It is necessary to be color natural?

Not necessary, but I think it certainly helps. However, there are are plenty of world class speedcubers who aren't colour neutral. The faster you are, the harder it generally is to switch.

Great post for anyone reading this blog. This surely eliminates alot of questions concerning the stages of learning and this is really good structured giving the reader a good overview. Hopefully these kind of blogs will be keep coming . (Maybe also add posts about your upcoming competitions? Results of your recent? Or is this not really a personal blog?)

Yes, I'm really looking forward to having fun and getting creative with these blogs. I'll have plenty of improvement posts, and then a bunch of personal competitive speedcubing posts as well! New blogs will be released approximately every two weeks.

Thats great! Really looking forward to having alot of fun here with you ! :) 

Thanks so much feliks and everyone who helped make the website. One question,  do you own any type of valk? Thanks

No worries Julian! I do have a few Valk3 cubes, sent by Mats :)

Could you make a lubing and tensioning tutorial? Also thanks for this website!

Thanks for your help Feliks it helps alot

Good Job Feliks!!! Keep up the content!!

I have One question, I have been practicing look ahead for f2l for months now, for the 1st month I averaged 12 seconds. for the 2nd month around the same. My times are not changing. So then I tried solving f2l by itself and got around 8 seconds on it. 

Do you have any tips for me, so I could get sub 10, in like 3-4 mounths, or something like that?? 

:)

Feliks, as a color neutral, how do you find the side that is fastest to solve the cross on?

Feliks, sorry, to add on to the comment I made, I do know full PLL and OLL, along with COLL. So it's mainly my f2l that needs work.

Thank you so much for all of this help Feliks! I'm really looking forward to using this website more and more.

This is cool but can ask to see if I can learn the moves like' f2 and things like that

Thx felix i found out how to solve the rubix cube now just more practice and i will be good to go :D

Hi Felix I just wanted to ask if you had any good tips to become color neutral

hey feliks .. I'm making my average is around 30 seconds .. My look ahead is not that good .. I keep searching pieces all the time .. So could you give me any tips ..

Great Advice Feliks! Thanks!

Hey Feliks!! I loved your blog. especially the 'advanced' section. My average is about 14 or 15 seconds. 

But sometimes I mess up with my F2L, and that's what I have to work on. I'm sure with your blogs being posted with a flow, people like me would try to break your world record :) !! Once again I thank you for your advice and I am eagerly waiting for your blogs!!

PEACE!!!!!!

Really impressive and helpful blog thank you so much feliks  :) 

I usually YouTube for advice and for what next have to be done to improve. Even I watch ur videos on YouTube but I am really happy that you helped me and other cubers by this blog and will be looking for ur further blogs. 

All the best for further competitions and make another world record!!

Thank you very much feliks this is what I exactly needed to improve my skills in speedsolving!:]

thx Felix I have improved a lot in cubing. I saw your YouTube video 6hrs after u uploaded and registered to this website .good 1

I always love you.

HAHA,Feliks u r so cool!I love you!

feliks i get confused about the cross in intermediate but i still can do it thanks to you.happy cubing to all the cubers

Hi Felix can you tell me that in intermediatelevel what is the average time to complete F2L.

Umm... Feliks can you tell me or do you have tips on how to be sub 10 consistently?

Thank you very much Felix , now I know what I need to improve . :D

felix can you keep a video on best speedcubes

My average on a speedcube is 30 seconds which is pretty fast but I cant seem to get past that i think its my F2L and my OLL process that is slowing me down can you put up something for that? 

This and the KungFuManchu websites are the best websites for speedcubing ive ever been on! I hope to see much more content soon! Thanks again feliks!

Hey Feliks, love the website and blog!

I run an after school "math games" class and there are plenty of cubers there. They inspired me  to pick up a Rubik's cube and relearn how to solve it. I hadn't touched one in almost a decade!

I don't remember any of the techniques or times I used back then, it was just too long ago and I only cubed for less than a month. I think I stopped because without a community and a resource like this cubing isn't as much fun.

So I just wanted to post this message and tell you how great it is that you are sharing your knowledge and passion this way!

Jordan

Will you be making 4x4 tutorials and tips? My first 4x4 should be arriving soon and i want to learn from the best. 

Thanks Feliks! This is a great site! Will you be making bigger cube tutorials and tips?

Special thanks from India!!!!

Hi Feliks, can you tell me that what mind set must I have when cubing...?

this site is already helping me sooo much i will definitely look to buy a premium membership soon

When did you learn color neutrality, and how did you learn it?

I have all of the new 3x3x3's but I really like the feels of some of the older cubes. Any suggestions?

I'm in the intermediate bracket but I learn from the advanced videos. I think that my cross is slowing me down but I've watched several advice videos for it. Could you make a video wit just walkthrough cross solves?

Also, your coll alg pdf stopped working but maybe that's just me

thnx for the special tutorials

this site is awesome! I'm looking forward to getting faster with the help of this site!

Cool Feliks! Nice website! Learning the rest of the g perms now :)

Which company speed cube you use? 

i struggle with lookahead and average 16 seconds but your videos arent helping me to much.  Should i just do slow solves and practise??

amazing!

Come on, I'm back for you!

Buen sitio !!! Me ayudarias a aprender mejor y mas rapido los algoritmos? Te lo agradecer

English:

Good site !!! Would you help me learn better and faster algorithms? I would appreciate

I'm loving this website! Thank you Feliks!

Great website Feliks! I average 21-22 seconds, trying to get sub-20 and this is very helpful. I have watched the all the beginners video and learnt so much. It is amazing how one can pick up bad habits. Well done!

This is an amazing idea and you should definitely keep up with this website.  However, I am trying to get better with the ZZ method, and I think it would be cool if you could get other people on board with this and get people who use methods other than CFOP to make tutorials.

Great resource Felicks!

i am averaging  ~20-25 seconds,know intuitive f2l and about 10 advanced f2l cases.I know 4 look LL and a few plls and oll. I am try to get sub 20 but i am just stuck at that range.How do i improve?Learn f2l? Or others?

By the way this is a very good website.

What a nice video!

banyakin lg dong

Awesome website Feliks! I normally use my smartphone timer so i get my normal times of average 15 and sub15..... but when i use my real timer(the ones used in comps), my pick up is really bad so i get bad times........ so do you recommend any practice drills or anything?thanks!

this website is fun

Higi

It's nice though

Hhi

great

hey its nice but if u wanna to gets this website more people FELIX PLEASE MAKE CFOP/WALKTHROUGH SOLVES AND MORE TIPS

Can you do some totorials or just post algarithms for solving a 4x4

thank you \(^o^)/

My Englishis not well，but I canspeak Chinese

are the algorithims on your OLL page the only good ones, i.e are there any world class speed cubers who use different OLLs to the ones on your OLL PDF. 

also zxt zit please translate common cube companies names 

what does moyu mean

Did not really learn anything new but what great advise im in the intermediate stage and I got a 13 second solve using 2look and knowing not many pll.

ありがとう　

Great job Felix i have a dayan zanchi and i have a gans on the way most of my time are around 30 - 40 seconds i appreciate the help keep up the good work  

after your help my times have stayed more in the 30 second times 

thanks for your advises，cfop is so difficult for me and i haven't any time to practice，and do you have any ideas elseto get faster？

thanks for your advice.but cfop is hard are difficult for remembering

i am a 7 years old boy i have got gans ,the valk 3 &thunderclap v2 which is best

It's helpful for me.

原来可以说中文的。

Awesome, good luck Feliks !

Hey Feliks, 

I love that u made this site. Looking frwrd to all the content. 

I average around 21 secs and I have a MoYu Weilong v2. Thats good right?

Hi Feliks, do you think a cyber should learn different methods  (for example, learn petrus to learn block building for x-cross)?

Sorry should be cuber

Hi,feliks.my problem is the linked between cross and f2l.After i finish the cross,maybe i spend 1 to 2seconds to find the f2l.Can you give me some advice,thanks.

Hi Feliks, for the intermediate method, I am having a hard time memorizing all the OLL and PLL algorithms, so do you have any advice on that?

This site is so cool! Thanks for all your help!

Sangat membantu, terima kasih Feliks

Feliks, thanks for all the hard work you put into the site. I and many other cubers appreciate it!

Is there email notifications for when you post new content on the website? videos or blog

I love this website!

It seems I didn't see the site has a set of language translation. If not, suggest add; If it have, where is it? I think the language is the bigger problem.I think, in some countries don't have to English communication(like China,Japan,Korea,Russia), there will be a lot of people have the same problem.

I can do the F2L and the OLL (basic, do the correct +). Can you help me to do the PLL please?

I'm from Vietnam. I think I am the 1st human get login in this website.

(My English is not well, so I hope you help me more and more!)

Thank you!

     Hey Felix,my name is Darius Harris.I am 13 and solving for about 3-4 months. I have recently learned F2l and have been solving the last layer with regular beginner algorithms.I want to learn oll and Pll bad but there is so many of them i don't know where to start.I was hoping you and other speed cubers reading this could email me some advice on which oll and pll algorithms to learn.My email is Everydaygaming328@gmail.com.

Sincerly, Darius Harris

Feliks you are good but can you give more tutorial and the agorithm for we? 

我来自中国，很高兴能看到你的文章。

Terimakasih banyak feliks (Thank You very much feliks)

你好，菲神。我来自中国，玩魔方半年了五阶魔方avg2min26s我想sub2min，所以想请您发一个五阶魔方实例 。  

哦shuailiu  email   1457598653@qq.com

the audio is bad

Nice

i average 20 to 30 seconds on cfop. Do you have any advice on lookahead?

Feliks how to solve 2×2 in 5 seconds and 3×3 in 30 second can you help me please

I Know Full OLL and PLL and when i slow down and look ahead I get sub 15 pretty easily

I think after 3x3 you should do 4x4 next

Feliks I think OLL is quite difficult for me because there are many awkward cases which I can't recognize very well so I haven't learned those algorithms yet. Can you help me with that?

To all those asking questions on here. Most of what you are asking is answered in the free 3x3 videos that are available. He does a good job explaining what you should be looking for and how you should go about learning and practicing what you know. 

I'm a sub 23 cfop solver,i know full pll and 2 look oll.

Should i learn full oll?

i take average 2 min XD learning f2l

i can do cube in 1 min i learnd a new method xs os

Wow, a cool interesting way to identity the cube skill of people.

Hi Feliks,I am a speedcuber from China ,and can you please add some 7×7 cube skills? Thank you! Sorry,my English is not well.

Hi Feliks, just wanted to say I'm loving this site so far and I'm thinking about going premium,keep up with the awesome videos, I can't wait to see what you teach next. :)

I love it, it's the best advise. Thanks Feliks :D

Thanks for tutorials feliks, I am a 16 sec solver, learning Full OLL is difficult. Doing them for the moment is easy but recognizing in the solve and then recalling the algorithm takes more time. Please give tips on that and how often should we learn algorithms?

Great advice for beginners like me. Thanks, Feliks :)

It really helps knowing what order to learn things in for intermediate, especially F2L, thanks a bunch for this site, it will help so many cubers, including myself.

The F2l video has really helped my cubing

How do you do a fast M move?

希望有中文字幕.....

Hope to have Chinese subtitles.....

希望有中文字幕.....

Hope to have Chinese subtitles.....

Feliks /i'm a 30 second average beginners method  but i do not get the f2l videos

I hope I can sub 10 one day. I'm a new cuber. My ao12 now is 37sec. It's a long long way to go. T T

Do you have any advice on the process of learning full oll and pll?

我们都来自不同的国家，所以我们希望有语言选项。

We all come from different countries, so we want language options.

You can use Google Chrome,it can translate different language .

 how to improve last layer i am 6 seconds on last layer i really nead to be fast

Moi j'apprends la méthode roux .

Hmm, my record is 40 seconds, and get 42-57 seconds on average. I use 4LLL, but sometimes 5LLL, if I need a diagonal. I practice often, but the lookahead is near impossible for me. My mind just wants to always do some algorithm, so I can not look ahead. Since I started on Cubeskills, I can plan out my Cross, but it takes 7-11 seconds to enact it, F2L is 10-30 seconds, and my OLL/PLL together is 10-15 seconds. With 4LLL I feel it is easier to look ahead to PLL, but I still do not have the mental ability do complete the algorithms without thinking for 1-5 seconds.

I look forward to improve my f2l because mine is really slow,btw my pb is 12 sec while my average is 18 sec :).Still,I have to learn many things to be sub 10.

Hmm, I feel most confident in F2L, because it is intuitive, and I do not need to think much on it.

My average is around 40 because I'm still improving my F2l. As I have read, I thought its not part of the process for you to get slower. Anyways, I hope that I can get sub 10 someday. Its gon' be a long ride 

My Record Is 11 seconds 43.

I have 3 Gans 356 Air, 4 Gans 356 S and 2 The Valks

Hi Feliks, I am at 36 seconds, thank you for the tutorials, I will practice and improve my skill.

Nguyễn Hoàng Nam-

Cool. I have just ordered a Gans 356 Air UM, and a Valk v2( I think) as my main

mi pb es de 11 pero mi promedio es de 25 espero pronto ser sub 20 

Well done on all the episodes great mod see you at cube for Cambodia 2017 by the way my name is Bradley I would like to say hi and talk see you then well done.

What should I learn: COLL or WV?

