What was the hardest barrier for you?

[CAT13]

getting my averages from 24ish to 20. still hasn't happened and it's been a couple months. maybe 3 so far. I think I am going to start learning OLL

 

[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.

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),

Well I'm definatly not going to that one. haha If only I had a magic carpet...

 

[Tim_Likes_Cubing]

Lol, I was at over a minute for about a month when I fiurst started, and now all of a sudden I can do ~45s

 

[Lt-UnReaL]

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),

Well I'm definatly not going to that one. haha If only I had a magic carpet...

I doubt a lot of people will show up in Hong Kong compared to other places. Too bad, I was hoping on going to the next WC.

 

[joey]

I doubt a lot of people will show up in Hong Kong compared to other places. Too bad, I was hoping on going to the next WC.

Why? And what other places would you suggest?

I suggest Leeds, UK

 

[Lotsofsloths]

Getting sub 16 is hard.
xD Right when you THINK you are...you aren't xD

 

[Escher]

Ive been cubing for maybe three months, and i got to just below 30s averages about 2/3 weeks ago. haven't improved much since then, so for me so far sub-20 PB and sub 25avg have been the biggest barriers...

 

[A_Qber]

same here

 

[Faz]

sub 20. period.

 

[FredM]

The barrier I'm trying to pass right know. I've never been so uninproving.

It's sub10 Single and sub15 Average.

 

[MasakitChan]

Sub 20 took forever, around 4 weeks or so.

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

lately I've been improving steadily, 16s suddenly became "bad solves"

my point: I might pass my "hardest barrier" soon [sub-15 avg.]

 

[isaacthecuber]

I don't remember what was hardest for me.
Although I just broke a new barrier in sub-14 today so I'm pretty happy.

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

If you guys go back to the first or second page in this thread, you'll see i said:

I'm working really hard at the moment to get sub-30. I got to about 34 avg really quickly, and since i hit 34, it's been a huge wall that i can't climb. I usually get 34 avg, but i get 32s and 31s as well. I can't seem to break 30 though...

I broke 30s average a few days ago. It took me about 3-4 weeks altogether, but i finally did it. And now, the vast majority of my solves are between 27 and 33 seconds, which is a big deal for me

 

[BlueSpark92]

i just broke the 45-second barrier

 

[Speedy McFastfast]

Learning block building after getting sub 20 Fridrich. Petrus is a hard method to get fast with, I'm still working on learning better block building techniques and on improving my look ahead.

 

[mrCage]

Hi

My biggest barrier was of course my first 3x3x3 completion back in 1981. After a few months hard struggle i finally solved the "damned" puzzle.

My biggest leap forward in cubing was probably when i worked out a 4x4x4 solution solely on paper. This made me appreciate many finer aspects of cubing, a thorough understanding of what is possible and not possible on any size regular cube.

One other barrier worth mentioning is the understanding of commutators and how to use them constructively. Actually they can be used for virtually anything - edge cycles and flips. Corner cycles and twists. For laregr cubes also for center cycles. And of course more esoteric uses like block cycles for making patterns etc etc ...

- Per

 

[Escher]

im humbled by mr cage...
but pleased because i just broke me barrier by quite a margin - sub 20 non-lucky and sub-15 lucky
although Chukk (go to same school) just got a 14.5 non-lucky. bastard.

 

[Tyson]

Sub-20... it was the last time I believed there were barriers. First and only barrier.

Now, my main barrier is laziness (and paying rent).

 

[Sturkman11]

Dang LT, I can remember when you were just at sub 1 min. haha