Rubik´s 3x3x3 Cube: Shortest time to reach sub 20 seconds average
PlaceResultNameQuoteDate
153 daysJay WooI started cubing at July 29th 2007 and I got one sub 20 average (19.49) at September 19th 2007. Because of method I use my average normally is bad but 10 out of 1 times I get sub 20 constantly.20071112
262 daysDurben Joun VirtucioI started this year February 22 2008. After my first competition(Cebu Open 2008 - April 19 2008) I got sub-20 after 4 days which was on April 23 2008.20080826
365 daysDerek Fontenello I got Both me and my brother one for his birthday solved it in the first 15 mins and now i got sub-twenty average. The average was 19.85 seconds20080526
468 daysMason HoffmanI started cubing earlier on I believe jan 10th then on March 18th I finlly got a sub 20 average. it was 19.47. I have been practicing nonstop. my current record average is 16.20 secnds an it is rapidly improving20070403
571 daysFeliks ZemdegsJNetCube Best Average for Mon Jun 9 14:08:21 EST 2008 -----
Average: 19.59
Individual Times:
1) 18.58
2) 21.28
3) 20.08
4) 19.91
5) 19.61
6) 19.70
7) (17.05)
8) 19.59
9) 20.50
10) 17.94
11) 18.75
12) (23.67)
20080626
682 daysMarc van Beest18.39 20.59 19.66 21.44 19.56 (21.81) 19.05 20.14 19.11 (17.84) 18.59 19.17
Average=19.61 seconds
Finally my first average under 20 sec!
No lucky cases. I used the JNETCube Standalone Timer on my computer. I bought my cube 82 days ago and I didn't know how to solve it but after a lot of practice I've done it!
20060304
787 daysRowan Kinneavylearnt saturday the 3rd May after getting type (a) from cube4you on the friday. sub 60 in two weeks sub 40 in another few sub 30 a while after that then finally a sub 20 (19.67) mid July (17th). avgs not improved much since then (17-20). all thanks to jude and badmephisto!20080909
890 daysBrian YuIt was a 29.xx average of 1220090507
991 daysHarris Chan(23.01) 20.23 17.91 21.72 19.33 22.13 18.99 17.17 21.19 18.34 22.58 (16.13)
Today I got my first ever sub 20 average solves. I started on Halloween of last year. I was doing this as I'm sick (got some cold from my classmates) for the Sunday Contest. I'm only using 3 looks LL although I know some other OLL cases.
20060130
103 monthsHoe Tze HanStarted mid-September 2007 using Toys R Us' beginner LBL method, can't remember the exact date though. It wasn't until end of September before I got my own cube and starting learning Fridrich. Had learnt 21 PLL and 40+ OLL when I did this average 10 of 12.20080102
11100 daysStefan HuberI started learning algorithms Thursday, April 19th. Before that I was able to solve the cube for a few weeks, though.
The first average was 19.79, the second one 19.45. Both non-RA
20070728
12110 daysJohn ShepardI started the rubik's cube on March 31 2007 during our spring break because it was becoming popular in our high school, I guess because it was in The Pursuit of Happyness. The video of the times is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYGUYY_6pDc 20070718
13120 daysSimon SörmanUnbelieavable!! Three days before this my single solve record was 22.95 but then I just started to get faster and faster and faster.Suddenly I get a 16.45 single solve time which got me my new average record: 19.43:)20080721
14123 daysMichael PohlAfter one month of learning all the OLL and PLL algorithms and after three months of daily practice of at least one hour i finally reached my first sub 20 average20071101
15136 daysBrian Nicole UyPhilippine Cubers Association
19.77 sec..
20080106
15136 daysSimon LimAverage: 19.95 seconds
Individual Times: 18.98 20.05 20.87 (16.94) (22.62) 18.23 20.64 20.14 19.20 22.02 19.06 20.28
PLL: 20/21
OLL: 13/57
I was mostly doing 2look OLL. cube4you.com DIY keeps on popping for some reason I can't set a good tension. so I used a different cube. It was pretty decent.