Learn WV for standard solves, COLL for OH because IMO if your PLLs are Super fast using COLL doesn't help much as the time difference between edge swap PLLs and others are very tiny. Instead you should learn WV so that you can skip OLL and do a fast PLL. But if you are into OH solving COLL really helps as edge swap PLLs are very fast OH compared to other PLLs.

Hey Feliks! I've been cubing for 4 months and my avg is around 25 seconds. I just wanted to say thanks for creating this amazing website! :-)

Feliks, I have been cubing for 6 months and  learned full pll and 2 look oll, my f2l lookahead is not that good, but I average 21 seconds. Any advise besides the one you wrote?

Hi Feliks... I'm cubing from a long time approx 3 to 4 years and I'm getting an average speed of 31 sec. I'm not able to memorize new algorithms. I'm in need of your advice....

how shall i memorise new algorithms as the pll ones aren't coming to me as easily as oll 

Hi community,

I´m using the CFOP method with full PLL but with 2 Look OLL instead of OLL.

With this method I average round about 32 seconds.

I´ve planned to learn full OLL but I´ve heared that there are more than 50 different algorithms to learn,

so I´m wondering how somebody can keep them all in mind and can use them in the right cases.

How much time you needed until being abel to use full OLL?

Have you any advises for me?

Faithfully, Cedric

remembering that F2L is the most important part of the solve.

In general, I agree to this, but I have to say that it also depends on where your weak points are. For example, I average about 38 seconds per solve, 3 to 4 for the cross, about 15 for the F2L and about 20 seconds for the last layer (4LLL, and I have to train my recognition and my fingertricks more). So for me for example, F2L is at the moment not the most important part of the solve because it is not my weakest point at the moment. I have to train the recognition and my fingertricks for the 4LLL more at the moment. So, the most important part of the solve is the part which is consuming the most of your time during a solve.

Hi Cedric R., 

watch the video from Felks Zemdegs on the platform. There he gives some advice. But I don't think that your weakness is the OLL. I think you should improve your move count in your f2l and then your time will increase. I also think that you should know, whether you have to make a U or a U' after you've done your first fish move. Then you would be more efficient. I needed a long time to learn full OLL, but I would recommend you to learn it in blocks- like it is shown in the OLL agorithm sheets (CubeSkills).

Happy Cubing!

Hi Daniel-Elia

Thanks for you advise. I´m wondering why you know that i dont wether to make an U oder an U' algorithm after doin 2 look OLL, but it's right.

If the're isnt a PLL case I can solve, I'm doing a normal U perm and if it doesnt work, I do another.

(Please excuse my English, but as I can see at your second name, you're speaking the same language as I do, habe ich recht?)

Nice Website by the way, Feliks, it's really helpful. Thanks!

Faithfully, Cedric

Any advice for extra advanced people? Perhaps people who are trying to be sub 9 or sub 8 like myself. 

lolwut thanks felids

This is strange... I use beginners with two look OLL and my own method of f2l and get sub25 second times...

Hi Feliks i have been cubing for one month now and my average is 40 secs .Is it okay?

Hi Feliks !! i have been cubing for 3 month now, and i'am averaging of 5 on 26 and my pb is 21.79. I wanted to learn full oll but its quite hard and i fand that g perms are akward ( i don't want to learn them).i have problems with my f2l and lookahead and also with the x cross. i finish cross and f2l on 22 seconds and sometimes on 17. soo what are you're best advice to be sub 15 f2l and to memorize algs faster. i want to average sub 20 for the next month becausethere is my first competition. thx for responding !

ps : sorry for my english ( im not english so try to not send me videos) and ihave a shitty cube.( mf3)

Can I be Sub 15 with CFOP? . The F2L from different angles can I use them for the sub 20? :)

I am a 20 sec average solver but cant seem to get faster. I don't know how you feliks and everyone get sub 20 so quick. I have been cubing for 3 weeks now and need advice plz and thx.

A vezes fico me perguntando, quando usar a mão esquerda?se dizem por aí q a mão principal é a direita. Outra dúvida, como fazer uma rotação eficiente no cubo no F2l?.

hi, i average 24 secs. Should I switch from algorithmic f2l to intuitive f2l?

Thanks for your advice.I will seriously implement it.

I use beginners and get 39.072

i have been cubing for 4months and i average 16-20 seconds is my improvement good?

Help I'm stuck at a 13-ish average and can't get further, any tips?

I am cubing like 1 month. I am pretty slow and my average is 1:24

Feliks im stuck around sub 20 just came back to cubing a month ago i want to know how to break this sub 20 barrier. chris olson said more efficient f2l algs from different angles just asking for your advice.

I'm stuck around 25 seconds. I will use your ideas to help me. I'm 12, and I'm teaching my friends how to solve. Do you have any advice for me in teaching them. Thanks for all your help.

Feliks, I'm stuck around sub 40 because F2L has been slowing me down for some time and also lack of OLL algs. Any advice on how to improve my problem? I'm trying to get to sub 20. 

 Feliks, I'm struck about sub 35,any tips and ideas to get sub 20 or 10?

Thanks for The Advice...

Hello Feliks,can I get any tips from you to improve or how to get faster on 3x3 because my best time is only 48.08 sec...

Hello feliks I've been cubing for 5 months and I know all 57 oll 21 pll but still sub 30 can you help me to be sub 20 or 25?

Hey Feliks,

Despite listening to all your tips, I can’t seem to get sub 20. I think it is due to my slow cross/look ahead. Any ideas on improvement?

Thanks

Hey Feliks,

I was sub 20 three months ago. Then I thought I'll take a week's break but I just lost interest. I started again a month and a half ago and now during a casual warm-up solve I would average 19.9seconds . I have known full OLL and PLL for 6 months now. I do not know any other alg subsets and cannot improve. This greatly discourages. I have been recently practicing slow solves using a metronome.  Once warmed up my cross-f2l transition is not bad. I usually finish f2l in 12.5 seconds and LL in 6 seconds. What should i do?

hi Feliks. i'm a speedcuber who averages around 25 seconds. Do u have any advice for me.

Hello Feliks,

I only started cubing for about 4 months and I don't know what to do to become faster if I'm at an average of about 27 seconds. I only know intuitive F2L, OLL with crosses, and 32% of PLL. I was wondering if there was any advice that you could give me to become faster moving forward since kids around me who have been cubing for longer than me make me feel uncomfortable with my speed.

Hey Huy, 

27 seconds after 4 months is really good progress, don't be concerned at all! Finish learning your PLLs now, they'll definitely shave time off your solves.

Hey Feliks,

I was sub 20 three months ago. Then I thought I'll take a week's break but I just lost interest. I started again a month and a half ago and now during a casual warm-up solve I would average 19.9seconds . I have known full OLL and PLL for 6 months now. I do not know any other alg subsets and cannot improve. This greatly discourages. I have been recently practicing slow solves using a metronome.  Once warmed up my cross-f2l transition is not bad. I usually finish f2l in 12.5 seconds and LL in 6 seconds. What should i do?

Thank you Feliks,

I am extremely grateful for your advice. I love cubing so much and I hope I can continue to become a better cuber due to your help. 

Hello Feliks,
I have been a big fan and I average around 24 seconds. I really enjoy cubing,but I just can not get faster for some reason. I use intuitive F2l, I only know how to solve olls that has a cross, and I know a decent amount of plls. If you can give me some advice to get faster it will be extremely helpful since there is one kid in my school who is really fast, and i want to be as good as him. Thank You for reading. :)

I only know 13 plls these are F, J a and b, N a and b, R a and b, T, U a and b, H, Y, and Z

If you know in which order I should learn the rest. Please answer. Thank You

Hey Feliks,

I was sub 20 three months ago. Then I thought I'll take a week's break but I just lost interest. I started again a month and a half ago and now during a casual warm-up solve I would average 19.9seconds . I have known full OLL and PLL for 6 months now. I do not know any other alg subsets and cannot improve. This greatly discourages. I have been recently practicing slow solves using a metronome.  Once warmed up my cross-f2l transition is not bad. I usually finish f2l in 12.5 seconds and LL in 6 seconds. What should i do? Waiting for your answer. 

Feliks should I use a metronome or learn more algs?    Is look ahead better or is learning more algs better ??? Please reply

Feliks, I know full pll and half of oll. I do not use intuitive F2L, and know about 3/4 of F2L, and I can do cross in inspection about 15% of the time   I also find myself rotating to do an F2L pair and by the end of the solve I have about 10-12 rotations.... should I inprove on my cross or learn more efficent F2L.

Congrats on 5x5 WR average!! ^-^

Look ahead is more important, algs are secondary. Personally, I only know 15ish OLL but I avg 9 seconds, cuz my f2l stage is 5s. Don't "memorize" f2l algs.

U don't need full OLL to get a WR, fact: Collin Burns got the 5.25s ex-WR single and he didn't know full OLL. 

Savan practice f2l, 12.5 seconds isn't great. LL is around 4s so your close. Improve on f2l

Yes, I know full Pll, but my G perms are slow and I usually always rotate just to solve an F2L pair, if i see an F2L pair paired up then I can just insert it without rotating. My F2L takes around 12-15 seconds, Oll is 1.5-2.0 and pll is sub 3. I average sub 20 (18.451) with my Weilong GTS2. I have a youtube channel At DuckyCuber01 on youtube so if you could show me how to inprove on lookahead in the comment section of my vids then that would be great! :)  also I tightened my aolong v2 a TON so that i can't turn fast and that would force me to look ahead. do u think this is a good stratey for lookahead or not? I have a pretty high TPS, but I pause about a total of 4-7 seconds in my solves. Shankar S, can u or Feliks please respond to this question?

Hi Nathan again, I am a 15 second solver with a PB of 9 seconds. I saw some of your videos on YouTube and what I would recommend to reduce pauses is to turn slower so you can see more pieces while solving F2L. If I have a case where I can spam TPS but after I have no idea what I’m doing next, then it’s better to just do it slower so I can look ahead. No matter what, you can turn as fast as you can if you know what you’re doing next. Learning full OLL is a big help but you can do it casually. (Learn 1 or 2 algs at a time until you can recognize and use them in your solves.) also if you only solve on white, being able to solve on yellow as well is a big help because if you have a bad cross on white or a great cross on yellow, your cross planning will take less time. I hope this helped you and God bless :)

Agan

thanks a TON Ethan!

Varn

yes, I have tried to practice on yellow cross, but my crosses are very bad and I usually can't complete the whole cross during inspection...... i also end up doing about 10 rotations in my solves 

how can I fix that?...

thanks for responding so quickly Ethan Varn

do u think that a magnetic cube will help me with my bad turning accuracy??

do u have a youtube channel or a profile on the WCA website?

My main cube is a Qiyi valk 3 M and I do feel that having a magnetic cube is a huge advantage. I personally like gan cubes the best, but my valk is stickerless so I like it better than my UM. I’ve watched many reviews on YouTube and the gan 356 air SM seems like the best cube on the market right now. When I first got a magnetic cube, it slowed my times, but once I got used it it, it did help with stability and turn accuracy. The valk 3 M from the cubicle has weaker magnets than the UM so I don’t think that the valk would help with turning accuracy as much as the UM or SM. If you like your weilong, there is also a magnetic version but I’ve never tried that one so I can’t tell you if that would help or not.

For tips on yellow cross I would suggest starting slow. Don’t speedsolve at first because you’re not used to the different color scheme. The F2L colors are the same so it’s easier than learning to solve full color neutralist avoid white pieces until last layer. Since your crosss and last layer colors are opposite, if you plan a yellow cross the exact smae way you would plan a white cross (orange to the right of green, red to the right of blue etc.) you will find two of your edges will be in their opposite positions while the other two are solved and if you algign them it will have the same effect on the other two. What you can do to fix this is to instead of remember red to the right of blue or something like that, you would just remember orange to the right of blue or red to the left  When I first learned to solve on yellow I was about a 40-45 second solver and still used intuitive F2L. (I was horrible with it and not too great at planning crosses good crosses either). As I learned to plan better crosses, on white I used the same concepts with yellow. Therefor I never really experienced switching and it took me about a week to learn it. Just do every solve on yellow to expose yourself to as many crosses and casss as possible but do 10-15 solves every day to maintain what you’ve learned on white. Sorry if this is long and again I hoped this helped :)

I don’t have a YouTube channel but I am on the WCA website. I’ve only been to one competition and tbh I did pretty bad even at the time I was disappointed. To reduce rotations the easiest thing to do is turn with U moves on last layer instead of doing Y rotations and lining the blocks up. Once you’ve done that it should save maybe 1 or w rotations. Another thing is to try to plan rotationless crosses and even though this is fairly advanced, use wide U turns when efficient (cross edge in RF positition and can be solved by u’,R,u) another tip is if your last turn in your cross is a D or D’ to align, if you know your first pair then you can also do a u or u’ to align your cross depending on if it will orient your first F2L pair’s edge. Again this tip may. To be useful now but will be in the very near future. Practice slow solves and lookahead during F2Lto know if you need to do a rotation to solve your next pair or not and how you will solve it. Hope this benefits you and can’t wait to hear how much it helps :)

Thank you so much Ethan, I love stickerless cubes, but i got my weilong gts2 in black so it is ok, a kid at my middle school has a gts2 m lite (stickerless) and i thought that i could just get a magnetic conversion kit from the cubicle.us and make a magnetic gts2, i think that a magnetic cube will help my speed, and accuracy, because I +2 lots of solves. I do pretty well on last layer (i suck) and I do AUF's (adjustments of U face) to avoid rotations I recently have been practicing solving my white and yellow crosses with a blindfold on (after inspection) so keep me posted Ethan! ^-^

Ethan If i do get a magnetic conversion kit for my weilong should i get the LITE or the STRONG??

