Someone asked me this when I was working as an extra on a film set and I just happened to have a bunch of puzzle cubes with me...

Usually more than half an hour for me. Who said 6+ hours?

I did. I practise 3x3 (fewest moves, one-handed, blindfolded, regular speedsolving), snake, magic, and big cubes (4x4 to 10x10 usually) daily. I also practise megaminx, master magic, 2x2 and some other puzzles but not much. I also check several forums and websites regularly, I counted that as practising because I'm always looking for new ideas/algs etc.

Wow, do you get paid for it, or do you just have a lot of free time? Because with school and all, I usually don't have much.

i used to be 5 hours a day in 2003.now im just 1 hour.

I did the fewest moves challange for 6 hours on a frieday night once.

i find that if i'm learning new algs i'll get a few and then go and do them for like an hour... if i'm not learning algs, then i'll usually cube for about an hour.



fewest moves for 6 hours? WOW

there were good shows on all night and I was also practicing 5x5

I picked 2-4 hours, sometimes a lot less, but if I have nothing to do it might be more. My freaking addictive personality! It's a curse lol.

Haha, that would be awesome. But I do it just for fun.

Well, there are 24 hours in a day, so 6-7 isn't too much... I don't care about school too much and almost never spend time with my friends. I guess I don't have a life, whatever that means.

ah, but you are also sub 20, aren't you?

I got my first sub-20 average over a year ago.

It varies so much I couldn't really give a straight answer.

see? lots of practise gets you places

Atleast an hour a day, and that's just taking averages.

Hi Pembo,


I highly recommend you to start off your practice session with 10 minutes of slow solving, especially in F2L. You will find shortcuts and understand everything better.

Have fun,

Ron