20080417
17140 daysFubo Wang1 or 2 hours everyday. I've no chance to break this record.20081206
18141 daysJustin AdsuaraAverage: 19.47
Fastest Time: 16.85
Slowest Time: 23.20
Standard Deviation: 01.43
20070704
194.5 monthsGrzegorz Dzikieiwiczit's not a record but anyway
I got sub 60 in about 2 monhs
than sub 40 in 2,5 month
sub 30 in 3
and i got it sub 20 :)
20080523
20151 daysWarren LiaoI just got a sub-20 average today, April 29th. I started last year at the end of November and beginning of December. I learned the whole cube myself in the beginning and invented my own way of F2L with my most confortable finger tricks instead of memorizing them (This way is 5 moves more on average than Jessica's F2L). I also invented my own way of doing OLL, but I found out it was way slower than Jesicca's OLL, so I memorized some of the shorter OLLs. Today's average was 19.74. There was a 15.64 but that was considered a little lucky (unintentional extended cross), but that time was thrown out for fastest time anyways.20050429
21160 daysAnthony BenisI started cubing in Mid November 2006 and achieved my average of 19.98 on April 28 2007, so I would say about 160 days.20070430
22161 daysAlessandro FontanellaI solved a cube the first time on 26 July 2008 and I achieve a sub 20 seconds average today20090106
23168 daysBen ZollerI've been hovering around 20 for about 2 weeks and I just finally broke twenty. I told myself I would stop after I got to sub-20 but this is just waaaay to much fun. =D Average: 19.58 seconds
Individual Times: 18.71 18.90 22.41 (16.97) 17.72 (24.65) 20.06 18.67 19.54 19.91 22.56 17.36
20081213
245 months 24 daysMatthew WanstallAverage: 19.65
Standard Deviation: 1.05
Best Time: 14.77
Worst Time: 24.55
20081003
25180 daysErik AkkersdijkI don't know the exact date of the first time I ever solved a cube, it was on the end of August 2005. 20060308
25180 daysKrisztián KrézmánovicsI started cubing 186 days ago and today -finally- I've broken the 20 seconds barrier in the 3x3-10/12 average event. Today I was in a good form the 9.44 was an LL skip.20080406
27198 daysAnthony SearleFinally. I've been practicing and practicing ever since I first started and I had a 19.38 average today. I hope I'll be sub 20 consistently within a couple months. My Website20080925
28200 daysConnor GrievesYES D I was so excited.20080721
29203 daysCorwin ShiuFinally sub 20! Man, that was a crazy average. =) 17.91, 20.64, 18.81, 18.52, 22.31, 21.12, (16.08), 21.02, 16.75, 19.53, (22.45), 18.30 20070716
30210 daysAlex Seidlergive or take a few days.20070902
31215 daysJoseph LiaoI finally achieved Sub-20's today :D I started during Mid February of 2004, and now it is towards the end of September, so according to my calender day counting, it's about 215 days. :D My website (19.95 seconds is my first sub-20 average) ~Props to Macky for teaching me at school200409
32225 daysFelix KungHere is my timelog:
http://masterthecube.com/forums/index.php?topic=1455.0
Statistics for 8-20-2008 16:08:36
Average: 19.91
Standard Deviation: 1.10
Best Time: 17.50
Worst Time: 22.72
20080820
33233 daysDanilo Caimano10/05/08----29/12/0820081231
34238 daysScott KidderI learned to solve the cube on February 10 of 2008 and averaged 19.72 October 8th20081009
35242 daysAdam GéhinI first solved the cube in September 2002, on a Sunday. It was September 8th or 15th (I can't really remember), and I got my first sub 20 average (19.9 seconds) on 2003, May 7th, about 8 months later. See my site [http://borntodie.free.fr].20030507
36259 daysBordage Bertrand17.63 19.13 18.62 19.10 (16.16) 18.06 18.96 18.15 (20.14) 17.37 19.78 18.55. 2/09/04. Using Fridrich's method with costumized algorithms. Not including lucky cases. Between 60 and 80 moves. I solved my cube for the first time the 18 december 2003 and I started the speedcubing during May 2004. 