I have been cubing for a year and a half and I average 18 seconds  

how long have u been cubing for?

Depends on how strong you want the magnets to be, stronger magnets are heavier and more stable but also require more effort to turn (if you’re looking to improve turning, it’s probably better than weaker magnets which don’t have as much effect on your turning if your going really fast) I have been cubing for about a year now too

Weaker magnets are for fast but not hard turners, while stronger ones are for the harsh turners. GO easy on color neutrality. Don't memorize the color scheme of the cube. solve the pairs w.r.t the edges you've placed on the cross

1. I average 23 and I have been cubing for 3 1/2 months. Should I be sub 20 by now?

hi

does anyone have any tips to memorize cross edge relationships

there aren't any ;-(

I just got a yuxin little magic from cubedepot and the shades r gud, but the yellow and orange stickers have lots of residue and it really bugs me (i got the white yuxin) It is very loose so should i magnetize it?

Parker-

I have been cubing for over a year and a half now, and I do not consistently average sub 20. I get maybe 3/5 solves per average, and it took me 3/4 of a year to get sub 30, sub 20 was muh harder. Just practice and you should get past the sub-20 barrier.

u don't to magnetize every cube nathan, if its loose tighten it. wipe the residue off with a damp cloth. 

do cubes that fit your turning style make you faster? i have a rough turning stlye so would a magnetic cube work?

Nathan you could try to tighten your cube or loosen it.Since you have a rough turning style, like you mentioned,you could probably go for a tighter cube so that you would not overshoot when turning the cube.

A magnetic cube might also work or you could do both.(Tightening the cube and installing the magnets)

If anyone could give me tips on how to be sub 10 that would be great. I have a decent cube as my main, the Moyu Weilong GTS M. 

@max chan, what's your current cube profile?

what all steps do u know? 

whats your avg f2l length? LL length?

hows your look ahead, cross to first pair transition? 

and your current avg.

btw top of the line cubes don't improve your times by much. They are mostly for sub 10 solvers, u could get the same avg with pretty much any cube(thunderclap, aolong, yuxin 3x3, and those stuff)

A few days ago i went to South Enough 2018 and in 3x3 round 1 i got a 15.9 average and in round 2 i got a 15.8 average... i have a supernova gts2 m as my main right now does anyone think that it will inprove my times if i get a gans air sm?

Shankar S

My WCA Profile 

https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/persons/2015CHAN37?event=333

I know full PLL and about 50% of the OLLs. 

I know decent F2l Cases and my look ahead is okay. 

My current average is around 13 seconds. 

For Christmas recently I got the GAN Air S (Master) and it is my main now. 

I dont have a nice cube so my avg is around 20 seconds

I am able to solve a cube around 6-7 seconds I am stuck in this time frame how com I improve from this stage.  My f2l takes the longest.

Thanks for this amazing advice! This advice made me get a new PB of 15.42 from ny previous PB,19.66. Thank you so much! :)

I also am in only 3rd grade

is removing the pieces of cube is good?

Hi, my average is about 18 seconds and I am since about 3 months in this area and have no idea on what I should focus next.

I need about 2-3sec for cross, 7-10seconds for f2l, and 5-6 for LL.

My PB is 11.73s and PB avgof5 15.64s. On what should I focus next to improve. I know full PLL, some OLLs but only 2 or 3 for F2L. How fast should I get at every step (cross, f2l, LL) to hit the 15 seconds barrier. 

-Tobi :)

Tobias, what is the time frame for each step, cross, f2l, ll?

@Owen Salyers about 2-3sec for cross,

 7-10seconds for f2l,   and 5-6 for last Layer 

Tobias my tip would be to start practicing planning your cross and first 2 pairs during inspection this way you have plenty of time to look ahead to the last two or any subsets

Hey Feliks,

My first year of cubing completed and 9 months after coming in contact with CFOP my average is 15 sec...is my progress up to mark?

1.  Learn things like vls, cls, wv, ble, f2l, coll, zbll, and keyhole these will help you improve your times.

2.  Get good speed cube.  Check out some cubes like wailing its v2 gan valk etc. find witch is comfortable.

3.  Practice in the 15 sec range practice f2l it takes up most of the solve and can drop your times by a lot learn all 77+ f2l cases. Jpermhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKRtFQmnKfs has some good tutorials. 

4.  If you hit a wall practice some other cubes such a skewb, megamix, pyramix, etc. I found that this helps a lot.  Or just take a week brake from cubing.

Become color neutral.

I average 14-17 How do you get faster so solves are consistent? My cross is like 1.5-2.5 seconds, my F2L is 8-ish seconds(I kinda use lookahead, i'm trying my best), and my LL is around 5-6 seconds(always a hit to my solve). I don't know full OLL but i know full PLL. How do I get sub 15 consistently?

Thanks

For me what helped was learning full OLL and making those algs pretty fast, doing many solves both slow and untamed to build lookahead, and quick timed solves to build speed. If last layer is your main problem then optimize your PLL algs, learn full OLL and optimize them, then drill your algs. I hope this helps :)

i watched a few videos of you. your explanation so good thanks.What after 12th

Hi I am a 30 sec solver          

i wanna get into sub15

i do f2l intutively ,and do 2 look oll and pll

how to get  better           

not able to learh full oll and pll

Learn easy OLL and Pll cases and improve lookahead and i hope your color neutral . I average around 25 secs do begginers cross advanced f2l know 27 oll cases and 12 pll cases.Hope you reach it

Im talking about Aryan Shivapuram 

thanks

hi feliks..

i have my exams going on...

i am a 30 second solver

should i learn full oll,pll now or after 15 days

Hi Feliks! 

I'm a speedcuber in around the 16-17 second range. I average about 2 seconds for cross, 7-8 for F2L, and 5 for LL. I'm color neutral, know 2LLL, and know some random 1LLL tricks(Learned from JPerm and You). I know almost all of COLL(Need to know one half of L; 2/3 for S and AS), know a few VLS algs(Mainly WV and MW) and know one ZBLL(The one on AS/HPerm).

I can find my cross pieces pretty quickly; only using 4 of my 15 seconds. Should I use most of the remaining time to inspect for the first pair? How do I improve on LL? 

Are there any other subsets I should know about?

~Jacob(creepcrafting56: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHIqLUzI1pv6bklRQFYGPUg )

My website that really isn't good: https://creepcrafting56.wixsite.com/rbcubingcpcf56

UPDATE: I've learned full COLL as of right now

I have to learned oll and pll cases but they difficult

I'm trying to memorize the OLL and PLL but they're hard

Hey Kasey, a good trick is to practice one algorithm over and over before you go to bed, and in the morning, you remember it better, doesn't work for everyone but it worked for me when I was learning 4 look last layer. Also, try to look for patterns in the algorithms.

I avg around 18-19 i use cfop full pll and I know about 40 olls and I can lookahead okay, any tips on getting faster? Btw I know all the good and efficient f2l cases, but in f2l I turn half slow because of lookahead

I totally forgot about learning to be color neutral, so now what do I do?

I know that this is not the website I'm looking for, but can someone help me with my 2x2 PBL's with Ortega? There's no good website anywhere (That makes sense or has all of the PBL's). HALP!

Hi Feliks!

I am Samyak Sharma and my 3x3 average of 5 is 55.12 seconds with Beginners F2l and 4 look last layer, any tips on getting faster?

Thanking you.

Hi feliks

Hey Feliks, I currently average between 15 to 18 seconds and use normal F2L 2 look OLL and 1 look PLL. Any tips so as to how I'd improve?

get 25 to 35 seconds not color neutral and 25 to 50 seconds color neutral help please

I'm sub 13

Jayden Philipps you are probably not used to the other colors no recognition takes a little more time

yea

If you want to really improve your times, you should have a really good and efficient cross, and right after that be able to locate your first pair. It takes time, but its worth it. :)

Hey Feliks, just wondering. Do you do any blindfolded solving?

If so, can you make a video on it?

Ainseh, what got me to sub 15 was to learn all the OLLs, and to optimize them. For PLL, you should get them down to sub 2, and for OLL, try to get sub 3 for OLL, 2-look or 1-look.  Optimizing your cross solutions and looking ahead to the first pair also helps, but looking ahead to the first pair mainly helps to get sub-10. And for the learning side, learn some LL subsets, like ZBLL, COLL, WV, and stuff like that. It really helps. 

And also for OLL, learn pure OLL(OLL w/o dot cases) first, then learn the dot cases. It will reduce the numbers of OLLs' you need to know. And to get a pure OLL case, for LS, once it's paired up and the no edges are oriented, then use Sledge to get a pure OLL case. Otherwise, just insert normally. But if it's not paired up, do U' F' U2 F, then just insert normally. 

*By normally, I mean by doing U R U' R'

Honestly, you don't need full OLL to be sub 10 or sub 15. 

I'm sub 12 and I still use 2 look. 

algs aren't everything.

Max Chan is true, algs aren't everything but they matter more later especially when you reach the sub 10 range those extra seconds for executing more than one algs that can be solved with one algs (ZBLL) can be a difference between sub 10 to sub 7 or in more extreme cases sub 6 to sub 5

Also for me subsets that Im learning like COLL and ZBLL has affected my times in little ways and doing them faster affected them more

Max, I said to try to get sub 3 for 1-look or 2-look. And for the EO side of things, doing that will prevent you from F R U R' U' F' f R U R' U' F' which takes too long for me if I do two looks because that's already 1 second, and then doing an ES OLL afterward. And by one look, you can just use the All Corners Oriented algorithms to orient, because it preserves CO. So if you get OLL 48, you can just use OLL 28, then you have no pause into Pi. The All Corners Oriented Algs are OLL 20, 28, and 57. They're not that hard to learn.

Also, I interpreted Pure OLL wrong, I thought it was just OLL w/o dot cases. But it isn't. 

Yeah pure OLL means you use OLL with no subsets not for cases

Dot*

I thought Pure OLL was OLL but preserving CP and EP

What should I do to get faster? I am insanely slow! 1:30 and up sometimes.

About how long does it take to be sub 20?

If you are still using beginners method in which you solve one face first search up F2L this will improve your times by a lot and than go to Felik's 3x3 algorithms in tutorials and start with the PLL algorithms they improve your times in little bits and than learn OLL second

I got sub 20 in about a month or two after learning F2L and Full PLL

Feliks, I see a lot of people learn beginners method with cross solved on the top and they insert the corners at the top as well with the edges. Also, with the last layer they use a different last layer that involves more steps. Do you think that this is what turns the cuber into the wrong direction for learning F2L?

Benjamin Miller, 

It takes time and you just have to get used to the beginners method. I think you can get to about sub 40 and then maybe start learning some PLLs. After that, learn F2L. This could take up to 6 months. (tentatively)

Max Chan, Beginner's Method is something to start people off on learning the mechanics of solving a cube all it's doing is dividing the steps into extra parts: Cross still the same, F2L: Corners and then edges, OLL: Edge orientation(P4/T2), Corner orientation(OCLL7), PLL: Corner Orientation (Aa/Ab/Y Perm), Edge Orientation(Ua/Ub Perm). It may send them in the wrong direction in terms of F2L but lets them get used to memorizing algs and learning to do the cube more intuitively in my opinion and experience I wouldn't have been able to learn F2L if it were given to me off the bat the Beginner's Method F2L eased me into F2L and helped me understand the mechanics of solving the cubes better and helped me memorize algs quicket

Max Chan,

I think that might steer them in the wrong direction. I have come across a lot of cubers who start out like that and they haven't made it far. Not that I am certain that is the cause but it could be. Best I think is to do beginner's for like 2 weeks then move on to CFOP as to not build bad habits while using beginner's.

Dylan Swarts,

That is true but the people I met that have used beginners method for more than a month just wanted to know how to solve the Rubik's cube and not go into speedcubing

@Max Chan The different last layer is because they use TCKyewbs method which happens in this order: First 2 layers are the same, orient yellow edges, permute yellow edges, permute yellow corners, orient yellow corners with a pure(ish) OLL which is R' D' R D, or use AS LAS. 

*AS means Anti-Sune (R U2 R' U' R U' R')

**LAS means Anti-Sune with left hand(L' U2 L U L' U L)

@Jacob Shum Do you think that this is a bad thing if they want to learn F2L later?

@Max Chan in my opinion no for me I picked up F2L quickly because of beginners method also it doesn't necessarily mean that it becomes a bad habit I was able to bring down my times to sub 40 with only using beginners method and got even quicker when I transferred to F2L you can optimize the Beginner's Method and improve your times a lot only using that.

@William Yang That's what I did too. I taught myself LBL, then picked up more efficient ways to do Aa Perm, then U Perms. Once I was sub-50, I taught myself the Y Perm, and optimized my last layer. Sub-40 was when I learned 4LLL(Keep in mind, the U Perms were RU and my OLLs were still composed of Sune and Left Sune). Then, after getting a better cube(Duncan Quickcube), I got to sub 30, averaging around 27s. Then, I learned intuitive F2L, which brought my times down to 23. Then I started to learn more PLLs. I learned all the PLLs over a 3 month period, which got me to around 22. I got a new speedcube(Weilong GTS2), and learned full OLL and optimized my PLL's, by using the algs I use now. I averaged 18 at the time. Learning more F2L algs, 1LLL algs, ZBLL, WV, and MW brought me to sub-16. Then just by practicing F2L and drilling LL algs, I was able to get to where I am now-- Sub-15. Speedcubing for half a year now has brought me to sub-15, and in the future, sub-10. 

