have any way of improving. i can get the occasional sub 15 average but its not consistant and frequent.

 

[Statical]

erm sub40 was way too long

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

I don't know all my PLLs, though, I'm still using 4LLL.

Then either my PLL speeds must REALLY suck, or your 4LLL speeds are insane. I know all the PLLs and i can't get sub 30 avg.

One problem i have, and something i need to change FAST is that i still do the Cross on top, and then flip the cube.

 

[RafaelChan]

sub 30-25... i am struggling in there.. but after that i was so fast to improve... it took 1month... i started last feb.. and i am now sub-21

 

[somerandomkidmike]

sub-30 was so hard for me. My best average was taken only about a month after getting a sub-30 average.

 

[fanwuq]

OH! After reading Musselman's post, I realized my HARDEST BARRIER is learning OLLs, haven't finished learning them yet, darn. Will finish by WC next year, haha.

Meh, circumvented by purposely ignoring hard ones. Partial edge control, anyone?

I agree this is the toughest. I'm still trying out crazy ways that will probably require learning even more algs just to avoid this.

 

[badmephisto]

sub20 average took forever, and i was pretty frustrated. It was not consistent even months after I got the first one though.

 

[slncuber21]

god, consistant sub 40 is a pain to get past.
but my other tough barrier is learning algs, i have yet to learn all of my PLL's and i might learn more OLL's...

 

[MTGjumper]

Considering I can sub 20 consistently, I still haven't learnt the N perms. I keep telling myself that I should do, but considering that they are the least frequent PLLs I haven't yet. I usually do an A perm into a T perm, which takes about 3.5 secs, due to the cube rotations.

I really should learn them before my first competition, where I'll probably end up with 5 N perms... *checks for good algs*

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

god, consistant sub 40 is a pain to get past.
but my other tough barrier is learning algs, i have yet to learn all of my PLL's and i might learn more OLL's...

Forget about the OLLs for now. With a good F2L and the PLLs you'll kill 40 seconds with ease.

I started learning intuitive F2L and all the PLLs at the same time. When i finished with all the PLLs, i started timing my solves again, and i was killing my times. I went from about 50 second averages to where i am now (32 avg) pretty fast. Just make sure you've got F2L and your PLLs, practice hard and your times will drop.

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

sub 15 for me too, because it still hasn't happened yet... unless averages of 5 count

OH! After reading Musselman's post, I realized my HARDEST BARRIER is learning OLLs, haven't finished learning them yet, darn. Will finish by WC next year, haha.

Are you going to go to it? Where is it going to be held?

sidenote: I didn't think learning OLLs was difficult at all. Maybe it's because of the method I used to learn them.

 

[PCwizCube]

god, consistant sub 40 is a pain to get past.
but my other tough barrier is learning algs, i have yet to learn all of my PLL's and i might learn more OLL's...

I got a 43.66 second average on April 13, and 10 days later, I got a sub 40 average of 38.32 seconds. A few days later I was consistently sub 40.
I use the Fridrich Method and back then I had a 3LLL. Now I am around ~23 seconds with still a 3LLL.

You use the Fridrich Method. I didn't think sub 40 was very hard to break. Of course, I was only concentrating on 3x3 speed, and you're doing.... 2x2, 3x3 Petrus, 3x3 Fridrich, 3x3 Roux, 3x3 OH, 4x4 and Pyraminx? I know you're focusing on Fridrich right now but all those puzzles might be the problem. I don't think learning algorithms for the last layer will help you much. The step that really tosses around your times is your F2L step. I would rather get better at F2L than learn more algorithms. Practice your F2L, that will help your times a lot. Can you give me a step by step time average by PM? Please use this timer.

 

[pjk]

The hardest barrier for me so far on the 3x3 was going from 24 to sub-20.

The hardest barrier on the 4x4 was getting sub 1:15.

 

[FU]

Going from sub-20 to sub-15 was tough... took me more than 5 months to make that leap. the low 15 averages made me despondent for a while, like i was not fated to sub-15 or something.

 

[TheCubers]

For Me Sub-20 and Avg Sub-30

 

[hdskull]

sub 15 for me too, because it still hasn't happened yet... unless averages of 5 count

OH! After reading Musselman's post, I realized my HARDEST BARRIER is learning OLLs, haven't finished learning them yet, darn. Will finish by WC next year, haha.

Are you going to go to it? Where is it going to be held?

sidenote: I didn't think learning OLLs was difficult at all. Maybe it's because of the method I used to learn them.

Well, it's not hard to learn them, it's just hard for me to push myself to learn them, lol.

WC will be held in Hong Kong, and most probably I will attend, unless the timing doesn't work out (if it takes place in October, during school),