37271 daysCody HayesI know I first learned to solve sometime in June and I have an feeling it was around the 20th, 2007 and I obtained my first sub 20 average (19.93) on March 18th, 2008.20080405
389 monthsWeston MIzumoto19.58 average20081213
39280 daysBrett LarterI didn't know that doing it in that amount of time would surmount to anything worth mentioning.20081014
40313 daysCraig BouchardI first got a cube on June 2nd, 2005, got the sub-20 average on April 11, 2006. I didn't get serious into the cube until about 60 days after I got it, so those shouldn't count :p20060411
41345 daysKarthik PuthrayaSolved the cube for the first time on 03 March 2007.
Average: 19.21 secs.
Got this after being in the 20-22 range for over 2 months.
My Website
20080213
42350 daysThomas TemplierIf I well remember I started cubing between 27 and 30 august 2002. And I got my first sub-20 average yesterday on 12 august 2003
17 18 21 18 18 18 21 17 16 22 19 23 => 18.9 + 0.5
20030812
43357 daysDavid Wonersolved my first cube sept 8th 2007 got my first sub-20 avg at like 12:30 am on aug 31st 2008. it was 19.99 i was so nervous before the last solve and flipping out afterwards. pretty good since i spent about 3-4 months doing almost no 3x3.
i got a 18.95 avg 2 days after this and i still do not know full PLL. my f2l is between 10 and 12 seconds. we'll see where this goes.
20080903
44364 daysRavi FernandoAugust 3, 2004 to August 2, 2005. I just had to beat a year. My first unofficial rules sub-20 avg was on July 19. My site. [Team Epsilon]20040802
451 year 5 daysWuqiong FanI finally did it! It's about one year and a week or so. I first solved my cube during the 2nd week of CTY last summer. After a few days I was solving for speed. I remember getting happy for 2min solves.
18.17 19.69 19.97 22.47 20.38 (17.97) 19.66 19.03 18.06 21.05 20.94 (25.64) = 19.94
This was done fast and choppy.
After taking a break I decided to solve casually. To my surprise the first solve was sub-20! So I did just 5 solves and they were all sub-20:
19.59 19.55 18.89 (17.94) (19.77) = 19.34
20080712
46455 daysMichael SwanYay! 19.90 second average.20071219
47478 daysNathaniel DayNot too bad! about 200 days for sub-30 which leaves 250 more for sub-20.20050722
48480 daysAnton RostovikovI am from Russia.
I started cubing in the beginning of february 2007. I don't remember the date so let it be the 1 of february 2007. And I reached sub-20 average on the 26 of May 2008. Here are my results:
Average: 19.61
Individual Times:
19.00 18.45 21.67 19.72 19.19 17.61
22.09 (16.48) 19.97 (23.58) 17.06 21.30
20080723
49486 daysPéter OriskóI started cubing on 17th February 2007. I reached my first sub20 average on 17th June.
The average was 19.97 seconds.
20081102
50575 daysEmile CompionThis is only an estimate. I first solved the cube in January 2006. I'm very happy about finally getting a sub-20 average. I use the Fridrich method with a 3-look LL. I'd like to thank Mitchell Stern Rhodri Mativo and Scott Leslie for encouraging me to break this cubing barrier and Dan Harris and Leyan Lo for having great websites with even greater algorithms. Am I fast yet? ;)
18.16 19.33 20.30 (23.48) 17.91 20.47 22.72 19.94 19.24 21.98 18.27 (17.86) = 19.83 avg
20070901
51730 daysTristan Wright19.98 barely sub-20
Can't totally be sure about the exact day that I first solved the cube, just i know it was mid-july 2005. Feels so good to be sub-20 at last!! My website.
20070715
522 years 10 monthsArthur AdamsGive or take. P20081109
534 years 9 months 20 daysChris HardwickI don't remember the exact date that I first decided to seriously learn to solve the cube, but I consider it to be around mid-June of 1998. In that case my time should really be 4 years 9 months 20 days +/- 10 days.199806