(Algs I use now: https://tinyurl.com/cubeblazerdoc)

So I made the switch to cfop from beginner's right at about 1 minute solves. I learned 4lll and my times almost instantly dropped to 40 seconds average. I've heard some people say that it should be easy to get sub-20 or at least sub-30 with 4lll, but there's my problem. My times haven't gotten better over the past month or so, probably about 500-800 solves there. I need to improve my f2l lookahead a lot and probably switch to algorithmic f2l, but my question here is about the third layer: Should I learn normal full oll and pll, or would it be a good option to skip oll and most of pll by learning coll? It seems like a much better option on paper, since i would have to learn 40 algorithms instead of 78 and the only added step would be yellow cross, but I already do that for 4lll so that wouldn't hurt my times in the short term. But in the long run, how should I go about learning algorithms for the last layer?

And for extra brownie points, any advice on learning advanced f2l?

@Ryder Fleming learn PLL first and than OLL don't learn COLL until after and for F2L it is not good for you to learn algorithmic F2L because even F2L has over 200+ cases for you to learn so best to stick with intuitive F2L practice untimed solves so that you can improve your F2L eventually F2L will become muscle memory and you can look for your 2nd pair while doing your 1st pair and so on for 3x3 algorithms learn the algorithms sheets in order in how Feliks put it into the 3x3 algs and for advanced F2L it is not different from intuitive F2L you only add new techniques to your arsenal such as multislotting, keyhole, X cross, planning your cross and 1st pair, and etc. You should practice F2L the most because it takes up the bulk of your time. My F2L is at sub 6 and I am at sub 12 because I have good fingertricks and lookahead. Fingertricks are also a big part of your solve based on where you are you should have sub 5 LL sub 3 cross and at least sub 15 F2L for a decent time. Also about COLL it does not cover every case in LL it only covers situations that you can get an U Perm for PLL otherwise you have to use normal OLL.

@Ryder Fleming For last layer, learn PLL, then OLL. And for COLL, don't learn it until like sub-15. And for F2L, don't learn too many algs, but also learn enough useful cases, especially for Corner on top Edge in slot cases. Advanced F2L means that you learn more things alongside with the intuitive things such as Keyhole, Sledgehammer, VLS, WV, and learning some algs. Although most of the time it's bad, you need algs because there are really bad cases that can be solved way more efficiently than what you might do for intuitive. 

Btw, I'm a 13 second solver with the following times for each step: 

Cross: 2

F2L: 7

OLL:2

PLL:2

I take 16-20sec for cross and f2l only and 7-9sec for 2 look oll and 1 look pll.Can u help me?

Practice your F2L is all I can say F2L takes the bulk of your time so learn more techniques in Feliks' intermediate cross and F2L tutorials

Seeking Help!

I'm Jason from Hong Kong and I average around 13 seconds and have learnt full OLL, PLL, and WV. Is it okay to learn COLL now? Will it improve my times a lot?

@ Jason Wu It may improve your times but not by a lot thr one thing that you can do is to decrease your F2L times and LL times these take up the bulk of your time so getting quicker at these will improve your times and also check out Feliks' advanced F2L tutorial in 3x3 this will also help you out a lot.

really  useful

I used to average 33 seconds before learning F2L, but as soon as I learned it, I averaged 3 minutes. Now, I average 40 seconds with F2L. My algorithms: Cross, intuitive F2L, 2-Look OLL, 2-Look PLL   For beginners: Practice is important. My friend's average is 25 seconds, and he uses the beginner's method. He practiced for 4 years.

America, I present you Feliks, the champion !

Hello Feliks,

In your algorithm sheets, you include the probability that the algorithm will occur. How do you calculate this probability?

Simply doing solves could not be a certain method, as (for example) it is possible to get only N perms when doing 17 complete solves, there being 17 pll algorithms. So how do you do it?

@Paul Lee, it has something to do with ratational symmetry. Basically, you can solve some cases from multiple angles which makes them less likely to occur than other than others. For example, you can solve an E perm or Z perm from two directions making them occur twice as rarely as say, a T perm which can be solved from one angle. With an N perm you can solve no matter the angle mak8ng it one of the rarest PLLs there is (thank god). The same is true for OLLs and and because there is more cases, the symmetrical ones are even more rare such as the case with all oriented corners and flipped edges which I believe is the rarest case in CFOP. Hope this helped :)

could anyone give me tips on how to improve my cross and f2l i dont really feel like paying for a premium membership to access the videos

thanks, 

Liam 

@Liam Widtfeldtyou don't need premium to access them only some of them you need premium.

Thanks! After learning F2L my times started going down. I'm hoping I can get better as time goes on.

I solve the cube under 40 seconds using cfop .now what can I do to reduce time

@Ritumoni Sarkar, do you use F2L if not go to Feliks' tutorial tab and find the tutorial marked F2L also if you haven't learned OLL and/or PLL then go to 3x3 algs and download both PDFs and learn them if you are done with all of these then go into Feliks' Intermediate Cross and F2L and learn those  and if you are done with those then you then scroll all the way down on 3x3 algs and you should find F2L algs download the last two and work on those this should decrease your times with practice and time down to Sub 15 which is where I am at now you don't need to but if you are in the sub 20 range and can't seem to improve than go to Feliks' Advanced F2L tutorial and practice those techniques too which got me to Sub 12. Anyways TLDR Happy Cubing and Cheers.

... I am from China.I have learned some parts of CFOP.I known how to solve the F2L but i can't do it quickly.i usually finish it in 20s.How can i get faster?

Practice

But to be serious I did these things to get to sub 12:

1. Do unlimited inspection time solves so you can find the most efficient first pair this gives you more time to find your next pair.

2. Do slow solves this builds up your look ahead in which allows you to get to the next pair quicker.

3. Learn efficient algs to solve cases for F2L pairs quicker and drill these algs so they are muscle memory.

4. Watch Feliks' Intermediate Cross and F2L also.

I have several questions.  Sorry for the many questions.

I’ve been speed cubing for about 8 weeks now.  I’m trying to be disciplined in my progress, and want to develop good habits and focus on the right things at the right time.  I learned 4LLL, then full PLL, and now I’m working on efficient cross and F2L.  My finger tricks and look ahead are almost all what have naturally emerged.  I hope to focus on those after I have my F2L game significantly more efficient.  I’ve timed a couple ~45 second solves, but I haven’t been timing since I started learning full PLL, and I’m sure I’ve done some solve much faster than my ~45 second solves.

I notice you often use R U R’ simple inserts.  I think you’ve recommended those over inserts with F moves, perhaps except sledge.  I often do R’ F R F’, especially when coming out of F2L case 3.  I feel like this is faster, than doing the U (R U R’) in this case, especially because I can just over-rotate the R’ without slowing down. I only do this in front slots.  It’s an awkward move in the back, so I stick with the simple insert for the back slots.  What’s your advice here?

I notice you tend to rotate before doing a simple insert with R U R’.  I wonder if avoiding the y and doing F U F’ is faster.  I’ve been doing the F moves with my thumb to keep from having to switch my grip for the pointer finger F.  Is this a bad habit that will slow me down later?  If so, tricks for fast rotations might be a good video suggestion.

I’ve begun collecting and testing multiple models of cubes.  It’s surprising how different the hardware feels.  I tend not prefer a cube that is not sloppy-loose.  My GAN Air SM came super lose.  I switched to the yellow springs, and it’s much better, but I might still want it to be a little tighter.  How do you prefer your’s configured?

I had figue out a new ways to solve the third layers of rubik's3x3x3!Are you interesting on it?

I hope you can reply me!

@Adam Fenn sledgehammer is okay to use but I tried this doing the execution 100 times for U R U' R' and Sledge it terms of speed U R U' R' is faster and also really easy to transition to for Sledge your hands usually end up in a bad position to move on to the next pair so unless you are using a specific advanced F2L alg or at the end of your F2L stage use U R U' R'. For the next question the answer is similar unless you are on your last pair or performing a F2L alg it is recommended you use y R U' R'. Feliks uses medium tension with yellow nuts but it is still unknown if he is still using the SM or is using the 354 yet. For color neutrality don't practice with only white it is harder to transfer to color neutrality then if you don't want to commit then do dual neutrality with yellow. For your grip put both middle fingers on half of the cube's center cap this way you still have half of your grip on the cube. The last question confuses me do you mean D and D' or B and B' if D then most likely you are talking about keyhole you use the necessary move for certain situations. E.g. if you have a edge or corner in spot with unsolved slots also say you are facing red and the blue is on the right and the corner is correctly in the slot the edge has red facing up in this case D' or D and insert it normally but if blue was facing up you would use u and insert it on the left or u' and insert it on the back.it is the same thing if the case was flipped except that it is a corner you might have to experiment for this one. Also B stands for back not bottom D stands down as in down level.

@Eunice Yeoh if you haven't learned full PLL memorize this https://cubeskills.com/uploads/pdf/tutorials/pll-algorithms.pdf

If you haven't learned full OLL memorize this https://cubeskills.com/uploads/pdf/tutorials/oll-algorithms.pdf

If you memorized this then do these over and over again until you can do them quickly. Then look at the tutorial tab with 3x3 algs

Thanks for the help William! :)

@Adam, here are my responses to those questions.

Natural fingertricks and lookahead can be okay, but it's important to keep in mind that there will probably be things that you'll need to fix along the way. If you notice a particularly awkward fingertrick that you're doing, there's probably a better way to do it.

R U R'/L U L' etc are simple, but my advice for your second example is to do U R U' R' as opposed to R' F R F', in most situations. If you're starting with your thumbs on the front of the cube (ie a neutral grip), you should be able to do U R U' R' without regripping the cube at all, and just using your index fingers for the U and U' moves. Also, it means that you won't tilt the cube at all, therefore making lookahead slightly easier. People often tilt the cube slightly forward when executing R' F R F', and also regrip the cube in order to execute it. I'm not sure if you are or aren't doing that right now, but in summary, U R U' R' is the way to go. Also, R' F R F' requires the F2L pair to be in the front-right position, whereas if the pair is in one of the other 3 positions (ie a U, U' or U2 away), then doing U2/U'/no move into R U' R' will be more move-efficient.

I would suggest avoiding F U F' - as you say, it's pretty awkward to execute. Not many people use this at all. Rotating also allows you to choose where you insert the pair (ie back-left, or front-right).

My main cube setup is pretty simple - just yellow nuts, medium tensions, and a few drops of Traxxas 50k on the pieces. Nothing fancy at all.

If you plan to commit (which I would recommend), then the best idea is to just completely switch right now. Make all solves from now on colour neutral solves. There might be some teething issues, but hopefully it won't take too long if you've only been cubing for a couple of months.

U2' is a matter of adjusting your grip. When you take off your left middle finger (which is a key finger in gripping the cube), it might be worth gripping a little bit harder with your right hand in order to keep the cube stable, and with your left ring finger. One exercise to improve this is to do them one-handed. Don't use your right hand at all, and see if you can do U2' with only your left hand, using the pinky, thumb, and ring finger to grip the cube and hold it steady.

I'm guessing you mean D moves, not B moves. Wide U moves are also fine - the one disadvantage of that is that it might make looking ahead to the first F2L pair slightly more difficult, because you're moving the top layer either 90 or 180 degrees. For now, I don't think it will make a huge difference to your times, but I would recommend practicing with D moves a little bit just to make sure you become comfortable with the fingertricks for them.

Cheers,

Feliks

Thanks!  I did mean wide U moves.  I'm glad I asked.  I have some changes to make.

No problem Feliks just trying to help.

Do you have any advice for keeping up with multiple events? I started doing 5x5 and megamynx a little while ago and it’s hard to keep improving at other events if I practice them too much. Also if I average 12-13 seconds on 3x3, what should I average on 4x4, 5x5, one handed, and megamynx?

You should average sub 35-40 on 4x4 But for 5x5 it is hard to tell because  a lot of it is making it into a 3x3 stage but I would have to say if you are efficient you should be around sub 1 with time and effort. For OH you should average sub 30 and for megaminx it would be around sub 60-50

I average around 54 seconds on 4x4, 23-4 seconds OH, sub two 5x5 and 2:20 on megamynx so I guess I have a little while to go! :)

hey, I have just started to learn cubing a week ago and my average id around 1 minute 20 second and I use a yuxin little magic. is it necessary to use a magnetic cube to get faster and which type of lube should I use in yuxin little magic since I am a beginner I don't know much about lubes, so which lube would you prefer Feliks?

You don't need magnets until around the 30 second range where turning speed really matters in which with no magnets is hard to control. In terms of lubes Feliks usually uses Traxxas 50k or DNM 37 I personally prefer the Angstrom lubes from the TheCubicle.us in which include Gravitas, Dignitas, Lubicle Black, DNM 37, Coumpound V, and Compound X.

Magnets are a cool luxury to have, but you shouldn't depend entirely on them when you're faster

i want to be sub 40 but I'm not. how do i fix this? my turning is kind of slow. i have a lot of pauses. can you help me please? should i learn f2l or ll first? thanx for the help!

f2l or LL

also feliks i want to be fast just like you one day, you've inspired me!

have a nice day. :)

魔方

Hi Feliks

I am the 8 years old boy from Malaysia, your fan, meet you in a competition. I learned from your tutorials on Big Cubes. It has help me to improve my speed on 7 by 7 cube about 1 minutes. It took me less than a week to reach sub 6 minutes on average. Thank you Mr. Feliks.

