Learn · Level 4
Getting faster
You can already solve the cube; the full system is on the shelf next door. What separates a minute from twenty seconds is not braver fingers. It is planning, reading ahead, and practising the right things.
Everything before this point added knowledge: steps, tools, cases. From here on, speed comes from changing how you use what you already know. Watch a fast solver and the hands are almost the least of it. They plan the first stage before the timer starts, they read each case while the previous one is still being solved, and they practise the weak spots rather than the whole solve.
The four pages below take those habits one at a time. None of them needs a single new algorithm.
Hands
Move like a solver
Grips and triggers: the difference between four letters and one motion.
Inspection
Plan the cross
Fifteen seconds of thinking before the timer starts, and the first eight moves come free.
Eyes
Look ahead
The hands solve this pair; the eyes hunt the next one.
Habit
Practise like the sport counts
Averages of five, targeted drills, and honest milestones from the whole official record.
Two numbers set the scene. Across everyone who has ever recorded an official 3×3 average, the median personal best is 28 seconds, and 30 in every 100 have broken twenty. Fast is rarer than the internet makes it look, and every one of those solvers started by fumbling a white cross.