From solving to speedcubing.

You can solve a cube. Speedcubing starts the moment you ask: how long did that take?— and here's the part nobody tells beginners: the drop from twenty minutes to two minutes takes days, not years. Early progress is steep and absurdly satisfying.

Practice like cubers practice

1. 1Warm up on the cube below or your real one — run the full method once with the lessons open if you need them.
2. 2Open the Cubeathon timer. It hands you a proper scramble; follow it letter by letter (all notation you now read fluently).
3. 3Hold the spacebar — or touch and hold on a phone — until it arms, release, and solve. Any key stops the clock.
4. 4Do five. Cubeathon computes your Ao5 — the average that drops your best and worst solve, so one lucky cross or one dropped cube doesn't lie about your level.

Milestones that mean something

Sub-5 minutes: the method is in your head. Sub-2: it's in your hands. Sub-1: you're recognizing patterns instead of searching for pieces — around here the faster algorithms start paying off. Your dashboard's heatmap and averages will show the slope better than memory ever could.