I am currently following the Asian Championship competition in Taiwan (view @ www.cubecomps.com)

Have fun!

Your Fan, Jia You

Learning LL has a quicker effect on your times much more especially PLL but overall F2L will have the greater effect on your solves because it makes up almost half of your solves.

thanks!!!!

should i learn all the algs for f2l? or find them intuitively? what should i do to learn f2l?

have a nice day

:)

how do i lube my gans correctly?

have a nice day

:)

feliks i enjoy watching your youtube channel, it's so interesting, and fun, and extremely cool.

good luck at your next comp!

have a great day

:)

I recommend you learn the 3 basic cases and then learn the rest when you have reached around sub 20 or 30 and don't think of f2l algorithmically it is intuitive so when you do an F2L algorithms just don't execute it look at how the pair is affected before inserting the pair. Usually you lube the cube based on the type of lube it is heavier lubes are on the tracks I believe. Medium weight lubes are on the pieces itself and water based lubes are simply put in drops in which can be shown in this video by Gan:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9BaHZ_2Ts

Core lubes are simply done on the screw is.

the only lube i have is cubelube. can i use that?

thanks

have a great day

:)

i officials know 10 out of 21 pll cases!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy!!!!! only 11 to go!!!!! i know the u perms, the z and h perms, the aa perm, the e perm,the t perm, the j perms, and the y perm!!!!!

tomorrow ill know the ab perm as well!!!!!

have a great day

:)

what cube lube should i buy?

have a nice day

:)

what city do you live in, william yang? just a question

It's okay but if you want to get better lube I recommend you buy Traxxas 50k the easiest to find and DNM 37 on theCubicle.us as for ab perm it is the exact opposite of aa perm so all you have to do is aa perm backwards as for what city I live in I don't feel comfortable saying the city but I will say that I live in New Jersey

thnx!!!!

have a great day

:)

how much lube do i put?

how can i improve my pll recognition. also i live in washington state.

feliks, why are you making us PAY for SOLVE CRITIQUES? i feel EVERYONE should get them, not just premium members. I'm JUST saying how i FEEL about this.

have a GREAT day!!!

:)

how can i break sub 40?

have a great day

:)

Watch this video for lubing a cube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9BaHZ_2Ts

Improve your PLL recognition by looking for a unique pattern about certain PLL that allows you to know it's that specific PLL e.g. H perm has opposite color headlights on all sides and ua perm only has it on one. 

I think the solve critiques are necessary also because for me I learned a lot from Feliks' tutorials but I didn't know what I was doing wrong I found out what I was doing wrong by someone better than me watching me solve and then telling me or have someone record me solving in slow motion so I can watch it myself.

Sub 40 can easily be achieved by learning you PLLs and getting efficient and quicker with F2L.

how many drops of lube do i need

have a great day

:)

how should i work on my f2l?

how can i improve my 2 sided pll recognition?

should i lube my RUBIKS BRAND 2x2?

how can i eliminate my pauses? and improve lookahead?

have a GREAT day

:)

It's in the video but it's 1-2 drops per layer (lwft-right)

For F2L watch Feliks' tutorial on intermediate cross and F2L

2 sided PLL is the same look for unique patterns in the PLL

Don't feel comfortable saying that

It's actually quite good I averaged sub 10 using Ortega method with Maru lube

Improve you lookahead by doing slow solves and slowly speeding up

where do i put the lub?
:)

sorry about all the lube questions, I've never lubed a cube.

i can't open my 2x2 enough to lube it

:'(

Put the lube inside the cube

where on the inside though what part of the piece inside the cube?

the back the front where on the inside?

Watch the video it's all in there just do the same thing as the video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9BaHZ_2Ts

can i expect a faster cube immediately?

what should my splits be for sub 40 william? just want to know.

That is entirely based on the cube some cubes take a long time to break in some take quick amount of time this is also based on the lube and the amount the heavier and he more lube there is longer the longer it takes to break in.

Cross: 3-5

F2L: 15-20

OLL: 10

PLL: 5

thanks

have a great day

:)

how can i achieve those splits?

my splits are

cross~10 seconds

F2L~25 seconds

OLL~5 seconds

PLL~5 seconds

how can i memorize the f perm?

and my F2L~35 seconds

Watch Feliks' Intermediate Cross and F2L tutorial this should be good to improve your F2L and cross down to the time stamps above.

Unfortunately I can't really tell you how to memorize algs except to take the PLL and split it into groups you can memorize I recommend 3-4 moves at a time.

Also my time stamps are:

Cross:1-2

F2L:4-6

OLL:1-2

PLL:1-2

the f perm all I'm learning is: R'URU'R2y'R'U'RUyxRUR'U'R2xU', should i change that?

Are you using Feliks' PLL sheet because he has the most used PLL algs which can be found in 3x3 algorithms.

https://cubeskills.com/uploads/pdf/tutorials/pll-algorithms.pdf

how do i lube a 4x4 and a 5x5 cube.

Lube 4x4s and 5x5s similar to 3x3 add a drop or two of lube in each layer from left to right.

so inner and outer layers? or just inner layer? or just outer layers?

back to splits, i think thereupon I'm not sub 40 yet is because i don't turn very fast, and i have a lot of pauses. is that a lost cause, or can you helpmeet with that?

im not sub 40 yet would it be a good or bad idea to go to a competitions.

Go to a competition if you want to meet other cubers and have fun

thanks.

Both

For turning speed it is not that the pauses take a lot of your time so slowing you turning speed at the point where you can go through F2L with no pauses at this point keep practicing at this rate until you can do it without looking at the piece you are solving and then speed up and keep going at that speed until you can go through without looking at the pair your solving keep doing this until you are going at a speed you are satisfied with then go through Feliks' Advanced F2L algs but look at what you are doing because most of the F2L cases are just a more efficient way to set up for one of the main cases.

In terms of comps go to comps so you can just enjoy it and get along with the community it is very unlikely you will win unless you are sub 20 at the very least but comps are mostly social gatherings sure it would be nice to win but getting to know new people is better.

can you give me a scramble to solve please?

oh and thanks.

whats your 4x4 and 5x5 averages?

I average sub 35 for 4x4 and sub 1 for 5x5

U2 B2 F2 R2 D' F2 R2 U B2 D' F L2 B' D' U R' U2 L2 D B' 

my averages are 4x4 4 min, 5x5 20min

yellow

cross:BR'FLF

yellow,blue,orange pair:RUR'U'RU'R'U'RUR'U'RUR'U'RU2R'F'LFL'

yellow,blue,red pair:y2U'L'U'LURU'R'

yellow,green,orange pair:y2L'ULF'LFL'

yellow,green,red pair:yL'ULU'L'U2LU2L'U'L

2look OLL:U2FURU'R'F' RU2R2U'R2U'R2U2R

1look PLL:R2URUR'U'R'U'R'UR'U'

whats your solution?

when I'm not doing slow solves how can i increase my tps? i can't do a h perm in under 2 seconds! XD

H perms are pretty rare anyway so it doesn’t matter that much

what can i do to increase my turning speed?!?!

That's the thing you can't suddenly increase your TPS you need to make sure you get used to the amount of time you have to look for your next pair at a certain TPS then you slowly speed up don't think of slow solves as slow solves think of them as your actual solves if you can solve the cube without pauses at all then increase your TPS do this till you get to the point where you can't seem to lookahead good enough to have no pauses this is the point where you should practice.

what is your solution to your scramble, just to help me learn.

and while you're at it could you give me another scramble?

U2 R U2 F2 R' U2 F2 R' B2 D2 F2 U' L B2 U2 R U F L' U' 

whats your solution to, U2B2F2R2D'F2R2UB2D'FL2B'D'URU2L2DB?

Inspection: y

Cross: R' F' L B L

Green + Orange: L' U2 L y U2 R' U' R

Orange + Blue: U L' U' L y' R' U2 R

Red + Blue: R' U2 R U' R U2 R'

Red + Green: U R U2 R' U' R U R'

OLL: U r U' r2 U r2 U r2 U' r

PLL: R U' R' U' R U R D R' U' R D' R' U2 R' U

11.386

my solution is 

cross:FU'RF2x2FUL'F'LF'L'

pair 1 white,red,blue:yL'U'L

pair 2 white,blue,orange:y2L'U2LUL'U2LU2L'U'L

pair 3 white,green,orange:yUL'U2Ld'L'U'L'

pair 3 white,green,red:y2RUR'd'U'L'U'LUFU'F'

2 look OLL:U'F'U'RUF'U anti-sune

1 look PLL:UR2U'RU'RUR'UR2D'URU'R'DU'

whats your solution?

TPS 5.44

could you give me a new scramble first thing in the morning?

thnx

Inspection: z2

Cross: F' R' U2 L2 D'

Red + Blue: U L U L' U L U' L'

Red + Green: U2 R U' R' y' U' R U2 R'

Green + Orange: R' U R U R' U R U' R' U R

Blue + Orange: U' L U L' y' U L' U' L

OLL: f (R U R' U') f' U F (R U R' U') F'

PLL: U2 (R U' R' U') (R U R D) (R' U' R D') (R' U2 R') U2

10.284

Sure

thnx, this is really helping me out.

If you want you can send me your email and we'll exchange phone numbers so that I can give you tips and scrambles everyday

im using my moms account, so... yeah i can't sorry :(

and i don't have a phone. :((

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im weired ok.

I'm only 14!!!!!!!! :(

No problem

can you still help me with scrambles, and solves?

another way to do anti-sune hold the fish with the head on the front left up face, and do:L'URU'RUR', its almost just as fast for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good I'm my opinion, you should try it, at least once.

Solve critiques

cross:BR'FLF

Cross is not too efficient especially because of the moves used people tend to feel more comfortable using L R U D moves so I recommend to stay away from using any in your solves unless it is absolutely necessary.

yellow,blue,orange pair:RUR'U'RU'R'U'RUR'U'RUR'U'RU2R'F'LFL'

Lots of useless moves that can shrunken down to a more efficient solution generally try to keep your move count down to 10 or less per pair what I can guess is that you are going at to high of a TPS to even remotely see what you are doing so slow down more and relax a lot of people get pressured by the clock it is actually moving quite slow. Also the F is unnecessary most cases during F2L you should rotate and insert the pair unless it is a specific alg.

yellow,blue,red pair:y2U'L'U'LURU'R'

Much better on the pair but I recommend to not do too many y2 do to the fact you have to regrip twice keep it at a much shorter solution.

yellow,green,orange pair:y2L'ULF'LFL'

Good solution but the y2 was unnecessary and you could have rotated once and solved it with your right or left hand.

yellow,green,red pair:yL'ULU'L'U2LU2L'U'L

Once again some inefficient turning from high TPS slow it down a bit.

2look OLL:U2FURU'R'F' RU2R2U'R2U'R2U2R

1look PLL:R2URUR'U'R'U'R'UR'U'

i just did a slow solve and i got 54.711 seconds, with a few pauses! my pb is 36.227 seconds, achieved today!

these are singles by the way.

thanks for the critiques. could you do them for all solves? thanks!

cross:FU'RF2x2FUL'F'LF'L'

Very inefficient cross all crosses should be within 8 moves unless sit is a x cross recommend F' R' U2 L2 D' per my solution because it uses no hard moves to execute.

pair 1 white,red,blue:yL'U'L

Easy first pair.

pair 2 white,blue,orange:y2L'U2LUL'U2LU2L'U'L

Lots of useless turning again and also a y2 in which I would have just insert the pair into the back slot

pair 3 white,green,orange:yUL'U2Ld'L'U'L'

Good 

pair 3 white,green,red:y2RUR'd'U'L'U'LUFU'F'

I guess it's okay but I don't recommend the F insert and don't like the many rotations used. 

2 look OLL:U'F'U'RUF'U anti-sune

1 look PLL:UR2U'RU'RUR'UR2D'URU'R'DU'

how can i work on look ahead, i get the basics, but how can i improve look ahead?

You Got 10 / 10 Correct

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im so happy!

Solving the cube slower and speeding up little by little and get to your limit e.g. say you start at a certain TPS if you can get through the entire solve without lockups or pauses then you are at  a too slow of a speed you then speed up a little more if you experience pauses then slow down your speed at some point you will find a midfield where you get pauses but not too much time is lost this is where you practice eventually you'll develop muscle memory and subconsciously solve the pair because you think of the solution immediately in your head and you can look around the cube for your next pair this is how I improved my TPS and lookahead.

thanks

 i only have to learn 6 PLL algorithms! when should i learn OLL?

when should i learn intermediate F2L?

your help is extremely appreciated!!!!

Learn Intermediate now and also start OLL it doesn't have as much effect on your times as PLL does but still does effect the time

thnx

what are the intermediate algorithms? and where can i learn them?

Learn Intermediate now and also start OLL it doesn't have as much effect on your times as PLL does but still does effect the time

https://cubeskills.com/uploads/pdf/tutorials/f2l-algorithms-different-slot-positions.pdf

These are advanced algs there are no intermediate algs watch Feliks' Intermediate Cross and F2L video.

Also scramble: B' R2 U2 B' F' R2 D2 B D' L' B' R D B U F L B2 F' 

Inspection: z2 x'

Cross: D M' B D' L2 D2

Blue + Orange: y' U' L U2 L'

Blue + Red: u' U R U' R' u

Green + Red: R' U R U' R U2 R' U R U' R2

Green + Orange: U R

OLL: r U R' U' r' F R F'

PLL: M2 U M' U2 M U M2 U'

Btw for normal solves don't slow down your OLL or PLL only things to slow down are F2L and sometimes cross

don't tell me your solution before i tell you mine, it doesn't help!!!!

how can i work on not looking at the pieces I'm currently working on?

Ok then here's another one:

L2 F' U' D' R' B' U2 R' F L D2 F2 L2 F' U2 L2 F U2 D2 F2 L2 

Look at the piece and solve it constantly do this unlit you can do it instinctively and not think about it to do it eventually you'll get to a point where you don't have to think how to solve the pair and just do it while you look for the next one.

i wasn't trying to be mean. I'm sorry.

my solution for the first scramble is

inspection: nothing

white cross: R' F' L' R U'

white,orange,blue pair: x2 U2 L' U2 L U2 L' U' L

white,red,blue pair: y R U' R' L' U' L y' R U2 R' U2 R U R'

white,green,red pair:R' U R U' y R U' R'

white,green,orange pair:y2 U L' U' L F' L F L'

2 look OLL: U' F U' R U R' F'   U2 L' U R U' L U R'

PLL: U2 l U' R D2 R' U R D2 R2 U2

Do you know how to scramble a cube

You have to keep the white on top and green in front

my solution for new scramble is

inspection: x

blue cross: F2 R B' R D L F L'

blue,yellow,orange pair: y R U2 R' y' R U2 R' L F L' F'

blue,yellow,red pair: U R U' R' U' R U R' U'F R' F' R

blue,white,red pair: y2 U R U' R' L' U L

blue,white,orange pair: R U2 R' d' U' L' U2 L y (R U R' U') x3 

1 look OLL:F' R U' R' U' R u R' F'

AUF: U

thats what i did!!!! i scramble the cube all the time!!!!

the first solution is the one you gave me then gave me your solution before me!

how can i contact feliks?

just so you know, i do 3 moves on my cube, then type them on the computer. if i do more than 5 moves i forget 1! for the x i had to imagine it as an e perm to know what an x was :'( .

No if that were true then you would need to do a z2 or a x2 in inspection not nothing

I think you have to use this link.

https://cubeskills.com/contact

i want to be Feliks' friend.

solve critiques, new scramble?

i solved cross on top. XD

Okay immediate tip solve the cross from the bottom so you don't have to rotate to solve and can go right into it.

i usually do that, i was being stupid.

Entire solution wrong

White cross: R' F' L' R U' 

Not complete add U2 R' U2

white,orange,blue pair: x2 U2 L' U2 L U2 L' U' L

Don't know what is going on here solution is U' L U L' y' R U' R'

white,red,blue pair: y R U' R' L' U' L y' R U2 R' U2 R U R'

white,green,red pair:R' U R U' y R U' R'

white,green,orange pair:y2 U L' U' L F' L F L'

2 look OLL: U' F U' R U R' F'   U2 L' U R U' L U R'

PLL: U2 l U' R D2 R' U R D2 R2 U2

Second one wrong also but Ill critique

thnx.

blue cross: F2 R B' R D L F L'

Add F2 btw for inspection x is a R move for the entire cube not a R' you bring the cross to the top with X

blue,yellow,orange pair: y R U2 R' y' R U2 R' L F L' F'

R' U2 R

blue,yellow,red pair: U R U' R' U' R U R' U'F R' F' R

blue,white,red pair: y2 U R U' R' L' U L

blue,white,orange pair: R U2 R' d' U' L' U2 L y (R U R' U') x3 

1 look OLL:F' R U' R' U' R u R' F'

AUF: U

Things I noticed lots of random and useless turning I told you keep you TPS down this is especially keeping you back.

Take out the F moves from F2L they don't help you at all.

Solve cross on bottom no matter what.

You are messing up on your turns study and remember what it does R is bringing the right layer up not down for example.

Until you fix your turning problem I can't critiques properly because the solution may be wrong or what you wrote down may be wrong to make sure this doesn't happen once you are done writing the solution down try it out see if it works fix it along the way.

Try it with this scramble.

D2 F D2 B L2 R2 D2 F2 U2 B U' B2 D2 F' L' F R' U' L U' 

Also send me your correct solution for your other solves.

ok

sorry about not responding right away, I'm going into 8th grade on tuesday and were getting ready this weekend

i don't know my rotations or slice moves ok? I'm sorry.

In working on my OLLs, I notice P3 - 43 is y R' U' F' U F R.  Why do the y, rather than than just a U?  The re-grip needed for a y seems much slower than just a U.

I’ve also been working on color neutrality, doing every solve with color neutrality.  I'd like to confirm the process I'm using during inspection is optimal.  I often look for sides with at least one edge already aligned, which seems to be there most of the time.  I’d like to look at the incorrectly placed edges before selecting a side, but I’m not that fast yet.  Then I look at the cube, and orient myself to the colors of the remaining colors, by looking at the colors of the centers, starting with the color of the edge that is already aligned, and moving clockwise around the cube.  Then I have the edge locations memorized, and I start looking for where they are now, so I an prep myself to a quick cross solve.  This is still taking me more time than when I was always working with white on the bottom and red in the front, but it’s getting faster.  Is this the right mental sequence, or is there a better process for picking a side and orienting myself?

I'm already really good with color neutrality, I've almost learnt full PLL.

my solution is

inspection:x'

green cross: R U B2 U2 L' U L'

green,yellow,orange pair: L U2 L' d L' U2 L

green,white,red pair: R U' R2 U R

green,yellow,red pair:U L U' L' (yellow to front) L' U2 L U2 L' U' L

green,white,orange pair:y(orange to front) R U2 R' R U2 R' U2 (white to front) L' U2 L (left sexy)x3

full OLL:U2 x' D R2 U' R' U R' D x

full PLL: U2 R' U2 R U2 R' F (sexy) R' F' R2

was that a good solve?

whats your solution to the last 2 scrambles?

Solve Critiques from strangers without credibility in the comments? Say what??? :\

it helps me learn!!!! :)

new scramble. please, or 2?

look for the cross color you want to do, then find the pieces, if its ideal do that color, if not find another, it really helps me out when working on color neutrality, try untimed inspection, then add inspection when you feel necessary.

if the best color is white do white, just do the easiest cross you can find.

cuberious the speedcuber william gives me a scramble, i solve it and he tells me his solution, and critiques it.

i want to get faster at pyraminx, what can i do to get faster at pyraminx?

If you know how to solve it then go into keyhole method this will shorten your times a lot.

Here are two scrambles for today I'll write out the ones for yesterday also 

1. F' R' L2 U2 D R U R' B D R U2 L' F2 D2 L' U2 D2 L F2 

2. L' U2 R U2 R F2 U2 R2 D2 F2 D2 B' D L' B U F' L F R' 

Inspection: X2

Cross: F' U D' F' R' L B' D2

Green +Orange: y U' R' U' R

Blue+Orange: U2 L U L' U L U' L' 

Blue Red: U2 L' U L y' R U2 R2

Green Red:R' U R U R' U' R U R' U2 R

OLL: U2 R U R' U R' F R F' R U2 R'

PLL: R2 U' R U' R U R' U R2 U D' R U' R' D

Inspection: X2

Cross: R' U2 F L F

Green Orange: U y R' U' R

Blue Orange: R U R' U R' U R

Green Red: U2 L' U L R U' R'

Blue Red: L' U2 L U' y L U L'

OLL: R U2 R' U' R U' R'

PLL: R' U R' U' y R' F' R2 U' R' U R' F R F U

I’m curious to see how my solutions are as I’ve never reconstructed a solve like this so I guess I’ll try these two.

Scramble 1:

Inspection: Z’ Y’

X-cross: L U’ L R2’ (D’ U’) R2

Second pair: U’ Y L U’ L’ U L U’ L’

Third pair: U L’ U’ L U L’ U’ L

Fourth pair: U R U R’ U’ R U R’

OLL: U’ R’ U’ F’ U F R

PLL: U (F R U’ R’ U’) (R U R’ F’) (R U R’ U’) (R’ F R F’) 

AUF: U2’

Scramble 2:

Inspection: X2

X-cross: F’ D F R’ r’ F r D

Second pair: L’ U2 L

Third pair: U’ Y R’ U R U R’ U R U’ R’ U R

Fourth pair: U2’ R U R’ U’ R U R’ U’ Y’ R’ U R

OLL: SKIP!

PLL: R2 U R’ U R’ U’ R U’ R2 (U’ D) R’ U R D’

I think these solutions are nice but please let me know if I could’ve done anything better.

Btw the two solves I did were not the solution for the ones I posted today they were from yesterday

I'm busy today, ill get you the scramble later today.

You guys should take this somewhere else.  It's harder to look for questions from people that actually need help.

I'd recommend creating a thread or something on the speedsolving forums

Benjamin you know you can make an email account because you are older than 13 so I recommend you make one so that as Cuberious said we can have space for the actual questions. 

my parents probably wouldn't let me

it helped while it lasted

:(

i have this massive pause halfway through my y perm, i regroup to the bottom to start the second OLL in the y perm. what can i do to fix this?here is what I'm doing.

F R U' R' U' R U R' F' regrip to bottom R U R' U' R' F R F'

that regrip takes a full half second to do. how do i fix this?

right before the regrip, i do the F' move with my right thumb, then i regrip

That's a little unusual schools now use email accounts at schools and rather they give you an account or they tell you to make one tell your parents that you need one for school if you need one.

can you help me with that y perm regrip.

Benjamin how did you create this CubeSkills account without an email?

i used my moms!

can you help me with my y perm situation?

Don't regrip if you just do a R after the F' with your  thumb then you can cancel out theat move through the R' and another one will let you transition to the F R F'

It's a very great. Thank you for help?

It's a very great. Thank you for help me

how do i transition from OLL case 37 to y perm quickly?

how do i plan my entire cross inspection?

When you do F R U R' U' don't do the F if you recognized the Y perm just do another sexy move and then do the F complete it afterwards.

Do unlimited inspection solves where you have no limit to your inspection time this will help you develop quicker recognition of a good cross and also starts to find simpler ways to think of the cross a good way to practice would also be plan out the cross as long as you want and then color your eyes solve the cross this will help you develop also 

Oops wrong alg so for the OLL do everything except the  R' F' and then if you recognize the case and so happens that it is in the right angle then do another U' R' U' R U R' and finish it with the F' in most cases otherwise you will have to finish in which there is a 2/3 chance that you will get a U' or U2 (not including the orientated state) if so don't regrip because you can go straight into the PLL after the U moves but make sure you lift your fingers off a little bit not too much but just enough to so that you can do the U'/U2 then do it and start y perm. if you get U then regrip.

how do i plan my entire cross inspection?

Hi Benjamin, 

I've deleted some of the unnecessary comments in this thread, to try and keep it as clean as possible. William posted a reply to your previous comment about crosses in inspection.

Also a note, please try not to post more than once in a row - I've noticed that you often make multiple comments to correct spelling errors.

Cheers! :)

Feliks

its not showing up!

william could you repeat your answer please, your original isn't showing up no matter what i do.

Do unlimited inspection solves where you have no limit to your inspection time this will help you develop quicker recognition of a good cross and also starts to find simpler ways to think of the cross a good way to practice would also be plan out the cross as long as you want and then color your eyes solve the cross this will help you develop also 

William, do you mean close your eyes not "color your eyes?"

Lol oops yes I don't read over too much doesn't matter you get the point.

thanks.

what v perm algorithm should i use? i can't remember the v perm for the life of me XD

i tried learning :R'UR'U'yR'F'R2U'R'UR'FRF

is there a better one for me to use?

never mind i found an easy v perm to recognize.

I'm almost done with full PLL! only 2 more algorithms to learn! the gb and gd perms!

I prefer that alg but don't ask others for other algs because each person has their own preference for algs I recommend if you are not satisfied with your current alg then to go on algdb.net this has multiple algorithms for the same PLL/ OLL

when my slow solves speed up how do i increase my turning speed?

This is entirely based on how far you go on your slow solves if you can do it without looking at the pair you are solving then you can speed up by this I mean that go faster at a speed where it is noticably faster but not too fast that your lookahead goes out the window and you have pauses again you can tell based if you increased your speed too much by doing an untimed solve and timing how long it takes for you to find the next pair (Recommended that you find a friend or family to time you) if the pause is longer than around high 2 to 3 seconds than you are going too quickly. If you are going too slow you will notice that you can find the next pair while your solving a pair then you increased too little. The time will be around 1-2 second pause this means you found a good speed to practice at.

im planing on going to idaho speed cubing 2018 comp!

I'm planning on 3x3 2x2 4x4 5x5 3x3oh pyraminx megaminx and maybe skewb, i don't own a scewb but if mom gets me one ill learn to solve it, and compete at a competition.

how do you hold a megaminx when scrambling

megaminx and pyraminx that is.

Pretty much hold the layer you aren't turning with your left hand and turn with you right

what colors on top and front

what are some intermediate megaminx algorithms

You start with white on top and green on front but that won't be at the end of the scramble

https://cubeskills.com/uploads/pdf/tutorials/intermediate-megaminx-techniques.pdf

4 look last layer

thanks

if i can go to idaho spudcubing 2018, it'll be my first comp. ill give more info when its announced that i can go, and ask for advise.

for an Ao5 of sub40, what time do i need to get if my times are:1:09.426,38.296,46.161, and 50.053?

what should my last solve time be to get a sub 40 Ao5?

I'm trying to find an efficient way of doing a solve.

the scramble is:FRUBD2L2R2DF2U2R2F2U'R'FRF'RUR'

my solution is:

cross:BU'LF2B'RBD2 8moves

pair 1:U'L'UL 4moves

pair 2:yL'ULR'U'R 7moves

pair 3:UFUF' 4moves

pair 4:RU'R'U'F'UFURU'R' 11moves

OLL:U'FURU'R'F' F'rUR'U'L'Ul 17moves

PLL:UR'UL'U2RU'R'U2RL 11moves

AUF:U' 1move

total moves:63

how do I shorten the solve, whats your solution?

It's impossible because even if you get a PB solve since it is a limited average that time will be removed from the average and you will be left with the 38.296,46.161,50.053

Leaving you with a 43.837

my new pb is 28.003!!!!!!!!!

for an Ao5 of sub40, what time do i need to get if my times are:41.886,30.545,45.002,49.660?

At least a 32 or a  very low 33

is it ever too early or too late to learn look ahead. when is a proper time frame to really start learning look ahead?

As soon as possible

what about the solution above

my mom has a QiYi 2x2 and a YuXin black skews on order.

for an Ao5 of sub40, what time do i need to get if my times are:41.886,30.545,45.002,49.660?

It has to be a time lower than 33.112

what is my TPS if my y perm takes 2.697 seconds?

4.08

what about the solve above? can you help me on that really quickly

how fast would my time be if i did a 63 move solve at a 4.8 TPS without pauses?

what would my splits be if

cross was 8moves

F2L was 16moves

OLL was 17moves

PLL was 11moves

and AUF was 1move

You would get 13.125 seconds

Splits:

Cross:1-2

F2L: 3-4

OLL:3-4

PLL:2-3

can you help me with the scramble above please?

i have been waiting patiently, can you help me or not?

are you answering else where, if so please give me a link to where your answering my solve question.

Well Benjamin this is becoming a bit excessive I have tried to help you with smaller questions but when the question is longer I don't have as much time to work on it. I do have other things to do  other than this and it's not like time magically appears from nowhere just so I can help you. I will get to it but I have other things I have to do before this so please when you ask just know that I noticed it and I am working on it as much as possible.

Here is the solve you so graciously asked for:

Inspection: z y'

Cross: U' R' F U' L2 D

1st: U' R' U R y L U L'

2nd: y U' L U L' y' R' U2 R

3rd: U2 R U R' U y' R' U' R

4th: U' R U R' U y L' U' L

OLL: R' U' F' U F R

PLL: U' D' R U R' U' D R2 U' R U' R' U R' U R2 U2

sorry, i was waiting for a day or 2 for an answer.

Umm...the scramble is: F R U B D2 L2 R2 D F2 U2 R2 F2 U' R' F R F' R U R'.

i put it in the reconstruction place, it didn't solve the cube, it only solved the cross.

never mind it didn't even solve the cross. Did you use the right notation, not doubting you but it didn't work.

i just tried your solution with notation next to me, it still didn't work.

Change the R' to R it showed up on my screen as R

At the end

Inspection: z y'

Cross: U' R' F U' L2 D

1st: U' R' U R y L U L'

2nd: y U' L U L' y' R' U2 R

3rd: U2 R U R' U y' R' U' R

4th: U' R U R' U y L' U' L

OLL: R' U' F' U F R

PLL: U' D' R U R' U' D R2 U' R U' R' U R' U R2 U2

where?

No the end of the scramblr

i want the scramble to be F R U B D2 L2 R2 D F2 U2 R2 F2 U' R' F R F' R U R'.

sorry to be picky but i want it that way.

let me rephrase that thats how i have it in the reconstruction website.

Going out on a limb here but try this:

Inspection: z y'

Cross: U R' F U L2 D

1st: U' R' U R y L U L'

2nd: y U' L U L' y' R' U2 R

3rd: U2 R U R' U y' R' U' R

4th: U' R U R' U y L' U' L

OLL: R' U' F' U F R

PLL: U' D' R U R' U' D R2 U' R U' R' U R' U R2 U2

OK 

I can't plan entire cross in inspection. Should I go slow on cross and F2L or just F2L.

Didn't work out for the solve. Sorry.

F R U B D2 L2 R2 D F2 U2 R2 F2 U' R' F R F' R U R'?

Ok will work on it later go slow at the end of your cross so you can look for your first pair I recommend that you look for a cross where you can solve at least three edges after a while you will notice that you start to develop skills to shorten your cross also to improve planning out your entire cross do unlimited inspection time solves to develop your planning skills.

Thanks 

At a rubik's competition, do they tell you the scramble or not?

I don't know honestly I didn't need it

What is your main cube.

Mines is caught between the Angstrom Huanglong and Gan 354 it is based on the day and what I feel like using

1 my main is the GAN 356 Air Master.

2 Do you need to bring the stack mat and timer or just the cubes to the competitions.

One last thing. How long of a premium membership would I get with 20$?

remember the scramble?

No

2* month

Yes

How many competitions have you been to?

I really appreciate the help you give me.

thanks for answering my stupid questions.

:)

I think around 30-40 comps at this point (I've been going to them for 3 years)

I had a rubik's brand speed cube, I took the center caps off and called it a void cube.

I've never been to a competition before if I can go to Idaho Spudcubing, it'll be my first competition. I'm nervous now for something I might not even go to.

if intuitive F2L is teaching me to solve peices inefficiently is the next step to learn algorithms.

No even the algorithms are intuitive the algs you use now are just the basic three you will be able to solve with I got to sub 20 just with those algs I am sub 12 now with the new algs they are not inefficient they are just to start you off.

I'm working on it

I'm not talking about the basic F2L cases. I want to learn full F2L. The algorithms I'm using now are inefficient.

when solving a void cube is it normal to get 2 edges flipped around? it happens all the time to me. whats the parity algorithm?

I don't understand the question getting two edges flipped around is normal one edge is parity in which is impossible to get on a 3x3.

Here is full F2L (keep in mind you only have to learn the algs for one side and you can translate the rest):https://cubeskills.com/uploads/pdf/tutorials/f2l-algorithms-different-slot-positions.pdf

sorry to bug you but.................scramble.

I know, I already said this I don't have time to finish instantly I have to do a new solution because of the change in scramble so keep in mind that I am working on it and trying to post it as soon as possible.

I'm kinda stuck in a rut nowadays of like 20-21 seconds, with intuitive f2l 2-look OLL, and most of the PLLs I've learned. I'm wondering what the next step would be. Should i finish learning all of the PLLs? Should I just start learning OLL? The cube isn't a problem, I use the GAN 354. What do you think I should do next?

Finish PLL and then start OLL because you will see a lot of patterns within OLL that were in the PLLs you executed. I also recommend you do slow solvesso that your lookahead improves more and more and start speeding up when you can go through F2L with no pauses. Also since you have the Gan 354 try out different nuts I got sub 20 averages after switching my yellow nuts to green.

how should i learn OLL?

@benjamin, here's an link to an OLL trainer that I find very helpful for drilling OLL recognition & recall.  http://bestsiteever.ru/oll/

scramble? 

is ot a good idea to lube a cube with water, because i just took a shower with my cube. :/

was it a relief not having me ask questions?(forced laugh)

when I'm learning the F2L algorithms, if i do them over and over again will it cycle through.

Once again stop asking I didn't post it yet because I didn't finish it if this continues I may just stop because I have my own things I have to do Ill answer questions but I won't be able to do reconstructions

Inspection: z' x y2

Cross: U' L D2 y R' L'

1st: L' U L y' U' L' U L

2nd: R' U' R y L' U L

3rd: U' R U2 R' y U R U' R'

4th: U L' U L U2 y' R U R'

OLL: U R' U' (R' F R F') U R

PLL: R2 U (R' U R' U') (R U' R2) D U' (R' U R D') U

sorry to bother you

:(

No

You experiment something you can do also don't ask me for that

ok.

Benjamin, don't lube your cube with water. I tried it with one of my old cubes, and after a bit, the performance was worse than it was before I watered my cube. I think you should just buy a 10cc Bottle of Martian.

ok

@Feliks Zemdegs how do you become sub-35 for everything before 3-2-3 edges? My 3-2-3 edges are like 15 seconds and 3x3 is like 20. 

william, what is a good move count for 2x2?

Don't worry about move count. It's about speed of recognition/execution

i solved a virtual 6x6 because i don't have a 6x6. i feel good.

For first layer it is 5 at the most and then the EG/CLL after

How train f2l max effective

I'm from China.Well,I'm sub30 now.And I think OLL algs are so many!How can I remember them?

I think the best way to learn OLL is to split them into 3 sections. Easy, annoying, and random. Easy cases could be algs like (R U R' U') (R' F R F'). Annoying cases are cases you get a lot, but you don't know the algs for. And random cases are just random. BrodytheCuber's video is I think one of the more helpful ones. Hope this helps, J.Z!

J.Z.  I'm just finishing my initial memorization of the the last few OLLs today.  I pretty much started at the top of the OLL pdf file.  I did skip forward when I found two that were mirrors of each other, so I can quickly work them forward and backwards.  I'd learn a couple new ones, and get the movement so it was ok, and I could do it without looking at the document.  Then I'd use the OLL trainer to cement the recognition.  As I became more familiar with some OLLs, I'd remove those from the OLL trainer, and just work on the ones I was still having more trouble with.  

what is the cheapest 6x6 on the market and whats its price?

Benjamin, you should be able to look that information up, very easily, at any time, on a site like thecubicle.com.

That question seems very off topic for this blog.

skewb notation help please.

Well actually it is not because better hardware does in fact have to do with speed and in terms of budget getting a normal shadow isn't all too bad if you have to you can buy the aoshi also.

http://www.kungfoomanchu.com/guides/andy-klise-skewb-beginner.pdf Skewb

Learn the dot cases last. Obviously. 

Jacob, are you talking to me?

i still haven't broken the sub 40 barrier. how could i do that?

Sub40?

If you do OLL in 3 or more steps (continuously doing the sune for corner orientation), definitely learn 2-look OLL, which is only 6 more algs.

If you do PLL in 3 or more steps (Don't know diagonal corner swap, don't know Z or H perm), learn Z, H, T, and Y perms.

Try and aim to reach the following cutoffs:

CROSS: 8 seconds

F2L: 15 seconds

OLL: 8 seconds

PLL: 8 seconds

Then to get sub-30 do this

CROSS: 7 seconds (at most 12 moves (optimal 8 moves))

F2L: 12 seconds (2.5 seconds per pair)

OLL: 5 seconds (2-look, maybe know 2-3 individual algs)

PLL: 5 seconds (At least 14/21 algs learned)

I've almost learned full all. my problem is my TPS, and pauses,oh so many pauses.

what wold be a good ao_ to find weather your sub ___?

Adam, just to correct you, it's thecubicle.us, not thecubicle.com

what wold be a good ao_ to find weather your sub ___?

My problem is f2l, averaging 20-25 seconds.

Same, Isrrael, especially finding the first pair. Will need to drill it more.

F2L isn't something you can drill sure you can drill the algs but not the lookahead for lookahead you have to slow down and not go as fast as possible.

Yep, I'm doing metronome exercises to improve my lookahead, I'm also trying to practice rotationless pairing/inserting, plus efficiency (move counts). Have a lot of work to do for F2L.

are timers at competitions allowed to lap the timer for splits?

Jeffrey, how slow is the metronome you're using?

Less than or equal 90. 

No you are not allowed to time splits

Metronome does help somewhat but it only helps you know if you are going quicker or slower most of the time people will disregard the metronome while solving

Yep im finding that too especially if I already see the next pair. And my untimed casual solves are basically lookahead practice by itself so yep. But when I have thr time to sit down I try to do the metronome drill.

90 didn't work for me but 80 did :)

Becoming sub-20 is easy if you know full pll, 2 look oll, and your f2l is around 10 seconds. 

Becoming sub-15 is easy if you know full ll, and your cross and f2l is around 10 seconds

Becoming sub-12 is different. Only about 10% of my solves are sub-12. 

That's why I'm practicing lookahead and cross to F2L1 transition

Benjamin, you do your cross too with the metronome or only your f2l pairing and inserting?

Best thing I did was just drilling algs I average around sub 1.5 for all my PLLs and Sub 2 on all my OLLs

Cool. Not sure if I should drill my PLLs for now or focus on my F2L but I'm seeing F2L is a bigger problem. PLLs are problems too on other solves tho.

only my f2l pairing and inserting

F2l should be around sub 10 for sub 15 so if not then you should improve as much as possible on lookahead

Me knows full PLL

Me sub30

Me F2L 15 seconds

:(

I try to get a X-cross every single solve is that good or am I just wasting my solve time?

Do not do a x cross every single solve this is very bad unless you see something you can use (2x2x1, 1x1x2 block) dont do it just try to lookahead to your first pair or perserve a pair if possible.

can you give me a cross ok scramble please?

what is a good AO_ to find if your sub_?

how do i increase my TPS?

what are your main cubes and methods for 2x2-5x5?

2x2:QiYi Qidi stickerless 2x2 my method is Ortega

3x3: gans 356 air master my method is CFOP

4x4:Shengshou aurora my method is reduction

5x5: same as 4x4

2x2: Angstrom Weipo M or Gan 249 V2 M CLL with some EG

3x3: Gan 354 M (going to get the 356 X) CFOP

4x4: Gan 460 M or Angstrom Wuque M Yau

5x5: (My favorite) Angstrom Wushuang M Yau5

what is a good AO_ to find if your sub_?

how do i increase my TPS?

can you give me a cross ok scramble please?

what cubes do you have?

i have:2x2 3x3 4x4 5x5 skewb megaminx void cube and pyraminx

oh and molecube

how fast is my turning speed if my h perm is 1.620?

Approximately 4.32 TPS.

7 moves, 1.62 seconds = 4.32

what is a good reconstruction website

100

Not going to answer that I have told you my way many times already you develop your own 

No more reconstructions

All WCA events along with some nons

alg.cubing.net

William, Im not asking for a reconstruction. its so i know what to look for for an x cross.

Honestly I don't care I have too many things to do to and don't have time to even get out any of my cubes for a session

OK Im sorry.

how should i learn F2L?

Go and learn intuitive. Go watch JPerm's video, it's pretty easy to learn with that. 

i officialy know full PLL!!!!!!!!!!

Nice! I'm not there yet ;)

don't worry you'll get there

how do i get sub 30?

What method do you use, and what algorithms are you using? I'm sub-20.

i use CFOP i know full PLL 20 OLLs and intuitive F2L

Why

I'm pretty much where you are except I am trying to get sub 20. I would recommend doing slow sovles by using a metronome and making it go five or so beats faster every day. When you get really fast with the metronome, try doing a timed solve while cubing to the metronome, eventually you won't even need one and will have really efficient look-ahead.  :) 

Honestly Benjamin, I don't think that the metronome is a good idea. It forces you to panic, and maybe get frustrated because you can't turn and look ahead that fast. I'm where you are right now in algs, but what I would say is find some F2L algs that you do really inefficiently, and learn the efficient alg for them. I would also just do a lot of solves, and get a somewhat fast cube (I just like fast cubes, like the 354). Basically, just practice, and work on TPS + recognition speed.

i dont do metronome. i did for one solve than rage quit metronome.(too hard for me.)

i use the gan 356 air master as my main. my backup main is the shengshou aurora.

how fast would i need to turn to be sub30 if i average 80-100 moves?

what would my TPS be.

0.32 TPS

Oops mistake 3.2-3.44

That is correct, but your TPS could vary in the solve. For example, you TPS for cross could be faster than your TPS for F2L, and then your TPS for OLL and PLL would be pretty fast. About cubes, I would recommend getting a magnetic cube, like the GTS2M, so you can get used to magnets and their feel, so you can get faster. 

can someone give me some intermediate pyraminx and skews techniques.

happy halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!

For pyraminx, you should watch like DG or Drew

For skewb, legoboyz3(Or now, Z3Cubing)

thnx

No problem! 

Although, I'm not using Sarah's Intermediate anymore. I'm learning Kirijava-Meep for Skewb

And Intuitive L4E is great for Pyraminx. 

I average 40 and know advanced cross, intuitive f2l, 2loll, full pll. I am not color neutral. What should I do to get faster?

i recommend trying to become color neutral first go to yellow then slowly branch out from there.

what is the best way to learn how to look ahead? I've been trying slow solves but it hasn't helped at all, even if i turn extremely slow.

To answer that, let me ask a few questions:

1. Are you timing yourself?

2. Are all the cases in your muscle memory?

You shouldn't be timing yourself when you're practicing lookahead, and you definitely should execute all the cases as muscle memory and not intuitively. 

Whenever you're doing lookahead, you shouldn't be looking at the pair that you are doing, you should be focused on other pieces and track them as they move. 

If you need other help, you can just email me at creepcrafting56@gmail.com instead of cluttering this blog up. 

Your tps should also be around 2-3 tps to be sub-30, and even sub-25(If you're LL is decent). Yes, that is pretty restrictive, but it helps you practice on what you need to focus on for the next thing. 

An exersise I did was that I would do Cross and F2L at around 2-3 tps, and gradually increase it until I get a pause, which means that I didn't lookahead well. After the pause, I just rescrambled the cube and slowed down my tps. This was very useful from me going from sub-25, to sub-20. Now that big difference was that I had a pretty good last layer already, and that, along with some pretty okay F2L, led me to go and improve my lookahead even further, which is the difference between a 8 second Cross+F2L to a 17 second Cross+F2L. 

So go and just practice the lookahead between pairs, and slowly, you will continue to improve and break all the time barriers(even though I'm almost sub-12)

1.Yes, but i don't care about the time there;its basically to see if I'm improving.

2.i only know full PLL some OLLs and intuitive F2L, cross needs to be worked on.

Are you doing cross on bottom and planning the whole cross during inspection?

i do cross on bottom but can't plan full cross, YET!( gotta have that growth mindset:) )

how do i plan full cross in 15 seconds,because i practice as if i were in a comp.

i do certain weeks practicing different cubes. next week is megaminx practice week. how do i get sub 20 minutes?

Practice planning your cross without inspection. And for megaminx, you just do F2L, then build another star and do F2L again(which is called S2L because Side 2 Layers) until you get to last layer. Once you get to last layer, you do beginners 4LLL which can be found here. It's pretty similar to Beginners method R' D' R D, but instead of do Eo, Ep, Cp, Co; you do Eo, Co, Ep, Cp. 

Btw, for R' D' R D, I'm using a Shengshou Mini as my main so I do z' U' R' U R instead of R' D' R D, and I do the corner comms with a z' at the beginning. Once I get a Galaxy 2M, that would change because I'm trying to learn full 4LLL. 

thanx! how do i get sub 5 minutes on 5x5,i do beginner method and CFOP 3x3 stage. what can i do to get better?

how do i get sub 3 minutes on 4x4 i use yau and CFOP 3x3 stage. how can i get better?

Alright, I don't know a lot about 5x5, so I'm just gonna answer your 4x4 question. I was averaging around 2 minutes when I got my Supernova Wuque M. I would recomend you buy this cube (even though it's expensive) because it dropped my times 20 seconds. After that, I would work on your TPS for 3x3 stage on 4x4, and also get a lot of solves and be comfortable on each step. BTW, I use the same method as you, and average around 1:15s. Also, you probably want to work on recognizing OLL and PLL parity quicker, and executing the algs for each quicker. I hope this helps!

-Noah 

Although buying a new cube can help it is not good in terms of habits because you are used to the cube to realign that you dont worry if you overturn although I do reccomend you get a good cube with magnets but it may be better for you to buy a non magnetic cube first and get in the habit of turning accurately and then commit to a good magnetic cube. I btw average sub 1 with my old non magnetic wuque with nothing but turning accurately I average sub 40 with my cosmic Wuque mini m. Also for 5x5 best thing I can reccomend for you is the waych Feliks' intermediate videos. I usually average sub 2 with my Wushuang M but just For you I brought out my old ShengShou 5x5 that pops at a moment's notice and has no corner cutting and still got a sub 3 ao12. You can go two paths in terms of 5x5 which are redux or Yau. Redux is really quick in terms of centers but Yau is good for easier edge pairing which btw I think Redux is somewhat better because it gets your eyes more used to seeing edge pairs for bigger cubes and also because you can get the centers so much quicker.  Now in terms of this I do reccomend yoy get a magnetic version because 5x5 is where things get a little harder to control and I have a pretty good accuracy from practicing with non magnteic cubes for 3x3 and 4x4 so I usually can get past without pop for a very long time and lockups dont happen too much during solves. So in summary accuracy on non magnetic cubes + Magnets = little to no lockups and very rare pops. TLDR

Hey Feliks, 

I'm not sure where to post this comment, but I decided to put it here. 

I'm wondering, do you think you could make a section completely devoted to 3BLD? I really want to learn how to do it, but I don't know how. It would be great if you could make a section about 3BLD!

-Noah

i agree with noah on that one!

4x4: Practice building your cross pieces efficiently, and practice your last 8 edges. I'm currently sub-1:05, and here are the splits probably required for sub-1:10: 

F2C: 5

F3E: 15

L4C: 10

LCE: 5

L8E: 15

3x3: 15

5x5: Build centers by bars or blocks, and use tricks during edges like instead of flipping an edge with the flip alg, take out the edge and insert into the opposite side(ex. if the edge you need to flip is on the FR, take it out with R U R'(or U' if there's an edge at BR)and insert with R' U' R.). However, I'm only sub-3, so I'm trying to improve on centers especially. 

Also, using Yau5 is useful, but it's different that Yau4. 

And for hardware, I use a WuQue M(magnetized by the shop I bought it from), and a WuShuang. My old mains were a Thunderclap mini(Which was missing a locking piece) and a Shengshou 5x5.

Hardware is very important from 4x4 and up, but you shouldn't go out and buy the best ones like a Cosmic or Supernova WuQue M. Getting a regular WuQue, getting some magnets, and adding some Silk or Speedy will make it near that performance, and under 1/2 of the price of a Cosmic WuQue M, and $13 cheaper than a Supernova WuQue M. 

Magnets are always useful for 4x4 and up, since you require less active effort to keep the layers aligned, and it decreases the chance of pops.

I've tried you5 once but it was hard for me to preserve the cross during centers. i don't yet know the 5x5 last edge parity YET.

for hardware my only 4x4 and 5x5 are the shengshou arouras i don't have any magnets but i still get these times.

What I do for 5x5 last edge parity is I use speedcubereveiw's 4x4 OLL parity alg, and then I just do that, with an M2 U2 M2 afterwards.

can you do this all to solve it?

r2 B2 U2 l U2 r' U2 r U2 F2 r F2 l' B2 r2

thats the parity alg i use for 4x4.

Well Noah Marsh the 5x5 edge parity alg is pretty much the 4x4 edge parity alg except after the 2l you have to do a 3r'

Ben just learn the actual one because you can't do it that way because it is very inefficient in terms of finger tricks and the alg doesn't work

i can't remember it thats the problem!

also can i get a list of mini guildford events?

my 5x5 PLL recognition takes literally 10-20 seconds to happen! how do i fix this?

For the parity alg (I do the one where I have a yellow bar facing me) which I think is better, is this one: Rw' U2 (Rw U2 Rw U2) Rw2 F2 (Rw’ U2 Rw’ U2) F2 Rw2 F2. It's nice because it repeats the Rw U2 Rw U2 and there is no single inner layer moves.

For 5x5 PLL recognition, I would say work on spotting bars and headlights just on 3x3. 

what squan is your main? i want to get a squan.

also what clock puzzle is your main?

In my opinion this alg is the most efficient in terms of fingertricks and speed:

Rw U2 x Rw U2 Rw U2' Rw' U2 Lw U2 3Rw' U2' Rw U2 Rw' U2' Rw'

For squan I would recommend the XMan Volt and for Clock you could get a lingao in which is probably best until qiyi releases their clock

For square-1, I think the Qiyi Square-1 is the best. I had it until I lost it at a comp, plus it's cheaper than the X-man.

happy thanksgiving

new 4x4 pb 2:37.821! my first sub 3 solve ever! I'm so happy!

new 5x5 pb 6:09.586! I'm so happy!

i got both of these today!

Noah Marsh that is true in terms of price to quality but for overall quality the volt is the best

But on theCubicle, the Qiyi has better reviews

https://www.thecubicle.com/products/qiyi-square-1

It may but world class cubers use the volt more than the qiyi and In my opinion  the volt is better don't know why you are trying so hard to against that

Just arguing

does either squad pop often, and if so are they easy to put back together?

question on edge orienting,(I'm learning zz) if the edge in the e slice has u/d color on back, is it oriented?

it also has l/r color on side.

I'm not sure about ZZ; I don't know it. But If you have your squan tight enough, it won't pop, but they are pretty hard to put back together.

Volt has never popped for me and I have quite loose tensions the qiyi however I do get pops but once in like 50 solves with loose have gotten a pop for every 100 solve for medium and tight hurts my hands too much. ZZ is quite uncommon and you will have to resort to YouTube to find any ZZ cubers because it is a very uncommon method as CFOP and Roux are much more popular also. It may be better for you to learn Roux as a secondary method more than ZZ

i wasn't asking about what you think about zz:) i know CFOP and Roux.

i was asking about that edge orientation?

that wasn't supposed to come out as mean, i value your opinions!

What I'm saying is that you really can't ask for advice about ZZ here since it is very uncommon among speedcuber so the best suggestion I could give you is to consult youtube

ok sorry.

i want to learn as many methods as possible! anything to get faster on anything.

I would just focus on one method and get faster on that, that will be long term better than learning multiple methods.

I'm going to mainly use CFOP, but i want to be able to expand if a different method make the solution quicker.

I think CFOP is the fastest method, in general. Not the most efficient, but you can have good lookahead through CFOP.

BTW, I posted on the Interviews blog links to videos for the new WR

@Benjamin Hendricks  for 5x5, yes, you can use that alg, but the alg Will posted is better. 

And about what you posted, the best thing is to learn alg subsets. For example, learning COLL is a transitional step to learning ZB, without actually learning 700 algs, and learning zeroing tricks help you become Feliks, but zeroing really isn't a method, it's just ways that Feliks incorporates CLS in his solves by taking advantage of 3 cycles(Sorry Feliks for exposing your secret lol)

I'm planning on learning those too.

anything to get faster

@Benjamin Hendricks  More ways to get faster is just practicing F2L and drilling OLL/PLL. And cross, of course. Are you still sub-40, or are you sub 30?

im sub 40 still, I'm beginning to learn the 19 OLLs i don't know(except dos OLLs). i like your profile pic! it look cool!

Thanks! You should be really going for faster LL. What are you averaging for LL?

my PB is now 21.960 seconds!